[X Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheDelta:
Charging, Battery, Turbo

Hi Guys,

I just bought a new Droid Turbo and My Friend bought a new Moto X Play. I am coming from using various Motorola RAZRs and in general about 2 years of rooting flashing etc. I think this thread went stale, and you guys probably have gained much more knowledge but still thought might share few of my learnings. Please ignore if the things i mention have been covered in other threads coz am new to this device so haven't read any other threads. Hope these things help.

Turbo Charging-

Turbo charging is indeed quite fast. My Droid Turbo 3900Mah battery charges 0 to 100% in 120 minutes. This is quite fast considering my RAZR 1750Mah batter charged o to 100% in that time on a normal charger. I haven't had the guts to try but i am assuming the charging on non turbo chargers will be slower. Having said that let me go into more details. Standard charging is 5V 1A so 5x1=5W. So that is like really slow. USB 2.0/3.0 charging is 5V 0.5A(I think it will take days to charge our phones with laptops) But there are some chargers which have higher ratings. I have used travel chargers from samsung, sony and motorola which all have ratings 5V 1.5A or 5V 2.0A. So they are 50% or double speed chargers. These used to be harmful to the battery back when batteries were small like on my RAZR. An Ipad charger adapter is 12W, 5V 2.1A. Have been using this for RAZR since 2 years now. I think it broke my battery but it was a good 2 years :). The New Motorola Charger is also 12W. But its not just the high current or rating. It also has technology to accelerate charging in the phone itself. So I assume a non turbo 12W charger would not be too slow, but still slower than turbo. I am guessing it should take about 2 hours for 0 to 100% Do keep in mind though, like iphone and samsung, the turbo charging stops after 70-80% I don't remember exactly when but its never turbo directly up to 100. only a jump start push as batteries are exponential in charging and discharging.

Battery Life-

I know the phone says 1 day left and 2 days left but you never know when you suddenly have to do stuff and all battery is drained out. I am coming from a 4.3 inch screen so i am assuming these large devices will eat more battery as well. I was always using custom roms and blocked wakelocks, used greenify etc so stock system is like new to me (and pretty frustrating too :D) When you are actually using the phone, of course the battery will drain faster. The screen uses a lot. Data usage should use less battery with wifi on. But i mostly dont use wifi and am continuously on 3G. So even in 3G, battery drains faster only if background apps are using lot of data. But usually the standby is much better if there is not much use. I used to go 10 hours on 3G on my 1750 Mah RAZR (Ofcourse with all the root stuff) But until there is no root, 2-3% per hour drain is to be expected when phone screen is off and like its on standby, you arent using it actively. For example you are working and the phone is away, or you slept off at night. The drain should be under 3 or 4. If its higher, there is some app that is draining the battery. And without root we obviously cannot trace down which app is keeping the device up, but if you click on the battery graph and go to details screen - you will see stats below like how long the device was awake, when was screen off etc. Something is keeping your device up if the the device wakes up a lot even when the screen is off and you werent using it. Greenify without root also is quite good at stopping non system apps from hogging battery/data. But of course to go more than that, you need root.

Rooting

I am not sure about moto x play, but i read up on some droid turbo threads and they sound promising. I am coming from a always bootlocked RAZR and it seems like a relief that these devices have an unlocked bootloader. I am still confused about rooting and using custom as the phone is new and i really like the feel of it. But i am sure i will eventually root and put something custom on it. Of course rooting might void your warranty so take care!! Always read up on stuff, and read up a lot. Never trust just one thread with instructions and always (and i mean always) first learn how to fix broken/bricked/wronglyflashed phones before you start rooting and flashing stuff. And for phones like ours without removable battery, never do rooting flashing etc if the battery is below 50. Trust me, i have gone down that road too many times with my RAZRs where i always ended up tearing up the phone and exchanging batteries to revive the phone again.

Android in General

I am sure this thread/device/forum has amazing devs. I already found some amazing devs for turbo too, so i expect the same love i got for RAZR from XDA community. But in case you guys ever have any questions you can always shoot me a message. I am not an expert or anything even remotely close to that, but i will try my level best to research stuff for you so that you benefit from it. I am sure you can also gain the same knowledge i had by reading up all pages of all threads for the device, but in case you cannot find anything or do not understand just shoot me a PM. I am a loyal Motorola user and damn proud of it :cool: and always ready to help fellow moto followers :cowboy::cowboy: Enjoy!