XBarbarian
Member
thank you all for the suggestions. completed wiping cache, unfortunately, still at 3.15
-
After 15+ years, we've made a big change: Android Forums is now Early Bird Club. Learn more here.
2.3.340 is here! Post your experiences
- Thread starter AshG
- Start date
-
- Tags
- motorola droid x
twister6
Android Expert
For those who are praising their battery life after the update, I see an opposite. I have an extended battery and haven't installed a single new application since update (well, I did a few and than uninstalled right away). So I'm comparing apples to apples in here. The battery is being drained in idle state at a rate probably 20% higher than before. My display is at its lowest setting. I hardly use phone at all, and it tells me that standby/idle/display eating 88% of my battery?!? All stock with email set to Data Push so I don't fetch it periodically. No task killers; custom battery setting with no activity at off-peak hours. Any idea?
Try draining your battery completely and then charging it to full with ~1hr on the charger beyond the phone saying it's fully charged. Let us know how things fare once you've done that.
Wally World
Android Expert
I would suggest a master reset and full charge. Don't use your phone-limit texts, calls, web, see how your battery does.
not sure draining our battery is a good idea - Li-ion batteries don't like that very much
Napalm
Android Expert
I would start with the drain as posted above.
Did you change any settings, like wifi search timing or added a bunch of known wifi spots etc.
Maybe toggle airplane mode once or twice and then re-start the phone. Otherwise back when you were getting decent batt life, did you have some bloat removed/frozen?
This would be part of your issues. I find simply freezing some of the bloat and its services extends life considerably. Course you could rom it.
On the surface I would say my batt life after .340 has decreased slightly. But removing the bloat seems to have put me back to where I was. Course I don't use Amazon mp3, I don't use any of the social status, etc stuff of the blur base. I don't even use the inbox although it does work well. (seems to poll for data more than others or something)
eitherway. I don't seem to have any issues with .340
Did you change any settings, like wifi search timing or added a bunch of known wifi spots etc.
Maybe toggle airplane mode once or twice and then re-start the phone. Otherwise back when you were getting decent batt life, did you have some bloat removed/frozen?
This would be part of your issues. I find simply freezing some of the bloat and its services extends life considerably. Course you could rom it.
On the surface I would say my batt life after .340 has decreased slightly. But removing the bloat seems to have put me back to where I was. Course I don't use Amazon mp3, I don't use any of the social status, etc stuff of the blur base. I don't even use the inbox although it does work well. (seems to poll for data more than others or something)
eitherway. I don't seem to have any issues with .340
Napalm
Android Expert
The phone monitors the battery state, so it doesn't let it discharge below 1.2 v per cell. IE it will not allow the cells to reverse. Likewise it monitors temp and voltage. These monitors have built in limits that trigger things like underclocking the processor, screen time outs, data band loss, etc.
Something times the monitor needs to be re-calibrated to the battery. This requires letting the phone kill the battery till it shuts down on its own.
D
Deleted User
Guest
No remotely intelligent device, which includes every single cell phone, will let the battery drain below safe thresholds. You know how all devices with a battery detect low battery levels and shut themselves down? Laptops, phones, everything? That's to protect the battery.
So, while what you said is technically true, it's not accurate for virtually any consumer device.
D
Deleted User
Guest
It's just not true.
twister6
Android Expert
no plans to root/rom, yet. Care to elaborate more on "freezing bloat and its services"? I thought you need to be rooted with superuser access to do any of this stuff?