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about the battery life!!!
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Duffmaster
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The battery life on this phone is unreal and even with heavy use I can get a full day on the battery. It is as good if not better than the iPhone 4 battery. All of my friends android and iphones die before mine does.
It took me a while to get my Atrix dialed in...I loaded a few widgets and other toys (hey, it was fun to play with and I got a little carried away) and my battery was draining pretty quickly. But when I figured out which background apps were causing the mayhem things got a LOT better. I also loaded Juice Defender. Now the battery life is phenomenal. Easily as good as the iPhone 4 I traded in for the Atrix.
What mode do you all put your battery in. I have mine on Maximum battery saver mode. Are there any drawbacks to this mode?
Thanks much.
yeah, the biggest is the loss of push notifications as max battery saver turns cell data off after something like 10mins of the screen being off.
I also came from the iphone4 and was looking for something with as good battery life even with lock screen widgets. lockinfo for iOS is pretty solid. I was not getting nearly as good battery life (probably 80% of the ip4) until about 5weeks after purchase. I stopped using a battery hogging widget in widgetlocker, and right before I made that change I also noticed a notable bump in battery life which I attribute to the settling in of the battery. I remember my ip4 battery life improving after the first month of ownership as well. What I was surprised did not do much for my battery life was the freezing of as much of the motoblur stuff as I could safely freeze. This may have made a difference, but it was only slight. My battery life is now better than my ip4, as playing mp3's through bluetooth drains my atrix battery significantly more slowly than on the ip4.
so finally the battery life of atrix and ip4 is about the same right?
actually i was expected atrix to perform about 30% better than ip4 with the same usage but maybe the bigger screen and dual core processor decrease it's performance.
i alway turn 3g on for the whole day on my ip4 and mostly facebook, surf web, twit, email, just gaming for like 30 mins... with 3-4 hours of usage time i alway have about 30-40% left everyday.
if atrix can perform better or even with my ip4, ill not hesitate to become an android user !!
Thxx for every replies to my first thread.
actually i was expected atrix to perform about 30% better than ip4 with the same usage but maybe the bigger screen and dual core processor decrease it's performance.
i alway turn 3g on for the whole day on my ip4 and mostly facebook, surf web, twit, email, just gaming for like 30 mins... with 3-4 hours of usage time i alway have about 30-40% left everyday.
if atrix can perform better or even with my ip4, ill not hesitate to become an android user !!
Thxx for every replies to my first thread.
honestly, I'm not sure how that would work. I've not tried it as I cannot miss a single push notification. I've heard that android keeps a very low traffic connection open for notifications, but I'm not sure what happens with those notifications should that connection drop. I would assume they would queue up until the phone was available again, so you should be ok.
for a light-use user like myself (probably only 1-1.5hrs of screen time per day, but full load of push notifications) I'd say that the battery life of the atrix and ip4 are roughly on par. At least with my usage, I notice 'phone idle' is the biggest battery user. With the craptivate, it was always 'cell standby'. I'm not sure which one was closer to standard android behavior, but I'm assuming that battery life will get better with gingerbread.
What about turn push off or set it less frequency? any different?
I heard that after new software update it was obviously improve battery life, isnt it??
I know what motorola had claimed for this model but most of the phone (especially smart phone) rather not in line with their advertisement.
So I wrote this thread to see how users' feedback
itsallgood
Android Expert
I think we have to keep in mind the kind of apps, widgets and setting you have. For some, they will have better battery life then others. I can't really comment on battery life just yet, because my Atrix is only 3 days old and I'm still conditioning the battery. I'm coming from a Backflip and the Atrix battery is so much better. I have the same apps + more and home screen set up as my Backflip. (I have 16 widgets)Only difference is, I don't have advanced task killer, but have a live wall paper. (Which is really cool.) I will report back in a few weeks or so on this.
So I took my phone back for a new one at Bell (had terrible battery life and kept rebooting on me as well as getting really hot) So I got a new one. Out of the box I got about 16 hours life first charge. Today with heavy use right now I have
8h 33m 41s since unplugged
display 43%
android system 12%
phone idle 8%
cell standby 5%
com.maxmpz.audioplayer 5% (power amp)
launcherpro 4%
QR Droid 4%
pingchat! 3%
Android OS 3%
speed test 2%
text messaging 2%
Im at 30 % at the moment. I think I just got a dud phone and it was the reason for my greif. This phone hasn't been hot to the touch yet and no reboots. I'm a happy camper
8h 33m 41s since unplugged
display 43%
android system 12%
phone idle 8%
cell standby 5%
com.maxmpz.audioplayer 5% (power amp)
launcherpro 4%
QR Droid 4%
pingchat! 3%
Android OS 3%
speed test 2%
text messaging 2%
Im at 30 % at the moment. I think I just got a dud phone and it was the reason for my greif. This phone hasn't been hot to the touch yet and no reboots. I'm a happy camper
Roze
Hiding behind a mystery
Great to hear
No reboot for me *whew* just OK battery life, lol. Used BatteryCalibration (root req) to recalibrate the battery...hopefully my issue is a calibration issue XDI think I'll finally put it to a 'real' test of going out and no charger for 16 hrs/day starting friday, lol.
omnius
Android Enthusiast
I don't think the jury is ever going to be out on that jay, there are people reporting great battery life both rooted and unrooted. My personal feeling is that there's too many factors involving what each person feels is good battery life combined with each person's opinion on what constitutes mild/medium/heavy use. The only way to resolve it for sure is to grab a dozen phones with batteries proven to be working properly, and have half of them rooted and the other half not, and have all of them perform the exact same tasks, in the same location, with the exact same apps and settings, for a full day. Not going to happen of course, but from what I've been seeing, I don't think there's a noticeable difference.
I've been getting over 15 hours of what I consider heavy use: games, browsing, voice, video, music etc. Today I'm currently showing 28 hours since my last charge on what has been light use and still at 60% unrooted. So who knows? I do know that when I check my battery usage stats, none of the motoblur stuff that a root would freeze and free up ever shows up as using enough battery to make the list. I think something needs to be at least 0.5% of total use or so in order to show up on the list, but I can't remember.
I've been getting over 15 hours of what I consider heavy use: games, browsing, voice, video, music etc. Today I'm currently showing 28 hours since my last charge on what has been light use and still at 60% unrooted. So who knows? I do know that when I check my battery usage stats, none of the motoblur stuff that a root would freeze and free up ever shows up as using enough battery to make the list. I think something needs to be at least 0.5% of total use or so in order to show up on the list, but I can't remember.
I just used BatteryCalibration, thanks Roze.Great to hear
I think I'll finally put it to a 'real' test of going out and no charger for 16 hrs/day starting friday, lol.
My battery was pretty reasonable to begin with; I am getting 12-13 hours under moderate usage but since it is only 9 days old I am still playing with it quite a bit.
I am anxious to see how much it improves.
I'm 100% agree with you.
The complain about battery life of every phone is 100% depend on users more than its' hardware or software.
I just been like wow!! 1930 mAh on smart phone ?? it should be something special about this battery life..!!
Roze
Hiding behind a mystery
I hope you see an improvementI just used BatteryCalibration, thanks Roze.
My battery was pretty reasonable to begin with; I am getting 12-13 hours under moderate usage but since it is only 9 days old I am still playing with it quite a bit.
I am anxious to see how much it improves.
Seems like my phone didn't have a battery calibration issue...still chugging at 12 hrs with moderate use.Thanks Roze, it doesn't look like the calibration was an issue for me either atleast not based on the first charge cycle.I hope you see an improvement
I saw no remarkable change in battery life after freezing as much blur as I could.