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[Motorola Droid 3] 640k:
Thanks for your help. Your nusage is what id expect these devices to behave normally. I'm currently at 70% after 5.5hrs, so it looks as thought doing a complete drain may have helped recalibrate things.

Now, for those having "incredible" battery life, did you coddle nyour phone and charge it before you started using it, or did you use it until you drained it and then charged it? Seems like I forgot to charge both my d1 and d2 and they had great battery life, but since I coddled this battery, I wonder if that's the issue.

Of course this is all speculation. I'm grasping at straws, basicaly, to try and make sense as to wyat the difference is. Maybe we'll be able to guide some other poor soul down the right path.
[Motorola Droid 3] snareplayer1993:
Ok well my battery life really sucked when I first started using this phone but today was different. So far its been on battery for 14hr with cell standby at 42% and phone idle at 38% wifi was used for a 1hr today and only took up 4% and display at 6%. And this is all on the stock battery I installed juice defender but im not shure if its the app helping save my battery or just me not using it as much either way its nice knowing that after 14hrs I still have 37% left.
[Motorola Droid 3] bigrel22:
How are you guys getting your display % so low? I currently have display at about 35%-40% and my display % is around 40%
[Motorola Droid 3] psouza4:
You're using your display more.

For example, I had Pandora streaming music going for 6 hours straight yesterday with almost no Display Use %. Full brightness, minimum brightness, doesn't matter because I didn't have the display on for 99.9% of that time. You're just using your display more.
[Motorola Droid 3] hagalah:
How can you read your battery % by 65%? Mine only shows by 90% / 80% / 70% etc? Any software to configure the battery indicator? Thanks.
[Motorola Droid 3] psouza4:
There's lots. I prefer Battery Circle because it puts it as an icon in the notification area and it's free. There's lots of other widgets and other apps out there that do it too. The original Motorola Droid hardware could only report 10% increments, but every model since then can report 1% increments.
[Motorola Droid 3] 640k:
currently at 7h 13m w/ 50% battery.
[Motorola Droid 3] bigrel22:
I wish I could get that type of battery life. Im at 50% after a couple of hours. I've done all of the tweaking that I can down.
[Motorola Droid 3] psouza4:
Kill your battery.

Seriously. Drain it until the phone powers itself off. Charge to full. Do it again.

Android OS keeps stats on your battery's capacity (in a file on your device) and it doesn't always get it right, so you may have to do this for it to correct itself. Maybe Motorola pushed this device out the door with incorrect stats in the original file -- sounds like a lot of people with stock batteries have had this issue.

Or you can always just go for the bigger battery. It's +25% capacity and I couldn't be more happy with it, personally.
[Motorola Droid 3] bigrel22:
I've killed my battery at least 4 times already. Im trying to avoid the extended battery after seeing others that have the stock batteries with longer life than mine
[Motorola Droid 3] psouza4:
I'm assuming you've checked all the usual suspects, but just in case:

What launcher are you using?

What battery-saving features do you have enabled?

What apps do you have installed (particularly any that run all the time like persistent apps, widgets, or that respond to intents)?

What Task Manager settings are you using?

What are your general battery usage times?

What do your sync settings look like?

How is the 3G reception in your area?
[Motorola Droid 3] bigrel22:
Yes I have checked those things. Im thinking maybe my cell signal is the culprit. But right now, my reception is great
[Motorola Droid 3] bigrel22:
I have max batter saving setting on. I have a weather widget and the friend caster widget running. I only have one email account syncing. Im using the go launcher
[Motorola Droid 3] Robyn25:
I am having the same issues. My husband has great battery life on his phone, and mine is pretty bad. I am consistantly 30% less than him at least.

I changed global to cdma, I exchanged battery (didn't help), I have battery saver at night setting on, I have beautiful widgets, weatherbug,circle battery, smooth calendar, 4 animated contact widgets, tiny flashlight widget, 3 pictures on homescreen using desktop visualizer, stock power manager widget, stock task widget, countdown widget,and stock sticky note widget.

and 13 diff. app shortcuts. I believe all widgets are set at 1 hour sync.

My current location ( work) gets -96dbm at best , to -103 dbm signal

and have wifi on all the time. (have wifi at work, and home)

Any ideas?

Edit - I'm also running launcher pro plus.
[Motorola Droid 3] psouza4:
Try to reproduce my operating environment and see if that helps.

I don't use the battery saver (who knows, maybe its framework is flawed and is using more power to determine when to manage your connections than it saves in doing so).

I also use ADW Launcher vs. the two posts above me.

My full details are listed a few pages back -- hope they help. :)
[Motorola Droid 3] dco717:
8 hr off charge and at 40% but 61/2 hr at work so I didn't use it battery life sucks
[Motorola Droid 3] volcanomike:
14 hours with 60% left
[Motorola Droid 3] dco717:
Wish I had 14 hrs with battery left
[Motorola Droid 3] 640k:
i played big sports fishing 3d the other day and it chewed through my battery like a puppy with nothing to do. ever since then, it has stayed logged in my battery status log as the #1 app, at 94%, even though i've rebooted, recharged, etc. everything else displays as 2%.
[Motorola Droid 3] solid009:
Im at 50% after 9hrs, but with very little use, maybe 20 text messages and 10 minutes on facebook. Seems better than some users, but not nearly as good as other users post. Idle and standby are at the top as usual. What do you guys think?
[Motorola Droid 3] volcanomike:
24 hours with 40% left, by the way I use extended battery
[Motorola Droid 3] smed1275:
13+ hours with moderate use (+-45 minutes surfing maybe 20 text messages and 30-45 minutes of talk time) still at 70% with the extended battery.
[Motorola Droid 3] pplude:
About 10 hours, standard battery:

CDMA Only, GPS on, Wifi on, auto brightness, Max Power Savings, Launcher Pro, 2 Emails (push), FB and G+ updates. About 2 hours talk, 100 txts, 2 hrs 3G, 1 hr Wifi, 2 hours reading.

(I use my D3 for EVERYTHING)
[Motorola Droid 3] volcanomike:
Plugged in at 31 hours with 20% left on extended
[Motorola Droid 3] 640k:
got my replacement phone today. going through a test now. build 30/11.
[Motorola Droid 3] dpwhitty11:
I can't decide if I want to go with the extended or not. I had a 1750 in my Inc (up from a 1300) and that was awesome, but I paid $20 for it not $50.

Idk, probably gonna get it. Thoughts?
[Motorola Droid 3] 640k:
welp that was fast. 3h 52m on battery and already at 30%.
[Motorola Droid 3] psouza4:
Get it.

Everyone who's purchased it (myself included) has raved about how great it is while there are mixed reviews about the stock battery.
[Motorola Droid 3] pecosROB:
I second the vote to get it. Unless you're not planning on keeping this phone for too long (i.e. through your contract), then get the extended battery. It definitely helps. At the very least it'll give you more confidence to have enough power!
[Motorola Droid 3] dropperx:
I get 5-7 hours of light use. My wife, gets a day+ from her's. Yesterday she was at 27 Hours when it went to 15%. I have replaced the battery and tech support had me change the CDMA zone because it was wrong for some reason (the ##7 something code). That still didn't seem to fix the problem.

Keith
[Motorola Droid 3] xtramoney:
I've got the extended battery. I'm in the red in just under 12 hours...

G+, Facebook synched, Google music beta, twitter,

Bluetooth on

Wifi off

GPS off

SYNC on

Automatic screen brightness(though I'm always in a well lit area)
[Motorola Droid 3] psouza4:
Ouch! Extended battery lasts me 45-50 hours with light use, 40-45 with normal use.

And your brightness is increased in well-lit areas, so you may wanna turn that off.

Also, seems like one of the biggest battery eats is not having it set to CDMA-only radio (turn GSM off if you're in the USA) and the MotoBlur/default launcher (I use ADW)... see my prior posts. :)
[Motorola Droid 3] cplus:
Moderate use, stock battery. Battery started at 90%, lasted 22 hours until shut off. Cell standby and Phone idle used the most with about 30% each. I used lots of mp3 player, some browsing, G+, Fing, several phone calls, many texts.. I have CDMA only, home only, global card in. Background data on, roaming data off, night time batt saver on, data saver off. This next charge I will try without the sim card in. It has charged to about 70% from dead in 2.5 hours. I have the extended battery on the way but I don't mind a bit the life I'm getting out of the stock battery right now.

A question to anyone with bad battery life: Does your D3 get super hot from the 'L' key on down and to the right? Take off the battery cover but leave battery in. Does the corresponding area on the back get super hot?
[Motorola Droid 3] 3diord:
I didn't read through the entire thread, but does anyone else have a problem with inaccurate application battery usage percentages? Always seems to be GPS related app for me. Maps was always taking ~40%, and yesterday I installed Copilot, and now it always takes 92%, even though battery life has not been affected at all. Copilot isn't even running...
[Motorola Droid 3] spacecasespiff:
Mine gets reall hot down there from the first day I've had it. So its not the battery. I think it where the duel cores are.
[Motorola Droid 3] st33med:
The L key is where the battery is.

Also, for people who have problems calibrating the battery (people with bad battery life, this is something to try), take out the battery while it is plugged in, then put it back in. I don't know whether to recommend to discharge or not before pulling. This erases the previous battery calibration.

For best results, discharge the battery completely until it is dead after you take the battery out and put it back in.

Also, I had problems because my first battery was bad. Jeez, after charging on the wall overnight, the phone would get SUPER hot that it could have given me third degree burns if I held onto it for to long. If your battery is constantly very hot or is hot after charging from the wall, DO NOT PLUG IT IN (or if it is consistently hot, don't use the phone at all). It could very much explode. Not joking. Get to the nearest Verizon store and ask them to swap out the battery. They should do it with no charge.
[Motorola Droid 3] cplus:
Good call. Mine is heating up right now just from loading 3 web pages. I was on the phone with Verizon while activating the d3 and during the over air programming the phone heated up near skin burning temp and would definitely burn with prolonged contact. The agent told me I have 30 days to return this for a new in the box one. Anyway, I don't think it will make a difference but I might swap it in week if its still doing it. That is why I would like to know how frequent this occurs for others, if at all. Thanks for your response.
[Motorola Droid 3] dpwhitty11:
Just bought the extended battery, I got a 25% discount so it ran me $40 after tax.
[Motorola Droid 3] dco717:
Yesterday at work me not using it it died from a full charge it sucks and today 40% after 3 hours this phone is great but battery life is horrible worst I've had droid eris was better than this
[Motorola Droid 3] dropperx:
For me, it appears to be the 3G radio. When I have that turned on, it will last 5-7 hours. Turn it off, using only Wi-Fi (which only seems to turn on when the screen is on), I can go more than 24 hours. I am getting 3-4 bars with the 3G radio, and network searching is always very low.

Keith
[Motorola Droid 3] st33med:
Your battery maybe bad.

In my opinion, I think the batteries they shipped with the devices may not have been quality checked.
[Motorola Droid 3] dotson817:
Agreed
[Motorola Droid 3] dco717:
I got my replacement battery im testing it now
[Motorola Droid 3] royolpunk:
I get around 14-16 hours
[Motorola Droid 3] sr20s13:
I get about 8 hours of light use then in at about 30% and it seems to get really hot in the processor area, and the batter temps get too at least 110+ is that normal?
[Motorola Droid 3] leobg:
Check your apps and widgets cpu usage - seems like you've got something gone wild there. It is not normal phone to get warm when screen is off (not being actively used) it is normal to get warm/hot when actively used (like playing youtube which uses both radio and cpu for decoding data.

On another thought - 8 hours down to 30% isn't that bad at all (especially if compared to my D2G)
[Motorola Droid 3] sr20s13:
Its down to 70% in 2.5 hours, phone idle is like 30% and 25r is cell standby, that seems weird because I was getting a good 18hours out of my D1 with pretty normal use and id be at 30% after that 18 hours.
[Motorola Droid 3] dco717:
Battery is still not great maybe an extra hr still bad
[Motorola Droid 3] sr20s13:
Your probably have the same problem as me and the phone is doa, my radios are bad is killing the battery life, is your phone idle/cell standby your number 1 battery drainer because mine is. But verizon should give you a new one or whoever you bought it from.
[Motorola Droid 3] eXecuter.bin:
Speaking of the 180mAH extended battery, how much thicker is it?

Anyone cares to post a comparison pic?
[Motorola Droid 3] st33med:
OK, for anyone with bad battery life still after following my last post of either a) replacing the battery itself if it's hot, or b) taking out the battery itself while plugged into the wall, I've figured out what's up. If you will notice in battery management, wifi and cell standby is awfully high. This is not normal for a phone, as screen is supposed to be on top considering that the Droid X2 has the same screen except slightly bigger. This is most likely a firmware bug with the antenna or some built in application is running rampant with the antenna. We'll have to wait for a bug fix from Motorola.

Until then, do this: under battery management, go to Battery Mode and select maximum battery saver. This will let the antenna go off after 15 minutes. Be aware, however, that streaming services that work after sleep may be cut off.

Also, another bug that I would like others help me go after: sometimes after waking the phone with this setting on or turning off airplane mode, it will not have cell service until there is a reboot or change of antenna modes. Please test. Thanks.
[Motorola Droid 3] stalktheground23:
Settings-Battery & data manager-Battery mode-Maximum battery saver

I've noticed a HUGE difference just switching on Max battery from Nighttime saver
[Motorola Droid 3] kep0ne:
I'm going to side with st33med on this one. Last night, left my phone off the charger @ 90%...woke up with it at 30%. 8+ hours of cell standby. This is my 3rd Android device, and I've never seen cell standby THAT high on any of my previous phones. Something is wrong.
[Motorola Droid 3] royolpunk:
I think you should calibrate your battery. I'm getting 17 hours of constant usage and standby
[Motorola Droid 3] erismaster:
Did you let google restore your apps when you first got your phone?
[Motorola Droid 3] Bigmack0507:
On a regular battery, albeit with not toooo much use, im at 66 percent with 23 hours 46 mins. Two Days ago I put it on the charger with moderate use at 21 hours with 30 percent battery left. I am surprised by the usage considering the first 3 days(I got the phone wednesday) i had like maybe 11 hours of usage. So far I cant complain. I must agree with a few post back about the cell standby is higher and it may be because display is sooo much less. Hopefully. Just sharing my .02.
[Motorola Droid 3] st33med:
Nope, the X2 has a pentile qHD display and there has been complaints about the off colors.

http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/0...sepower-cant-save-this-phone-from-mediocrity/
[Motorola Droid 3] mgerbasio:
I tried a bunch of the suggestions on this and other forums. After 10+ hours, light usage and 2.75 hours on the phone I was down to 30% battery. Plugged my phone in the charger and about 40 minutes later it is showing 60% battery. I have the extended battery.

I'm guessing this means the phone can't properly track the battery capacity.
[Motorola Droid 3] mupi2k:
I'm wondering how 2.75 hours on the phone out of 10 qualifies as "light" usage.

Don't forget, the phone is "rounding" your percent if you are using the stock battery gauge. So 30% could really be closer to 35%, and the 60% could be as low as 55% (depending on exactly how they do the rounding). However, 40 minutes to jump 30% doesn't seem unreasonable to me, if it takes about 2.5 hours to fully charge, which is what my experience has been. Mine also doesn't take appreciably longer to charge if it's idle compared to completely off. With heavy use (Mobile Grid Client on 3G) and keeping the screen constantly awake, it only takes about 4 hours, maybe 5 to go from less than 15% to fully charged.

And @st33med, I stand corrected on the pentile display on the X2. In any event, I've never noticed anything problematic on my D3 related to the display, I couldn't be happier. And I'm getting better battery life than I ever got on my OG Droid, even with CM or BB roms (and they were better than stock). No complaints here. I do wish I could try CM7 on the D3, but I'm confident that will come with time.

It does occur to me however, that maybe the battery usage stats aren't getting properly reset? This could easily account for way high reported cell standby and phone idle numbers. For example, I have heard, on this thread and others, people commenting how apps they haven't used in days are still reporting at high percentages.

So some real numbers. I unplugged my phone about noon (it's claiming 7h39m on battery), and it was reporting "fully charged" and asking me to unplug my charger from the wall to save energy. I would consider pretty light usage (mostly twitter and some texting). A couple of phone calls and a couple of missed calls. I'm down to 60%. It's showing cell standby at 31%, bluetooth at 30%, phone idle at 27%, Display at 4%, voice calls 3%, plume 2%, Android OS 2%, Android System (what's the difference, exactly?) 2%, Drawdle 2%. Yes that's 103%. I'm guessing it can't report less than 2%? Even if we allow that "Android OS" and "Android System" are the same thing, that's still 101%. Maybe we are misunderstanding some of the information presented on this screen?
[Motorola Droid 3] mgerbasio:
What I said was light usage and 2.75 hours on the phone meaning when I wasn't on the phone, I read a few emails, etc.

If you look at the device specifications on the Verizon site, I should be getting 550 minutes of usage or 300 hours of standby. With the usage I had above I'd expect the battery to be closer to 70%.
[Motorola Droid 3] Bigmack0507:
i posted a few back and just wanted to update. my phone went 37 hours without a charge all the way to 3 percent. It got heavy usage the last 12 hours. I am very surprised. that is much more than my fascinate ever got and after the ed05 update on that battery was pretty rocking. I have heard soo many people talk about the battery life where i havent had a problem.
[Motorola Droid 3] kep0ne:
on the topic of conditioning the battery, how exactly does one do that with this phone, seeing as how the phone goes to that charging screen as soon as you plug it in?

and how do you reset the battery stats on this phone?
[Motorola Droid 3] erismaster:
To reset battery stats

-let phone die

-plug into charger and let the little charging screen come up

-remove battery(leaving it plugged it)

-put battery back in(still plugged in)

Battery stats are reset!
[Motorola Droid 3] kep0ne:
thanks! i'll give that a go today and see if it helps...
[Motorola Droid 3] kep0ne:
sadly, i'm still seeing horrible battery life. going to uninstall a few apps that may be the culprit and see if it fixes it.
[Motorola Droid 3] digitalyosh:
Been trying to figure out why I've been getting bad battery life as well. Has anyone used Juice Defender? I feel like the battery life on my extended battery has been draining a bit too quickly. Might buy another extended battery to see if my battery might be defected.
[Motorola Droid 3] beard0:
Just an idea but go to settings/battery data manager/data delivery/social apps and change it from automatic to 60 minutes..im sure this should help you guys :)

/droid3
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thoughtbot:
Can someone recommend the best radio for CM7? Here is a screen of my system

Latest CM7 release, leanKernel in battsaver mode, CPU 768MHz min-1024Mhz max.

Thanks a lot!
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] Apota:
I'm tring to run WiFi tethering software so I can get internet access on my Toshiba Thrive Tablet. I have an original Motorola Droid phone. I rooted the phone and when I run any WiFi tethering software it's broadcasting in Ad-Hoc mode. For some reason my Tablet can't see any Ad-Hoc networks. So, this is a big problem for me.

My friend has a Droid Incredible and he has a custom ROM installed on his phone and his phone doesn't broadcast in Ad-Hoc mode, his phone broadcasts with a regular WiFi connection. Why does his work that way and mine only works in Ad-Hoc? Do I have to install a custom ROM to get mine to work in regular WiFi mode? If so, which ROM is recommended?

Another solution is to get my Tablet to recognize Ad-Hoc networks. Is there some way to do that also?

Thanks so much for all your help and time!
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] Eiertschik:
Which tethering app are you using?

Both Wireless Tether and the 2.2 default 3G Hotspot app are broadcasting in infrastructure mode.

I remember my Wii not being able to connect to a hotspot created via Wireless Tether - did'nt try 3G Hotspot yet...
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] Apota:
Well, I've tried different Hot Spot Apps and they are all the same. I used the same app on both my Droid phone and my friends Incredible phone. His phone worked in Infrustructure and mine worked as Ad-Hoc. I don't know what default 3G Hostspot app you are talking about. My phone didn't come with any. From what I was reading it has to do with the hardware of the phone. Since my phone is so old it only supports Ad-Hoc and the newer phones support Infrustructure. I think that's what people are saying.

I've been reading there is a way to make Tablets see Ad-Hoc but I can't find any information on how to do it with the Toshiba Thrive Tablet. I guess there are different patches and you need to find the right version that's compatible with your Tablet.

So, the only solutions I can see is get a newer phone that supports Infrustructure or to find the patch that works with my Tablet and lets it see Ad-Hoc.

Thanks!
[Imagio General] frankenbike:
I have an Asus Transformer Android tablet, and expected to be able to use WMWiFiRouter to connect to the Internet until I get an Android phone in the next few months.

Only the Transformer can't see or use ad-hoc connection sharing from a phone or anything else for that matter. Bluetooth is greyed out on WMWiFiRouter and isn't even an option on ICS. Android phones share through infrastructure WiFi, not ad-hoc.

There is no host USB port at this time, so those two methods are my only way of getting Internet to the tablet.

Anyone know of a way to get infrastructure WiFi from an Imagio, or turn on the bluetooth connection sharing? PDANet also doesn't have the bluetooth option on this phone.