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[Atrix 4G General] flint91:
I figured I'd post my results after much tweaking and experimenting. When I first got the device it could obviously just make it through an entire day with how much I was using it. Unlocked and custom rom'd the thing and the battery has certainly fluctuated around the place.

Personally. If you need the device to last all day then I see no need to go beyond a 1Ghz kernel. For a period of time I used Faux's 1.3Ghz kernel with neutrino. Yes, it could make it through a day if I was off work, but I could drain that sucker by about 60% in a matter of 6 hours if I was working (Delivery driver. SatNav is abused for short bursts of time). A catastrophic rate to drain battery.

Currently I'm using Turl's CM9 build version 8. Standard kernel that was provided and I can comfortably go beyond the 16 hour mark even when working. SetCPU is there restricting the device when the battery does drop, I've posted my settings for that too.

A few other settings are I have g-mail sync on. Hourly facebook and twitter refresh's. screen times out after 30 seconds to lengthen battery life, as well as set to pretty darned low (Don't know what the percentage level is).
[Atrix 4G General] Atrixn00b:
I'm bringing this thread back 8D I just posted this in the forum but i might as well put it in here. I'm having a massive drain after turning off juice defender for a day and turning it back on. I have no idea why it only lasts 10 hours but yeah. I tried re-calibrating it then wiped delvik and cache partition (For some reason before when i did this i started getting 20 hours) but yeah. my battery is back to how it was. im on neutrino 2.2 from 2.5 cause my apn's started to not wrk and not even the fix :p
[Atrix 4G General] Notorious544d:
Just to clarify, juice-defender ON causes the drain or OFF?

The problem with Juicedefender is that ironically, it uses a lot of battery to save battery. It is a very 'heavy' app. There are lighter alternatives like 'Green Power,' but it won't be as customizable as JD.
[Atrix 4G General] IUH1991:
Battery life is ridiculous on neutrino ee. I unplugged my phone at 7am, it's midnight now and my battery is at 66%!
[Atrix 4G General] Atrixn00b:
There was no drain until i turned it off for a day then turned it on. I like the fact it disables the internet when the screen is off. my battery was all good but ever since i turned it back on it started being really bad which is really odd i think
[Atrix 4G General] Cusa:
I brought my brightness down from 30% to 10% and my battery lasts so much longer now.
[Atrix 4G General] AkaGrey:
With rom stock , my personal record was 53 hours.

Half Brightness, some dials, sms, played game for like 40 minutes, and browser.

Unfortunatly , I can't post screens because my atrix is in assistance right now for the "modem did not power up" issue . sad :(
[Atrix 4G General] Foka002:
Guys before you start blaming ROM's for draining your battery please check all possibilities. It can take weeks before you figure out what is the best configuration for your phone in current location. There is so many thing that can **** up your battery (signal, apps, radio etc). In my case took me about two months to find decent set up.

This is my configuration:

ROM - Neutrino v2.5

Radio - N_01.100.00R (Stock UK)

Live wallpaper on (Nexus alike)

Data enabled for about 10h a day (gives over 20h ON)]

Wifi - 4h a day (about 10h in total)

few messages and phone calls (about 10 msg a day + 20 min talking a day)

Played let's golf, gta III, (about 1h in total)

Email sync every 15min

auto brightnes

This is just enough for my needs.
[Atrix 4G General] giajp:
don't sleep for svnet dormancy?

i don't know what to do...
[Atrix 4G General] Erasec1963:
Turl's Unofficial CM9 V10

Just my stats, light usage

2 hrs Poweramp usage per day, 1 hour web surfing on the train and still 30% battery left. Standard ROM no OC or UV.
[Atrix 4G General] sineokiq:
I have like a new personal record of battery life :) with light usage and no data.
[Atrix 4G General] DopeHack:
That's amazing
[Atrix 4G General] letsgophillyingeneral:
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[Atrix 4G General] Ashley568:
my battery life is bad running Turl CM9 v10 with cm9 1.3 v2 clock at 1ghz anyone remommend how to improve it
[Atrix 4G General] eldisoemari:
like to try for optimizing?

Hi All,

I just want to share what i have found from another forum about making optimizing and saving the battery life, may you test it and share whether this one works or not.

" For all those who are not really happy with the battery life of the device, can now optimize the device so that one can make the most out of their device. Please note that this tip has come Officially from HTC which we have managed to get it for you. There are some tips by HTC with which they are not just providing you the tips to save on the battery life but also HTC is doing its bit from their end also such as optimizing the internal software so that the battery consumption is least. Please note that following the instructions which we have mentioned will not harm the device in any manner. All the data services like 3G / 4G consumes a lot of battery at the end user level. Additionally, Sprint is working to optimize 4G network settings to improve battery life for customers in 4G markets which will further add up the convenience for the users. Please note that all these tips mentioned below can be applied by all the users of Samsung, HTC, Motorola, LG etc.

Steps with which you can Extend the Battery Charge:

WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth, and display brightness all greatly impact battery performance, so lots always important for you to only make use of these services only when you need it the most. Especially when the battery is minimum, you need to turn all these core features so that battery will last more till you find a place to charge up your device.

You can also adopt the bump Charge where in you need to follow the below mentioned steps so as to make the most of your battery charge.

Turn your device ON and Charge the device for 8 hours or more,

Unplug the device and Turn the phone OFF and charge for 1 hour,

Unplug the device Turn ON wait 2 minutes and Turn OFF and charge for another hour Your battery life should almost double, as per the htc executives they have tested themselves and found out the there is a huge improvement in the battery life.

Note : Please note that Official means that a HTC Representative told these steps which are going to double the battery life and this has been tested by many people.

If you follow the above mentioned steps, HTC claims that users have reported a maximum battery life of around 10 hours even in the rigorous usage which includes calling, listening to the music, using data services for most of the time. Please note that this may differ marginally again from user to user..."

Neutrino V.2.6 EE
[Atrix 4G General] zombies1337:
I'm having what I believe to be really poor battery life on Neutrino 2.6 GT. I have a Llama profile that automatically disables mobile data, background sync, GPS and wifi (bluetooth is always off) at 10 PM every night and turns that all back on around 7 am. However, I'm still losing more than 10% of my battery during that time. I've attached some screenshots so hopefully somebody can pick up on something I'm missing. I'd like to think with all of those things disabled I'd be getting better battery life overnight than this. It doesn't look like I'm getting any wakelocks nor does it look like anything is really eating up the battery either.
[Atrix 4G General] zombies1337:
Well, the first thing I would say is we can't see how long you've been on battery in that screenshot.
[Atrix 4G General] Notorious544d:
To be honest, that looks like pretty good battery life...

If what you're trying to say is: 'Why is my battery draining even though I'm doing nothing?...'

The answer is that unfortunately, that's just the way Android works. It has lots of services and stuff running in the background and Android just isn't very efficient with it.

I recommend a profile putting your phone into Airplane Mode overnight, as that is what I do and I lose ~0.5-1.0%/hour.

But on the bright side, it seems that ICS has fixed idling issues. The current CM9 builds have REALLY good idling.
[Atrix 4G General] zombies1337:
I was afraid that was going to be the answer. If this is the best I'm going to get with CM7, I'll have to deal with it. I'd rather not put the phone in airplane mode overnight as that sort of defeats the purpose of having it on at all. I also want to be able to receive important calls/texts if they come in.

It looks like with the way I have things set up now, I lose something like 1-2% per hour which isn't bad I suppose. I was hoping for better by disabling just about everything but I'll have to settle for what I've got.

As far as CM9, I'm anxiously awaiting a good, stable, functional release and I'll be all over it. Once Motorola releases ICS for the Atrix, I'm confident that they/you will be able to work out the issues going on with CM9 builds for the Atrix now (driver issues, acceleration, camera, etc). I've played around with one of Joker's builds a while back and loved it minus those issues of course.

I guess it really just irks me that my iPhone 4 sits right next to my Atrix unplugged all night and loses maybe 5% at most over the course of 12 hours idle with everything except bluetooth on.
[Atrix 4G General] :
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1600859

[HOW TO] Get your Atrix to display 100% when fully charged! CM7 (Proven)

Sent from my MB860 CM7 olympus always latest nightly 37p Radio.
[Atrix 4G General] philthy:
Thanks for the tip. I get around a day use with the Atrix.
[Atrix 4G General] anupash:
Seriously man .. why are you spamming all the threads?
[Atrix 4G General] aaron.a:
mine always charges to 100%... oO

cm9 idle is amazing indeed. i reboot every morning at 100% charge and it loses 1% tops /hour that's with random use to read emails/xda/facebook/texts etc and wifi/data/sync constantly on. i'm kinda afraid to update cm9 right now because this battery life is unbelievable
[Atrix 4G General] anupash:
It also depends on the strength of the WiFi and signal to noise ratio of the wifi u r using.

For example at my home i easily get 6-8% drop in battery over 6-7 hours of my sleep time with wifi and sync always on.

But at the university we have 10-15 routers just in the lab where I work. Because of the high SNR I get very bad battery life with the wifi always on. Almost 3-5% drop every hour.
[Atrix 4G General] Atrixn00b:
My battery life is pretty good for me. It lasted me about 6 hours charged at 25 and I text alot but have internet disabled allbthe time. But when I turn my screen on it drops 1 percent every two minutes..is that normal with Facebook and data on? I'm on neutrino 2.6 ee
[Atrix 4G General] anupash:
For me it's almost 10% battery drop per half an hour of usage with automatic brightness. So ur usage seems fair. It also depends on the application u r using with the screen on. I generally read some feeds or check and reply to emails using this.
[Atrix 4G General] soudy1994:
does facebook app or facebook widget eats battery?
[Atrix 4G General] AkaGrey:
Yep.

But the question is, why I should use facebook app, when using the browser give the same result ?
[Atrix 4G General] Atrixn00b:
ohh. mine is all the way down.
[Atrix 4G General] soudy1994:
30% after 20 hours is this considered a bad battery life?
[Atrix 4G General] fischwrap:
I would consider that great battery life, depending on how much screen on time you had...

Sent from my Supercharged Atrix
[Atrix 4G General] soudy1994:
what about phone idle? is it normal that it uses 40% of the battery?
[Atrix 4G General] fischwrap:
Over 20 hours, yes. How long was your screen on? What ROM, kernel, radio?

Sent from my Supercharged Atrix
[Atrix 4G General] soudy1994:
the screen was on a lot but idk how long exactly

am on auto brightness

stock at&t 2.3.6 deodexed

stock kernel too

radio 37P

thanks for help
[Atrix 4G General] :
http://db.tt/wuGQTKHt

Sent from my MB860 CM7 olympus always latest nightly 37p Radio.
[Atrix 4G General] giajp:
http://forum.hdblog.it/showthread.php?t=44558

Post number 2872

No wifi, 2 Times for market updates

No airplane mode

Data mobile connection ever

Much much imo all day, cause multipdp and then the high gap awake-screenon

Much much tapatalk, browser and whatsapp
[Atrix 4G General] engfish:
Just to see how long I could go without recharging--I often do it every other night--I went three days on CM7.2-RC1. Main use: Words with Friends (one-hour updates), a few sites (HuffPost, Reddit, Drudge, Slate), constant 1Weather (one-hour updates), GPS always on, Wi-Fi only at home, BT only about forty minutes daily (two twenty-minute trips in the car). I usually have it on at 5:30 a.m. and turn it off at about 10 p.m. every weekday.

Virgin post; apologies if I erred here.
[Atrix 4G General] engfish:
Here's another long bout without charging that might give you details about my use.

Missing information from previous post:

Kernel: Faux123's 023 (the only one that seems to let me use WWF seamlessly)

Mod: Cyanogen 7.2-RC1

Launcher: ADW (stock with CM7.2)

Most everything else is the "standard" with the mod.
[Atrix 4G General] yeahmann:
That's very little screen time. I have far fewer wakelocks but my screen is on about half my walking day. No polling at all. No GPS or Bluetooth and WiFi only at home. Airplane mode on the subway. Autosyncing Google services and Facebook contacts though. Auto-brightness which is typically set very low. I can barely make it through the day. The screen is a battery killer. Samsung phones can get away with a smaller capacity battery because of the AMOLED screen.
[Atrix 4G General] Notorious544d:
Not really. This depends. If you are a movie watcher, which displays a lot of blacks, then yes, you'll see increased battery life.

But for web pages with white pages, AMOLED's really suffer. Check out GSMArena's battery tests for the Galaxy Note for example. A 2500mah battery, lasting ~4 hours web browsing compared to an iPhone 4S which can last ~7 hours.

Obviously this isn't a fair comparison because of screen size etc. but bare in mind that the iPhone has 1100mah less then the Note.

Simply put:

AMOLED's better for blacks.

LCD's better for whites.

In other news, apparently the new kernel in the latest nightly has even better battery life. Anybody care to share?
[Atrix 4G General] yeahmann:
So I read up on that some more and the difference in power consumption between white and black on AMOLEDs is HUGE! With more AMOLED screens showing up, websites (particularly mobile websites) and app developers should keep that in mind.
[Atrix 4G General] damiensturdy:
Can't display my graphs here, BUT

I'm running on default CM9 (latest,upgraded through Kitchen so I am now running Kitchen Sink CM9.)

My display takes up by far the most battery, but with this rom, default kernel etc, I lose ~30% in 20 hours if the phone is lightly used.

I live in a weak signal area so it's pretty good!

3G on, Wifi on at times, no CPU underclocking/overclocking.

Also I run Juice Defender Ultimate and have it disable my 3G when the display is off and data drops out of use, and then it enables it every 30 minutes so my Gmail can sync.

One BIG thing for me: I DO NOT USE THE FACEBOOK APP. I have a bookmark to the facebook website on my homescreen instead. The facebook app used almost as much battery as the display when it was installed - Get rid if you can manage without it!

I went to bed yesterday at 00:34, the phone was unplugged from the charger at 08:00 the previous day, so that's 16.5 hours. My battery was down to 70%- and I used the phone quite a lot yesterday, lots of email, played some music. Heck, I played with FPSE for half an hour or so- on the Atrix this emulator seems to zap almost no juice! :-)
[Atrix 4G General] giajp:
2000mah, always data mobile connection, wifi always off. More more imo, whatsapp and tapatalk, browser navigation. Cm9 14th may nightly, abyss 1.7f undervolted and 200-1000, Ddlp8 modem
[Atrix 4G General] moleg:
Neutrino ROM V2.7, kernel from CM 7.2 RC2.
[Atrix 4G General] yeahmann:
Only if the Koreans are willing to sell it to you.
[Atrix 4G General] nvboza:
I have Atrix MB860 about one month. I just root my phone with superuser and after that I have a 20% worst gsm signal and battery life is about 1 day 16h, before that my battery was about 3 days...I don't know what's the reason...try to figured out...Use only Badass monitor, nothing else...
[Atrix 4G General] N3Ti:
I get 1day with light use
[Atrix 4G General] Krato§:
2 days with neutrino 2.7 and low usage.

whatsapp, gtalk, webbrowsing.
[Atrix 4G General] Kegli:
I seem to get only 18 to 24 with ICS, limited sync, low lighting
[Atrix 4G General] DonGeilo33:
Jokersax cm9 togheter with adw launcher. Gives mehr always two days. In case offen light use 4.

Best battery life i ever got was 3 days in every case with cm rc1 and faux 1.0 r2

Gesendet von meinem MB860 mit Tapatalk 2
[Atrix 4G General] Kegli:
I never get two days.
[Atrix 4G General] ccrows:
What ROM are you using?...
[Atrix 4G General] giajp:
Simplistic disaster earthquake III, Phenomenal extreme 5.4, imo and whatsapp in push all day used, more, more tapatalk browser and instagram. data mobile always active, wifi always off
[Atrix 4G General] Zednanj:
Neutrino 2.8 best battery life I've ever had:D
[Atrix 4G General] nvboza:
This is it!

Oke, this is the new moment, using Green Power premium and Bataria with Power Saving always ON...this is the result...I have about 3h of talk, 30-40 sms, my daughter play games aprox. 2-3h, surf 2-3h...
[Atrix 4G General] ccrows:
I usually get a full day with mild to moderate use on CM7 RC2...
[Atrix 4G General] MyronJ906:
Latest CM7 nightly
[Atrix 4G General] Cryingmoose:
I don't get why my battery life isn't better that it is. It's not bad, but it really isn't anything special. I've locked down nearly everything I can think of, but I can barely get a full day.

Running latest CM7 RC3, with it's 2.6.32.59 kernal, and 07.05P radio.

Autostarts & Autorun manager locking down almost everything.

2x Battery mod using an automatic 3g toggle(this helps a lot).

Wifi off, bluetooth off, gps off, sync off

auto-brightness custom settings from http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1614649&highlight=auto+brightness

According to Badass battery mod 63% with being off the charger for 8h:45min and another 14hrs est left.

My screen is 34.2% (45 mins at 100% dark), radio is 16.5% (98% at 4 or 5 bars), held awake 23 mins @ 4.3%,

and app usage at 43% (kernel at 18%, browser 12.8%, go launcher 2.5%, twitter 2%, k-9 mail 1.6%, dialer 1.1%, and 10 other apps below 1%)
[Atrix 4G General] fischwrap:
I'm also perplexed about my battery life. No screen shots, but yesterday my phone ran down to 25% after 13 hours, with only 2 hours of screen time. Maybe my expectations are too high, but less than 3 hours of screen time for a full charge and a good 14 hour day is pretty frustrating.

Neutrino 2.8EE

37p radio

SetCPU profiles for screen off, temp, etc...

WiFi on all the time

Syncing one gmail account (although sync was OFF for much of yesterday)

Auto brightness
[Atrix 4G General] android-DEP:
Atrix on NottachTrix 1.3.1 with Juice Defender Ultimate for battery saving tweaks and scheduling to extend battery life a bit

Weird thing that I just noticed, I just installed Battery Indicator Pro 3.1.2 and my battery life was extended just a bit further to my surprise
[Atrix 4G General] android-DEP:
for anybody interested in the science of lithium ion batteries and knowing more about them, here is a good site I found through the app that Notorious posted in the original post to measure battery life

http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/how_to_prolong_lithium_based_batteries

and here is the FAQ on battery Calibration and Measuring total capacity

http://3c71.com/android/?q=node/273#main-content-area
[Atrix 4G General] consolation:
Our phones use lithium-polymer batteries, not lithium-ion. Lithium polymer batteries are lighter and can be made any shape, but have worse energy density and lower cycle count. I.E. their maximum capacity will reduce faster with use compared to Li-ion. (No, there's no way around that, every time you charge the Li-PO battery will have a tiny bit less capacity.) That's part of the reason most high end phones still user Li-ion, they degrade, but not as fast.

This is important to remember when comparing battery life in different roms. Often people seem to forget that the ROM from two months ago was running on a significantly better battery.

Note, there's no easy way to read maximum current capacity. The battery reports theoretical maximum when made. To calibrate, an app has to fully discharge the battery while monitoring energy consumed, then work out actual available storage. This gets confused as voltage fluctuates with temperature and draw. Additionally, Android will determine that the battery is almost discharged at an arbitrary voltage and slam the door shut. However, an old battery could have sustained the lower voltage for greater proportion of time, so there builds up a greater amount of inaccessible residual charge: skewing the results and making the ROM look like it's chewing through the battery faster than it really is.

The only way to avoid this mess, is to get a new (reputable) battery regularly. Once a year is about right, if you are a heavy user, I estimate you should have about 2/3 of the original charge left. That's a real rough guess as it will be dependent on your usage pattern, charging pattern, climate where you live, how long the battery sat unused before you got it, etc, etc.. I've seen year old batteries with less than half the charge, still reporting as in good condition to the OS. Li-polymer is really bad like that..

This is why, posting screen grabs of your battery usage is pretty much pointless. Post the graph of your drain, if you must.

p.s. Li-PO hates trickle charging, avoid charging through USB ports or having it sitting on your charger being charged and discharged a couple of percent all the time.
[Atrix 4G General] Caner092:
Just with normal use

1d 15h 16m 45s

Sent from my CM9 Atrix
[Atrix 4G General] android-DEP:
ok, I got that app that Notorious suggested using, I'm using NottachTrix 1.3.1 with Clemsyn's enhanced 1.0GHz kernel for AT&T, here is the screenshots of the graphs
[Atrix 4G General] :
MB860, CM7.2.0, Faux 026b1 1Ghz
[Atrix 4G General] rancur3p1c:
That's weird.

Can you download CPU spy and post a screenshot of that after a day of discharge?
[Atrix 4G General] Cusa:
Wow, 7 hrs of screen? That's impressive. 5hrs is the max I get.
[Atrix 4G General] :
Yeah, mostly xda, browsing as you can see. Games kill my battery quick though.

I will try to remember the next time get similar usage.

MB860, CM7.2.0, Faux 026b1 1Ghz
[Atrix 4G General] :
Set cpu didn't get the whole uptime because I tried out 1.3 kernel, but you get the idea. Also, a lot of power was wasted during flashing.

MB860, CM7.2.0, Faux 026b1 1Ghz
[Atrix 4G General] aaurnab:
is it be able to show the rate of charging or discharging??
[Atrix 4G General] :
Can't do it...

MB860, CM7.2.0, Faux 026b1 1Ghz
[Atrix 4G General] blackcobra5:
Mine is this.
[Atrix 4G General] nicks90:
Wish mine was that great.

Upgraded to jokers ice v7 with fauxs 1.0ghz kernal and did a battery calibration and had brilliant battery life - for 2 days.

Now its rubbish. System idle is sucking the life out of everything and I don't know why.
[Atrix 4G General] aaron.a:
this is my peek performance using nottachtrix and faux's enhanced stock with wifi data and sync on at all times =)

yes i am a photoshop ninja, and yes this is legit xD this is using it only to check emails/messages, stalk fb, browse xda, google random crap, etc. so, basic usage no games or hulu or spotify

this one is just after plugging it into the lapdock later the same day