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Help droid 2 battery life?

My gf got the Droid 2 last wkend and with very light usage, and screen brightness at its lowest, the thing is dying after 10h. After I upgraded my droid 1's OS from 2.1 to 2.2 I was having similar battery issues, but a factory reset fixed that.

I tried a reset on her phone, but it's still failing. We're gonna take it back to the store to swap it out.
 
Ok so the first two days of usage where pretty extreme since I was so psyched, we're taking couple hours of web browsing, a dozen app downloads, tweaking settings and other items ... and I had to recharge mid-day. The last couple of days have been a lot better but I did disconnect background data.
 
First day of relatively normal usage. After 14 hours of App downloads & installs, some texting, maps, facebook, browsing, the battery is down to 30%. Equivalent to what my Droid 1 was getting when I first got it. That's pretty good considering the processor is faster than the stock droid 1. Btw, this is on the stock battery.

Joe
 
Getting rid of the social networking apps really increased my battery life. I use launcher pro now with 3 homescreens, though I only have stuff on one just because I'm lazy, and my battery life has gotten a lot better.
 
Psshh, I recharge mine at least twice a day. Given that I hardly ever let the poor thing rest im amazed it lasts as long as it does.
 
jradicle11 said:
Getting rid of the social networking apps really increased my battery life. I use launcher pro now with 3 homescreens, though I only have stuff on one just because I'm lazy, and my battery life has gotten a lot better.
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Using Launcher Pro didn't further drain the battery?
 
ckeegan said:
I am what most would consider a pretty heavy user. To put it into numbers, I usually have an average of 100 minutes of talk time per day, pushing 4 e-mail accounts, etc.

I typically unplug my D2 at 7:30am, and have to plug it in around 4pm.

I have found myself trying to find ways to conserve battery (by limiting my use) over the past 5 days. Then today, I thought, why? So I just ordered the OEM extended battery (34% higher capacity) from Verizon for $35+tax (use promo code: BAT30). Several reviews I've read say it only adds about 2mm thickness, and one reviewer said he had his D2 off the charger for something like 32 hours.

Sounds good to me!
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too bad the battery promo is over but the new battery is nice its slim and I pulled my phone off the dock at 6am its2pm now and I've been using it most of thE day and I still have 70 % battery. definitely a must have if you use your phone alot
 
Well I can tell you that today was my first full day on supposedly a full charge all last night and just like my HTC Incredible it was dead at noon..

Now I will preface this with the fact I actually use the phone for calls and BT when I am driving..

I sort of solved this issue on my Incredible by buying the gold plated 9 million buck bigger battery and then it got to about 3pm each day before it was dead..

Droid 2

No GPS on - No Wi-Fi on and just BT and phone 3G - Made it unplugged from 8am to noon...

It is sort of sad..

Tonight I removed all the widgets from motorola - stopped Twitter and other updates to see what happens tomorrow....

It should be interesting to see if this does better - of if there will be a larger battery available that works with a case...

I just do not get phones that you need to plug in after a couple hours of use... make it thicker with a decent battery please - it will make it more usable...
 
D2 battery life has been good for me, better than D1. I'm using my D1 battery in the D2, so I'm sure it's the phone, not the battery as it hasn't changed.

I have been getting to 10PM w/50% or more left, w/the same usage patterns as with my D1, where I would be at most 20-30% by 10PM.

Using Launcher pro. Five screens, four Launcher Pro widgets, four or five other widgets, including beautiful home.

GPS and Wifi enabled 24/7 (no reason to turn off GPS, it's only used when open an app that needs GPS).

Battery profile set to custom w/the Off Peak Hours set so it's on off peak 23hrs 59m a day, w/data off after 15 minutes. Screen on automatic brightness.

I'm really liking this phone. :)
 
I would say that people who are complaining about battery life are not using common sense.
of course the battery will die fast when your playing with the thing and never put it down!
considering how much I use it id say its fine. I keep gps and blue tooth off at home and wifi off when im out and about.
 
Bubba Army said:
I would say that people who are complaining about battery life are not using common sense.
of course the battery will die fast when your playing with the thing and never put it down!
considering how much I use it id say its fine. I keep gps and blue tooth off at home and wifi off when im out and about.
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Cannot say I agree with that..

If I need to constantly turn off items on the device just so it can make it though the day - then the device needs a bigger battery... I am not saying I want to be able to run a mobile hotspot for 5 hours - I would like it so i can make calls for an entire day on and off and not have it dead by miday...

I will say that by default many things are ON - and widgets have always been an issue - the thing i notice thou is even when removed the background services are still running... there is no reason for that - and if there is a reason how do you find out more info on each service to the point you know you can kill it without having basic functionality limited.
 
Well day one with the extended battery and basically no use - not even the screen on I am at 6hours of up time with 70% battery...

I think we need to really look at what this thing does when its supposed to be not doing much.

I see totals under battery use of 43% for the com.motorola.providers.contacts it claims over 40 minutes of battery use - and has 15 things under it that it seems to be doing.. seems strange since i have emails set to check every 30 min

com.motorola.friendfeed - 15m 20s

and then Android System at only 10min over the entire up time..

I will assume this com.motorola.providers.contacts is the major culprit - but how to diminish or stop that without totally affecting phone operations.. is it all related to Motorola widgets?
 
If it is than that than go to Settings>Data Manager>Data Delivery>Motorola Applications and check Sync over Wi-Fi only. If that doesnt help then I don't know what your doing wrong. I can listen to music and surf web and get from 100% to 60% in about 12 hrs.
 
I will try a few different setups over the next few days and see what happens...

Its a brand new battery so a week or so it should be over this "break in period" and we will see.. thanks for the link.
 
Well this is quite amazing..

Yesterday dead by noon with the normal battery.

Today:

Extended battery
Motorola Applications all set to: Sync Over Wi-Fi only
Running this Juice Defender App (Download - Free)
And running in Maximum Battery Saver Mode (In the phone)

Totals for Today are as follows:

Unplugged at: 730am
Since Unplugged: 8 hours 19mins
Its total up time since the last reboot: about 19hours (not very important)

Voice Calls: 60%
com.motorola.providers.contacts - 14% / 23 Minutes
Display 7%
BT 3%
Cell Standby 5%

Battery now showing: 70%

I would consider the fact I turned all that crap off - I can still make calls, receive calls, receive txt messages, BT sync, VM will notify when i get them but not download until I open the Visual VM app...

I must be missing something that I am missing..

But that terrible battery usage yesterday without these things done is to me a major configuration issue on the part of Verizon and motorola, would you not ship it with all this crap off to have great uptime then allow people to add things knowing it will impact battery life horribly...

Heck thou what do I know...

There must be a reason to ship a phone with 4 hours of run time - I assume its to sell extended batteries and car chargers that together is actually more than the phone itself.
 
With the extended battery, (and not having followed the previously mentioned guide to maximum battery life, as I didn't know of it til just now) I've been getting about 8 hours of HEAVY usage (Pandora radio, music from SD card, LOTS of browsing, lots of streaming videos, app downloads, about 2 hrs talk time, games, facebook app/gmail syncing, however no wifi). Couple this with having 2 batteries due to having bought the 2nd, and I feel like I'll never need to worry about battery life (phone is at 70% right now on standard battery after 19 hours of being unplugged, didn't use as heavily after switching batteries as I was done at work).

Overall I'm happy with the battery life, and it's a definite improvement over my previous phone, the Omnia (lol)
 
I purchased the Droid 2 for one purpose: access the Q2 web stream from WQXR, PubRadio in New York, right from the web site, no "apps", so I can hear my favorite music anywhere. For this purpose, it is a dream machine.

I went to the VerizonWireless store and told them what I wanted to do. They tried several less expensive phones and non of them could access the Q2 stream. So, I bought the Droid 2. With an extended battery.

When I do not access the web stream, I can probably go several days without a re-charge. i am not a heavy cell phone user, no texting, few calls, no "apps".

But, if and when I use the phone for the purpose it was purchased for, the life is just sucked out of the battery in a couple of hours.

If I am in the car, I put it on the power adapter. If I am going to take the phone on an exercise walk, instead of one of my four 120 gig Zunes, I am sure to check the charge before I leave the house.

I must say that I am skeptical about the battery, it charges up from about 30% to fully charged in just a couple of hours on AC at home.
 
Hello everyone bare with me as I am new to the forum talk. I currently use the Samsung Fascinate, and so far it is a pretty nice phone (considering I just upgraded from the LG Voyager). I still have about a week or so to change my mind on what for I want for my next 2 year contract. I am debating on trading this Fascinate in for the Droid 2, obviously.

-Does anyone know any comparisons between the two?

I mostly text more than the average person, and other than that, I usually just use the regular phone functions with exceptions (using the facebook application, weather, GPS etc.. ALL ON OCCASION). Since I am use to using the keyboard of the voyager, from that aspect I imagine the Droid 2 being a better choice as far as texting goes.

-Does the battery life on ALL smartphones stink?

I am aware of the syncing, gathering of info, etc.. that these phones do. Therefore, I am totally sold on purchasing the extended battery. On the flip side, I am an avid user of the body glove cases. with the EB, I am aware that I wont be able to use that specific case. Do they make protective cases for the extended battery on the Droid 2?

Thanks for your help all.:D
 
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