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Help droid 2 battery life?

I feel like as much as I use my phone it does well. Also, there are various ways to tweak your settings on this phone that will help on top of rooting. I think considering what you say your usage will be you can at least get day/day and a half battery life.
 
I get about 23 hours out of the battery on my droid 2 now. I had to do a lot to get that though. I had to turn everything off and set the battery manager to maximum.

Btw, there is an extended life battery for the droid 2. If you do all I did you should get doubled that or maybe even more.
 
infil said:
Give it a few days, these batteries have a "break in"period, after which the capacity gets much better.
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Verizon told me that I didnt need to break in the battery like with "older" phones. However, I am seeing a lot of that online. I've had my phone for two days with little usage and it keeps dying very fast. For example, yesterday I charged it, took it off at 100% at around 1:00pm and sent a few text messages checked some NFL scores and that was about it, the phone died by 11:00pm. How does the extended battery do in comparison and will I be able to get mine going longer?? I've adjusted to do things to kill usage, even disabling data and background data. UGH. SO far I'm very frustrated with this phone.
 
I was going crazy with really poor battery of my d2g vs. d1. Ready to return. Root it with z4root, the put setcpu on. By changing the displayoff setting in setcpu to drop the cpu to 300, I am very pleased with the battery.
 
Ashleygurl8293 said:
Does this new extended battery everyone keeps mentioning actually work?
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If you click the link I posted above, you can see my runtimes with the BP7X. My D2G lasts me roughly 20 hours of moderate use, or close to 2.5 days with light use, or a full day of heavy use. I use it for an MP3 player for 8-10 hours at work (screen off, headphones) each day, plus light web browsing, texting, email, and some voice calls, and get home with anywhere from 20-50% of my battery left. The D2 should get even better life out of it.

The extended battery is totally worth the $50. Also, if you REALLY need battery, the Gorilla Gadgets 3500mAh battery has been getting excellent reviews over at droidforums.net. There's a 3 page thread on it, and everyone seems to love it, it's just way too big for me. My BP7X and a few tweaks let me go a day or two without needing to worry about charging, unless I do some heavy gaming.
 
I browse and download for approximately 40 - 60 minutes a day with no WiFi or Autosync and I only brighten the display if I need to. The phone stays on (in idle/low power mode obviously) at work with Airplane Mode turned on. I also use the "Maximum Battery Saver" option.

When I get home at the end of the day I have no more than 40% of my battery. Usually closer to 30%...

Stock battery. No apps for tweaking.
 
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