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prj

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I've noticed this a lot...

Last night I went to bed and the battery life on my phone said 90%. I left the phone on and went to bed. When I got up this morning at 5:00 am and woke the phone up out of sleep mode it said 60%. I shut down the phone and rebooted and it read 80%. I can replicate this at any time. If I reboot the phone after it's been sitting a while it will read 20% higher every time. As I type this with moderate use this morning it is at 70%.

Anyone know the cause or fix?

I'm also running the latest 2.3.4 update and my phone is stock.
 
I have the same thing...Everytime I reboot my battery indicator shows higher....Wish I knew a fix but I don't....Its the only problem I have since the update....Not a big deal for me
 
I have been reading on XDA about people having problems with the battery not being calibrated correctly after installing custom ROMs. They recommend this application here. I don't know if will be a solution but I would read up on it some more before you use it. I hope it's not but it could be a new bug that has been introduced with this update.

An easy way to see if your battery needs calibration is to drain it, charge it up and see if it's fully charging. If not then I would try the application.
 
I've got to say that so far I am impressed with the OTA. Phone seems smoother and battery life seems WAY better. Widget locker seems to work much better now - it was glitchy on GB before. I am now rooted, but have yet to run any V6 scripts or even debloat yet. Seems RAM management has been improved with 2.3.4. I will be debloating shortly and will probably run the vold script to swap how the memory is seen. At this point, how moto allocated how the internal vs SD external memory is utilized is probably my biggest gripe with this phone. I've been looking foward to getting either the prime, Razr or Vigor but since I am not in a 4 g area and the OTA seems to have fixed quite a few issues (knock on wood) I may not need to upgrade. So far, so good. Hope I didnt just jinx myself lol.
 
I am having same issue with battery. Went to class last nite and it said I was down to 70%. Had to reboot my phone during break because it was running like crap and when it came back up it read 82%. Not real sure which number to believe.

After all the issues I've been having since the update, I am going to do a factory reset and see if that clears any of the new issues. Not really holding my breath on that one, but we'll see. I'll report back once I've a chance tp do it and test it. Not really expecting much of a difference... if any
 
As suspected, it still wasn't working quite right. I kinda figured since some of my settings and wallpaper and such were still there. It just sorta dropped all my apps, set some settings back to default and whatnot and most of my issues still existed including my RAM being down to the 30-40 range... so I Eclipsed and I gotta say.. my RAM is somewhere around 120-130MB and my music has been flawless over two days, even when doing other things such as texting (Both Slacker and Google Music). Media Dock FC's but I can live with that since the desk clock comes with it and is very similar to the Media Dock. My camera is unbelievably fast to open (almost instantaneous) as are pretty much all of my other apps. Thinking I'm going to stay Eclipsed and with Go Launcher for awhile now that it is working like I expected when I bought it.

Moto could use to take a page from the rom developers book. At least someone got it right.
 
Hypo Luxa said:
...and most of my issues still existed including my RAM being down to the 30-40 range... so I Eclipsed and I gotta say.. my RAM is somewhere around 120-130MB
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This is a bit off-topic but your above mentioned quote triggered a thought. If I may ask, and please be completely honest. I see alot of discussion on XDA about memory and available memory, and people trying to flash ROMs that will eventually yield more memory but the main problems I had from this phone were:
- Overheating (mostly when using Flash or VZ Navigator)
- Random rebooting
- Music Skipping

Does having more available memory solve these (and perhaps other core issues) of the phone? I have a suspicion that some of the tweaking (and I'm not saying you) is just to be able to "see" the available memory.

Task killers seem to be another topic which in my experience is just about the user having some sense of "control" over the phone's operations than phone performance. Using a task manager on the phone has not improved anything and is completely useless. Many others have said this as well, and it's because the OS is designed to automatically manage the tasks. So in running a task manager you are counter-acting what it's already supposed to be happening.

I think that sometimes the need to have this control is a bit overkill versus really trying to enhance performance. What do you think?
 
coolpoete said:
This is a bit off-topic but your above mentioned quote triggered a thought. If I may ask, and please be completely honest. I see alot of discussion on XDA about memory and available memory, and people trying to flash ROMs that will eventually yield more memory but the main problems I had from this phone were:
- Overheating (mostly when using Flash or VZ Navigator)
- Random rebooting
- Music Skipping

Does having more available memory solve these (and perhaps other core issues) of the phone? I have a suspicion that some of the tweaking (and I'm not saying you) is just to be able to "see" the available memory.

Task killers seem to be another topic which in my experience is just about the user having some sense of "control" over the phone's operations than phone performance. Using a task manager on the phone has not improved anything and is completely useless. Many others have said this as well, and it's because the OS is designed to automatically manage the tasks. So in running a task manager you are counter-acting what it's already supposed to be happening.

I think that sometimes the need to have this control is a bit overkill versus really trying to enhance performance. What do you think?
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Well, I'm looking at it like a computer because essentially thats what this is, a miniature computer. If you have a computer with bare minimum or just above minimum RAM requirements, your gonna find that paint dries faster than you can open an app. Processor speed is all good and well, but it wont do you any good unless you have a bunch of RAM because your processor actually does very little in normal day to day activities like surfing the web or making a few changes in Excel. So it seems to me that having more available RAM is good because it gives apps room to breath. If you watch avaialable RAM for awhile, you'll notice it increase and decrease almost ceaselessly and seemingly at random. Sometimes pretty significantly.

Now when it come to Droid phones, I don't know for sure because frankly I have no idea how these things allocate RAM. For me, it just makes me more comfortable because I am looking at it from a PC point of view. I have noticed a DRASTIC improvement in my device, but I can't tell you for sure if it's the Increase in RAM or something else. Until someone tells me differently, I can only rely on my PC experience which is the more RAM you have, the happier the PC is.

AS far as the overheating and the reboots, I dont think RAM has anything to do with that. I do think it does have an effect on music though. When songs are playing from local sources, it has to load the song somewhere. You never really have a file do anything from it's storage location, it always loads into RAM and thats where you interact with it. Steaming music needs a place to buffer as well, basically loading several seconds or more ahead of where you are in the actual song into your RAM.
 
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