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Optimize your Droid Eris battery life (READ THIS)

Hello. I just got my eris about a month ago. I love the Android layout use to have the storm but this is way better. I'm having a problem with charging and insufficient battery. It takes 3-4 hours to charge from 10% to full I looked and seen I was running around 94% to 100% awake. I did the messing fix and turned off WiFi and Bluetooth. Also turn brightness to 25%. Still runs high 87% and up, now I hardly turn the phone off also have a few widgets and a good bit of app, what can I do to get a better battery. I have to charge it every night, is that normal I mean I use my phone from lil to average through out the day. Any suggestions?
Thanks
 
Don't have an issue with everyday battery life. I use a 110 charger @home, 12 volt in the car, and data cable @work. More of a concern is overall battery life. My lg8350 Li was charged and charged, and lasted for the two years I had the phone. What life expectancy will I get with this battry?
 
Noob question here about the battery. When you do a "Battery Pull" do you pull it out with the power on to get the desired result or do you manually turn the power off on the device via the red "end call" button and then pull the battery? I can't imagine anything would happen if you pulled the battery after you turned it off... Am I wrong?
 
Daralike said:
I applied all the tips from this thread, yet my Eris will not sleep. Any ideas why this is still happening? Should I do a master reset and then do it all again?
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the battery life on the eris makes me very sad. but coming from a person who just recently upgraded from the env2 w/ no data pkg i can understand why this happens. Anyhow, my awake time is still at 100% and i just downloaded chomp sms and rebooted. i have the advanced task killer app as well and just made it so it doesn't start up when the phone reboots- hopefully that will help. but it still says 100% awake
oh noes!
 
elledroid said:
the battery life on the eris makes me very sad. but coming from a person who just recently upgraded from the env2 w/ no data pkg i can understand why this happens. Anyhow, my awake time is still at 100% and i just downloaded chomp sms and rebooted. i have the advanced task killer app as well and just made it so it doesn't start up when the phone reboots- hopefully that will help. but it still says 100% awake
oh noes!
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Your awake time is always at 100% when you just turn on your phone. It will gradually go down as you don't use it.
 
Just to make sure. When Awake time is high that mean battery drainage AND slow app loading and lag? Or just battery drain?
 
jpgoggin said:
I agree that you should not have to worry about battery life.
With the OEM battery unless I put it on a charger mid-day, it would be very low by evening.
I bucked up and bought the Seidio 1750 battery and I don't have to worry about the battery at all any more. I just put it on the charger when I go to bed and don't think about it otherwise.
HTC should have a better battery to begin with. Getting the 1750 let me stop worrying about if I had enough charge to last the day.
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Same results here.
 
I had the browser on all day, started at about 5:15am (0515 hours) until now(2033 hours) 8:33pm and my battery is down to 23%. Several text messages, phone calls, and a few e mails recieved. I run Advanced Task Killer and usually kill the browser when I'm not using it....but I didn't today and it seemed to run the battery down faster. I leave the clock, Gmail, weather, messages, mail apps on usually.....anything wrong with killing the browser when I'm not using it (on the web etc.)? Any opinions about how I'm running my Eris?

The next day I "killed" the browser and did not notice a performance difference but in approximately 12 hours I have 72% battery left.....
 
My battery lasts an acceptable amount of time but i do have a question about awake time. I have changed to handcent sms and used to get a pretty decent awake time around 20% or so but lately it has been up around 67-70%. i have uninstalled some apps that i think might be causing the problem but if my battery is holding charge fairly well, should i worry abt an awake time that long? my phone has been off the charger today since 0700 and it is now 2155 and i have 33% remaining. pretty moderate use with calls, txt, some facebook and internet. mobile network on all day and wifi on when at home.
 
@georgiagirl try turning your phone off then turning your phone back on. as soon as it wakes up(comes to the lock screen and showing that you have service) hit the end key and put your phone to sleep. let it sit for a few minutes, then check your awake time. Also some apps and widgets prevent your phone from sleeping. What apps do you have?
 
CXXV said:
What's the point of having a cell phone if you then turn off the mobile network. :rolleyes:
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I know many who use smart phones mostly for the msgs/email and news but make very few phone calls. Personally, my Eris sits with 1X most of the time so I can make/receive calls and at different intervals I activate 3G & GV to get my text msgs, emails and RSS news then turn them off. If I'm at a wifi location I will activate wifi instead of 3G to do the same routine.

Just using the approach that works best for me!

Pegleg
 
CXXV said:
What's the point of having a cell phone if you then turn off the mobile network. :rolleyes:
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This is such a tired argument. The point Isnt to turn It off and keep it off. The idea is to turn it off when Ur phone is in your pocket, ur in a meeting, or otherwise occupied with something other than ur phone.
 
Using Battery Use (Nifty built in add on to 2.1)

"15h 11m 43s since unplugged"

Cell Standby: 50%
Android System 19%
Phone Idle 14%
WiFi 8%
Display 5%
Voice Calls 4%

Battery life = 40%

Damn, I love 2.1. I also turned off locations services for a bit, turning it back on now. I was at work all day and had wi-fi on the whole time. i'm home now and have 3g on to test my battery.

science :D
 
W4LLY said:
Using Battery Use (Nifty built in add on to 2.1)

"15h 11m 43s since unplugged"

Cell Standby: 50%
Android System 19%
Phone Idle 14%
WiFi 8%
Display 5%
Voice Calls 4%

Battery life = 40%

Damn, I love 2.1. I also turned off locations services for a bit, turning it back on now. I was at work all day and had wi-fi on the whole time. i'm home now and have 3g on to test my battery.

science :D
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I noticed that there are some additional Wifi settings. Do you keep it on all the time, only until plugged in, or until the screen shuts off?

I changed my setting to never turn wifi off. I'm assuming that this will still use less battery than 3g. Although, i noticed not all of my apps will work properly over Wifi.
 
..that's a horrible option. Wi-Fi should only be on if you're like, at home, at a friends, ect. Why would you want wi-fi on as you drive/walk around? o.o
 
W4LLY said:
..that's a horrible option. Wi-Fi should only be on if you're like, at home, at a friends, ect. Why would you want wi-fi on as you drive/walk around? o.o
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I toggle it off completely with the widget when I leave my home (then the 3g turns itself on). I guess I wasn't clear. While you have a wifi connection at home, do you leave it on even when the phone sleeps? I've noticed that mine would disconnect (at home) when I put my phone to sleep, until I changed the advanced setting.
 
Ohhhh. Yes. You mean when the phone sleeps, is it one. I think so, when I woke up I had new messages. it didn't kill the battery though. Interesting...
 
jreed2560 said:
This is such a tired argument. The point Isnt to turn It off and keep it off. The idea is to turn it off when Ur phone is in your pocket, ur in a meeting, or otherwise occupied with something other than ur phone.
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It's absolutely ridiculous to ever turn off the mobile network. Just turn off the whole phone then.

Do you turn off your phone at home at any time? The whole point is to be able to receive calls wherever and whenever. Otherwise why have a cell phone at all.

First and foremost it is a PHONE for heaven's sakes.
 
CXXV said:
It's absolutely ridiculous to ever turn off the mobile network. Just turn off the whole phone then.

Do you turn off your phone at home at any time? The whole point is to be able to receive calls wherever and whenever. Otherwise why have a cell phone at all.

First and foremost it is a PHONE for heaven's sakes.
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Turning off mobile network only shuts off data... phone and texts still come through.
 
What he said. you turn off 3g to save battery by keeping apps and services that run data automatically from doing so when it not using those features, while concurrently keeping it phone available to incoming calls and texts.
 
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