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Outlaw, I give you a couple weeks of swapping batteries and you'll have your battery tab broken off.
 
The only reason the curve battery lasted forever is because it doesn't do anything. Most people are constantly doing battery consumptive tasks on their Droids, like turning it on. :p
 
Ok got the battery and will give this a spin. Of course there is no holster out there that will accommodate it. I have a sort of working solution using my existing holster, but I am probably going to either go to Home Depot and get some sand paper and mill the inside of the case down about 1/32nd of an inch or use the original battery cover, if its possible.
 
colchiro said:
Outlaw, I give you a couple weeks of swapping batteries and you'll have your battery tab broken off.
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Have only had to swap the batteries once so far. That was when I left the house with a 30% charge on the extended battery. I don't think it'll be a problem.
 
rjoudrey said:
The only reason the curve battery lasted forever is because it doesn't do anything. Most people are constantly doing battery consumptive tasks on their Droids, like turning it on. :p
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I used to be a diehard Motorola junkie. I would only buy their flip phones. Then came the very first Blackberry (you know, the HUGE one... well, now that I have a DX, it doesn't seem so huge anymore ;)), I got it because at the time I had cancer and I was spending a LOT of time at the hospital. So I got it to email all my friends and family since I didn't have a laptop or anything. Well, that damn phone would go 2 or 3 days easily on one charge while using it regularly. One time I went on a 5 day trip to Tennessee with my riding buddies and I brought along the wrong charger... so I used it fairly lightly and turned it off every night. The battery didn't die until I was on my way home... I was floored that it lasted the entire 5 days without a charge at all.

Then came along the Motorola Q. I had gotten very fond of the Blackberry, but it didn't have a camera, nor did it play MP3's, and like I said before, I really dug Motorola's. So I swapped out for the Q... which proceeded to drive me completely CRAZY!!!! The job I worked at back then often required me to work 12 hour shifts, and my phone was constantly dying on me before lunch! So I bought a second battery. The two stock batteries occasionally lasted my regular 8 hour shift. But they still didn't get me through a 12 hour shift. Then finally they came out with an extended battery. It might have lasted an hour longer than the original battery, but was twice as thick. So my routine back then consited of having to go home, charge both stock batteries and the extended battery (luckily Motorola had a charging station that allowed you to charge your phone, and an extra battery at the same time), and taking all three to work (and both doors since the stock battery easily came loose with the extended battery door in place... something that doesn't seem very likely with my Droid X, it's battery seems to fit very securely) just to get me through a 12 hour shift.

So the extremely poor battery life, coupled with the fact that the Q started sporadically erasing my notes for no reason at all.... notes that were very important, and that I'd spent a lot of time creating... led be to loath all things Motorola. Yes, the Q (I would just say 'my' Q, but I ended up going through 3 of them trying to get one that wasn't full of bugs... so I developed a confidence that the Q was not a very well made phone) was THAT bad, it turned me (temporarily) completely against my previous favorite phone manufacturer.

So I walked... no, RAN back to Blackberry as they had come out with a few offerings with camera's and what not, finally. I picked up the Curve and was back in battery life heaven. It didn't last 3 days on a single charge like my original Blackberry did, but I went all day long without ever breaking a sweat, and there was the occasion where I was somewhere and couldn't charge it over night, and it would usually last me most of the next day before finally shutting down. Is the Curve anything like my DX? Oh hell no, not even close. But it easily did everything the Q did and more... while conserving the battery like power was going out of style. So, over the course of those few years, going between those two brands, yes, I developed a huge respect for Blackberry's ability to conserve battery life as compared to the Motorola phones I owned. I had actually become a genuine 'Crackberry' head after owning my Curve for two years. I never thought I would ever leave Blackberry. Then, my fiancee and I went to Italy and we brought along her friends Storm since it was a world phone... after a few short days trying to use that phone I got so God Damned frusterated I almost threw it into the Adriatic ocean. I swore I would NEVER own a phone without a physical keyboard!!!! I absolutely hated the Storm, there was nothing about that phone that I liked. So I was waiting patiently for Blackberry to come out with their next 'IT' phone (the Curve 2 didn't strike me as a step forward, so I figured they had to have SOMETHING big coming around the corner). Then last month my fiancee's contract was up and she was due to get a new phone. Verizon was offering their 'buy one Droid, get the 2nd free' promotion. So she asked me if I wanted to try a Droid? I honestly didn't, like I said I had evolved into a Blackberry user through and through. But, I figured if they were going to just GIVE me this thing, well why not give it a spin right? At least it would give me something to experiment with until Blackberry finally did come out with their next leap forward, right?

Funny thing, after the weekend was over (we picked the phones up on a Friday), my fiancee said she would rather go back to her Tour. NOT ME!!! Oh my God, I had sooooo much fun on that Droid it took me all of two days to realize that Blackberry was in trouble... BIG trouble!!! How in the hell were they supposed to compete with all the cool shit the Droid did??? There was no way, no way in hell I was going to give up my Droid to go back to Blackberry... UNLESS, it was to get the Droid X instead. So that's what we did. We went back, returned both Droids, she got her Tour back, and I ordered the DX. So for the past month I've fully converted over to Android mania, I simply love all the cool stuff this phone does. But it does all of this cool stuff, at the expense of battery life. Hells yeah the screen is 4 times as big as my Curve's was, and it does a crap-load more stuff... but that still doesn't wipe away the momory of being able to do whatever I wanted to do on that phone, all day long, without it ever shutting down on me.

So does that mean I would ever go back to a Blackberry? Not on your life, not unless they get up to speed with Android but quick! I've seen some video's of the new Tourch running the new Blackberry OS and I must say it looks like they have made some serious strides forward with it as compared to the Curve, and EXPECIALLY the Storm. But their apps offering is just pathetic as compared to the Android market. In their defense, Blackberry has always concentrated on being a business class phone, and they are still right up there with the best business phones on the market. But they don't have the cool factor that Android phones have IMO. I like my gadgets. I like to play. I like the open market Android provides.

Now, if they would just buy out RIM and steal all their battery saving technologies!!! ;)
 
Long post is long...

You pretty much defended his argument... the DX does a LOT more than write emails. There are plenty of people on these forums who maximize their battery life, search around a little bit and you'll see.
 
Outlaw71 said:
I used to be a diehard Motorola junkie. I would only buy their flip phones. Then came the very first Blackberry (you know, the HUGE one... well, now that I have a DX, it doesn't seem so huge anymore ;)), I got it because at the time I had cancer and I was spending a LOT of time at the hospital. So I got it to email all my friends and family since I didn't have a laptop or anything. Well, that damn phone would go 2 or 3 days easily on one charge while using it regularly. One time I went on a 5 day trip to Tennessee with my riding buddies and I brought along the wrong charger... so I used it fairly lightly and turned it off every night. The battery didn't die until I was on my way home... I was floored that it lasted the entire 5 days without a charge at all.

Then came along the Motorola Q. I had gotten very fond of the Blackberry, but it didn't have a camera, nor did it play MP3's, and like I said before, I really dug Motorola's. So I swapped out for the Q... which proceeded to drive me completely CRAZY!!!! The job I worked at back then often required me to work 12 hour shifts, and my phone was constantly dying on me before lunch! So I bought a second battery. The two stock batteries occasionally lasted my regular 8 hour shift. But they still didn't get me through a 12 hour shift. Then finally they came out with an extended battery. It might have lasted an hour longer than the original battery, but was twice as thick. So my routine back then consited of having to go home, charge both stock batteries and the extended battery (luckily Motorola had a charging station that allowed you to charge your phone, and an extra battery at the same time), and taking all three to work (and both doors since the stock battery easily came loose with the extended battery door in place... something that doesn't seem very likely with my Droid X, it's battery seems to fit very securely) just to get me through a 12 hour shift.

So the extremely poor battery life, coupled with the fact that the Q started sporadically erasing my notes for no reason at all.... notes that were very important, and that I'd spent a lot of time creating... led be to loath all things Motorola. Yes, the Q (I would just say 'my' Q, but I ended up going through 3 of them trying to get one that wasn't full of bugs... so I developed a confidence that the Q was not a very well made phone) was THAT bad, it turned me (temporarily) completely against my previous favorite phone manufacturer.

So I walked... no, RAN back to Blackberry as they had come out with a few offerings with camera's and what not, finally. I picked up the Curve and was back in battery life heaven. It didn't last 3 days on a single charge like my original Blackberry did, but I went all day long without ever breaking a sweat, and there was the occasion where I was somewhere and couldn't charge it over night, and it would usually last me most of the next day before finally shutting down. Is the Curve anything like my DX? Oh hell no, not even close. But it easily did everything the Q did and more... while conserving the battery like power was going out of style. So, over the course of those few years, going between those two brands, yes, I developed a huge respect for Blackberry's ability to conserve battery life as compared to the Motorola phones I owned. I had actually become a genuine 'Crackberry' head after owning my Curve for two years. I never thought I would ever leave Blackberry. Then, my fiancee and I went to Italy and we brought along her friends Storm since it was a world phone... after a few short days trying to use that phone I got so God Damned frusterated I almost threw it into the Adriatic ocean. I swore I would NEVER own a phone without a physical keyboard!!!! I absolutely hated the Storm, there was nothing about that phone that I liked. So I was waiting patiently for Blackberry to come out with their next 'IT' phone (the Curve 2 didn't strike me as a step forward, so I figured they had to have SOMETHING big coming around the corner). Then last month my fiancee's contract was up and she was due to get a new phone. Verizon was offering their 'buy one Droid, get the 2nd free' promotion. So she asked me if I wanted to try a Droid? I honestly didn't, like I said I had evolved into a Blackberry user through and through. But, I figured if they were going to just GIVE me this thing, well why not give it a spin right? At least it would give me something to experiment with until Blackberry finally did come out with their next leap forward, right?

Funny thing, after the weekend was over (we picked the phones up on a Friday), my fiancee said she would rather go back to her Tour. NOT ME!!! Oh my God, I had sooooo much fun on that Droid it took me all of two days to realize that Blackberry was in trouble... BIG trouble!!! How in the hell were they supposed to compete with all the cool shit the Droid did??? There was no way, no way in hell I was going to give up my Droid to go back to Blackberry... UNLESS, it was to get the Droid X instead. So that's what we did. We went back, returned both Droids, she got her Tour back, and I ordered the DX. So for the past month I've fully converted over to Android mania, I simply love all the cool stuff this phone does. But it does all of this cool stuff, at the expense of battery life. Hells yeah the screen is 4 times as big as my Curve's was, and it does a crap-load more stuff... but that still doesn't wipe away the momory of being able to do whatever I wanted to do on that phone, all day long, without it ever shutting down on me.

So does that mean I would ever go back to a Blackberry? Not on your life, not unless they get up to speed with Android but quick! I've seen some video's of the new Tourch running the new Blackberry OS and I must say it looks like they have made some serious strides forward with it as compared to the Curve, and EXPECIALLY the Storm. But their apps offering is just pathetic as compared to the Android market. In their defense, Blackberry has always concentrated on being a business class phone, and they are still right up there with the best business phones on the market. But they don't have the cool factor that Android phones have IMO. I like my gadgets. I like to play. I like the open market Android provides.

Now, if they would just buy out RIM and steal all their battery saving technologies!!! ;)
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Your otherwise good points would not be as lost amongst the unneeded profanity.
 
dequardo said:
Your otherwise good points would not be as lost amongst the unneeded profanity.
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Are you kidding me? :rolleyes: I had to reread his entire post to try and find to what you were referring. A few hells, one shit and one goddamn. Oh yeah. And a crapload. Watch any TV lately?

If anything, his point was obscured by the torrent of words used to make it. You really have to be searching for trouble to take offense at his post, IM-ever-so-HO.

But back on point, however, I have to wonder about the design parameters and priorities of Motorola during the development process of the DX. I'm curious how many current DX owners would gladly add an eighth-inch of thickness, and a concurrent increase in weight, in exchange for a 2500 or 3000 mAh battery in place of the wimpy stock one that comes with the phone.

Think of the battery capacity that could have been accommodated if the designers had eliminated the camera-hump and simply made the back of the phone that thickness all the way to the bottom. It's a case of function being compromised by form.

Yeah, I like the feel of the skinny phone in my hand as much as the next person, but gimme power!
 
dequardo said:
Your otherwise good points would not be as lost amongst the unneeded profanity.
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Heavens to Murgatroyd!

My bad, seriously. I was in the military years ago, and while I've tried to really clean up my language over the years (trust me, when I was still enlisted that post would have read like an early Eddie Murphy stand up transcript!), I still tend to use a few colorful words when I'm really trying to punctuate my feelings. Having read through some of the threads on this forum I thought I'd seen a little 'light' cursing here and there and so I figured it was par for the course around these parts. But seeing as some take offense, I'll make a mental note to keep it PG.

Anywho, yes I can be very long in the tooth at times, I am aware of that. So sorry for the novel. The point I was really trying to get across to everyone was my experience with both Motorola products as well as with Blackberry's. I got the feeling that perhaps my remarks in my earlier posts were being taken as if I was hating on the DX, and that isn't the case at all. Sure I appreciated the BB's I had over the years, heck I down right loved them! But don't let that take away from how much I am truely digging my Shadow.

Think of it more as me just having respect for the efficiency of the RIM products I used over the years, and wishing my new love could incorporate more of those traits to make the PERFECT product! Sort of like my respect for the gas mileage my past Honda's used to get me. Now I own a Volkswagen Passat, which is still a fairly efficient car, but not as efficient as my Accord was. But let's say I had the money to buy a Ferrari Enzo... ripping through corners, and burning down straightaway's would bring me immeasurable pleasure, and I would be about as happy driving it as I am using my Droid X. Still, when ever the time came to visit a gas station (which would be quite often), I wouldn't be able to help but wish that my Enzo could get me at least HALF as far on a tank of gas as my Accord did.

Saying so on the Ferrari forum would no doubt bring similar (well, probably much harsher) responses...

"No your Enzo isn't nearly as fuel efficient as your Honda Accord was, but then how on earth could it be with all that performance under the hood? Did you expect to get 40 miles per gallon out of a 700 hp engine??? That's the price of admission when jumping from an economy car to a sports car genius"!

Which is a fair comparison IMO, if likening these phones to cars, then the Blackberry's I owned were definately more similar to the good, all-around safe, reliable and effiecient Honda's than a Ferrari. But now my DX... oh now that baby definately has MUCH more going on under the hood. It's an exotic alright. But the difference is we can actually tweak our Motorola's to get much more life out of them than we could ever dream of improving the Enzo's fuel efficiency.

Ok, I don't want this post to drag out as long as my last one so.... all I really wanted to get across was that the extended battery is a huge improvement over the battery that shipped with the unit. And although I'm somewhat spoiled from my previous 'efficiency' phones, I'm totally cool with giving up some battery performance in order to gain all the cool stuff I aquired when switching over to this 'exotic' phone.





.... oh, and it's worth mentioning that Motorola obviously is working hard to get their phones as efficient as they can. From all accounts I've read so far on the net, the DX destroys the HTC EVO 4G in terms of battery life. So they must be doing something right.
 
jbhumph said:
Ok, another question (I didn't see this mentioned in this thread or anywhere else so I hope I didn't miss it)

Has anyone tried the Seido Innocell 1750 mAh extended battery for the Droid X?

It says it does not require a different battery doory. It looks like it's the same price and I'm personally thinking the Motorola would be better....but just thought I'd toss this out for discussion
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I have the Seidio 1750 mah battery in my Eris and it has been great. I'll probly get one for my Droid X when I upgrade.
 
The last time it was on the verizon site I got to order it.. a day later I got an email saying my credit card wasn't good.. I called them back to try to give them a different credit card.. they said the reason why my credit failed is because they had no more in stock!

Then I said " Now you gotta by my wife"

Person on the other line said " But i'm a guy"

i said " I SAID NOW YAS GOTTA BE MY WIFE!"
 
Outlaw71 said:
.... oh, and it's worth mentioning that Motorola obviously is working hard to get their phones as efficient as they can. From all accounts I've read so far on the net, the DX destroys the HTC EVO 4G in terms of battery life. So they must be doing something right.
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Not exactly. They may well be working hard as you say but the X certainly comes nowhere near 'destroying the EVO' in terms of batt life. A litttle bit better-yes. But that's like being the tallest midget, er little person.
 
dequardo said:
Not exactly. They may well be working hard as you say but the X certainly comes nowhere near 'destroying the EVO' in terms of batt life. A litttle but better-yes. But that's like being the tallest midget, er little person.
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Really? I should have known that was just a bunch of hearsay. By all the feedback I was getting, as miserable as the stock DX battery was, it made the Evo's look foolish. Probably should have taken that info with a grain of salt seeing as where I got it.

I do remember either an Incredible owner, or Evo owner complaining that battery comparisons were unfair since the X has a 1540mAh battery in it while there's was only like 1250mAh... I thought, 'unfair'??? Why would it be unfair that Motorola put a bigger battery in their phone? If anything you should be asking why on earth your manufacturer didn't go bigger to get more usable time out of it. Heck I'm still wondering why Motorola went with the 1540mAh instead of the 1840mAh??? For that matter, as big as the DX and Evo are, there's no reason they couldn't have added just a little thickness and installed TWO 1540mAh's (side by side for a slimmer look) or at the very least, one 2500mAh battery (would add more thickness in one spot, so it would be harder to keep the phone thin).

Seriously though, why not do that? The thing is, with these big screen phones, talk time is not an accurate indicator of battery time. Sure, these are phones, and we're supposed to be using them to talk on, so I understand the standard test being important. But they've loaded these things down with so much stuff, nobody buys one just to talk on. If that were the case, get a dumb phone and save yourself some cabbage. Heck my screen turns off while I'm talking, so sure talk time is going to look good, but in reality, that screen changes everything. I'd say from my own experience (I realize stock batteries vary in performance), that the Droid X has has only a few hours of 'screen time' before the battery dies.

And even though they don't rate these phones according to such a test, I would think the manufacturer would have taken that into account when designing their phone. When you slap a 4.3 inch screen on your device, you would think a really large main battery, or two regular size batteries would be a no-brainer. Think about it, with twin stock batteries running things, the X would last just about everyone (even crazy, all-day users like me) most if not all day long.

I'll be glad when the first manufacturer decides to do this. They will set a precidence that other manufacurers will be forced to compete with or get left behind.
 
I seen plenty of peole rate a battery by how fast you can run it down using methids that overide battery management functions. I believe that good stealth battery management is one of the things that make battery life good.

Obviously if you put a light bulb on two batteries with the same mah they should drain at the same time. The key is "how good is your phones battery management"?
 
this website says droid X has best battery.

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Android Battery Test Reveals Droid X Lasts Longest, AMOLED Handsets Trail
 
Well of course, if used in conjunction. I was imagining something along the line of the second battery kicking in when the first was close to being discharged. Leaving open the possibility of removing the drained battery and charging it on a dock so you could remain unplugged. But, now that you mention that, I'm starting to realize that the management system that the phone would require to constantly check the two batteries status to determine which one it should be drawling off of would be a battery drain all in itself. Not only that, but then you would run into problems if one battery was constantly being charged and discharged while the other remained unused, then you would end up getting different charge times out of each. Which would cause issues with unpredictable phone usability... yeah, scratch that idea. I guess I hadn't thought it out far enough yet.

Ok, but I still think that one big (think 2500 - 3000mAh) battery in these types of phones isn't something we shouldn't expect in the future. They could shape it long, fat and skinny if phone thickness is their number one priority. It's starting to feel like motorcycle racing did back in the 80's when the engines the Japanese were churning out were exceeding the limits of the tire technology at the time. Too much power, not enough grip.

I love me some smartphones. But their Achilles heel at this point is their battery. It almost feels as if they're putting batteries that leave something to be desired in them just so that they can get that after purchase sale in the extended battery department. Which is uncool at best and unethical at worst.
 
DontEatPoop said:
this website says droid X has best battery.

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Android Battery Test Reveals Droid X Lasts Longest, AMOLED Handsets Trail
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WOW. Ok now without knowing the origin of that graph or how accurate it is, I have to say that the Droid X (which spec wise is practically identical to the EVO 4G) lasting 40% longer on the same sized battery seems like a pretty thorough butt whippin to me. Heck what did they do, test the EVO's talk time using the video conference mode or something?

Man that's crazy.
 
I just bought...should have it Thursday. But frankly, I'm pretty darn impressed with the battery life of my standard battery. No issues at all so far, but I'd like to not have to worry about turning off services, etc. to make it through the day. The extended should be just the ticket! :)
 
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