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[Droid Ultra General] AlmostTactful:
I currently get about 50-60 hours on a charge with what I consider normal usage. I do about 45 mins of Bluetooth music streaming via spotify in the car everyday and the rest is normally emails or Facebook.
[Droid Ultra General] th3drow:
So my question is, did software update since the phone was released or what? The battery life according to reviews isn't good at all but everyone here is showing great results.
[Droid Ultra General] th3drow:
Heres some battery results from my Droid mini. Involved some texting, very light gaming, downloads, web browsing and eBay mostly. Got not to far off, but not quite as good as some people.
[Droid Ultra General] dano1282:
SS12108: How do you have white icons? are you rooted and using Xposed?
[Droid Ultra General] ss12108:
Yep. Used GravityBox [kk].
[Droid Ultra General] dano1282:
damn you!! LOL
[Droid Ultra General] ss12108:
Lol ya first thing I did was root when I got home with the phone and thankfully the only OTA that had downloaded was the 4.2.2, so I was able to read around the forum and get rooted, write protection off, and sideloaded the 4.4 update.
[Droid Ultra General] commando122:
I think it has something to do with the VZW bloat. Before I freezed/removed all of the VZW bloat, my battery life was significantly worse than 4.2.2. Once I got rid of that bloat, it went back to normal. My guess is that most people here freeze the bloat which is why there is consistently good results.
[Droid Ultra General] dewa_demonic:
This is my MAXX battery life.. Still on 4.2 2
[Droid Ultra General] 1454:
I'm extremely pleased. I never thought I'd see this kind of battery life. Heck, I have yet to completely drain it.
[Droid Ultra General] @work:
As an update. Since updating to 4.4 I am no longer getting multiple days of battery life. Its still lasting all day, but nothing like what it was.
[Droid Ultra General] 1454:
Maxx or regular? If it's gotten that much worse have you attempted to reset and reload everything? Or do any diagnostics?
[Droid Ultra General] @work:
Sorry, its a maxx.
[Droid Ultra General] 1454:
Dang, that sucks. If I was only getting a day out of it, I would probably go back to my S4. I'm getting about 4 hours of screen on and a day on half the battery. Then I charge every night.
[Droid Ultra General] @work:
Oh I'm getting more than that for screen time. After coming from a gnex I shouldn't be complaining, but two days was easy before :(
[Droid Ultra General] 1454:
Sorry, that probably read wrong. I reread it and it read like I only get a day and a half plus 4 hour s on the entire battery. I get about 16 hours idle and 4 hours screen in 50% of the battery. I'm still on 4.2.2 though. I would get about 3 and a half on the s4 plus 16 idle and it would be dead at the end of the day.
[Droid Ultra General] 1454:
Here is my latest. This is kinda on the low side for screen on, but I listened to play music for about 6 or so hours at work today. So that drove my awake time way up. Also, I'm not normally on the phone this much either. In laws called, so had to talk to them and they aren't easy to get off the phone. Then again I may be the only person that hates talking on the phone.
[Droid Ultra General] doogald:
Same here. I've had 4.4 since December. I used to be able to go to sleep at night after a full day with at least 60% life left, almost every day. Since 4.4 that has not happened much at all - last night it was in the 30s, though it's usually in the 40s.
[Droid Ultra General] ArdW:
my 1st report:

I have Droid Mini 4.2.2. Heavy freezed, rooted, firewalled, custom almost everything. With no SIM card (i.e. network connection) and about 3 hours a day on wifi and installing and playing with things I got 3 days of battery life.

Also, my battery was formatted only once, so maybe it will get a bit better. But I am receiving my SIM card tomorrow, so then it is going to be more interesting.
[Droid Ultra General] Biverson:
Same here. It's frustrating. I'm only getting a day out of my battery. At night it's down to 14% with not that much heavy usage. Maybe 2-3 hours screen on time. I have GPS, Bluetooth, and screen at 50% though. I used to have all that and end the day at 40-50% - not any more. The reason I got the Maxx was to not worry about battery life.
[Droid Ultra General] jfriend33:
What are your charging habits like?

I use this charger http://www.verizonwireless.com/accessories/rapid-wall-charger-with-6-ft-cable-for-micro-usb/

And only top off from 30-40 to 90-95%. I have an alarm set if it hits 100.

I could have the phone last 3 days with 6-8 hrs screen time but generally go about 2 with 5 to 6hrs.

I have tried greenify and I honestly see such little improvement it's not worth it.

You should install one power guard by onexuan. It really helps lessen the idle drain.

Oh and also people, I tried the smart radio feature of GravityBox. Switches to 3G when screen off and/or when wifi connected. I noticed zero improvement in battery life.

I highly suggest heading over to better battery stats thread here at xda. You can really track the power consumption.

Are you on the 4.4 update? A lot of people have complained about worsening battery life.
[Droid Ultra General] ArdW:
Ok, so after a few cycles my Droid Mini is doing 48 hours of my usage. Thats what I was looking for, so I am happy.
[Droid Ultra General] 1454:
Here's my latest. This is even with a rouge app that's eating about 10% of my battery. But I like the app so I deal with it.
[Droid Ultra General] Mad.Matt:
My biggest complaint about battery usage is the Moto Care app, second on my usage list but after freezing it I'm back to being happy as can be

Sent from my Unlocked Droid Maxx

4.4.2

TWRP
[Droid Ultra General] br0adband:
Here's a question I'm interested in as I just got a MAXX and since it's on 4.4 I can't root it/custom ROM/custom kernel (most likely will not do the Chinese unlock thing for $40, just for the record).

In most every screenshot in this thread, it appears that most every user is not using Battery Saver mode as it appears that it's always off in the screenshots, so... yes there are a few with the Battery Saver enabled, but not many by comparison.

My question(s) is/are: do you folks not use that feature of the MAXX at all for some reason - and yes I'm very well aware of the big difference in performance between Battery Saver mode enabled and disabled, verified that with Antutu and Quadrant testing on my own - or are you all just turning it off for the screenshots? :D

Seriously curious... my first long usage of my MAXX was 1 day 8 hours or so with 4 hours 27 minutes of screen on time, got down to 39% and now I'm charging it again so I can use Gsam Battery Monitor to try and eek out the best battery life possible and see what's going on.

You folks turning that off or are you all really just using the MAXX... well, "maxxed out" full bore constantly?
[Droid Ultra General] hawkswind1:
Not sure if it's just me or everyone, but my battery saver does not stay toggled on. If I turn it on, press back, and go back into battery stats, it's toggled off.
[Droid Ultra General] opt05:
Do you have Assist app disabled? You need to have it enabled before the battery saver option will work.
[Droid Ultra General] hawkswind1:
I do have that disabled. Thanks for the info
[Droid Ultra General] doogald:
Battery saver mode does not kick in until the phone gets down to 15% battery life left. My phone rarely gets that low - I recharge it nightly most days, with my phone at about 50% most of the time, and only let it run down once every two months or so. The last time I did, I did enable battery saver when prompted.
[Droid Ultra General] br0adband:
That's not entirely true: Battery Saver, when enabled, immediately reduces the CPU speed (and GPU too iirc) and reduces other power usage system wide - the fact that it notifies you at about 15% battery left means that by enabling that mode manually at that time you limit the amount of power the device uses overall hoping to eek out every last second (with the intent of keeping it on while you attempt to find a way to plug it in, obviously).

You can prove this for yourself easily: get a benchmark like Antutu or Quadrant and - strictly powered by battery, not being plugged in - run the benchmark(s) with Battery Saver disabled and get your baseline performance, then enable Battery Saver and re-run the benchmark.

You'll see a dramatic reduction in the overall score while Battery Saver is enabled. I'm not sure exactly what the CPU/GPU is throttled down to (the specific frequency), but it is most certainly throttled, the benchmark(s) prove that easily.

Enabling Battery Saver as soon as you hit 100% charge and then going strictly on battery seems like the only logical method to get the extremely long battery life that Motorola lays claim with on this phone with actual usage.

So my question stands: how many people that have participated in the poll enable(d) Battery Saver and leave it on constantly to ensure they're getting the longest possible battery life (vs those who prefer to "maxx it out" and see how things turn out...? :p
[Droid Ultra General] doogald:
I just ran 5 trials of quadrant with battery saver on and the off. On battery, starting with 80% battery left; it went down to 77% after 10 trials. The results were almost exactly the same. The highest result, and the averages of the trails, and even the averages of the middle three with best and worst trials thrown out, were higher with battery saver on then with battery saver off. The difference was very, very small.
[Droid Ultra General] traccdma:
If anyone here has a Droid Maxx on 4.2.2 (post camera fix), that is by far the best version for battery life. I downgraded my "developer edition" model by flashing all but the gpt file.

Today my current stats are:

14 hours phone-on time

1.5 hours screen on

3 hours of phone talk time

10 manual email syncs

30min email reading/composing

30min chrome browser usage

20min of texting

80% battery remaining. background data disabled. nothing auto syncing or updating. 4g LTE enabled. de-bloated.

Yesterday I did the exact same tests while on 4.4 de-bloated, and I had 34% battery remaining at the end of the day.

I seriously thought that my battery had gone south. I had six pages of built in apps disabled on 4.4, and fewer disabled on 4.2.2

An hour of hotspot usage + 2gb of tethering comes at a price of ~20% battery drain on 4.4. The same usage, and same tether on 4.2.2: 7%
[Droid Ultra General] Jumnhy:
God I wish I was rooted. Those stats have me positively drooling. It's ridiculous that 4.4 has nerfed battery performance this hard. Uses more than twice as much battery to do the same thing. That's completely unacceptable. I'm on the Mini, so for me, getting more than 6 hours is pretty much a no-go on 4.4. The fact that you need a phone that's supposed to last two days to pull off a day's worth of relatively light usage is pretty telling.
[Droid Ultra General] gabo_e30:
Anyone having problems with Android os using too much battery?
[Droid Ultra General] s_u_n:
Good battery life

I have not done extensive research on the Droid Maxx battery life like the others.

But I can safely state, the battery life is awesome.

Since I got the phone and started using it this month, I am really impressed with the battery life. It easily lasts two full days, even with WiFi kept on through-out. I don't know of any other phone that can do that.

With minimal usage, I can even get something like this.

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I got the phone with 4.4 out of the box, so there was no experience with 4.2 to compare with.
[Droid Ultra General] mik145:
The recent KITKAT 4.4 and 19.6.3 updates have ruined my battery life. I loved the MAXX for the battery and I came home from a 10 hour work day with 75% or more every day. I tried to ignore the updates as long as possible but the daily pop up reminders eventually got me to update to KitKat and then 19.6.3. Well im pretty pissed that i did, both hurt battery life to the point I'm now at maybe 50% after work IF I TAKE IT EASY. if i watch a movie on the phone i will be at 30%! I happily paid $300 for this phone at Verizon because the reviews actually backed up the Moto battery claims and for 6 months I was in heaven. I actually got about 60 hours in Vegas on a weekend once and I just couldn't believe it. But not anymore. Btw, i have dome two factory resets, I have booted in safe mode and played with apps, I have used GSAM Battery app to try and find any run away processes.... But after countless hours its obvious that the updates simply screwed the MAXX up. People are all over android forums with The same problems with Kitkat on Samsung, LG, and Moto. WHY DOES ANDROID HAVE TO FORCE THESE DAMN UPDATES, IF I LIKE MY PHONE HOW IT IS LEAVE ME ALONE!!! I'd love to know if I can get motorola to send me a new MAXX with the original Pre KitKat android that was so awesome and take this Half A Maxx back.
[Droid Ultra General] rob0809:
My battery life has also taken a hit since 19.6.3. I'm thinking of RSD'ing back to an earlier version.
[Droid Ultra General] dinkoh:
I have poor battery life after updating to 4.4. I'm not sure how other non-MAXX users can stand the battery drain,
[Droid Ultra General] chuck864:
After updating to 4.4 and losing half my battery I went back to 12.15.15 and am still not getting the battery life I was. Before I could go to bed with 50% battery, wake up to 47% and make it through the day. Now my phone eats battery even when idle. Below are screenshots of my phone laying on my nightstand for a day and a half with 0 usage.

This really does suck. I wish someone somewhere had an answer as to what caused this and how to fix it.

Boo Verizon. Boo.
[Droid Ultra General] chuck864:
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[Droid Ultra General] 1454:
This is actually my experience as well. On 4.2.2 12.15.15, I would go to bed at like 50ish percent battery. Now I go to bed at like 1-20 percent. Also, according to battery monitor pro, it now has a "capacity" for the battery of about 2700mah, where before it was about 3300. So I wonder if it's something deeper down. Just my unscientific opinion. I'm no dev, so I don't know what kind of effect the firmware could have on the batteries calibration (?). I use that word because I can't find the right word to describe it.
[Droid Ultra General] 1454:
This is actually fairly unusually good battery life for me in the last month or so.
[Droid Ultra General] doogald:
Batteries do lose capacity over time, as they are used and charged. 2700/3500 seems too low after a bit less than a year, but if you've had heavy discharge and charge cycles and the battery has run hot, it's possible.
[Droid Ultra General] 1454:
Don't misunderstand me, I know that they lose capacity. But it went from showing about an average of 3300 from 4.2.2, to 2700 with 4.4. This drop was over the period of a about a week. I have tried wiping stats and other things, but it still returns to about 2700 now. Also, to add to this, I have only had the phone since february. I've never seen a battery lose 25 % of it's capacity after less than 4 months.
[Droid Ultra General] chuck864:
I hava also heard of cells going bad in the battery and it shutting them off to prevent damage. Not sure if this is true or not.

I remember a way to clear battery stats in CWM recovery does anyone know what that does and if it could help/hurt?
[Droid Ultra General] dr12volt1338:
My battery has been horrible since the last update. Almost unusable
[Droid Ultra General] jfriend33:
I would hate to think you've lost that many cells in under a year. I'm not familiar with gsam. I use better battery stats.

I get 7 hrs of screen on time for a full discharge. No navigating but gps on. Wifi half of the time. I charge my phone every other day and only go from 95 to 30 or 40% and that's about 3 or 4 hrs of screen time.

I also use the 2.1a charger from Verizon the most. Just under 2 hrs and I'm topped off enough.

I also fully cycle my battery once a month.

It's also imperative to reboot every 3 days for snappiness.

I have all my non system apps greenified only for keeping ram usage down. Running 4.4.

Google location reporting off. Use Google now a few times per day. Use maps twice a week.

Sent from my unlocked consumer edition Motorola Droid Maxx xt1080m.
[Droid Ultra General] 335Deezl:
Battery

Running Debloated Jaocagomez19.6.3,
[Droid Ultra General] doogald:
It's also possible (probable?) that battery monitor pro is misreporting the size of the battery. I just installed it and it says the battery is 3260. I've had the phone since launch day, so just over 10 months now.
[Droid Ultra General] 1454:
I assumed that, but my actual experienced battery life since upgrading has gone down comparably. On 4.2.2 the worst I would ever go to bed with is about 40%. Now I routinely put in on the charger at between 5-25%. It used to be I could never dream about killing the battery fully in a day. I would have had to be on it like 8-10 or more hours. Now I can kill it with about 5-6 hours of screen on. I've greenfied, and disabled bloat (NFL vcast crap) and that hasn't helped. I just tried the nlpwakelock killer from the X thread. So we will see if that has much of an affect. Maybe mine is just a super anomaly.

I haven't turned off location reporting and GPS because I actually use them, but I did do the toggle thing mentioned in the X thread as well as try device manager stuff. I'm not complaining, just observations. I mean my S4 would always be on the verge of dying every night. Where with the maxx even with the worsened battery life I still manage to make it all day and still have a little left over before plugging it in. Some days I can have as high as about 30 or so percent. Just not often like I used to experience. As long as i can continue to get a full day out of it, as was the main reason I got it, I'm mostly happy. The only feature I actually miss is the IR blaster. Because it was nice being able to turn the channel, or turn it off, on my bedroom TV without figuring out what my fiancé did with the remote.
[Droid Ultra General] MArtyChubbs:
There are some battery improvements or fixes in 4.4.3 that the maxx has not gotten yet and now we have to 4.4.4... I'm waiting for that to save me from all my frustrations
[Droid Ultra General] doogald:
No, I think that most of us are all in the same boat. I used to go to bed with 60% most days with JB, now it's usually less than 40% (I generally have about 2-3 hours on screen time in a day.) The Moto X 4.4.2 changelog from 4.4 said that it fixed a problem that was causing unnecessary battery drain for some users - I think it is many users. We are still on that 4.4 build. I also think that Google Play Services is using more battery in the last few months, so, even if you could go back to JB, you'd find that battery is still not as good as it used to be.

I'd see what happens when we finally get the 4.4.4 upgrade, to see if that improves things. If not, then maybe it's time to call Verizon for a warranty replacement.
[Droid Ultra General] MArtyChubbs:
I would get the warranty replacement. Your battery life sux. I did for other reasons and it was like s hot tub time machine back to awesome battery life i missed
[Droid Ultra General] redddog:
So what's the explanation?

My wife just got a Moto X that has a significantly smaller battery that easily keeps up or betters my battery life with similar usage.

Is it that artifacts from previous builds have corrupted the OS? Is it that old versions of apps aren't compatible with new builds? I could see that but it wouldn't explain why a new phone, with the same apps installed would have a "hot tub time machine" difference in Bat life.

It pisses me off though. And the inability to quickly find out what the hell exactly is burning battery.
[Droid Ultra General] doogald:
It's probably that your wife's Moto X has either 4.4.2 or 4.4.3 with fixes for battery drain issues. We are still on 4.4 and waiting for an update. Again, I'd wait to see if the update (when it comes) fixes battery drain issues.
[Droid Ultra General] Johnny Wong:
Here are my results with Topsnake's Moto X 4.4.4 port. This is after a day of normal usage, didn't trade functionality in the pursuit of battery life. Installed and running all the usual chat and social media apps and other enhancement apps to include: Google Now Launcher, Touchless Control, Moto Connect, Moto Alert, Moto Assist, Verizon Cloud, GPS at high accuracy, and Wifi. The phone deep sleeps like a pro and I attribute that to Greenify and Unbounce. It almost deep sleeps immediately after screen off and I still get all notifications even though the apps are hibernated thanks to Greenify. Unbounce keeps Google Play Services in check. Here are some pics:

Definition of normal use = no games, plenty of web surfing, Tapatalk, bluetooth'd to my Bose Soundlink Mini for a little bit, Chromecast'd a few shows with Hulu to my TV, messenger, FB, etc... This phone has been extremely impressive and I thought the wife's Moto X was thrifty on the battery.
[Droid Ultra General] Johnny Wong:
On the same charge as the post above, this is where it was when I decided to plug it in to the charger:

2 hours later:
[Droid Ultra General] asuhoops8628:
Thanks Johnny Wong for the screenshot of Unbounce. Have been looking for a module like that (was previously using wakelock terminator, which was so-so imo)
[Droid Ultra General] bwheelies:
The CLN Maxx I got. First charge has been better than my previous Maxx phones.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 Software Upgrading] superdaantje:
Where can i find the latest Qtec S100 Rom

and what is the latest ?
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 Software Upgrading] calvin4000:
ftp://ftp.xda-developers.com/Magician/

username: xda

paswword: xda

1.12.00WWE
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 Software Upgrading] claus57:
How can I access the ftp site using a password and a username?

If I click on your link my login is "anonymous" and the server refuse my access! :cry:
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 Software Upgrading] calvin4000:
Try this one...

ftp://xda:xda@xda-developers.com
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 Software Upgrading] claus57:
Thank you, it's all OK! :P
[Verizon HTC One (M7)] xjakeryanx:
Any other verizon Htc ones having the purple/red low light issues? I just received mine yesterday and after about 10 seconds in the camera it will start to turn red or purple in low light. The first shot is usually ok but after that it gets really bad. Is there a consensus this is a hardware issue and not software related?
[Verizon HTC One (M7)] jntdroid:
Is it the screen itself (while in the camera viewer) that's turning purple / red? And are we talking low enough light where it requires the flash? I'm curious if the shots you're taking while it's doing this are flashing or not - and the ones that are really bad, what's bad about them? Not focusing on anything?
[Verizon HTC One (M7)] Frankie1588:
I know exactly what you're talking about and it happens to me too. I found that changing the ISO to 100 alleviates the issue a bit, but its still there. I found a HUGE thread on this a week ago:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=42400071

It seems it definitely gets worse when the phone is hot. I noticed this problem REALLY bad when I was trying to take pics while the phone was charging. It seemed to be better the next day though. I will try it again tonight.
[Verizon HTC One (M7)] Frankie1588:
My dad actually got an HTC One today as well so it was perfect to compare the camera. His camera doesn't seem to have the same problem ours do. I took pictures in similar lighting and his didn't depict any of the red/blue tint that I would get sometimes :(. Kinda bummed out. I'm afraid of returning it and then getting one that is even worse or getting dead pixels. Not to mention that you can no longer root/unlock at this point. Using flash will always fix the issue, but I don't think I want to resort to that.

No idea what to do.
[Verizon HTC One (M7)] xjakeryanx:
Here is a picture to give you an idea how bad it is. When the flash is on it doesn't look like that but it's really out of focus. Even when I turn the iso to 100 it still looks the same. I to am worried about replacing it and getting one with worse issues. I'm thinking about going the moto x route with all the issues these phones seem to have.