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[Atrix 4G General] kb5ynf:
I just did the factory reset; I don't know if it does a battery info swipe or not but I suspect that it does. I say that because I actually reset mine twice. The first time, it was at 90% battery on the gauge when I reset it and after the reset, it was at 100%. I actually got excellent battery life after that first reset but the fact that the phone had been used for a while before I reset it kept nagging at me so I ran it out, charged it back up and reset it again.

Oh, I almost forgot to answer the question about the installed apps... I've reset and changed phones several times but I've never been charged again for apps I've already paid for. In fact, that is one of the nice things about the market, most if not all of your apps will be displayed in the download area of the market after the reset which allows you to easily reinstall everything without having to go search for them again. It makes doing a hard reset less of a headache. I can do a hard reset and usually be up and running with the same configuration within an hour or so; even without a backup. I'd still make a list of what you want to put back on there just in case you do have to hunt them down afterward. And if you have any data or media files that you don't want to risk losing, I'd do a backup first too. But you shouldn't be charged again for the apps. I don't use any of the backup apps by the way so you'll have to ask someone else about how to do that; or do a search on it.

Regards!
[Atrix 4G General] dLo GSR:
i'm going to factory reset my phone later today. if I have TiBu, will I be able to get all my apps back without any problem? what about phone settings and such?
[Atrix 4G General] lostsoulktash:
Weird...i seem to get more battery life when I leave my phone unplugged at night. When I leave it plugged and take it to work I get about half life left but with it unplugged I have 60%+ battery life.
[Atrix 4G General] calvin398:
One thing I noticed was that my first Atrix that had awful batter life had a faulty touch screen and the at&t and motoblur logos were opaque white. My new one, the logos were transparent and my touch screen was extremely sensitive. Also, my battery life was MUCH better. Possibly more evidence that there was a bad batch?
[Atrix 4G General] live4nyy:
Probably could have something to do with the Battery Saver mode?
[Atrix 4G General] eallan:
Faulty how?
[Atrix 4G General] James62370:
ok I will try a factory reset since I've been getting horrible battery life also... but when re-installing all of my apps and doing all of my customization again, should I keep it plugged in during this time? Or does it not matter...
[Atrix 4G General] xdaLurker:
Just wanted to throw out another option that might help all. I'm using CPU Tuner from the market. It's a free app but you must be rooted. I used the phone for about for a few days without and then installed and have noticed a nice improvement in my battery. It wasn't terrible before I installed by any means but seems to last even longer now.
[Atrix 4G General] dLo GSR:
i did a factory reset at about 80% battery and then when it restarted, it claimed me at 100%. this may lead credence to the claim that the software calibrates to your battery level when you first turn it on. i'm gonna have to reset it again because it doesn't seem like it got any better than before.
[Atrix 4G General] Fountainhead931:
OK, read this thread all the way thru.

Last night [10 o'clock] at 100% I put my phone next to the bed, with ALL communications (4 email accts) Twitter, and anything else I could find - manual update.

Today at 5:30 PM I had 60% left. I lightly browsed today and read a few minutes and generally just messed around with it in bursts while working at my desk. 3 short phone calls.

I'm pretty pleased but if I leave all communications updating at 1 hr intervals doing the same routine charge before/then the next morning I'm at 60 to 70% when I wake up.

Think I'm leaving the emails stuff on manual from now on. I've never had such a great battery life in a phone. Especially coming from a PrePlus!
[Atrix 4G General] dLo GSR:
ok, another hard-reset success here.

when I first got the phone, I went back to work so I only charged it half way before I had to start using it. I believe this was the beginning of my bad battery life. I never noticed until I started reading peoples' stories of 31 hours on here or 6 hours of display time. Well I would get about 9-10 hours with 1.5-2 hours of display time, MAX.

finally last night did the hard reset (charged to 100%, did reset, left plugged in overnight), only installed a few programs back from TiBU that I really needed, and otherwise left the phone on normal settings (syncing, auto brightness, but no wi-fi as i dont have it at work). I am happy to report that I was able to pull 13 hours with heavy usage, 4.5 hours of display time by the time I hit 10%. it's not as amazing as some of you guys, but it's great compared to before!
[Atrix 4G General] Rred:
Nearly three weeks now and I'm still seeing battery life improvement. I let it recharge every night.

I have to wonder, though, how many battery problems are from apps. In the last couple of days I installed and treid out a number of apps, then yesterday I was surprised to find pretty much every one of them was still active in the RUNNING APPLICATIONS list in the app manager, even though I had EXITED and SHUT them the day before.

IDK if this is just an Andoird thing, that "running" means "we left it in memory in case you need it again", i.e. as a prefetch while the memory is not needed for anything else, or if it means what it says, i.e. that the apps really are still running, still consuming power, even though they've been closed, shut, exited.

Anybody have a certain answer for that? Does Android just leave things loaded in memory? Or are they still running at some level, consuming power?
[Atrix 4G General] snlu178:
Get Android System Info from the app store. It will show you RAM and CPU load for each app.
[Atrix 4G General] eallan:
So unbelievably frustrating. Running time is triple screen on time for the life of the phone. Pretty inexcusable.

Can't have any type of good battery life.

Any idea wtf is taking up so much juice? Is it blur?

I have everything frozen, doing a SECOND factory reset...
[Atrix 4G General] Clienterror:
In cases like that I've used "spare parts" app to see what's not letting my phone sleep. Just open it, goto battery history, then from the top drop down menu select "partial wake usage" and that's what I've always used to fix an issue like that.
[Atrix 4G General] eallan:
Yup, i've got "0" and "1013" taking up lots of partial wake. Clicking on them crashes spare parts. :/
[Atrix 4G General] Vangelis13:
Hi guys,

I'm using green power with good results, it conflicts however with the "No Lock" app which I consider vital as it lets you unlock your phone really fast.

Here a new option from the Automateit app (described in an email by the developer) :

""You could use AutomateIt to get the same result by defining 4 rules:

· Screen off trigger –Set Wifi State Action (Disabled)

· Screen off trigger –Set Data Connectivity State Action (Disabled)

· Screen on trigger –Set Wifi State Action (Enabled)

· Screen on trigger –Set Data Connectivity State Action (Enabled)

I would also recommend defining the first two rules using a delayed execution of 1-2 minutes just in case you turn off your screen by mistake or after a short timeout.

As for the resources used by the application –it’s very minimal and depends on the rules you’ll define.

The most exhausting rule is the location trigger in case there is no GPS reception. This can also be controlled by setting the “Location Provider Timeout” on the settings screen.

Most other rules just sit and wait so no CPU is used until they are actually triggered.""

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I've just started with it, it functions well & is bound to save a lot of battery as both data & wlan turn off as soon the screen turns off.

Good luck! :-)
[Atrix 4G General] theonedub:
I did the hard reset process and went from ~3hr30min display time to 6hrs (Wifi on 100% of the time/Max battery saver mode). Great improvement- might even root and use setCPU just to see how far I can stretch it.
[Atrix 4G General] Kaaji1359:
I hated my battery life at first (mainly because of a rogue VLC app I installed). I then found out about it, uninstalled it, rooted my phone and installed Titanium Backup and using Titanium Backup froze a lot of Motorola stuff. I'm not sure if it's actually helped, but since then I love my battery. I'll be at 80% after 5 hours when I'm home.

Unfortunately, anytime I head to my college my battery dies relatively quickly (due to the really poor WiFi connection which fades in and out), but that's another story.

**EDIT: SystemPanel App / Task Manager is an amazing app for figuring out what is taking up so much battery. It costs money but is very worth it (it's how I figured out that VLC Stream & Convert was destroying my battery). Just activate all system monitors, then go to "Monitors" and you can view a plot of your CPU Usage, Device Usage, and CPU Activity. More importantly you can change from "Plot" to "Top Apps" and it will tell you what apps have been using CPU Usage in the given allotted time (you can set to 2hours, 8hours, 1day, etc.).

**EDIT2: As others have said, I always do a factory reset. Again not sure how much it helps, but worth a shot :). Using Titanium Backup makes the factory reset process insanely simple.
[Atrix 4G General] rakesh219:
I cant seem to get this amaing battery life.....

Hey guys I dont get it a lot of you got the sweet battery life but I dont seem to see those same results when I do it......I got the phone rooted.....got gingerblur instaled......and I still see fast drops in battery life

Battery Life @ 86%

2hrs 12m since unplugged

Display at 77%

Phone Idle at 13%

Cell Standby at 7%

Wi-Fi at 5%

Only thing I have done so far is listen to music on my way to college and occasionally changing the tracks....4 txt messages.....and downloading 2 apps....(green power premium and Sudoku) other things in the background are syncing emails and contacts....I have had the phone for lil over a week now and I have drained the battery to 0% more than 5 times.....

Any suggestions on what to do.....:confused:
[Atrix 4G General] dLo GSR:
dude... come back when you're below 20%. 86% tells you nothing (and you should put the actual times for display, etc)
[Atrix 4G General] James62370:
I have to admit I was a bit skeptical about resetting my phone, but after fully charging the unit, and then doing a reset, my battery life has increased significantly.

Prior to resetting I was getting about 6-7 hours of battery, and very disappointed. I'm at 13 hours now with 40% left. I have Max Battery Performance and WIFI set never to sleep & Bluetooth On. I even had my GPS enabled today just see if my first couple of days was a fluke.

Thank you very much to whomever recommended resetting after charging your battery to full capacity.

I thought I had a defective battery, but am feeling a little better now. Hopefully Motorola will get the Data disconnect issue resolved soon :)

Thanks again :)
[Atrix 4G General] hotleadsingerguy:
That's still somewhat poor...I unplug my Atrix at 9am every morning and plug it in around 2-3am at night. Its usually around 60-70%. Right now (2:30am) its 55% but I've been sending sms all day, updated apps, have received and responded to at least 20 emails, and played a bit of gaming.

Use a task killer to kill the right stuff and you can double your battery life. I don't use any "battery saver" apps or anything
[Atrix 4G General] Sparkz914:
I use Juice Defender I got to work on 100% and come home from a 8 hour shift on 90%
[Atrix 4G General] Vangelis13:
Come on.. Did you have it on airplane mode & never unlocked the screen or something? That's not possible..
[Atrix 4G General] Mafisometal:
I'm running Adeo, ATK which keep the battery in pretty good condition.

I have to recharge my phone every 2-2.5 days, if i'm really doing a lot of **** on it, then i'd say once a day.

Try not to download a ton of apps that suck up battery like news feeds and what not. Try downloading all in one apps like Pulse news read if so.
[Atrix 4G General] live4nyy:
The truth is, ATK either has no effect on battery life or is actually bad for battery. It is not doing anything that managing your settings correctly couldn't do. When you kill a task, the phone takes energy to "hold" the memory open and then takes more energy to allocate a process to it later on. If you're killing tasks that require connectivity for updating then you just need to change the refresh rates. Again, ATK is not good for Froyo (or Gingerbread and Honeycomb)
[Atrix 4G General] vile135:
to be continued, stop at post 70
[Atrix 4G General] slimslim:
I'm charging mine overnight. At the end of the day I still have about 40% left, sometimes 20% after heavy usage. From my experience with smartphones this is pretty decent.
[Atrix 4G General] zen kun:
im having not this weet battery either im using GingerBlu 7.2 perhaps its kind new my phone so i need "calibrate" more.

but one question how people know how much "%" of battery are using? i mean i can only see drop every 10% ... 100,90,80,...15.. etc i cant see how much i got from 1% how i can fix this??? thanks a lot ;D
[Atrix 4G General] darklipslide:
For some reason when reading about everyone trying a factory reset in order to get the better battery life, is it in fact the key part of this the wiping of BatteryStats.bin or some other battery level cache file? I know that was the case coming from the Motorola milestone
[Atrix 4G General] Clienterror:
Download "Circle Battery Widget" it tells you battery in 1% increments. ;)
[Atrix 4G General] solidfb:
Atrix' battery is way better than competitor Desire HD. I used to charge my Desire HD 3 times in 2 days. Now 2 charges in 3 days is enough with same usage.
[Atrix 4G General] theonedub:
Been through a couple cycles since my hard reset and battery life is still solid. It can get 32hrs of standby time plus 4hr40min-5hr15mins display and 5hr wifi between charges.

If you have been having battery issues the hard reset is something you should try.
[Atrix 4G General] zen kun:
not sure how get better batter life, i just put my phone in airplane mode and leave all night (8 hours) and drop 8% so 1% for hour? in airplane and using setCPU to underclock??? i guess its a little hight

not using almost the phone drops from 100 to 86 in one hour :S

and i hope not a bad device but i noticed mjy atrix gets really hot :S after heavy usage (browsing, music, BT,twitter) :S
[Atrix 4G General] zen kun:
mmm after reinstalling sbf and factory reset i noticed battery keep draining fast not sure what its :s and its normal that the battery o back cover gets pretty hot?
[Atrix 4G General] zerocool79346:
Hate to be a bearer of bad news, but I would bet you likely have a defective unit. I'd take it and have it exchanged. There is no way you should drop that much over night in airplane mode. I don't even drop that much with nothing turned off over night with my Incredible.
[Atrix 4G General] zen kun:
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

i just bought my atrix and bring to my country :S how i suppose send again to radio shack :(
[Atrix 4G General] shady_lanem:
Is it possible to set lower vsel on Atrix?
[Atrix 4G General] drock212:
After you guys full charged then factory reset if yougo into the dialer and hit *#*#4636#*#* under battery info what is your battery health now?
[Atrix 4G General] zen kun:
mine says good

what about others???
[Atrix 4G General] neoxz:
Any picture to compare?
[Atrix 4G General] CrazyDrunkenDude:
if you dont mind having a fat phone, mugen power makes a massive battery that gives a little over 2.5x the stock battery life....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KbACy_iUlI
[Atrix 4G General] jimmer411:
Use titanium backup and freeze all of the social stuff and change your data sync settings. My phone was burning thru battery like no tomorrow till I did that, now I can leave my hotspot on overnight (learned that when I forgot to plug my phone in last night).
[Atrix 4G General] jjwatmyself:
36 hours

1. Reset battery in CWM (under Advanced)

2. Drain battery to 0 percent until phone turns off. Connect phone to charger, turn on and charge to 100%.

3. Set battery to maximum saver.

4. Disable latitude with the following settings in Latitude

a. Do not update location.

b. Disable location history.

c. Sign out of Latitude.

I included three screen shots: 3 days battery usage; 7 day battery usage; Google Latitude activity and battery usage. The last charge and discharge cycle while running with GingerBlur gave me 36 hours of usage, with streaming music for 45 to 60 minutes both mornings; local MP3 music playback for 30 to 45 minutes both evenings; reading email; light use of Google Reader and Tapatalk; and a couple few phone calls.
[Atrix 4G General] Vangelis13:
Good instructions.. ;-)
[Atrix 4G General] delta530:
Sorry if this is a stupid question, but if I don't have a latitude account, then steps 4a-c aren't neccessary?
[Atrix 4G General] jjwatmyself:
You are potentially correct, yes... I say potentially becasue I had performed a simple latitude sign-out, but yet the FriendFinderService was still registering constant CPU usage. If Latitude is not activated, I doubt this is occuring on your device. The issue is that it needs to be told, told and told again (a,b,c,d), not to do anything. In my case it was the only way I could get it to "shut-up". :)

EDIT: Anyway, those steps all contribute to the bigger solution. I've added the Green Saver app tonight and will conduct an additional test to see if it stretches past 36 hours or not.
[Atrix 4G General] jjwatmyself:
Green Power android app

I am on-board with use of the Green Power app and retesting to achieve additional improvements. I have a idea and an issue that I have emailed the developer to see what he thinks:

Data Comparison Chart Kilobits (Kbps) Bits (bps) Megabits (Mbps) Bytes (Bps) Kilobytes (kB/s)
[Atrix 4G General] ChongoDroid:
I just calibrated my battery and I'm at 14 hours around 48%... Going to bed now so hopefully we can get this past a day.

Sent from my Googletron
[Atrix 4G General] zen kun:
My battery its pretty decent compared with others devices perhaps what kill my battery mostly its I stream music over bt like 4 hours at day no using music last better

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Sent from my loved atrix ;D
[Atrix 4G General] stewartsoda:
What app is that in those screenshots?
[Atrix 4G General] zen kun:
Its called system panel

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Sent from my loved atrix ;D
[Atrix 4G General] Vangelis13:
Btw, you should at least copy properly from other threads.. ;-) Step 1 should be to charge battery to 100% and THEN reset the battery stats in CWM. There's not much point I think in resetting them if you're only at 60% procent of the charge. At least that's what I did.

Furthermore, put your radio to 2g unless you need the fast 3/4g data connection. That will save you tons of battery as the phone will not constantly look for a full 3/4g signal.

Attached my results with the above minus the latitude thing.

(Advise on resetting CWM stats originally from KennethPenn, Gingerblur dev.)
[Atrix 4G General] thebeardedchild:
Would it be better to follow those steps than using the Batter Calibration app from the Market? I've used that app twice now and I don't see much of a change...I recently flashed Gingerblur and with the 1% increment mod, it's pretty disheartening to see it drop 1% every like 3 minutes lol...
[Atrix 4G General] Vangelis13:
Nah, that app doesn't do much (at least on the Atrix for some reason). Try the above, it did miracles for me!!!
[Atrix 4G General] thebeardedchild:
Oh alright, thanks for the tip! :)
[Atrix 4G General] jjwatmyself:
All good points. The lattitude change makes a huge difference. BTW I'm not claiming to have discovered the battery stats reset option, purely offering my feedback on using it as part of an optimization plan. To clarify on my testing, it did not include pre-charging to 100% prior to the reset, hence not listing that step. I reset at about 20%, booted to Andoird and drained to 0%, connected to the charger, booted Andoird, charged to 100% and finally the 36 hour discharge began. The test results are the test results. I do acknolwdge that I am not familiar with the battery stats code, so do not know if a 100% pre-charge alters the results. At the end of the day, we want the battery performance to be as close to spec as possilbe and the phone to have access to all of the juice.

You are correct on the additional battery conservation tip to use 2G, but I don't believe there is an automated method to disconnect data and revert to 2G while in suspend/sleep mode and to reconnect data at 3G in awake mode. From what I can tell, Green Power does this minus flip-flopping between 2G and 3G. The dificulty here, is that moving between 2G and 3G appears to casue the phone to lose signal for a moment and would not be good for inbound calls to the device in suspend/sleep mode. We'd want the feature to only uplift to 3G if there was not an active call. Perhaps a Preferred Network widget is the solution. We would want one where you can configure the specific toggle settings. 3G=GSM auto (PRL), 2G=GSM only, or whatever your prefferred optimization is. Android Services Menu is of course another option.
[Atrix 4G General] ChongoDroid:
Wow, I remember being impressed when my nexus jumped from 8 hours to 15 hours but this is ridiculous.

I was planning on erasing battery stats at around 3 percent and then letting it die.. Plugging it in just as its shutting down (i remember learn mode thats it) but I fell asleep and when I woke up it had been dead for a while, anyways I plugged it in and now I'm on 33% at around the 22 hour mark

Sent from my Googletron
[Atrix 4G General] Vangelis13:
No offence meant mate, I didn't come up with it either! :-)

I find it quite easy, I've created a shortcut on my main home screen (using Any Cut from the market) that takes me straight to the radio change screen. Just toggle depending on the needs. Easy..
[Atrix 4G General] razholio:
sorry to bother, but what is CWM and how does one get there?
[Atrix 4G General] impruv:
I currently use GreyBlur 2.1 and I'm at 70% left with 8 hours of usage.

1hr 7min Display On

WiFi / 3G Data on

Probably like 120 texts/whatsapp/gtalk combined

Some downloading of apps

few minutes of games
[Atrix 4G General] razholio:
would you say greyblur improved your battery life?