Bought new Droid Battery

[manamazing]

I charged my droid 1, with the new battery last night..

I took the phone OFF the charger, fully charged at 1:30 am.......8 hours later at 9:30, I checked the battery, it was down to 40% charge.

When I looked at usage it said, "cell standby 32%........phone idle 21%" etc



so is that normal? I thought Android was smart in the sense that it shut everything down as its not being used.

I just find it fascinating that a phone just sitting on a desk can use 60% of the battery in 8 hours.

Help? Clarifications?

 

[Papadroid]

Are you in a poor reception area? That would be the reason for the cell standby to be that high. No matter the phone, if you're in a poor reception area it will drain the battery because it's constantly looking for a good tower to connect to. I have this problem a lot at work and in my house.

 

[johnlgalt]

It also depends upon what you have your hone synchronizing, the frequency of synchronization, what apps you have that make use of the synchronization, etc....

For example, a single GMail account that gets very little traffic may not use much power, but a phone with 3 GMail accounts, a twitter account, weather application, Facebook, etc, all of which synchronize regularly, will definitely use a lot more battery than the first example.