I just picked up a like new D4 to play with along side my RAZR MAXX and i gotta say im getting the same battery life on the D4 as my RAZR MAXX.
Im like WHOA no way 17 Hrs of medium use on the D4 and 17.5hrs of medium use on the RAZR MAXX.
I guess its the screen on the D4 that does not draw that much power? I am very happy with the phone and i put the MAXX up on ebay!
How are your battery results?
17 hours moderate use sounds about right... but your RAZR battery life sounds way too short.
podspi said:
17 hours moderate use sounds about right... but your RAZR battery life sounds way too short.
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There is something eating your RAZR battery life prematurely. 17.5 on D4 is great. On RAZR MAXX that is somewhat poor.
My Wife's D4 can go most of a day without a charge. My RAZR MAXX can go two days without a charge.
I must be doing something wrong then cuz I'm lucky to get through the day without plugging my D4 in. :-(
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When I installed the Swiftkey 3 beta, my battery life went WAY down. Even though it never showed up in the battery stats (not sure why). Uninstalled, problem gone...
I was very impressed with the D4's battery life, as I thought it would suck after reading reviews. I've been impressed with consistently getting >14hrs on my normal usage, and I used it as hard as I possibly could the other day (wifi tether, games, lots of browsing, all while on 4G) and got 11hrs. My OG Droid barely got 10 hrs with light use.
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I was very impressed with the D4's battery life, as I thought it would suck after reading reviews. I've been impressed with consistently getting >14hrs on my normal usage, and I used it as hard as I possibly could the other day (wifi tether, games, lots of browsing, all while on 4G) and got 11hrs. My OG Droid barely got 10 hrs with light use.
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Yea, the OG Droid had terrible battery life. The thing that saved the OG Droid was that the battery was removable, and you could get OEM batteries for ~ $3 online. I had three
A lot of this depends on what you consider use. For example, I have read an eBook on my D4 for 3 hours and lost less than 10% of the battery. I can tether for about 2 hours, but that's pretty battery intensive. The D4 tends to do better than the MAXX when it comes to a lot of screen time, because the pentile display is more energy efficient.
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To those who own the phone, I want to know any battery life statistics you can provide.
I am very interested in this phone as it has that amazing keyboard, a nice 4" QHD screen, and it at least seems plausible there will be roms available at some point. But battery life I am not sure about, all the reviews I have read don't hit too hard on the battery life and I want someone to tell me heavy details about the battery life.
On a side note, if anyone can compare their D3 to this that would be great. I currently own a Droid Incredible, it is running MIUI, I have brightness set to 15-35% max, I have 3G turned off with Wifi on (as I live on a college campus with lots of wifi). On Easy to Moderate usage, I wouldn't have to charge for 2-3 days, On Medium to Heavy usage I end the day with at least 15%. With those same settings could I expect that from the Droid 3? (if so I would be extremely happy as I am very pleased with the Dinc battery life but I definitely need a keyboard.)
thank you for any help!
-Brett
I know the people who successfully had used the bloat removal script apparently get great battery, didn't work for me. But, depends what you consider heavy and moderate I guess. I usually charge once before leaving from work (I like to have more than 50% battery) I think I'm down to about 30% usually towards the end of my shifts playing music from my phone, txting a lot, browsing facebook and some forums.
It works decently when I'm off work tho cuz I txt and browse less.
Battery life is much improved if you listen to those running the leaked OS which the rest of us are waiting for "soon". Currently, battery life is disappointing. The battery life with light usage is erratic, some nights, just sitting on my desk, its drained to 20% from a full charge in 10-12 hours. Other nights, its at 80%. I gave up trying to figure it out.
I'm coming from a Droid X and the D3 is getting at least 35% less battery life for the same usage. My numbers aren't scientific, but I know I'm usually at 30% with the DX by 4pm; with the D3 I'm usually at 15% by 2pm. Both are using the Motorola extended battery.
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Battery life is much improved if you listen to those running the leaked OS which the rest of us are waiting for "soon". Currently, battery life is disappointing. The battery life with light usage is erratic, some nights, just sitting on my desk, its drained to 20% from a full charge in 10-12 hours. Other nights, its at 80%. I gave up trying to figure it out.
I'm coming from a Droid X and the D3 is getting at least 35% less battery life for the same usage. My numbers aren't scientific, but I know I'm usually at 30% with the DX by 4pm; with the D3 I'm usually at 15% by 2pm. Both are using the Motorola extended battery.
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Comparing apples and oranges will always be disappointing.
This phone has better battery life than any other phone I've owned since 1999 -- AFTER the update! Note that I do not consider simple hours-to-dead measurements, but how much I use the device. I think that for a dual-core, large-screen, keyboard, 3G device, its efficiency is excellent. Anyone who thinks the D3 has poor battery life has not owned an HTC or Samsung device lately
Before the update.. about 8-14hours of battery life. With the update, easily 2+ days and I use it quite a bit.
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I can confirm that the battery life is drastically increased with the new OTA update. After about 9 hours of usage of occational web browsing, listening to music, and making a few calls, the battery only drained by 40% on the extended battery pack.
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Anyone who thinks the D3 has poor battery life has not owned an HTC or Samsung device lately
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Sorry Dude but my incred2 running Miui and or OMFGB SMOKES this D3 with the new OS leak with battery life..Smokes it.......
I missed a charge over the weekend (charger not plugged into wall) and by the end of the second day on the battery I still had 49% charge left.
Make sure you get the extended battery.
Inc2
Yeah my dad has an inc2.....the battery life is pretty remarkable. My d3 just doesn't last as long haha
Before I purchased my Droid 3, I took the heed of several and also got the extended battery.
Now I use mine for business purposes, so I do not use any social applications. Just Exchange, Gmail, and one POP3 account. All set for Push. Probably on the phone 30-60 minutes a day. I have the Exchange data turned off at night as I use Touchdown for this and it lets me set my schedule.
I charge it when I it gets down to around 20 %, That is normally after three days of use. That's been pretty consistent since the first week I had it which has been at least a month ago.
Still Stock..... Of course YMMV....
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I can confirm that the battery life is drastically increased with the new OTA update. After about 9 hours of usage of occational web browsing, listening to music, and making a few calls, the battery only drained by 40% on the extended battery pack.
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Do you have a Bell branded XT860 or are you running with Verizon Droid3? I am wondering because my XT860's extended battery is a little rough (barely gets through an entire day) and was wondering if Bell released an update for that phone. Note I'm on Rogers, so I'm not sure if that would make a difference on me getting OTA updates.
Comparing a single-core phone with a 3.7" screen to a dual-core phone with a 4" display is not apples to apples to begin with. Throw in a FULLY debloated and optimized ROM(miui) with a custom kernal on a single core 3.7" phone is more like grapes to watermelons.
With the standard battery I can take the phone off the charger when I wake up and get through the day no problem. I am simply rooted with all the bloat frozen with TiBu.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4761/motorola-droid-bionic-preview
Check it out. Doesn't seem to bode well for motorola's baseband. Hopefully they're quick to toss out a new radio. Cell standby has easily been my largest drain in the past few days.
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http://www.anandtech.com/show/4761/motorola-droid-bionic-preview
Check it out. Doesn't seem to bode well for motorola's baseband. Hopefully they're quick to toss out a new radio. Cell standby has easily been my largest drain in the past few days.
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Cell Standby is 32% of my battery draining according to the chart. that and phone idle take the top 2 positions.
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Cell Standby is 32% of my battery draining according to the chart. that and phone idle take the top 2 positions.
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Those two take up my top as well. Thats my point, simply idling eats up the battery worse than even on my thunderbolt.
How much will a new update to the radio do for the Bionic? Didn't the TB initially have terrible battery life because of its original radio software? Can someone clear this up for me? Thanks.
I have over 28 hrs on my bionic currently and still going. I'm at 30% as of right now. Phone has been off the charger since 0630 yesterday am. It is now 1422 on the 13th.
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I have over 28 hrs on my bionic currently and still going. I'm at 30% as of right now. Phone has been off the charger since 0630 yesterday am. It is now 1422 on the 13th.
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3g?
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How much will a new update to the radio do for the Bionic? Didn't the TB initially have terrible battery life because of its original radio software? Can someone clear this up for me? Thanks.
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The thunderbolt has been through a ton of (leaked) radios. I think the consensus was that the OTA radio was a big help.
Also in the boat with standby and idle as the top battery consumers reaching 40%+ of the battery life depleters.
My Bionic goes for almost 24 hours between charges. So i don't care how much cell standby time it uses. it is getting DOUBLE what my thunderbolt does under the same usage.
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The battery life on my new bionic got better when/after.
I conditioned the battery! enormous difference from first couple charges.
Realized that, once again my phone cannot replace my TV, Laptop, blender and wasnt going to help my kids behave better. It is my phone.
I installed juice defender! Huge difference. really like the app
Like a watched pot never boiling. If you stop watching the battery meter go down it actually DOES stop going down. Amazing.
My battery life is mixed 3g/4g.
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so thats how ya like it . little bit of this little bit o that eh?
Anyone has any opinion about this? A friend asked me to trade phones (One X for the Optimus 4X) cause he likes more the LG. I also like more he LG but the 1800mAh battery of the One X scares me, although I've read that it performs better than the battery on the LG.
Which phone has a better all around battery usage?
I ve used root freezer and froze many system apps, possibly that helps. With wi-fi constantly on for example today (although no browsing) just notifications from Facebook, I have 60% battery left ~14h on battery.
What makes me say WOW, is that I see 2% battery used on the display (41minutes on) and when I see similar screenshots of the One X the screen is 60% while the standby is at is 20%. Does the screen of the One X consume that much battery??
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Anyone has any opinion about this? A friend asked me to trade phones (One X for the Optimus 4X) cause he likes more the LG. I also like more he LG but the 1800mAh battery of the One X scares me, although I've read that it performs better than the battery on the LG.
Which phone has a better all around battery usage?
I ve used root freezer and froze many system apps, possibly that helps. With wi-fi constantly on for example today (although no browsing) just notifications from Facebook, I have 60% battery left ~14h on battery.
What makes me say WOW, is that I see 2% battery used on the display (41minutes on) and when I see similar screenshots of the One X the screen is 60% while the standby is at is 20%. Does the screen of the One X consume that much battery??
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trust me. get the one x asap.sooo much more development and sooooo much more battery life. trust
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Well, I know about the development! Just didnt know there is so much difference in battery life!
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Well, I know about the development! Just didnt know there is so much difference in battery life!
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well, if u are familier with custom kernels, ull understand that they provide more performance ans battery. and also custom roms make a huge difference. for hox users, overnight drain is within 2 percent, amd most of the time 0 percent drain. and usually battery life is arouns 20 hours standby with 3 hours screenon. and that includes over half an hour gaming, calls, texts, and tapatalk. heck, i even tango for half an hour
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..it's very easy to set up the lg 4x to draw around 7-8% a day on standby/sms couple of e-mail checks/some wifi-streaming use (turn off 3g, etc.). I had nowhere near that on the onex I tried when using the same settings. Basically you need to wipe the rom clean of extraware before you're going to see acceptable level of idle-activity.
Not sure where the entire thing about battery life comes from. Had the 4x last 4 hours of Max Payne. That's.. more than any other phone with the same hardware. By a good margin. As in 1-2 hours longer.. So ..
Honestly would have sold the 4x and gone back to my symbian phone if I had to charge the thing every day.
i dont have One X.. but maybe that one is better in battery life..
because LGO4X's battery drains quickly here
So I've used Moto Maker at least 10 times now and go to checkout(Pure Edition) but I haven't been able to pull the trigger. Currently use OnePlus as my daily driver but I also have a G3.
Neither of those devices are really what's holding me back.. It's the N6 that's supposedly going to be released this Wednesday for TMO. I used a Note 3 for almost a year and I think that was pretty much the size limit I could handle. Mostly cuz the phone is always in my front jeans pocket and at times the Note was a little uncomfortable.
I think what's holding me back is the X's smaller battery. On my OPO I average daily between 3-4sot with about 17 hours off charger and still have plenty to spare when I plug it in.
Anyone have any thoughts that might help? I realize the X 2013 was arguably the best phone off the year.. Do you think this years X can also achieve that status? Thanks!
Battery life on the X is a non-issue. I average 6 hours SOT without even trying, and if I let it go, I usually have at least 20% left at bedtime. If I do a lot of gaming I'll get 4hrs SOT. My buddy has an X too and he gets comparable battery life.
And yeah, I definitely think that all things considered, the X is easily the best phone to come out this year. It's nothing short of amazing.
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Battery life on the X is a non-issue. I average 6 hours SOT without even trying, and if I let it go, I usually have at least 20% left at bedtime. If I do a lot of gaming I'll get 4hrs SOT. My buddy has an X too and he gets comparable battery life.
And yeah, I definitely think that all things considered, the X is easily the best phone to come out this year. It's nothing short of amazing.
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Thanks for the input.. I never game on my phones other than maybe a few minutes playing clash of clans..I mostly browse g+, Facebook and watch YouTube vids so nothing really to draining on the battery
so how is you turbo doing with battery life and what is your sot ...
I got a great battery life I can get about 8~9 hours of sot (heavy use) ..and easily pass 2 days with a single charge(mid-light use) ...im on stock un-rooted ...and locked boot-loader ..with the very last update
My Maxx has 1 year and 7 months of use. Currently it is in RR 7.1.2 and makes about 6 hour of the screen on.
Droid Turbo: minimal use mostly standby, currently AOKP 7.1.2, original battery ~2 years :good:
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Droid Turbo: minimal use mostly standby, currently AOKP 7.1.2, original battery ~2 years :good:
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how it possible, 4 days.
archnine said:
how it possible, 4 days.
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I use only to check weather, texts, email, minimal Google interactions, but also lithium batteries have a optimum window of chemistry from charge, the dynamics of the software\engineering is beyond me, most of the drain is usually pinging the cell towers or the wife. Not linear at all :laugh::good:
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I use only to check weather, texts, email, minimal Google interactions, but also lithium batteries have a optimum window of chemistry from charge, the dynamics of the software\engineering is beyond me, most of the drain is usually pinging the cell towers or the wife. Not linear at all :laugh::good:
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Latest capture playing blue tooth with lots of screen time
4stringenator said:
I use only to check weather, texts, email, minimal Google interactions, but also lithium batteries have a optimum window of chemistry from charge, the dynamics of the software\engineering is beyond me, most of the drain is usually pinging the cell towers or the wife. Not linear at all :laugh::good:
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I use the lastest RR, but the cell standby drain my battery around 50%, the battery life is not good, so I back to stock 6.0 rom.
battery life has been horrible recently... almost as bad my Samsung Droid Charge. I'm on CF ROM... but may switch back to MCG stock...
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Droid Turbo: minimal use mostly standby, currently AOKP 7.1.2, original battery ~2 years :good:
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how is the battery life with heavy use on this rom ?
I personally prefer the stock rom as it last the longest. I used AOKP and RR previously and they are really good roms with lots of customization but the battery drainage can be quite heavy even with light use and if you're rooted you can have both stock roms great battery life and any app you desire.
Anyone else's battery turns off at 4%?
My battery was suffering but I did the battery replacement as is detailed in iFixit.com. Now I'm back around 3 hours SOT around 45 percent battery by the end of the day.
Long live TURBO!
Hah! I still have mine from when they first came out. I am thinking about rooting it just to fiddle with it some but it's treated me so well over all these years that I am reluctant to.
Speaking of I still have an HTC Incredible ( new battery ) that still works.
If you generally take care of your devices they can last a real long time!
My battery dies at 30% on my Motorola Droid turbo
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Anyone else's battery turns off at 4%?
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Yes my Motorola Droid turbo actually dies around 30% sometimes.... I think it's just the battery messing up.
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Yes my Motorola Droid turbo actually dies around 30% sometimes.... I think it's just the battery messing up.
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Time to replace it. We are going on almost 4 years since production of these lithium batteries and everyone is going to start experience issues soon if they haven't already. Replaced mine last month and the phone is like new.