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What's your Cell Standby Percentage?

It's a percentage that adds up to 100%. If one number goes down, something else has to come up. The processes that use your battery will ALWAYS equal (approximately) 100% (there's obviously some rounding).

Here are my current Bionic battery stats after an entire day of moderate use:

Total battery usage: 50%
Cell standby: 44%
Phone Idle: 43%
Voice Calls: 6%
Android OS: 4%
WiFi: 3%
Display: 3% (love or hate the PenTile screen... this is amazing)

The standby and idle numbers seems high, but I still have 50% of my battery at the end of a full day. If I had 90% of my battery left, all those bottom numbers would still be about the same. If I had 10% of my battery left, those bottom number would still be about the same.

Those bottom numbers aren't a percentage of the BATTERY they've used. They're a percentage of the PERCENTAGE of the battery they've used.

Does that make sense? Let's say all the other numbers are zero and your display number is at 100%. That doesn't meant your battery is down to zero. That means that if your battery is down to 90%, your display used 100% of the 10% of your battery that's been used.

Ignore those numbers unless it's, like, 99%/1%/1%/1%/1%/1%. Then you have a problem.

Does that help?
 
If your battery is draining quickly, don't take it back to Verizon immediately. Google "Bionic Battery Life" or something and see if you have some settings that are eating up battery. Make sure you don't have Bluetooth and GPS on all the time and a dozen real-time widgets updating constantly. TURN OFF your 4G if you don't have it in your area, or turn it on ONLY when you absolutely need it, which is pretty rare, honestly. Look for apps that are constantly trying to access data. And don't expect to watch streamed YouTube videos while you track your progress in a taxi for an hour.

I have a push-synced Exchange calendar and email (my work email and things I put on my Outlook calendar show up within a couple of seconds on my phone). I have a gmail account that syncs in real-time. I ALWAYS have wireless on. I browse several minutes a day on 3G. I text several dozen times a day. I CONSTANTLY listen to music on my phone -- usually a couple of hours a day. I play a game or two here and there.

(Edit: and my screen is at 100% brightness, by the way -- all the time.)

Yet, after a 12+ hour day, I usually have at least 30% to 40% of my battery when I plug in to charge at bedtime.

That was typical with my OG Droid, and it's typical with my Bionic. Before declaring your phone faulty, do a little Google research, delve into your phone's settings and see if it's something YOU'VE set up that eating your battery.
 
I called Verizon, and the rep I was talking to would not believe the the phone is at fault, and kept insisting I install a task manager. I was getting nowhere so I just hung up.

When my phone is in airplane mode, phone idle takes the highest usage instead of cell standby, which comes second. It still goes down usually fast, although a tiny bit slower. With only wifi on and CDMA radio, my phone drops about 15% without use per hour, about 8-10% on airplane mode. Performed factory reset several times, installed no apps, and the end result is still the same. I really hope they push an OTA soon like they just did with the D3 because this is unacceptable. My OG lasted me the entire day easily on stock battery with CDMA and wifi when I used it.
 
Vehtemas said:
Do you turn the screen on at the same time and for the same duration, make the same phone calls, have the same apps installed with same background data settings (since it receiving data will cause it to not show up as idle).

I am just saying every phone is as unique as its owner.
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Dude, He has a point. Yes I realize they are not going to be exactly the same. But a 10-20% difference is a little extreme. And considering A LOT of Bionic owners are seeing 30-35% when most other android phones are getting 5-20% its worth some discussion. How about instead of bashing everybody you do something productive?
 
It's been a little over a week now since my Bionic was replaced and the new one I got is great, cell standby now adjust based on my use and have had it down to as low as 25%. My battery now last somewhere between 10 and 15 hours depending on my use instead of the 4 to 6 hours I was getting. By the way my battery was not replaced just the phone was swapped out for a new Bionic. So it definitely was not a problem with the battery. I have set the new one up exactly like my original with the exact same settings and apps with use in the same places and with 4G left on all the time. While I do agree that cell standby and battery life will vary by user I don't think there should be that drastic of a difference between 2 different Bionics used by the same user in the same way. I do think that some members of this forum just like to attack other users and tell them that they are wrong since they themselves are not experiencing similar things. A low post count does not make someone incompetent.

Sorry for the short rant I am just tired of seeing valid questions and ideas shut down in forums.
 
JRJ said:
It's been a little over a week now since my Bionic was replaced and the new one I got is great, cell standby now adjust based on my use and have had it down to as low as 25%. My battery now last somewhere between 10 and 15 hours depending on my use instead of the 4 to 6 hours I was getting. By the way my battery was not replaced just the phone was swapped out for a new Bionic. So it definitely was not a problem with the battery. I have set the new one up exactly like my original with the exact same settings and apps with use in the same places and with 4G left on all the time. While I do agree that cell standby and battery life will vary by user I don't think there should be that drastic of a difference between 2 different Bionics used by the same user in the same way. I do think that some members of this forum just like to attack other users and tell them that they are wrong since they themselves are not experiencing similar things. A low post count does not make someone incompetent.

Sorry for the short rant I am just tired of seeing valid questions and ideas shut down in forums.
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I was going to wait a few more days but i can already tell that

I am not losing my signal every 30 mins (been listening to radio stream for about 2 hrs and its not stopped even once)

and like you my phone battery lasted about 11 hrs yesterday

Like i said this is a early test for me but if i get anything like i did yesterday i can say i had a bad phone. I think it losing signal was just making it work that much harder and of course draining my battery..
 
JRJ said:
It's been a little over a week now since my Bionic was replaced and the new one I got is great, cell standby now adjust based on my use and have had it down to as low as 25%. My battery now last somewhere between 10 and 15 hours depending on my use instead of the 4 to 6 hours I was getting. By the way my battery was not replaced just the phone was swapped out for a new Bionic. So it definitely was not a problem with the battery. I have set the new one up exactly like my original with the exact same settings and apps with use in the same places and with 4G left on all the time. While I do agree that cell standby and battery life will vary by user I don't think there should be that drastic of a difference between 2 different Bionics used by the same user in the same way. I do think that some members of this forum just like to attack other users and tell them that they are wrong since they themselves are not experiencing similar things. A low post count does not make someone incompetent.

Sorry for the short rant I am just tired of seeing valid questions and ideas shut down in forums.
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I agree with what is written above and concur about the phone.

My first Bionic would be at 50% after a couple or three hours off the charger with little or no use. It would be at the same spot after extremely high usage. I did all the "Battery Saving" stuff that you can find on forums and the battery would go down the same amount regardless of what I did. Disable data, turn location off, dim the display,... The only time I would see any difference was in airplane mode, where the radio is supposed to be off. It would use practically no battery in airplane mode.

I contacted Verizon and was basically told I was an idiot, but they would help me resolve the issue. "I'll send you an e-mail with battery saving tips, you try them and that will fix your issue," was what I was told. Never received the e-mail and I worked some more on resolving the battery drain issue. No luck. I called them back and the next Techy listened to what I had to say and then without asking any questions offered to replace the phone. Even went to the trouble of finding a store near me that had one and asked them to exchange if for me. With the new one, after a full day of fairly heavy usage (for me) I put it on the charger last night with 40% battery left. I do have the extended battery BTW. Anyway, it appears as though there are some radio issues out there and I had one of them. All the radio function worked properly, it just consumed battery gluttonously.

Sorry for such a long post, but information, regardless of how inane, is always valuable to someone.

BigRedGonzo
 
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