chowmailap
Well-Known Member
i feel like the battery on my atrix hasn't been holding out as long as it used to......im including a screenshot of my battery usage.....anyone see anything wrong??
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Help Ugh battery??
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WolfmanRobby
Android Enthusiast
Facebook can be a battery killer. Especially if you set the notifications for a shorter time period.
Honestly, battery performance is NOT going to be the same day to day. Here are some things that can have an effect (Positive or negative...):
-Temperature changes. really warm, and really cold temps can shorten the battery run time by throwing off the chemical reaction in the battery.
-Cell signal quality. If you carrier is having problems with a tower that you bounce off of, or are working on (Say upgrading it) one, that can effect the signal quality. So, the phone has to compensate. This can mean putting more power to the radio to boost if the Db's are weak. Or, greater processing power to compensate if the signal is noisy (ec/no). Remember, the number of bars is an aggregate of that. Go into settings, About and look at the wireless status and see what the phone signal looks like.
-An app that should have shut down, but is running in the background and needs a force close.
-An app update through the market that is hung and, again, needs a force close.
-Apps that run in the background updating too often (Like Facebook, Weather Apps, IM programs...). If you've added, updated, or changed settings in any kind of app like that, it can eat your battery.
-Apps like the above that also use the GPS (Like FourSquare, Google Maps, Lattitude, My Tracks....). The GPS can really drain your battery.
As you can see, it can be any number of things. More importantly, it can be a combination of many small things.... In other words, the battery is dying the death of a 1,000 cuts!
EDIT - I'm going to ask the mods to move this one into the "Support and Troubleshooting" sub-forum.
Honestly, battery performance is NOT going to be the same day to day. Here are some things that can have an effect (Positive or negative...):
-Temperature changes. really warm, and really cold temps can shorten the battery run time by throwing off the chemical reaction in the battery.
-Cell signal quality. If you carrier is having problems with a tower that you bounce off of, or are working on (Say upgrading it) one, that can effect the signal quality. So, the phone has to compensate. This can mean putting more power to the radio to boost if the Db's are weak. Or, greater processing power to compensate if the signal is noisy (ec/no). Remember, the number of bars is an aggregate of that. Go into settings, About and look at the wireless status and see what the phone signal looks like.
-An app that should have shut down, but is running in the background and needs a force close.
-An app update through the market that is hung and, again, needs a force close.
-Apps that run in the background updating too often (Like Facebook, Weather Apps, IM programs...). If you've added, updated, or changed settings in any kind of app like that, it can eat your battery.
-Apps like the above that also use the GPS (Like FourSquare, Google Maps, Lattitude, My Tracks....). The GPS can really drain your battery.
As you can see, it can be any number of things. More importantly, it can be a combination of many small things.... In other words, the battery is dying the death of a 1,000 cuts!
EDIT - I'm going to ask the mods to move this one into the "Support and Troubleshooting" sub-forum.
roadkizzle
Member
I'd guess that the reason why the battery's drained a lot is because the screen was on longer than usual or at a higher than normal brightness. I say this because the Display category has used 38% of the battery life, but we cannot see how long the screen was on without selecting that category.
WolfmanRobby
Android Enthusiast
That's not unusual. I just checked mine and the display has used 37%.
Under normal operating conditions, the Display will usually be the biggest battery drain on the battery.
itsallgood
Android Expert
I've got about 35% batter left right now, total time since last unplugged 7hrs 35min.. My Display has used up the most power at 22% = 1 hrs 23 min. (This is low for me.)Normal use for me would be about 40% battery used by screen, for over 3 hrs. (My screen is at its lowest setting 95% of the time.) I have Facebook now and noticed that when it was running in the background, my battery usage time went down fast. I now have Facebook to end when I turn off the screen, even though I have it to update every 4 hrs. (It starts back up everytime I turn the screen on.) So, If I'm not checking it, I go into the Stock Task Manager and kill all apps I'm not using.