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[Motorola Atrix HD] IronTechmonkey:
miko85 and deeje00, It sounds like you are defending planned obsolescence and assuming ignorance. I'm well aware of the progression of mobile device technology and our much closer and constant relationship to these devices. Been supporting phones and other comm devices as part of my job for nearly 15 years and been using motorola gear since the classic "walky talkies" of the 1980s ;)

The fact remains that we are here because battery life is not sufficient and we are applying a mod that could have very easy been made available by motorola like so:

1) Designing the Atrix HD phone with the EB40 battery or other larger capacity option from the start. Motorola could have even done that with the Atrix HD while still getting credit for a fairly thin and light phone.

2) Allowing us to easily remove the battery so carrying a spare would be worth something.

Still, I do appreciate your advise about the mod and will do it as soon as I can (after resolving service issues with AT&T that might result in a replacement phone).

Thanks again for your feedback :)
[Motorola Atrix HD] deeje00:
I agree they should have from the start just like when they released the razr MAXX 2 months after the razr. I would have been more mad had that happened.

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[Motorola Atrix HD] IronTechmonkey:
Been seeing more of that of late - the release of the improved version shortly after the original version with no love for the folks on the original version. Grr!

Back to creative battery solutions, though not as creative as the ghetto mod. For a while I had a Cingular HTC 8525 Windows Mobile 6 phone and 7 old batteries for it. With all the batteries charged I could go a week of fairly heavy use but it was a drag to charge them. LOHell.

btw Although Android offers a vastly wider playpen for tech geeks, the 8525 had been around long enough to have a lot of available tweaks and, within it's generation, was one of the most highly functioning and versatile of devices. Have never before or since seen a device with as many input options.

HTC 8525
[Motorola Atrix HD] deeje00:
My mom still has that phone lol. Every phone she gets she says it isn't as good as that one was. Her screen on it was busted though.

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[Motorola Atrix HD] IronTechmonkey:
Ha! Go Mom!
[Motorola Atrix HD] Markyzz:
Haaaa remember the iPhone skins for that? Good times with that phone

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[Motorola Atrix HD] IronTechmonkey:
No but not surprised such was available. The thought of a slick looking iPhone skin on that chunky phone is entertaining.
[Motorola Atrix HD] jfaul4820:
My gps signal was lost before I cut, after the cut the gps signal came back and wifi was better
[Motorola Atrix HD] jfaul4820:
wifi was weak for me and lost gps after installing the battery and not cutting the plastic and thus not following the directions to the end. After I went back into surgery for the second time and cut the plastic as suggested my wifi is stronger than ever and gps works perfectly. The plastic was hurting my signal even when i had the eb20 installed.

---------- Post added at 09:38 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:24 AM ----------

I purchased off amazon from these guys: Cellphone Repair Shop

Battery arrived a day earlier than expected in perfect condition and it is performing perfectly. I live in South Florida and no battery swelling issue, no heat issue no nothing but super extended battery life. I lost gps and had weak wifi signal until i went back in and cut the plastic and everything worked perfectly after that.
[Motorola Atrix HD] rsiggs:
This is awesome.

Did this mod, pulled the frame off and cut the plastic just to provide a bit more space. Worked well, and the slight bit of added weight makes it handle better in the hand.

The battery life is amazing now. Currently looking at 10H 25m 27s on battery, with 77% remaining.

Thanks everyone for having posted in this thread- gave me the inspiration to take care of the only thing I didn't like about this phone - the battery life. :good::highfive:
[Motorola Atrix HD] Swiftb12305:
Just completed this mod battery life is amazing.
[Motorola Atrix HD] IronTechmonkey:
Planning on doing this myself and was wondering about that aspect. Let me guess, with the additional weight moving the center of gravity towards the geometric center of the phone it feels less like it is going to leap out of your hand bulbous antenna side first, particularly when typing in portrait mode?
[Motorola Atrix HD] rsiggs:
Pretty much exactly. I put the cover back on and it is completely closed- the back is now slightly convex, which makes it fit better in the palm. The only downside I have seen so far is that the car dock doesn't allow the phone to pop in or out quite as easily. Still works just fine- just not quite as smooth.

But for an exceptional change in battery life, I'm more than ok with that as a 'downside'. ;)
[Motorola Atrix HD] lacer4576:
Had my eb 40 in for two days. Using with a ballistic case, just cut out the back cover area of the rubber piece and put the hard cover back on, works great. I agree, if the phone came like this I wouldn't have looked twice, the change in the cover height its nothing. Little paranoid about the three people whose batteries split, but mine appears perfect on the outside and battery temp has been steady at 24c idle, max at 40. After calibration I am sitting at 92%and 8 hours, low-moderate Web and email use, much better than on eb20. Bought from cell repair shop on Amazon.

Sent from my Atrix HD Maxx
[Motorola Atrix HD] tiltman71:
Did the mod, man its sweet. Thanks to all. Loving it.
[Motorola Atrix HD] IronTechmonkey:
Ya, that is not much of a downside as long as it is not putting undue stress on the connectors.
[Motorola Atrix HD] smogtdi:
as you all know I'm one with a swelled battery. but just to let people know, even with the eb20 battery, I get very good battery life.

it MIGHT be caused by using a ATT phone in Canada on bell and koodo. Both provider will not allow LTE from the att phone.

no LTE = extended battery life as the cost of a bit of download speed (that I just don't care about)
[Motorola Atrix HD] LeGenDz R3DeaDz:
Why theres a big difference of price between the EB40 and EB20?

I found EB40 for 40$ and EB20 for 60$

Someone have a EB20 for me to buy?
[Motorola Atrix HD] aerohp:
I may have an extra.. pm me how much you want it for and we'll see to it
[Motorola Atrix HD] sshark:
I am going to throw out a caution for folks with older/used Atrix Hd.

I tried this with my phone and Kevlar back sticky came off from the plastic structure. I have now put some glue ...but just wanted to share that...
[Motorola Atrix HD] deeje00:
Yeah happened to mine luckily mom had dropped hers in the toilet so I took her back.

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[Motorola Atrix HD] bdgarel:
new to atrix

hey i just got my atrix a week ago after selling my note and also ordered an eb40 battery so figured i should do a before after and what not....

12 hours and change with moderate use and 8% left pretty much 10am to 10pm

-hour or 2 of pandora, email, plenty o internet, and about 30 min of calls
[Motorola Atrix HD] deeje00:
So is that the 20 or the 40?

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[Motorola Atrix HD] LeGenDz R3DeaDz:
I'm not able to send you a message do you have a gmail? can you pm me or send me an email to william.devos.m@gmmail.com

thankx
[Motorola Atrix HD] bdgarel:
thats the 20 i put the 40 in tonight and will post pics tomorrow or monday
[Motorola Atrix HD] bdgarel:
Im working on getting the eb40 to die now so itll get a full charge from dead then ill post battery results but as of now ill post what i got...

hahah im sitting running quadrant over and over with pandora full blast and brightness 100% and still at 37% an hour later....it started at like 45%!!!! IT DOESNT WANT TO DIE!!!!!

the last pic shows before and after super well (2 AHD's next to each other)
[Motorola Atrix HD] bdgarel:
finally my battery has died all the way and here are the results!!!

after this screen shot it probably stayed about 30-45 more minutes...

so happy with battery life!

56-57 hours on the maxx battery!
[Motorola Atrix HD] deeje00:
Like 1 hour screen time though? Lol.

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[Motorola Atrix HD] bdgarel:
actually close to 6.5 but 1 is close
[Motorola Atrix HD] deeje00:
There's no way man. If you had 6 hours of on screen time the screen would have used the most battery and you damn sure wouldn't get over 2 days. Pics or it didn't happen.
[Motorola Atrix HD] bdgarel:
well it just refreshed since i charged it last night so I cant now but also take into account that theres about 10 hours on airplane mode because where I work a get no service or WiFi so i just turn airplane mode on so that definitely plays a part

so yea I fell did have almost 7 hours..... today I'm gonna give it another go but not be conservative at all! so well see how it goes

and honestly I could care less because I'm pretty sure regardless to what I do I'll make it a day no problem and that's what I really wanted when I was ordering the battery!
[Motorola Atrix HD] deeje00:
All I'm saying is its a great mod. I've done it. But I've never gotten past 20 hours or 5 hours of on screen time. Running a custom rom with good batter life.
[Motorola Atrix HD] bdgarel:
well that's a fair statement then... I am running full stock as well
[Motorola Atrix HD] SirHoover2010:
I always got past 5 hours of on screen time after I did this mod
[Motorola Atrix HD] ranova:
yeah i can usually hit 5-6 hours screen on with it being off charge for around 40 hours
[Motorola Atrix HD] bdgarel:
yea that appears to be about what im getting now which is perfectly fine with me!:)
[Motorola Atrix HD] wdwms:
Stock is 138 grams (4.9oz) , just weighed it..

[for comparison, Atrix 2 stock is 148 grams, or 5.2oz[
[Motorola Atrix HD] smogtdi:
So this 16% weight gain is totally worth it unless you really can't stand walking around with a phone 1 oz heavier

Edit: The razr maxx hd is at 157 grams so it's exactly like the modded AHD (within the error margin of the ALDI food scale I used for the test.)
[Motorola Atrix HD] Av8tor86:
Been on and off the phone all day. Web, music, texting and a call or two. This mod is awesome. I agree the added weight makes it feel better in my hand and I don't even notice it. I added juice defender and set up the night battery saver smart action today just to see how long I can make it last.
[Motorola Atrix HD] Neroga:
My EB40 is here but I won't be able to make a video as like I said I would, before. (Forgot my Atrix 4G's screen doesn't work.) But I will post edited pictures with arrows and a detailed guide on what needs to be done later on today.

Sent from my Motorola Atrix HD
[Motorola Atrix HD] mandrsn1:
My battery came today. The swap took about 20 minutes (there was more cutting of plastic required than I expected). My phone is now charging.

The battery adds way less thickness than I expected.
[Motorola Atrix HD] tiguy99:
Nice! Thanks guys for the weight info. How much on screen time are you guys seeing?
[Motorola Atrix HD] Neroga:
I couldn't take pictures as no one had a camera but I was able to get the battery in WITHOUT any kind of cutting. Just make sure the battery is slid all the way down before you put everything back together or the speaker won't connect. Since there was no cutting, I called AT&T and verified that my warranty and extra insurance still cover my phone. Also still fits in the Otterbox Defenders Series. Just remove the lining inside the back cover of the case.

--edit--

When I get home I'll open the phone back up and make those pictures.

Sent from my Motorola Atrix HD MAXX
[Motorola Atrix HD] heifeif:
Nice.

Can you pls make a sharp pic from the side?
[Motorola Atrix HD] Neroga:
Couple pics I took at the bowling alley. More to come lol. No cutting of the plastic.

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[Motorola Atrix HD] suburbias:
ok so i just installed it myself without having to cut anything also...but now my speaker doesn't work!? HELP!!!!

I did have to take out the 8 screws and remove that other plate to remove the battery..
[Motorola Atrix HD] Neroga:
Read what I posted.. Slide the battery all the way down in the tray or the speakers won't connect.

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[Motorola Atrix HD] suburbias:
yeah I did that =[ I think ti has something to do with the screws and how much tighter they have to be, unfortunately they're so stripped I can't realyl screw them any tighter or get them out now. I could use a strip of paper before putting the plate on to make the speakers work but meh =[
[Motorola Atrix HD] Neroga:
If you don't have a T5 screwdriver Walmart is selling a pretty nifty kit for a little over $7 after taxes. The screws should fit snugly all the way around.

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[Motorola Atrix HD] suburbias:
Well I just ordered a replacement thru insurance because i think i destroyed all hope when the back cover was removed disconnecting the Speaker for good. Is it recommended to cut that extra plastic where the white sticker is to ensure the speaker stays connected after replacing the battery?? Right now.the battery IS pushed all the way down...the speaker will only work if i squeeze the upper right up the phone and I have to squeeze pretty hard. This is with or without the back cover clipped on.
[Motorola Atrix HD] Av8tor86:
I didn't remove any screws but the battery ones. Cut the plastic where the white sticker is and fit the battery in that way.

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[Motorola Atrix HD] suburbias:
Yeah i will remove the battery ones only this next time...do i cut the entire white stickered part out or just half a cm?
[Motorola Atrix HD] Av8tor86:
I just laid the bottom of the battery in the spot where it goes and used a razor knife to scor the plastic at the top. Then I removed it and carefully cut along the scored line.

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[Motorola Atrix HD] suburbias:
Ok so basically the entire row so you can just lay the battery easily? That makes sense to not risk interfering with the speaker conmection...please correct me if.I'm wrong. Btw i like the no cutting idea, i'm just worried ill run into this speaker problem again =[

Otherwise my battery life has been insanely good lol
[Motorola Atrix HD] mandrsn1:
That is how i did it as well
[Motorola Atrix HD] suburbias:
Alright, thanks for the help guys....hopefully my phone will show up tomorrow and this will be successful.. i want this phone to last me at the least 2 years and with this battery mod i know it will!!
[Motorola Atrix HD] JI_rd:
My battery just arrived!!

Hi guys!

My battery just arrived today, it looks "brand new" and in excellent conditions ;), bought it from Cellphone Repair Shop at Amazon, I'll do the upgrade today and get an extended video of how it went with me, thanks to all for sharing your experiences with other. I can't wait to see the light of EXTENDED BATTERY LIFE!! :D

Read/post you later!
[Motorola Atrix HD] deeje00:
Not just the screen time I've gotten that. But also 50+ hours of phone on time also. That's where I find it hard to believe. And when you have that much screen on time the screen would at the top of the list.
[Motorola Atrix HD] JI_rd:
Finally!! My Atrix HD is MAXX!!

Hello again! :laugh:

I finished the mod, everything went as expected, Speaker OK, cutting OK, overall OK, just a few tips for those who are thinking in doing this mod:

FIRST OF ALL: DO THIS MOD AT YOUR OWN RISK!

1.- As shown in a picture attached, be carefull with the Flat cable that comes from the battery and with their screws, are quite fragile, I almost sweep one of them.

2.- As might be obvious, remove your uSD card and uSIM before you start with, you can damage your back cover by not doing this.

3.- When you're cutting, be aware of the specified area showed in the picture, there is a small PCB with 2 pin pad connections, pretty fragile, so be carefull

First I'll discharge the battery, then full charge and wait until the next full charge to see the results.

By the way, just after the mod, I did turn on the device and shows 50% of battery, and as mentioned in the thread, WiFi and GPS have been improved incredibly better.

Sorry about the grammar hehe I've to improve it :P

Thanks again! :cowboy:

Riding the new JI Atrix HD MAXX
[Motorola Atrix HD] aselker:
THIS. I just finished my new Atrix HD MAXX and now found this advice. I want to ad a few more comments.

First of all, I cut from the bottom and it was far easier than from the top because you know exactly where to cut. Don't cut right up against the edges, you can't get deep enough.

Second, if there is a gap in the edge of the phone after you are done, either you didn't snap the back on right, or you didn't cut enough.

Third, buy from CellphoneRepairShop on Amazon. They worked great for me, and apparently several others as well.

Fourth, there is definitely a bump on the back cover afterwards but it's absolutely fine unless you use a case. My hard case won't fit, though a soft one might. It's barely any thicker or heavier, you can really only tell if you actively look for it.

Good luck, and mod at your own risk!
[Motorola Atrix HD] JI_rd:
Totally Agree!!

I do have some gaps, specially on the power on button and obviously on the uSD and uSIM compartment, I could'nt make it fit any better(I forgot to attach those pictures yesterday hehe)

I just got my Atrix HD fully charged and find out (not surprised though :p) it took about 6HRS FULL CHARGE!! Time to do real life test to the battery and see how it goes.

No temperature issues while charging, smooth as with the original battery. ;)

RYL! :D
[Motorola Atrix HD] aselker:
Congrats on getting it working.

On an unrelated note, my SD slot just stopped working. Anybody had this happen?

EDIT: Turns out only my normal 32gb card won't work, my backup 8gb works fine. Will investigate.

Another EDIT: Now it works again... I guess it's just spotty. Won't really mess with it until it malfunctions again.

EDIT 3: While I was trying to get the SD to register, I wrote on the contacts a bit with a pencil to improve the connection. Turns out it was a colored pencil that doesn't use graphite, so it might have had the opposite effect instead. Probably of no consequence, but just wanted to make a note of it.
[Motorola Atrix HD] bdgarel:
thats wierd i just finished my mod last week and got the atrix the week before coming from the note and i popped my 32gb sd card and it died as well when i put it in my mac and it just shows up as 32MB! hopefully this has nothing to do with our atrix's and just our cards
[Motorola Atrix HD] aselker:
That sounds more like a software problem, or a problem within the card. Mine seems to be pressure on the SD slot in the phone or something similar. Even the 8gb was a bit spotty, though much less so.
[Motorola Atrix HD] JI_rd:
Just an opinion...

I think it's a good idea to check the contacts shown at the picture, in my personal opinion, the memory card problem also looks like a grounding problem at the electronic circuitry, and as in every high end electronic circuit, ground points(bridges) are the usual way to link gnd pin pads and close the ground circuit, for me, those pins can be related to that. Just a theory. Once in the past, I had a similar situation on my Laptop, some cards were readable, some not, and the only problem was a ground cable.

Back to the good things :D I went with my Atrix HD MAXX on a round trip with heavy GPS navigation, music player on and speed tracker for 5 hours and it still have 47%, this is absolutely wonderfull!! it has power enough to keep me messaging and web browsing at home, just great!

Long life to Android, long life to mod's and modders :D
[Motorola Atrix HD] LeGenDz R3DeaDz:
do you think i'ts a legit one ? http://www.cafr.ebay.ca/itm/261087239594#shId
[Motorola Atrix HD] deeje00:
Just get it from cell repair shop man. Same price and is for sure legit.
[Motorola Atrix HD] LeGenDz R3DeaDz:
they don't ship to canada
[Motorola Atrix HD] deeje00:
Well if you want you could order it and have it shipped to me and I could stick in a flat rate up to you. I'm not sure of the cost on that but if all else fails I could help your out.
[Motorola Atrix HD] darknessrise1234:
With the gap on power button, you have to be careful. I bent mine slightly and now my button is a little funky.
[Motorola Atrix HD] darknessrise1234:
Here's more screenshots of battery time.
[Motorola Atrix HD] LeGenDz R3DeaDz:
crap I already take it 40$ shipping -_-
[Motorola Atrix HD] aselker:
Sorry about the delay.

I really don't want to open it back up unless I have to, as I have already broken several of the snaps on the flexible cover and I really don't want to strip the torx screws (I'm using a small flathead, as I don't have a t3 or t5).

I don't quite see what you mean about grounding. Those pins that connect to the case are only to check if the case is there, correct? Or am I missing something?

I'll just use the card as it is for now, but I may come back to this if it starts acting up again.
[Motorola Atrix HD] JI_rd:
Never mind...

As I mentioned before, it's just a theory, by gnd bridges I mean different points to be connected to close a circuit, and yes, I agree with you, those pins should be there to ensure middle body is well placed, but they might be connected somewhere else like gnd, voltage, high impedance, a current loop? I have no clue yet, but I never mean to compare my laptop problem with yours on your atrix, but as said before, that situation sounds familiar to me.

I got 3 different size uSD cards(4gb-c4,16gb-c6 and 32gb-c10) and so far I had no issues with any of them, I hope you find a solution to it.

;)
[Motorola Atrix HD] aselker:
I see what you are saying. I get the feeling that if ant of the contacts on the back plate were broken, the phone simply wouldn't boot, or would throw an error message immediately.

Also: The glass face of my device seems to be separating from the edge on the upper left corner. Is this normal?
[Motorola Atrix HD] tschlicht:
I had this issue at first. Without stripping the screws, make sure you crank down the screws as hard as you can. Especially the ones in the upper area near the speaker.
[Motorola Atrix HD] jorjitoc:
I did the EB40 mod and at first all was good. This week I've had the phone at the beach and literally within a minute of having the phone in the sun I got overheat warnings even though the phone wasn't hot. Then yesterday the battery was draining very quickly. I was down to 44% battery by 2pm. I restarted the phone thinking some process was killing my battery. When it rebooted it said I was at 14% battery and needed to charge. When I brought it up to my room to charge, it indicated 44% again when I plugged the charger back in.

Luckily I still have my Sprint Galaxy S3 and took both phones with me to dinner. This time I was indoors and the Atrix was on the dinner table with nothing around it to heat it up. I took a few pictures and kept getting the overheat warning. So I shut it off and popped the sd card from the Atrix back into my S3 so I could finish the photos I was trying to take. The S3 then got hot which clued me in that something was wrong with the sd card (I've used this sd card for over six months in the S3 with no issues). I formatted it and left it in the S3 and bought a 16GB card for the Atrix HD and have had the Atrix at the beach all day with no heat warnings.

So that made me feel a little better. However, a few minutes ago I was using Snapseed to edit a photo on the Atrix and I got a low battery warning and it just shut the phone off without asking. When I plugged it into the charger it was at ~44% battery. So something isn't calibrated properly and the phone thinks 45% battery is 0% for some reason. I've searched and searched for calibration instructions but can't find any. I'm stock unrooted and the stock recovery has nothing about clearing battery stats. Have any of you guys run into anything like this?
[Motorola Atrix HD] deeje00:
When you first got it did you charge to 100 with it off? Then you have do complete cycle with another full charge while off.
[Motorola Atrix HD] jorjitoc:
I'll try that.