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Crappy battery!!!

3rd day with the phone:

80% battery (8h 50m 17s)

Display 38% (1 hour 5 minutes)
wi-fi 19%
android os 15%
phone idle 6%
cell standby 6%
text messaging 5%
some other stuff...

Not heavy use by any means. All the actual data use was not on the wi-fi. Lasting a really long time though! Unplugged this morning around 730am and it got me through my day on campus and now I'm into my 8 hour shift at work starting at 80%. Should easily get me through until my shifts over at 1130pm with like... 50% and 16+ hours off charger.
 
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Yeah something is definitely not right. Im gonna go to the store tomorrow and try to get a new one. I took my phone off the charger 2 hours ago and im already down to 80%. So im averaging about 10% an hour which is not good for this phone. I wiped the phone this morning and im running it with no apps other then the preinstalled ones so its definitely not an app I installed. I hope the store has one to give me. All the stores around here have been sold out for a while now. We shall see
 
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Yeah something is definitely not right. Im gonna go to the store tomorrow and try to get a new one. I took my phone off the charger 2 hours ago and im already down to 80%. So im averaging about 10% an hour which is not good for this phone. I wiped the phone this morning and im running it with no apps other then the preinstalled ones so its definitely not an app I installed. I hope the store has one to give me. All the stores around here have been sold out for a while now. We shall see
Interesting....My Razr (not maxx) did the same thing. It was dumping the battery charge at 10% an hour, or faster, with nothing running. I exchanged it for a MAXX today, so we'll see how this goes.
 
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Yeah something is definitely not right. Im gonna go to the store tomorrow and try to get a new one. I took my phone off the charger 2 hours ago and im already down to 80%. So im averaging about 10% an hour which is not good for this phone. I wiped the phone this morning and im running it with no apps other then the preinstalled ones so its definitely not an app I installed. I hope the store has one to give me. All the stores around here have been sold out for a while now. We shall see

Now mind u I did have data turned iff most of the time but I still used the phone fairly heavy I got 32 hrs before my batt hit 20%. U did get a crappy phone
 
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Yeah something is definitely not right. Im gonna go to the store tomorrow and try to get a new one. I took my phone off the charger 2 hours ago and im already down to 80%. So im averaging about 10% an hour which is not good for this phone. I wiped the phone this morning and im running it with no apps other then the preinstalled ones so its definitely not an app I installed. I hope the store has one to give me. All the stores around here have been sold out for a while now. We shall see


Sheeet even my Thunderbolt does better than that! Take it back.
 
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Sheeet even my Thunderbolt does better than that! Take it back.

Yeah Im gonna try tomorrow. If they dont have any in stock Im not sure what Im gonna do. When I got this replacement they wanted to take my phone back and ship me a new one but I sold my Tbolt when I got the Maxx so I dont have another phone to use anymore
 
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:thinking: I never heard of that deal. Tech. support said they wanted to exchange my phone, so I asked if I could just pay extra, and get the MAXX. They had to get a manager to OK it, as they dont normally do this.

There was a post on xda, I linked to it from here or just the razr forum. Someone got a deal in store, then others reported it, and then a few of us called customer service and they had the deal on file (they had to search for a little while).

Not sure if it's still going on. Let us know if it's still going on!
 
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There was a post on xda, I linked to it from here or just the razr forum. Someone got a deal in store, then others reported it, and then a few of us called customer service and they had the deal on file (they had to search for a little while).

Not sure if it's still going on. Let us know if it's still going on!


Ok, Thats not the deal I got. They allowed me to exchange my phone, and pay the difference for the maxx. Not really a "deal", but a good way to take care of the customer, as I was outside the exchange window.
 
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Heres my current usage for today....

5h 36m 39s on battery

Android OS 43% 33m 24s
Display 31% 49m 14s
Voice Calls 7% 2m 59s
Phone Idle 7% 4h 47m 24s
Cell Standby 6% 5h 36m 39s
Browser 4% 2m 39s
RILD 2% 49s <------not even sure what this is


Something was wrong with the OS. It should not be using that much battery. Reboot and it should fix it. I have this problem every once in awhile with my DX. Not sure what causes it but a simple reboot fixes it.
 
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