[Motorola Atrix 2] androidarena:
Battery woes? Or not really? please comment

I wanted to share my experience with whoever wants to buy this phone and make educated guess, plus any tips to improve bettery are appreciated. This is my first android device ever!

I 've read enough about this phone's battery performance and I get that this phone has excellent** battery life for moderate to heavy usage. Now I don't really know what is heavy and moderate as it is absolutely subjective. My take: NOT really!

Here is my usage and other relevant details. I have been using atrix 2 for 13-15 days now, have returned one and got another one for poor battery ( I thought). The second piece does seem to go a bit longer.

First the phone settings:

Display set to about 5 to 10%.

No social networking account enabled(Actually want to uninstall it).

Two gmail accounts set up not to sync automatically whatsoever.

Haptic feedback and keyboard sounds turned off completely.

Task manager set to kill most of the apps after 2 mins, but I even disabled it few days back thinking that it is eating up some battery.

All other crappy setting like auto sync and updates off. GPS, never even enabled it and wireless and network location set to off. No background data enabled at all.

Usage details:

Phone calls: About 2 and half hours or less in a day. That is the max I talked, usually it ranges about and hour and a half.

App store browsing: about 10-15 minutes. This is also the only time when my background data is on, as it is MUST for android market.

Web surfing: About Half an hour intermittently.

Music: Internet radio about 20 minutes on loudspeaker and 15-20 minutes on headphones. The headphones sound is decent, but I believe as I have good in ear pair. FM radio for about 10-15 minutes or so.

Games: Angry birds sometimes but for only 5-10 mins. Car racing, Not till today morning, I installed Raging thunder. Just in one race, it ate up the battery like a hungry beast going down like 5-6% in about 5 mins. I had kept the display to min and sound almost to nil even before I start playing. I could hardly see the tracks and details due to that low brightness!

Apps: Netsentry, battery monitor widget, Zumocast enabled but not running all the time. I usually kill manually everything that I don't need.

** I just ran the flash light app and in just a matter of 20 secs or so, the battery took a hit of about 7%! Phew!

Signal strength at work place is bad, about -101 dBm and at home it is good for 89 to -95 dBm.

On average I get about 24 hrs on a very conservative setting and usage, but heavy on other apps and it will die in about 16 hrs or less.

One thing I noticed, come what may my battery dies in about 27 hrs, even on no use at all.

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I cannot see the colors properly perhaps I am a big fan of sgs2 screen, but I though android market must have some color saturation app, but no luck!

My PC had a hard time detecting sd card, but when I moved songs it saved on the SD card??? and by default now even my camera pics go to SD card. What is worst is, I see no option to browse files on my internal memory. I cannot even move files from SD card to internal memory as I do not know where the heck is it and how to access it when the phone is not connected to PC?? And Within just a week the second model got some scratches on the top of the grey metallic border! Crappy use by me or the finish work is poor?

Well I can go on and on, Any help for above issue is highly appreciated. I am within 15 days left for return with best buy. I can live with everything, just need battery life that can last more than 24 HRS for my usage, which I guess should last long with my current settings! I did the charge and drain cycle thrice and now at the end of the day I have to put it to charge at about 30% when it turns red.

Do you think I am asking too much out of this phone?(Which I think I am not as this is smart phone and it is the way this thing is supposed to be used!) I am defeating the purpose of a smart phone by making so conservative settings! Just believed some reviews that atrix 2 last for about 2 days with moderate to light use and EASILY about a day ( 24 hrs on a very heavy usage) FAKE!

Sorry for typing such a length essay, but please help.