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[Moto X General] jayboyyyy:
I know some people have had the phone last an hour or so on 1%. I also know some people have had the phone drop battery really fast randomly typically around 5-10%.

I left my house with 28% battery left to go to this office (25ish minute drive). After being there about 10 minutes i looked at my phone and im at 1%. I hadn't even really had the screen on at all that i can remember. if i did it was briefly to see something. I know my signal shows that it was low for that point in time but that doesn't explain the drop in battery percentage. Further, 3 hours later my phone is still at 1% after making some phone calls and using it a little. I also recalibrated my battery less than a week ago.

I am running eclipse 2.2 with typically great battery life. I think i was on 26 hours or something (gsam shows differently bc i set up a custom start time when i went to bed). So ive never seen anything like. just thought i check to see if anyone else had every experienced it. I checked wake lock, kernal stuff. nothing seemed out of the ordinary. Everything looked pretty standard so i didn't even screen shot anything. Clearly a wakelock can't drop a phone from 25% at the least to 1% instantly.

screen shots are after i noticed it happened and three hours later when my phone still hadn't died.

edit: started charging my phone while making the post, not all that surprising but it jumped from 1% to 27% instantly as well... New screenshots attached.
[Moto X General] :
Nice discovery. ;)

A strange glitch for sure! Must be something common to the people having this issue? Find out what that is... and a solution may follow.

Or its bad batteries?

Not many have reported the issue...if there's nothing in common between the people having this.... Could just be the batteries.

I'd probably RMA if I had the issue...but that's me.
[Moto X General] jayboyyyy:
don't think it is hardware. tons of peoples phones jump from 80% to 100% when charging they just don't notice it because they don't check there battery stats when charging and once it has completed charging it doesn't show up. Go check your phones stats when it charges up and goes to 100%. I have had three different moto x and 2 of 3 did this. To fix that issue i killed the battery then charged it back to 100% without turning it on. It never charged like that again. I haven't seen anyone have this happen to them before though. I also recalibrated the battery after installing eclipse. I just cleared cache and dalvick cache. Only charge the phone to 30 %. letting it drain to see if i can recreate the issue. def not hardware though bc the phone lasted for 3 hours (possibly could have gone for 10 or 12 hours) on 1% so the battery was depleting correctly. The reporting was just off.
[Moto X General] :
That's what I mean.... The phone isn't reading the battery correctly... Perhaps hardware? Or maybe just software.

Just doesn't seem that widespread an issue... only a handful have reported it here.

I've googled it too...to see if there's articles about it and/or comments from normal people. (Non xda people...lol). Didn't find anything.

And no... my phone has never had any sudden drops... Or increases while charging. I'm a battery life nut.... I check everything. ;)
[Moto X General] jayboyyyy:
Well i have been on battery life stuff for a long time for like 4 straight weeks of my entire life when i first got the phone. On the moto forums as well trying to help their dev team. I saw many many people with the charging 80 to 100 issue. What i was getting at is that most people don't know it. How often do people pay attention when their phone is charging. or decide to go and take a screenshot of their battery stats before they unplug. You may, but many don't and would never notice this issue. You can even look through posts and see people that post screenshots and haven't even noticed that their battery jumped up when charging. Also, since doing what i did and charging the phone from dead fixed the 80 to 100% issue, doesn't seem to be HW to me. Here is two examples of people in this thread with the issue. you can check the moto forum for many more. I didn't even search but for two secs so im sure their are dozens more in this thread that shared the same experience.
[Moto X General] :
Oh... I've been talking about the phone going on and on at 1 percent issue. ;)

Or are you saying it's the same issue? Which may be. But I've had neither... So anything I say is just a guess. Lol

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The moto g section has some people with a strange issue too... they plug into a computer and their battery drops in an instant. Only in a USB port... not a wall charger.

Probably not related at all. Just thought I'd throw that out there... In case it ever happens to the x users.
[Moto X General] jayboyyyy:
ya the 1% issue is clearly a reporting issue. the HW is lasting longer than the phone thinks it should. Most i typically see is like an hour. Someone recently reported 40 mins of netflix before it died. Mine last 3 hours and i expect it would have been 10 hours since the phone dropped instantly from about 28% to 1%. The battery didn't drain that fast the phone just thought it did which explains why it lasts on 1% for so long. Also explains why it jumps from 1% to 28% when charging.

now that you mention the moto g thats just more evidence that moto is having some battery reporting issue for sure.
[Moto X General] ram130:
I've had this issue as well and finally talk to Motorola about it too. He was frankly surprised about it and said it could have been "load" but like you I wasn't doing much. Anyway I'm happy you reported it.

I first noticed it a month ago. And since then I've gathered my findings in this post to bring more attention to it:

https://plus.google.com/110686256095806218543/posts/S8Hz5fT5Wbo

Hope it helps. I'll be linking them to your post as well.

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and here's my graph of it

And then skipped while charging

In that picture it also said I unplugged. I was testing to see if it would happen again. And it didn't. It drained correctly to 1% where I charged again.

Anyway working with Moto. After they finished with my logs I'll know more.
[Moto X General] jayboyyyy:
d@@@m. i am pretty sure that you may have cracked the code. I just went through my head on what i did with the 80-100% issue and im pretty sure i didn't let it drain past 50% bc i started plugging it in at night bc i was too busy to test. Last night and the night before i drained the phone down to like 8-10% two days in a row and this is the first i have seen this. Not sure it is the true issue but it could explain why not that many people see it (even though many people have extremely long 1% drain on their phone). It could also explain why some people get 1% drain per hour with location reporting on and others get 3% drain per hour with location reporting off... Wonder what is causing the difficulties with the battery...

so fyi, i know i already posted this but in case you missed it i charged to a little over 30% (it jumped from 1% to about 25% on me while charging). i then wiped cache and dalvick. now im draining it to see if i can make it jump to 1% again. report back if i have success (well i guess that would be failure but you know what i mean).
[Moto X General] ram130:
Funny. I just posted my pictures and more information. Check the post above again. Guess I replied too quick. Lol

And thanks. I don't know why I do so much testing at times. Lol.
[Moto X General] jco23:
Here us mine:
[Moto X General] larry62:
I've been getting about 1.5 days between charges with 4.5 to 6 hours of screen on time (XT-1053 on Net10). Compared to my VZW Samsung GS3, I'm trilled beyond belief.
[Moto X General] ItsAaronR:
Battery life seems pretty awesome...but for some reason it seems like I'm getting less of a drain when the screen is on than when its off...anyone seen that?
[Moto X General] :
My new personal best....overall.... :)

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No Gsam screen unfortunately, cause I rebooted a few times. Hate that it resets after a reboot. Lol
[Moto X General] RenSoAbrupt:
This is my average these days, after a month of use. Can easily pull 4.5+ hours with over a days usage. This was 4G mixed w/ Wi-Fi.

What I love about it is that it charges in about 2 hours maybe a bit over and can last 1+ day easily.

As always location services off cause I don't have a need for it, along with syncing (only turned on when I need to update something).

Sent from my Moto X
[Moto X General] ram130:
The hell... I can't even get pass 3hrs screen. Let me guess. You guys been on WiFi all day long with sync and location off? I wonder what you'll get without WiFi for a cycle.
[Moto X General] :
With no wifi...I get 5 to 6 usually.

Also...my signal is always low at home...so I'm not sure low signal is as much the battery drain as some say.

And I always have sync and location off. Unless I use GPS...which is rare. Then its on for navigation and off again.
[Moto X General] ram130:
So hard for me to do. Love having my contacts, etc backed up. Especially with my tablet.
[Moto X General] :
I'm sure that's not the biggest battery drain anyway. I only sync my contacts after I add a new one. Which isn't often.
[Moto X General] RenSoAbrupt:
Funny thing I get about the same thing on 4G. As I said there is really no need for location with me. I'd assume from my battery life with that and sync on I'd get around 3.5 hours to 4.

Sent from my Moto X
[Moto X General] ram130:
True. You can try your next cycle with sync on? See if you get the same. I just like having not to remember it.

I'd want to see more tests with only LTE. But that would be near my range.
[Moto X General] Steve-x:
I've had 29 hours standby, 5 hours on screen, 5 gmail accounts syncing, wifi off, LTE/HSPA only, location services off.
[Moto X General] RenSoAbrupt:
Waiting for my mobile provider to provide the LTE service along with the LTE sim. Should be coming in around the 20th or so.

Sent from my Moto X
[Moto X General] ram130:
Thanks. So I'm convinced my battery might be defective if I can't get more than 3 hours screen. :(
[Moto X General] :
Dumb question....But what brightness setting you on the most? I honestly believe that is THE biggest factor in battery life. Aside from wakelocks and rogue apps...issue type stuff.
[Moto X General] ram130:
Since I'm mainly outside for work...mostly medium to high via auto brightness. Using either lux or stock. Prefer stock at times. I only hit 3hrs on my days off..that's with medium to low.

3 months ago I could get 4hrs on avg...even with streaming radio.
[Moto X General] :
Yeah, see I run usually on the lowest and second lowest levels...according to Gsam. I am going to be working outside for a bit now...and may have to raise my lux limit higher that 35. So I'll see how it affects my screen time after a couple days. I'm sure my time on will drop. I'll report back.

According to Gsam...like 10 minutes on say medium to high eats as much battery as say 45 minutes on low. So I do think screen brightness may be the biggest factor in screen time. Who knows...Aside from abnormal issues, it may be the only important factor. Well....games and GPS annihilate the battery too. :)
[Moto X General] ram130:
Thanks man. I'll look out for the update. I do get a day stand by on my days off but with 2-3hr screen on. So I just find it odd...must be stand by drain or something. I do know I've had odd cpu spikes after 48hrs+ uptime...cpu would avg 10% in standby overall. Not sure why..can't track it down.

Example. This was today...after 100hrs uptime:

No clue what the hell is bugging it out. And Motorola hasn't got back to me about the battery logs. Sad.

A reboot fixes it ...until the uptime goes up again past 48hrs. Sometimes earlier.
[Moto X General] jco23:
there is some to be said for clearing out cache and rebooting the phone every once in awhile.

also, if you have root, get the greenify app - that will allow you to "sleep" certain apps that you don't need running in the background.

otherwise, my normal process would be to check CPUSpy and see if my phone is entering deep sleep mode. if not, then I'll see which apps are currently running (simply killing them does not always do the trick, as they'll just pop back up again).

otherwise, my suggestion would be to uninstall any "suspect" apps, and slowly add them one by one to see which ones are causing the most drain.
[Moto X General] ram130:
So...I found a guy getting 4 days stand by and 4hours screen on...even with battery spikes. I've just been inspired to enable everything back in App ops. Let me know if you want a screenshot. I'm working with him to install gsam to see the hourly drain. Also is Android OS in actually lower than his phone idle.

Thanks. It's funny I have the same apps on my Nexus 7 and not seeing the issue. I think it could be related to a Moto service. Because no apps is coming up in the CPU graph. Also my phone is deep sleeping. About 90-95%. And I've clear the cache a couple times after the update.
[Moto X General] huyawns:
I don't have evidence but I've gotten noticeably more battery drain during idle and usage after the most recent Google Play Service update to 4.1.

I'm on 4.4 running ART. I've tried disabling apps and factory resetting numerous times. And for some odd reason Google Play Services is randomly crashing.

Anyone have similar experiences?
[Moto X General] syntrix:
Disable the caller id thing under apps. Might be a VZW specific thing though.

As soon as I did this, my estimated runtimes in GSAM shot through the roof (after a reboot after disabling).
[Moto X General] jco23:
haven't run ART yet, but I've read that it does cause more drain.
[Moto X General] MVPete1:
Right now I'm at 1 day, 16 hours and about an hour of screen on time... 20% battery left. Mostly on my home WiFi. I don't know if that's great or not but coming from the Galaxy Nexus, it's a huge upgrade.
[Moto X General] phositadc:
In my book that's actually pretty bad.

-Sent from my Droid Mini.-
[Moto X General] chaoslimits:
Agreed; I get better than that on GNex. 3hrs screen time on extended battery on Wifi.
[Moto X General] _MetalHead_:
I swear to god this is the single most difficult phone to drain I have ever owned. I have been trying to kill the battery completely since my factory reset via constant video playing, benchmark running, gaming, and even a couple battery drain apps. I am STILL only at 49% with 3hrs 30min screen time. Screen is at 73% with Android OS only at 6%. It's been set at full brightness the whole time too. Anybody got any bright ideas on how I can do this quickly? I'd like to have it drained completely and charged fully before bedtime so I can see how much it drains overnight. I've got 5 hours to accomplish my goal. I'm laughing at how arduous a task this is turning out to be, truly a testament to how good of a job Moto did with it. I could have killed any of my other Android phones twice over by now.
[Moto X General] bso44:
Why do you want to drain it completely? From what I've read about Li-ion batteries, cycling them really doesn't do anything since there's no memory effect.
[Moto X General] _MetalHead_:
It's not about conditioning the battery, more like conditioning the battery meter to read the battery level correctly. Regardless of what people claim, every phone I have ever owned took a few cycles before the battery life leveled out.
[Moto X General] bso44:
Interesting. I cycled down my original S3 battery a few times when I got it before I read that cycling really didn't do anything. With a 2nd OEM battery, I never cycled it down and didn't notice a difference at all.
[Moto X General] _MetalHead_:
I mean, I could be 100% wrong but it just seems like it helps. Even with the Moto X- when I first got it I was complaining all over XDA how bad my battery was but after a few days it got awesome. So I dunno, at the very least it won't hurt.
[Moto X General] bso44:
I'm not necessarily saying you're wrong but I'm more inclined to believe that it's the system still settling in - kind of like how you need to give it a couple of days after flashing a new ROM for the battery life to level out.
[Moto X General] _MetalHead_:
Right, that's what I'm talking about. Just trying to expedite the process so to speak.
[Moto X General] imTousey:
I'm at 32 hours with a little over 4 hours screen on time and about 3% battery life. I'm ecstatic about this phones battery, my galaxy nexus was lucky to get 14 hours even with the extended battery towards the end of its life.
[Moto X General] SubliminalME:
I get up at 6 and go to bed at 10 and I always have like 40 percent when I go to bed... That's all I care about. :) no charging in the middle of the day anymore. Sweet.
[Moto X General] clovis_ll:
Alright, last night after I turned off the location access, and coupled with being connected to WiFi gave me this results...

I'm a happy camper! :)
[Moto X General] rmead01:
This was my weekend usage. Very satisfied. Kind of interested in doing the factory reset and starting over again, but need access to helium first so gotta wait until I get home
[Moto X General] rmead01:
Got my helium setup/backed up and did a factory reset. Restored apps, setup accounts, and will see if that made any difference.

Just need to setup touchless controls. Apparently it's too loud in the warehouse I work in.
[Moto X General] erik7970:
The fact that so many of you have been getting stellar battery life is only making me want this phone even more! Excuse me if I'm wrong, but I didn't see people mentioning how they had set their screen brightness. Can someone please post what their screen brightness was and how long the battery lasted if possible? I'm curious to see how this impacts battery life.
[Moto X General] rman18:
I've kept mine on Auto Brightness, which actually keeps the phone quite bright and I get around 5 hours screen on time on a typical day. I could probably get more by setting it lower. Actually some mornings if I turn my phone on the auto settings is too bright for me.
[Moto X General] ShamanicEnzan:
I keep mine at the default the phone comes with once you turn off auto
[Moto X General] erik7970:
Thank you guys. Sounds like you could keep the screen on the Moto X quite bright without suffering too much battery loss.
[Moto X General] robstunner:
Here's my overnight drain. Kinda sucks
[Moto X General] paulo28c:
Why would you enable everything back in app ops?
[Moto X General] EasyOne:
The Moto X has been touted as having very good battery life on every review I've read, however, I'm not seeing it. In comparison, my year old HTC One X+ was widely panned in reviews for it's poor battery life yet I get far more use out of it than I have with my 2 week old Moto X. I charge the HTC on Monday and Friday whether it needs it or not - often not. My Moto barely lasted the weekend totally on standby, no calls, texts or anything, any calls and this phone would have needed a charge on Saturday. I do not call that great battery life, more like barely acceptable. I'm not knocking the phone in general, I really like it a lot, but to hear reviewers gush all over it's great battery life (and the HTC's "poor" life) makes me wonder if they even tested them or are just repeating marketing hype. And yes, both phones are set up as close as possible, battery saving ON, GPS and NFC OFF. Perhaps I'm missing something?

Loving my Moto X Developer Edition but missing my HTC's (really) amazing battery life.
[Moto X General] Steve-x:
The Moto X does have great battery life for people who really use the phone, however it does not excel at pure standby time. I think the always listening feature and active notifications use too much power at the end of the day to provide day after day of standby time. Really the phone is designed more for someone who uses the phone a lot and is meant to be charged daily, or every other day. For those of us who use the phone a lot each day it does provide great battery life.
[Moto X General] :
Not sure why you need a fancy phone if you don't use it barely....But for what you've described, you should have got a Moto g then.....I've seen screen shots of 5 days on a charge on them....with barely any use of course. And they are a great phone for half the price of the Moto x.

That being said....you should read thru this thread carefully...since you barely use the phone...you should root...freeze almost everything and greenify the rest. Location off, sync off..... I get near 1 percent per hour drain on standby, not in airplane mode....So by my math, if I don't touch it.....u should be close to 100 hours standby. That's about 4 days. ;)

Of course I use it allot tho.....I average 24 hours on a charge with 6 hours screen time. I've got a day and half total with little use at best......and I've also got over 7 hours screen time at best.

So amazing battery life is easy to do...just gotta make cuts and tweak.
[Moto X General] danger2u:
not so bad

much better MoTO G but doesn t have active display and touchless control
[Moto X General] :
I can match screen times with the Moto g , but not total time. They double my total time with same screen time. Amazing! Trying to talk wife into one....instead of her decrepit iPhone 4s. Lol

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I'm even considering giving her my Moto x and taking the G. ;) Loves my battery life.. and don't game. So probably near as smooth with what I do with it. She wants an x...just can't afford it right now. I may use the G until the x2 comes out. ;)
[Moto X General] danger2u:
This is my screen usage

battery saver on

automatic light display

the battery says 66% but untill i charged 100% the data about usage is from previous usage
[Moto X General] syntrix:
Just the opposite here.

My S4 was draining like crazy every night, did factory resets, tried roms, didn't install any apps except set an alarm clock.

The Moto X is leaps and bounds above the S4 idle/standby drain that I experienced. VZW btw. This phone is awesome!

The always listening feature and active notifications use hardly any power at the end of the day and can provide days of standby time!
[Moto X General] ram130:
Yawn...good morning.
[Moto X General] :
Was on pace for 48 hours with close to 4 hours screen time, according to Gsam yesterday....But decided to charge over night so I wouldn't have to today. Was at 48 percent at midnight, with 23 hours total and 1:45 screen time. 2 days should be doable for a light user who's got stuff off and it's tweaked for battery savings. ;)
[Moto X General] easting:
I typically get 1.5 days or so with moderate usage. Sometimes less, sometimes more.
[Moto X General] EasyOne:
I'm getting > 2% drop per hour on standby, vs < 1% on my HTC One X+. That's 2 days on standby with zero use, location & NFC off vs 5+ (with a few hours of talk time/use) on a year old phone compared to a new device advertised as having great battery life out of the box WITH the touchless control and other features on. It's not that 2 days is all that bad in comparison to other mainstream phones - I'm thinking my brother's iCrap here - but seriously, my 3+ y/o Captivate lasts my GF an entire week on standby. I guess I was expecting it to be better without having to disable most of the features I bought it for, and have probably gotten spoiled with 1-2 charges per week. I was hoping to not have to root this phone as soon as I got it home as I have with every other Android device I've owned - naively assuming Moto will keep updating it for a while - alas, it appears I need to head over to the development thread. I haven't flashed a rom in a couple of weeks now and having withdrawals anyway. Thanks for the feedback/advice, you are no doubt correct, a bit of tweaking should sort it out.
[Moto X General] :
I have active notification and touchless control on....But froze everything else to do with Motorola.

Without root you're limited tho.

Many here get 1percent or so standby...it's very achievable...just takes some playing to get things streamlined.

Good luck! :)