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[Motorola Droid 3] Immolate:
Ditto. I was at a little over 30 hours today and at 40% when I plugged my D3 in. This is pretty normal for light days.
[Motorola Droid 3] pecosROB:
Hmmm something must be wrong with mine. My girlfriend's and mine have been getting around 11-14 hours on a charge. A "charge" would be when it gets down to at least 15-20%.

I don't have any widgets running really, except that stupid Verizon data app sometimes seems to keep trying to access something when I'm on wifi.
[Motorola Droid 3] rtbrjason:
Not too good for me here. Down to 70% with barely any usage after about 4 hours. 36% of that use is cell standby, and 32% is phone idle. 16% system and the rest is apps and all are under 5%.

I barely even use the phone itself and haven't even made or received a call since getting the D3. Today so far I've sent 4-5 texts and checked email a couple of times so for it to be down to 70% is crap.

I'm giving serious thought to returning it and sticking with my OG for a while longer. It was running CM7 with stock kernel and lasted considerably longer with heavy use.
[Motorola Droid 3] dco717:
Took off charger at 720am and at 942 its at 80% no good, made two 2 min calls and had some txt and iys already draining, I don't have really anything syncing and im on cdma
[Motorola Droid 3] pecosROB:
Does everyone do the sync every X minutes or on push? I'm using push and that's probably what's draining the **** out of my battery.
[Motorola Droid 3] xxspark89xx:
For everyone having trouble with their battery: Have you changed your mobile network to "CDMA Only"?

If you haven't done such a thing, here is how to do it:

- At your home screen, Press you Menu Softkey and choose "Settings"

- Then choose "Wireless & Networks" at the top of the menu

- Select "Mobile Networks" at the bottom of that menu

- Choose "Network Mode" and select "CDMA Only"

If your settings were set to Global, then the system would be going between CDMA and GSM every time you signal was weak or it was trying to acquire a signal. By selecting CDMA only (Verizon's Home Network) Then you are telling your phone you are in the United States and to stop looking for other types of networks. This should greatly improve battery life, as it did for me. :)
[Motorola Droid 3] pecosROB:
Awesome, I'll try to remember to report back here my results.
[Motorola Droid 3] rtbrjason:
I've done the CDMA only with HOME only selected.

6 hours and 40 mins since taking off charger, and down to 50%. About the same as yesterday.

38% of it cell standby,

34% phone idle,

18% android system,

6% display,

4% android os and

2% maps is the whole list of my usage since then.
[Motorola Droid 3] rtbrjason:
It's a bit early to tell, but yesterday I decided maybe switching to CDMA only was meaningless while the SIM card was still installed. It's only been off the charger for a bit over an hour but I'm still at 100%. Typically it's been dropping about 10% an hour or so. Will update after a few more hours of use.
[Motorola Droid 3] alnilla:
My battery life has been sucking. I am around 50 percent after a days use at work. With my Droid Inc 1 it was around 75 percent. I have it in cdma mode.

Cell Standby 39%

Wifi- 29%

Phone Idle- 26%

Display 4%

Android Os 2%

Android System 2%

Doesnt make sense. The Inc was rooted too running CM 7. Cant make that big of a difference.
[Motorola Droid 3] rtbrjason:
After 6 hours I was only down to 70%. Typically I would be at 50 or even hitting 40 so there seems to be some improvement. I also noticed that despite having set it to CDMA only, after pulling the sim card, it was set back to global.
[Motorola Droid 3] Shooperman:
I have only had the D3 for a few days, and so far I can get a full day out of the battery. I listen to music via bluetooth FIPO all day (+9 hours) and I'm generally around 20% when I get home. However, recently the Social Location app has been going nuts. See attached...
[Motorola Droid 3] MinionOfEckerd:
So you've seen an improvement in battery life after taking out the sim card? Has your cell standby percentage decreased?
[Motorola Droid 3] TheMuffStuff:
With my display on auto and moderate texting. Ill usually last from 10AM in the morning to like 11pm and still have like 30% left.
[Motorola Droid 3] rtbrjason:
Definitely on the first question. I did another full charge earlier, and it's been 6.5 hours and I'm at 80%. On both Mon and Tues after 6 hours I was on 40-50%. Cell standby seems the same and my current %'s are as follows:

6h 50m 36s on battery 80% remaining battery

Cell standby - 39%

Phone idle - 37%

Android System - 18%

Android OS - 4%

Display - 3%

Maps - 2%
[Motorola Droid 3] TheMuffStuff:
Lol holy **** just looked at my usage statistics. 1d 18h 50m on battery and i still have 30% left? That cant be right..
[Motorola Droid 3] armchairbear:
Your Inc 1 was pretty good. I was never able to get through a work day with mine. I was also using cm7.

For me the D3 battery life is much better than my Inc 1. I can start with 90% and it would take 6 hours of heavy use (games and youtube) to run the battery to zero. My old Inc 1 could never do that. I know I can easily go a full day with my new D3 (if I can just keep my hands off it ever other minute).

Maybe my standards are low, but I'm just happy that I can use a smart phone for what it's really for. I can make a few phone calls, send some texts, surf the web, play some games, and have push notifications and polling every two hours and still last a whole day. With my old Inc 1 I had to turn a lot of that stuff off to make it through the day. With my Inc 1, I had "range anxiety", but not now with the D3.
[Motorola Droid 3] alnilla:
I had an extended battery just an 1750 though. Didnt need a different battery cover
[Motorola Droid 3] Arachnidus:
Still better than my Thunderbolt. This seals the deal, the second I can get my off contract hands on a Droid 3 (meaning, when Best Buy gets them in so I can trade in my TB), I'm getting one.

Also, can anybody tell me how much the extended battery costs and if the battery is going to stick out the back of my phone or not? I'd rather avoid that.
[Motorola Droid 3] erismaster:
Its $49.99. It comes with a new back. But you can use the original battery cover. Its just a tight fit. The new battery cover doesn't add much bulk. But it is slightly noticeable.
[Motorola Droid 3] Robyn25:
I haven't had that great of battery life...I have had to charge my phone to get through the day...just put it to cdma today, any other suggestions like that to help with the battery?
[Motorola Droid 3] elcapitaine:
my battery life has been fairly terrible as well...i see these usage statistics and go holy crap.

i know that since its a new phone and all, ive been using it more than is say, 'normal.' but i cant go through a full day without finding a place to charge, and thats severely hampering the use of my phone. i want to have a smartphone to be able to do stuff on the go, not only when plugged in with my laptop right next to me
[Motorola Droid 3] adammhaile:
In general I have gotten very good battery life with my D3 (as long as I have a signal that is...) but I've noticed one definite thing that really seems to suck down the battery... bluetooth. On my D1 I always left bluetooth on all the time because I have it hooked up to the SYNC system in my car for music and using the phone. On that phone, the battery usage window never really showed bluetooth attributing to any usage... but on my D3 it will consistently show that bluetooth has used 25-30% even when I'm not actually using BT!

Mainly I like to leave it on out of convenience so that it auto connects to the car as soon as I start it up... But even without every being in the car and having the phone on battery with BT on, it will drain from 100% to 50% in about 5 hours without really touching the phone or making any calls... just sitting on my desk at home with full 3G signal. How is it possible that it's using this much power for BT to idle?

Anyone else seeing this issue? Or better yet have a solution aside from turning BT off?
[Motorola Droid 3] dotson817:
If you guys really want to see what is chewing up the most power get watchdog lite for free in the market and keep an eye on the cpu tab, has helped me a lot
[Motorola Droid 3] snareplayer1993:
I think something is wrong my d3 got taken off of the charger 30 minutes ago after a full charge and me barely texting my phone is already down to 90% my phone is set to the maximum battery saver I have a feeeling this battery is just bad
[Motorola Droid 3] erismaster:
Once the battery hits full charge the phone stops charging. Even if you keep it plugged in. Usually there is a about a 5 percent drop if you plug it in say overnight. Your battery is fine. The phone will report a 94% battery as 90%. Hope this helps
[Motorola Droid 3] dpwhitty11:
The battery percentage goes down in increments of 10%, so what appears to be 90 could really be 99, 98, 97, 96, 95, 94, 93, 92, 91, or 90.
[Motorola Droid 3] snareplayer1993:
I know the drop in 10 that's why I downloaded the circle battery widget to see in increments of 1! I'm just reading how other peoples are lasting so long and mine don't last very long at all compared to my d1. Another question how long does it normaly take your d3 to charge?
[Motorola Droid 3] erismaster:
From a 20% or less charge about 2 and a half hours id say. Do you have the extended battery? Cause quite a few people have it and that could be why yours seems to not last as long.
[Motorola Droid 3] snareplayer1993:
Nope just the normal batery! I've never had a phone that takes so long to charge
[Motorola Droid 3] erismaster:
Yeah I agree this one is slower. Especially if your using it while its plugged in. I would invest in the extended battery. Worth having not only the longer life but being able to throw in the other battery if needed.
[Motorola Droid 3] snareplayer1993:
I just orderd another battery yesterday with a wall charger so I won't have to wait for the long charging
[Motorola Droid 3] erismaster:
Are you able to get the phone to charge above 95%? According to the circle battery widget. I managed to mess up my battery stats yesterday and had to deal with the phone showing 5% all day. As soon as I pull it off the charger it drops to 90%(on the phone not the circle battery widget) I just feel its not charging all the way
[Motorola Droid 3] snareplayer1993:
No mine goes to 100% never seen that
[Motorola Droid 3] erismaster:
Yeah. I went to re insert my sim card when charging the phone. Took the battery out to do so. Left it plugged in. And as soon as I put the battery back in it reset the battery stats. Oh well its close to full charge still. Root will fix it easily. Just need to erase the battery stats.bin file. Thanks though.
[Motorola Droid 3] mrslax:
1st day of use I got about 14 hours.

your mileage may vary :P
[Motorola Droid 3] snareplayer1993:
I wish mine would last that long my dad just got his in the mail today and his first charge barely lasted 5 hours?
[Motorola Droid 3] mrslax:
I have only cmda mode on, maybe that helps.

I also only have push on my gmail and 15 min sync on my live mail.

I don't use any social networks.

My usage was mostly some web browsing, hour or two of calling, 15 min of gaming, and periodically I would turn on the phone bc its new :p.
[Motorola Droid 3] dotson817:
I am also pushing 14 hours on average a day. I use my phone like a smart phone is supposed to be used;)

My advice are a couple main ones,

1) turn cdma only mode on (major one!)

2) turn battery mode under settings>battery and usage, to battery saver (still syncs email instantly as well as always having data on)

3) NO AUTO TASK KILLER! It is proven no bueno for the phone, use Watchdog Lite for free from market and it will tell you when an app misbehaves and you can kill that single one.

4) I normally will wake up, let my battery drop a few percent then turn it off and let it charge until 100 again and then go about my day (known as bump charging)
[Motorola Droid 3] bigrel22:
I have cdma only, push email and the friendcaster widget. Im only getting roughly 4 hour or so of battery life. Could it be a bad battery? Im reading that some of u guys are getting a full day of battery. Please help. Btw, I have also drained and charged my battery about 3 times.
[Motorola Droid 3] snareplayer1993:
Bigrel22 mine is the same and my dads! I'm just gonna buy a extended battery
[Motorola Droid 3] mrslax:
4 hours?

Seems abnormally low.

Did you check the battery status screen to check whats using most of the battery?

How is your signal?
[Motorola Droid 3] bigrel22:
My standby time is taking most of the battery up @ about 31%
[Motorola Droid 3] bigrel22:
My display takes and 30-40%. I have auto brightness on
[Motorola Droid 3] dotson817:
The extende battery fixed all my problems my standard battery seeme bad too, amazing investment to get it
[Motorola Droid 3] Pokelover980:
Auto-brightness takes up more battery than a fixed brightness. At least, that's what I was told on the Eris (and it seemed to be so. Setting to a brightness of ~20% was perfect for me and saved me quite a bit of battery). So naturally on the D3 I set it to a fixed brightness, and for me Display only takes 10% of the battery.
[Motorola Droid 3] magicelf:
Anyone else having issues with circular battery? The phone says it's fully charged and I can unplug, but the battery indicator says 96%. Is there a way to calibrate it or something?
[Motorola Droid 3] erismaster:
Mine will only get to 100% if I charge the phone while its off and turn it on. Otherwise it'll get to 95% and stop
[Motorola Droid 3] gravenimage:
I too have been getting only about 6 hours of battery life, however, I just changed a ton of settings, and pulled out my sim card, which if I've been reading this thread life, should help alot. Im also buying an extended battery this week when the local shops finally get them in.
[Motorola Droid 3] pecosROB:
I decided to buy the extended battery, and after about 4-5 days, it actually has improved.

I have no idea how long the battery lasts when you have everything on 60 minutes updating instead of the automatic/push mode and wifi, bluetooth, and GPS turned off. It seemed to last a very long time when I had that on though, maybe somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 hours used and 70-80% remaining. I think I figured it to be somewhere in the range of 40-45 hours at that rate.

At first I was only getting 8-10 hours, I was starting to really get pissed. The last two days though, with automatic push on, GPS on, I get 16 hours and still have about 30-40% left. I haven't been playing with my phone near as much, but this is after I mess around with HDMI mirroring to show my friends Angry Birds on a 46" screen instead of a 4", messing with apps, updating them, checking email, etc.

The extended battery should be able to get you through the whole day (12-16 hours or more) with automatic/push updates enabled. Unless you **** around WAY too much on your phone when you should be working or going to class/paying attention.
[Motorola Droid 3] bigrel22:
I have my display bright at about 30%. How r u guys getting such a low percentage with displ	ay? Mine runs between 20%-30%
[Motorola Droid 3] psouza4:
I get about 38-42 hours of light use from the original battery and 50-54 hours from the extended battery. I don't ever turn syncing off and that's about 50/50 WiFi and 3G.
[Motorola Droid 3] 640k:
i'm going to go out on a limb and start asking people with high battery life to start posting their build numbers to make sure there's not some discrepency. my battery life has been absolutely abismal, which is ironic (for me) considering my D1 and D2 seemed to get above-average life, compared to friends with the same phones.

My D1/D2 could easily stream Pandora for 8+ hrs and only get to 30-20% battery. My D3 barely makes it 2hrs before it's at 20%.

Something is definitely wrong. The OS is optimized, the battery is larger, the screen should be more efficient...
[Motorola Droid 3] bigrel22:
I agree 640k. Everyone that can help, please help. I love this phone and I don't want 2 get rid of it
[Motorola Droid 3] noahsark3:
Is it normal for cell standby battery use to be equal to wifi? I do a lot of texting, but between work and home I hardly ever lapse into 3G. Since the display is such a low factor, maybe I'm just not used to the two of them being up at 28-32%
[Motorola Droid 3] 640k:
Thanks psouza4. Let's keep them coming, to make sure there aren't any discrepencies.

psouza4, can you do me a favor and pick your audio streaming app of choice and find out how long your D3 will stream off charge? something as data intensive as an audio stream should provide a fair example of what is happening with the radio.

today i got exactly 2.5 hrs of battery use of streaming Pandora before the phone actually shut itself down. this is with the screen off, and on 3G only.

what's shocking is the battery use only shows Pandora in the lower percentile (like below 10%), so something is definitely skewed. for the cell idle and phone idle to still be 30% each, when Pandora is obviously the #1 culprit, and only getting 2.5hrs battery life??

i'm totally against it being a hardware problem at this point. there's something missing between the phones that "work" and the ones that "don't".
[Motorola Droid 3] 640k:
btw, i don't konw if the D2/G or other phones did/do this, but if you're charging with the phone off, and you hit the power button (but don't hold it down) you get a battery animation.
[Motorola Droid 3] psouza4:
I installed and am running Pandora over 3G with media volume at second lowest and using the phone's speakers.

Started with 97% battery life at 11:18 AM MDT using the 1930 mAh extended battery and all other operating conditions from my original post.

Will report back in a few hours!

(P.S.: the system is using battery to keep your 3G signal and transmit data back/forth for Pandora, so Pandora's battery usage could be reported low even if it's responsible for asking the system to do so much work... keep that in mind.)
[Motorola Droid 3] psouza4:
Down to 85% battery life now at 12:25 AM MDT. That's a loss of 12% of 1930 mAh = 231.6 mAh (for one hour). On a standard 1540 mAh battery, that'd be about 15% loss. Adjusted for 67 minutes is 207.4 mAh.

At this rate, a fully charged extended battery will last my setup/usage pattern about 9.3 hours and a fully charged standard battery about 7.4 hours. I'll continue using and update accordingly.

EDIT: corrected numbers for 67 minutes. I originally calculated for an hour of usage, oops.
[Motorola Droid 3] 640k:
i'm correcting this. turns out it kept the statistics from last use.

I got 3hrs 26m 52s on battery.

Cell Standby - 23%

BT - 22%

WiFi - 22%

Phone Idle - 15%

Display - 10%

Mediaserver - 5%

Pandora - 4%

Android System - 4%

105% usage??? lol

and before anyone says, "turn off BT/WiFi", that's BS. D1/D2 ran fine with BT/WiFi enabled, with auto brightness. i never compromised my use of the phone, like people claim to do and i haven't seen any documentation that says the radios have changed from previous devices.
[Motorola Droid 3] psouza4:
At the two-hour mark now.

Down to 76% battery life now at 1:17 PM MDT. That's a loss of 21% of 1930 mAh = 405.3 mAh (for two hours exactly). On a standard 1540 mAh battery, that'd be about 26.3% loss.

At this rate, a fully charged extended battery will last under my setup/usage pattern about 9.5 hours and a fully charged standard battery about 7.6 hours. I'll continue using and update accordingly.
[Motorola Droid 3] 640k:
i called tech support and the girl said that she hasn't heard of battery issues. so i'm going to start an official troubleshooting process. maybe get the store to replace the battery and maybe even the unit. both my wife and my phone are exhibiting the same behavior. i'm fairly bummed about it. i should be getting your battery life.
[Motorola Droid 3] psouza4:
Passed the three-hour mark now.

Down to 65% battery life at 2:21 PM MDT. That's a loss of 32% of 1930 mAh = 617.6 mAh (for 184 minutes). On a standard 1540 mAh battery, that'd be about 40.1% loss.

At this rate, a fully charged extended battery will last under my setup/usage pattern about 9.6 hours and a fully charged standard battery about 7.6 hours. I'll continue using and update accordingly.

Need more?
[Motorola Droid 3] psouza4:
Passed the four-hour mark now.

Down to 55% battery life at 3:25 PM MDT. That's a loss of 42% of 1930 mAh = 810.6 mAh (for 248 minutes). On a standard 1540 mAh battery, that'd be about 52.6% loss.

At this rate, a fully charged extended battery will last under my setup/usage pattern about 9.8 hours and a fully charged standard battery about 7.8 hours. I'll continue using and update accordingly (I can update twice more before I head out of the office for the day and thus my operating environment will change).
[Motorola Droid 3] magicelf:
Is there a way to turn 3g off? I used to do that to conserve battery on my eris, but I don't see an option anywhere...
[Motorola Droid 3] pogularocky:
Decent battery life

Hi!

My D3's first day was horrible. It lasted about 5 hours before shutting itself off.

But, today, it lasted me about 11 hours before shutting off.

I ran it through a few charge cycles by playing music videos on youtube. I looked like it helped a bit.

Right now, I use Launcher Pro, 4 widgets that constantly update, 3 email accounts that update every 15 minutes, 2 chat clients, 2 social networking apps, 2 or 3 bars signal strength, and so on.

My typical usage during a single cycle:

40% fixed screen brightness, wifi always on, CDMA only mode, 20 to 30 minutes of gtalk or facebook chatting, around 2 hours of FLAC (drains battery a lot more than MP3) music or pandora, 20 to 30 minutes of youtube or netflix, 10 to 15 minutes of skype video chat, check emails and other apps several times, websurfing and news apps for atleast 1 hour. And, not to forget, around 30 minutes of phone calls.

That should be moderate or heavy use, depending on who you ask :P

Overall, I am very happy with the stock battery on my D3. Definitely a lot better than my Thunderbolt (even in 3G only mode).
[Motorola Droid 3] Pokelover980:
I did the same thing on my old little Eris :P I was also confused about it at first, and it turns out it's a pretty inconvenient process on this phone :/ Settings->Battery & Data Manager->Data delivery->Uncheck "Data enabled"
[Motorola Droid 3] psouza4:
Passed the five-hour mark now.

Down to 45% battery life at 4:17 PM MDT. That's a loss of 52% of 1930 mAh = 1003.6 mAh (for 5 hours exactly). On a standard 1540 mAh battery, that'd be about 65% loss.

At this rate, a fully charged extended battery will last under my setup/usage pattern about 9.6 hours and a fully charged standard battery about 7.6 hours. I'll continue using and update accordingly (I can update once more before I head out of the office for the day and thus my operating environment will change).
[Motorola Droid 3] magicelf:
Thanks for the help. I can't wait for this thing to get rooted so we can just add that to the Power Widget...
[Motorola Droid 3] psouza4:
You can add it to the customized version from the market (but it's not free).
[Motorola Droid 3] psouza4:
Okay, stopped it at the six-hour mark.

Down to 37% battery life at 5:17 PM MDT. That's a loss of 60% of 1930 mAh = 1158 mAh (for 6 hours exactly). On a standard 1540 mAh battery, that'd be about 75.2% loss (24.8% remaining)

At this rate under my setup/usage pattern, a fully charged extended battery would have probably lasted about 10 hours and a fully charged standard battery about 8 hours.

My poor battery needs some coddling now. Going to charge it up!