Droid Turbo battery life (really 2 days?)

bcltoys said:

48 hr's mean's everything get's turned off and all on board app's get turned off,also your phone has to stay in pocket and use only if you have to.That would work for me proly not most people.

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Motorola claims up to 48 hours of mixed usage. From their web site:

All battery life claims are approximate and based on an average user profile that includes both usage and standby. Actual battery performance will vary and depends on signal strength, network configuration, features selected, and voice, data, operating temperature and other application usage patterns.

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When I bought my Droid Maxx last year they also promised 48 hours of battery life. When I first bought the phone, it would tend to get 36 to 40 hours when I was mostly in WiFi and 30 to 36 hours when I was mostly mobile data. It's been quite a bit less since KitKat, but I also live in a very poor signal area, and I'm doing more with the phone since then (because with older phones, I altered the way I used the phone to reduce battery usage just to get through a day.) I was visiting my family in NJ and they live in a spot with great signal, and I couldn't get my phone under 60% after 18 hours no matter how hard I tried (and I now listen to podcasts about 75 to 90 minutes a day - something I didn't do when I first bought the phone.) Doing the math, that's a 45 hour trend, and I would have minimized us the next 7 hours while sleeping, so probably would have made the full 48.

Honestly, I just want a phone that gets me from wake up to bedtime in the worst conditions (i.e., using the phone a lot in marginal signal areas) because I'm more than happy to plug in when I go to bed. Most days I can sneak in charges at other times - driving in the car, etc. What's great about the Droid Maxx, and I suspect the same is true about the Turbo, is that I can do all that when I wouldn't be able to using competing phones, and it's from a company that doesn't use a heavily customized Android skin, and has been the fastest OEM to update their phones to new versions. Motorola has come a long way. I'm hoping that will only get better under Lenovo, or at least stay the same level of support.

If you need more, I understand that. We're all different. Get a phone that's better for you. If you can't and are "stuck" with the Turbo, I bet you'll still be fine. You'll get through a day and find ways to charge when you have free time at a desk, while driving, etc.

Good luck whichever way you go, all of you concerned about battery life...

Update, maybe good news. I disabled some of the bloatware and other apps I don't use, but more importantly I charged up from 15% to 100% using the standard wall charger (not wireless, not quick charger), and tweaked the brightness down just a bit. I'm at 71% after 18hrs2min. Granted, some of that was overnight non use, but I think the chargers will make a diff on how the batt discharges! Will continue to investigate this further but I feel better about the batt already.

Battery is good enough for me (aka, best I've had).
I am a fairly heavy user. 3-4+ hours of screen on time (with a lot of brief on/off), constant push notifications from Twitter, some video streaming (NBA, Youtube, Xfinity, HBO Go, etc), radio streaming (TuneIn, ESPN Radio, Pandora), bluetooth on all day with smartwatch.

In my few days so far, I get a full day (off at 7am, still juice at midnight) which is what I need. Would it go 2 full days with my habits, no. But, to be honest, outside of camping, I don't see a purpose for me for 2 full days. What I want is 1+ days of moderate to heavy use which this provides. If it provided 2 full days, that would mean (for me) that on day 2 I would wake up with a dying battery and would have to charge before I began my day. Instead, I charge before I go to sleep and am confident I'll have sufficient battery to use my phone as a I please the next day.

I will note that I don't usually play games, but I played a Star Wars tower defense game and just 30 minutes of that game depleted the battery about 10-15%. I don't know if its that game or gaming in general, but if I played that game very long, I certainly wouldn't have great battery life. That said, streaming of video over 4g or wifi barely put a dent in the battery and was pleased by that.

I can confirm the 48 hours give or take an hour or two.... I've had the phone since Day one so that is 5 days and after my initial charge on day 1, I've had it on the charger exactly two times. I use my phone a LOT. Mostly texting and checking social media, looking up stuff on Chrome and taking cute pictures.... I rarely use it as a voice phone. LOL

Day 4 on mine and battery has already improved. Yesterday I was at 60% at 2pm. Today it's 8pm. more usage today too.

Took the phone off the charger 14 hours ago (oddly the battery display says it was 12 hours ago...) and I'm down to 74% with the same standard usage I gave my old Razr Maxx HD for two years. I'm quite satisfied with the battery life.

I'm at 39% at 11PM and my day started at 630AM. That includes some BlueTooth time in the car and WiFi time at home. By my average daily habits, my aging S4 would approach empty by early afternoon if I wasn't plugging it in at work. If I were on a road trip without a power outlet, that means I could sleep in airplane mode and wake up with enough battery to get me through the next day if I really limited use. Plus, the turbo charger is KILLER. Together with the long battery life, it makes battery life a non-issue (whereas it was always the biggest issue on former handsets).

Update. 10:30 pm and 45%

Already surpassed my RAZR maxx best time vs usage. 2 hours of Pandora. 5 hours screen on time. No WiFi. All 4g data.

I'm at 21 hours and battery is at 67% with my normal use. I would say I'm a light user. So I can see it going 48 hours without an issue for me.

Wow, nice to see some good results as batteries get broken in.

i got my phone on Monday, charged Monday night and am currently at 21% with 1 day 4 hours 16 minutes

Just posting my results as well...

I think it was probably poor marketing judgment to throw out the "48 hours" number... but then that's the problem. Battery use (as others have mentioned) is extremely use & environment dependent, making it very hard to measure.

So my use / my environment. I am quite easily getting a VERY full day's worth of pretty heavy usage (about 4 hours screen time... with much of that playing games / very little video playback though). I take it off the charger at 6AMish and am still at around 40% by evening and in the 20's by the time I'm off to bed. (Mild bluetooth usage for a couple hours of the day while I'm driving & some music streaming over LTE).

To me, with the fastest processor and this screen, that is quite amazing. (I was killing my Note 3 easily by afternoon and having to charge at multiple points during the day).

So... only two days of data so far.. but it is pretty much exactly what I wanted for my use style. A very full day of using my phone how I want. (Currently 5 hours in.. at 80% and over an hour of screen time).

Hope this data helps... EXTREMELY happy with my purchase so far coming from a Note 3 (a device which I also loved).

I agree with the use that most of us do I don't expect anyone to do 24 hours but even with that if your a heavy user you don't need to worry about charging your phone during the day or even multiple times as you do with other phones

In addition to having everything turned off or disabled until I actually need them I also don't have Facebook or any other social media nonsense anymore so that really, really, REALLY helps my battery life. LOL! I'm sure Lollipop will bring down the battery life though. It will for all phones that are able to update to it.

Ya that will be interesting to see how that turns out because aren't they saying you will get 9 extra hours with lollipop

I'm only getting about 16 hours before my battery is down to 0. Screen on time about 4 hours. No Bluetooth or GPS. I think it must be because I don't get a great 4g signal where I am. I'm gonna buy a wireless charger and give it some juice throughout the day I guess...

Are you playing a lot of games or anything that would be sucking a lot of battery?

No I don't play any games. I'll monitor it over the next few days. Maybe I need a battery saving app to help.

Update: I'm at 51% after 1d1h22m46s on battery, with moderate (my normal) use. I'm quite pleased with this improvement over the first week. Most important observation...a standard wall charger seems to yield the longest discharge cycle, the quick charge adapter yields the least, and the tylt wireless is somewhere in the middle. This observation needs to be verified with more testing to verify, but the results above were after a full charge using a standard wall charger, and are similar to the first time I charged up using the standard wall charger. Should get 2 days use b/t charges if this replicates, which is the same if not better than my RMHD. And if this turns out to be the case, I'll prbly charge with standard wall charger, only use the quick charge as an emergency, and may take the wireless back. Also, this makes me wonder if quick charging will eventually damage the batt and permanently shorten the discharge cycle? Thoughts?

That's an interesting observation. I hope that it does not damage the battery.

budfox66 said:

Update: I'm at 51% after 1d1h22m46s on battery, with moderate (my normal) use. I'm quite pleased with this improvement over the first week. Most important observation...a standard wall charger seems to yield the longest discharge cycle, the quick charge adapter yields the least, and the tylt wireless is somewhere in the middle. This observation needs to be verified with more testing to verify, but the results above were after a full charge using a standard wall charger, and are similar to the first time I charged up using the standard wall charger. Should get 2 days use b/t charges if this replicates, which is the same if not better than my RMHD. And if this turns out to be the case, I'll prbly charge with standard wall charger, only use the quick charge as an emergency, and may take the wireless back. Also, this makes me wonder if quick charging will eventually damage the batt and permanently shorten the discharge cycle? Thoughts?

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I ordered a wireless charging (pad/dock/station(?)) because the Turbo Charge feature just seems like it wouldn't be good for the battery if done all the time.

My battery experience with the MTD has been good. About a day and a half and I'm at 20% on average. I could go a little longer if I let it run down further. That is with a couple phone calls, SMS using Hangouts all day, emails for both personal and work, about 3-4 hours of podcasts or music, a game or two on break and social media throughout the day. Significantly better than my iPhones or M8 performed.

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First full charge and I'm at 49 hours at 6% battery, screen on time is 4 hours 30 minutes. So for me it gets the 48 hours Verizon and moto says it does for my normal use.

scupking said:

First full charge and I'm at 49 hours at 6% battery, screen on time is 4 hours 30 minutes. So for me it gets the 48 hours Verizon and moto says it does for my normal use.

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Have you disabled any apps? What other power-saving methods are you using?

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