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[Atrix 4G General] souja67:
Can people post their battery manager stats when they get down to 15% battery so we can get some comparisons going? Please make sure you post the "since unplugged" time as well.

Also, please post if you are using the original motorola charging solution (charging cables that came with the phone) or just using a charger from a previous device. I'm not totally sure but this may be a factor.

Time to solve this battery situation once and for all.

These are my battery manager stats from last night before I put it on the charger:

10h 14m 31s since unplugged

Display

- 64% battery used

- Time on 2h 40m 21s

Phone Idle

- 16% battery used

- Time on 7h 35 46s

Voice Calls

- 9% battery used

- Time on 6m 50s

Cell Standby

- 9% battery used

- Time on 10h 19m 23s

- Time without a signal 10%

Maps

- 2% battery used

- CPU total 1m 22s

- CPU foreground 28s

- GPS 2m 28s

- Data Sent 147.13 KB

- Data Received 5.83 MB

Layer

- 2% battery used

- CPU total 26s

- CPU foreground 26s

- GPS 1m 55s

Charged fully using the multimedia dock made by Motorola.

So... what do you guys think?
[Atrix 4G General] psymont:
My display is 85% of my battery consumption but I use auto backlight. Does live wallpaper go under thia heading. Could it be part of the reason I am draining so fast? I tried picture wallpaper and it wasnt much better. Are there other things that go under the display header? Like slacker for instance, which I have been running with the display off. Concerned....

Sent from my Atrix
[Atrix 4G General] diablo009:
Good one. Mine's been unplugged since 14 hours now. Have little over 1 hour display and 1 hour calls, and at 60% indicator now. Will post detailed stats when I get home today when it reaches the 15% mark.
[Atrix 4G General] diablo009:
Try putting at 12% brightness. This is more than enough for me even during day when outside. 1h1m display used less battery for me than 49m52s voice calls.
[Atrix 4G General] Rred:
"and miss a very important day because my phone is"

Ah, really, fess up and OWN IT. You didn't miss the day because of the phone, you missed it because you didn't set a known reliable alarm.

When I was off grid and using a wind-up alarm clock because that was the only reliable technology available, sometimes i would forget to wind it. That wasn't the clock's fault, it was mine.

OWN IT.

Relying on a new and unproven piece of complex technology without testing it out? Bad idea. Not the phone's idea, though.
[Atrix 4G General] Rred:
"The drain may be high if you aren't getting a signal check cell standby to see how long you are going without signal."

A VERY GOOD POINT. All the modern phones have a max power of 600mW output, and they will back down to something like 20mW as long as they can still connect to a tower and get an acknowledgement back from it. Neither the carrier nor the phone maker is going to tell you how often the phone looks for a tower, or what logic they use about cutting back power, but they all do it these days.

That means when your phone is trying to check in, it may be burning 30x more power if it cannot get a good signal from the network! That's certainly going to affect battery life overnight. There must be Android apps that say "shut phone if no signal in xx minutes"....those were out ten years ago for the Treo phones, to address the same "why are you wasting my power?" problem.

And they don't have to shut the phone, in theory they could say "only try to find tower every xx minutes" and/or adjust the power level as well.

If you want to know what's really going on in your phone...Don't ask your cellco. If their lips are moving, they're lying.
[Atrix 4G General] Ceverson70:
Ok for battery highly rec free battery doctor it helps battery tremendously, I was rec this app when I did quality assurance this summer for kayak by a engineer that used to work in cupertino use it for full cycle charges really helps battery calibration
[Atrix 4G General] liveordie56:
I just rooted and froze all bloatware/motorola apps. I am getting SIGNIFICANTLY greater battery life. before it would drop to 80 percent in 2 to 2 1/2 hours. Now, it has been 6+ hours since removing from a charger and is still showing 90 percent battery life.

If you want to do this jsut go over to the development section and read up.
[Atrix 4G General] diablo009:
Can u pls check for "sensor usage" by android system and let us know if its still over 98% of phone uptime?

And, generally, when u post a reference, it would be appreciated to post a link too to the same, when possible (consider this a request).
[Atrix 4G General] liveordie56:
The sensor usage by android system is still showing a high amount. I'm not sure how to check exact percentage, but the bar is basically 98 percent like you said.

And here's the link to rooting/freezing: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=11700084#post11700084
[Atrix 4G General] diablo009:
This is kind of crazy. But still, as long as my idle drain is not like 20% overnight, I am good.
[Atrix 4G General] liveordie56:
just other information to add, before the root, battery life would generally last 12-14 hours, reaching 15 percent without the 10-12 hour mark. I will let this charge drain to 15 percent and post my battery statistics.
[Atrix 4G General] diablo009:
I froze the apps based on that thread. Let me see if that helps reduce the idle drain tonight.

Edit: My free memory increased by ~100 MB, for starters.
[Atrix 4G General] kgeissler:
Are you using the fingerprint scanner to unlock your phone? I do and I think my battery drains pretty quick. I am wondering if that is causing our battery drain. Once the screen goes off, and the device locks, I would think the fingerprint scanner would be turning on.
[Atrix 4G General] diablo009:
Thats a valid point. Let me try disabling it n seeing if the android sensor was actually the fingerprint sensor.
[Atrix 4G General] kgeissler:
I disabled mine...lets see if it helps me.
[Atrix 4G General] diablo009:
I just did. Restarted phone too. Its still at over 98%.
[Atrix 4G General] liveordie56:
I never used the finger print scanner, so even before the freezing/rooting, fingerprint scanner did not account for my poor battery life
[Atrix 4G General] kgeissler:
Just FYI, yesterday evening I did a factory reset on my phone to see if that would help my battery life.

After the reset, I:

1) rooted the phone

2) installed Launcher Pro with the following widgets running: Android News, Pure Calendar, Tweetdeck (checking once per hour), Music Widget, LP Calendar Widget, Latitude and Power Control Widget.

3) I selectively installed only certain programs. I installed: aCar, AdFree, Angry Birds, Astro, Barcode Scanner, Barnacle, Chrome to Phone, Dropbox, Facebook (manual refresh), Flashlight, Froyo Gallery, Google Listen, Phandroid, Quickboot, Spare Parts, Speedtest, Tasker and Titanium Backup. None of these apps should be running for any extended period of time in the background.

According the Spare Parts, my phone is still "running" 29% of the time. My N1 was in the 12-15% range.
[Atrix 4G General] psymont:
Thanks for the suggestion. Ill definitely give it a shot.

Does anybody know if battery monitoring widgets are drainers? So far I have been unplugged for 6 hrs and am at 50% battery with minimal usage. Im starting to think I have a dud here...

47% display

time on: 1hr 28min

31% voice calls

time on: 15min (seems absurdly high for only 15 min talk time right?)

16% phone idle

time on: 4hrs 52min (also seems a bit high)

8% cell standby

time on: 6hrs 20min

Any of this seem unusual? Again I haven't turned on gps or wifi all day.
[Atrix 4G General] diablo009:
For some reason, the battery status in settings doesn't seem to report this right. My display at 1h 8m was having less battery compared to 49m in calls. I would recommend using 'spare parts'. It is showing them more accurate.

And yes, phone idle is on the VERY HIGH side. I think its due to some sensor being on all the time the phone is on, irrespective of whether the phone is sleeping or awake.
[Atrix 4G General] diablo009:
And I lost my auto-sync!!! :(

Got it back again :)

Please do NOT disable "Social Messaging Service 2.2.1". Freezing it is killing auto sync.
[Atrix 4G General] rjayflo:
I'm "only" at 80 battery life in 7hrs of use
[Atrix 4G General] fulnix:
hmmmmm

I would really like to know the settings for the people claiming extreme battery life. I do play with my phone allot and I guess I'm getting pretty good results all things considered. Today I was a bit concerned about what I thought should have been better batter time and then I realized that for a good chunk of the day my phone was uploading a 285.53mb video to Qik which I'm sure didn't help the battery (thank God for an unlimited plan) any way here is where i'm at. I'm concerned that voice is sucking down so much battery, is there anything I can do to help this out. I was speaking on the phone either via the ear piece or speaker phone not on bluetooth. GPS was only enabled for the 2min or so I was testing out Map quest.

10% 7h 0m 41s

voice 70% 2h 8m 7s

display 23% 2h 29m48s

idle 4% 4h 30m 52s

cell STDBY 3% 7h 0m 41s

Map Quest 2% (forgot to write down the time)
[Atrix 4G General] Raspster:
Mine is alittle better today. 13 hours with light to moderate use, 30% battery still left.

Question, is there a way to set how often the atrix will pull facebook/twitter info or updates? Kind of like HTC sense does as HTC sense will allow you to set how often it pulls the info having a BIG difference on batt use.
[Atrix 4G General] diablo009:
I would presume there is a learning curve associated with it. Even the battery needs to learn more abt itself so it can report the juice in it accurately to the phone.
[Atrix 4G General] Spinstorm:
I recommend juice defender. It's a few dollars but it makes the battery last much longer.

Having said that this battery is huge and I think you guys are expecting more thanks realistic.

It comfortably lasts a day but still needs to be charged just like any phone battery!
[Atrix 4G General] diablo009:
I think we are going on lines of why the "phone" is eating up the battery, and the sensor that's in use all the time phone is on (awake + sleeping). We are not really worried abt usage for other tasks like wifi, blue tooth, etc. Trying to isolate the reason for the high idle drain.
[Atrix 4G General] Raspster:
I agree. I beleive there is a problem with the awake/sleep times. Reason I say this is I will get the same batt drain over moderate use and just having the phone idle on my desk without use. I took the atrix off the charger from charging overnight and left it on my desk for 10 hours and was @ 60% juice. I would have had the same after 10 hours or so with light to moderate use. When I had the inspire, yes, it drains batt power like crazy when you use it but if it stays idle with no use after a full charge, I will be @ 90% or better for the same 10 hours idle. Also, that's with the same apps and same things running in the background.
[Atrix 4G General] diablo009:
"oops" abt that thanks, but I think u'd get that anyways :)

And u r right here. Same apps on Captivate would give me like 1% drain per ~2 hours. Same on Atrix are taking 20% over 7-8 hours. Has to do something with the ROM/kernel. We could wait till a custom ROM is released so we can say if the issue is with the ROM or the kernel.

In the meantime we can try to carry on with our 'detective' work.
[Atrix 4G General] jlai:
k so i thought i'd post my battery usage stats because i thought it was a good idea for comparison purposes for everyone who's curious about the atrix's battery life. also i'm the paranoid type and it bugs me when i get something i like and i know its not running to the best of its abilities so thought i'd also put the specs up just in case anyone notices anything weird going on. I'd appreciate if you guys let me know if something seems off. Also I'm not rooted or anything and haven't done anything special to try and conserve battery life. Thanks

battery life is now at 15%

time since unplugged: 15h 39m 37s

Voice Calls:

58%

Time On: 2h 2m 54s

Display:

27%

Time on: 2h 34m 44s

Phone Idle:

10%

Time on: 13 h 4m 53s

Cell Standby:

5%

Time On: 15h 39m 37s

WiFi:

2%

Time on: 3h 37m 12s
[Atrix 4G General] diablo009:
Ok. So last night I froze the 'social messaging service'. Today morning when I woke up, my battery is at 90% after 7+ hours of sleep. Same was at 80% y'day. Looks like this is one un-needed process that's a battery hog when phone is in sleep mode.

Sent from my Motorola Atrix
[Atrix 4G General] poeticdecision:
how did you freeze the social messaging thing??? explain please!
[Atrix 4G General] diablo009:
Ur post count says u r new here. For anyone new, there is ONLY one suggested way: SEARCH. Search first, post next if u can't find ur answer. Most questions like this are already answered.

1. Download TiBu (Titanium Backup) from market (paid version; free one does not allow freezing)

2. Click on 'Social Messaging Service' in the apps list

3. Click on 'freeze'

4. Reboot (recommended)
[Atrix 4G General] Exador:
What a bunch of whiney little ****s.
[Atrix 4G General] diablo009:
Thank you for the kind words.
[Atrix 4G General] sabesh:
LOL, my thoughts exactly. If you want to help, then help with the goodness of your heart. If the question annoys you, then just ignore it. No need to embarrass the person asking the question by saying "search" in public. Just do so via PM. Cheers.
[Atrix 4G General] Inspiredwire:
I was able to squeeze out 15 hours on Sunday from 7am to 10pm with about 35% remaining. I turned it off for the night and got about another 8 hours of moderate use before it died yesterday.
[Atrix 4G General] liveordie56:
Glad to know that this works for other people!
[Atrix 4G General] sabesh:
That's actually not too bad ...
[Atrix 4G General] mister_al:
Do you have suggested JD settings that worked for you?
[Atrix 4G General] saywhat4118:
Amazing battery life.

I usually take screen shots to share my battery life but shootme doesnt work with the atrix for some reason and i dont know any other screen shot app but anyways, battery life on this phone is A+. 10hrs of use, 4 hours 30 mins display on at 31%, gps and maps being used for an hour and a half, browsing these forums and watching flash videos from nba.com, which runs smooth as my laptop, it finally died.

If your not getting close to 4 hours display on then something could be wrong with the phone. Finally i get a phone that can keep up with my high usage!!!!!!!!
[Atrix 4G General] Rred:
Moto apparently understands power management: The fingerprint reader is totally dormant until AFTER the power button has been pressed. Then the fingerprint reader apparently is activated for a short time, to allow it to be used for unlock, and then it goes dead again until there's another power press.
[Atrix 4G General] Squeak22:
It's probably a logical statement like this:

If screen is on and phone is locked, turn on fingerprint reader.

Otherwise off.
[Atrix 4G General] kgeissler:
If you are using spare parts to determine your percentage running time, make sure you let the phone sit for about 30 minutes to get an accurate time. I am testing my phone now and find that the running time percentage drops quite a bit the longer you wait....
[Atrix 4G General] s1mpd1ddy:
Took two hours to recharge from fully drained battery to 100% (using a wall socket).
[Atrix 4G General] kgeissler:
After removing all my apps and adding them one at a time over the past 24 hours, I have found that my 2 biggest battery hogs are Google Latitude and Autosync.

I have Tasker set up to disable autosync when I get to work (since I am in front of my computer anyway). As far as google Latitude, I am undecided whether I wanted to keep it enabled and take the battery hit, or turn it off.

To determine what was using my battery, I was using Spare Parts. I removed all my apps. Added 3 or 4 of them back, then rebooted the phone. Once it was boot back up, I didn't touch it for 20 minutes. Looked at Spare Parts to see what the "Running Percentage" time was. After all the apps were installed I started readding the widgets doing the same thing.

Before, my "percentage running" was about 23%-27%. Now it is about 15%-20%. If I turn google latitude on, it will shoot up to about 24%.

I am getting a standard charging dock for my desk at work, so my phone will be on the charger most of the day, so I may just keep Latitude on and go from there.
[Atrix 4G General] mowrer98:
So what did I freeze out that is preventing the automatic syncing of my corporate e-mail? I have unfrozen "social messaging service."
[Atrix 4G General] colin725:
Forget 4 hours display on, I probably had three-four hours of 3d gaming today and it still lasted between idle and texting the rest of the day.
[Atrix 4G General] oFUNGUSo:
coming up on 30 hours since my last charge 15% left. just a hair over 3 hours of screen time, and a handful of short calls, browsed a few times, checked email 10ish times, ran necore a few times.

actually a pretty light usage for me, its mostly idle time, but im still quite happy with how its turning out. its gotten better over the week ive had it
[Atrix 4G General] sherifone:
I know people hate the iPhone comparison, but this is the first Android phone I've owned that is at least as good as my iPhone 4. I can use the Atrix all day without issue, as long as fb+twitter are set to 1 hour updates.

For additional perspective, the Atrix lasts at least twice as long as the EVO I owned, and 3-4 more hours than my Nexus One and Nexus S. As they say with cars "There is no replacement for displacement", and the 1950mah battery delivers the goods.

Edit:

I'd also like to add that this phone charges very very quickly. So far my only complaint is the crippled HSUPA and blocked side-loading.
[Atrix 4G General] acPIZZA:
yes, getting even BETTER as it goes. I sat in work with awful service for about 8 hours (not on wifi), came back to my house and played with my phone for hours (it was a slow day and I was setting/playing with stuff). It is still alive after some seriously heavy usage mostly off wifi (awake since 6, still going strong at 1050).
[Atrix 4G General] Genius.In.Genius.Out:
Use SetCPU to create a profile for the Atrix to throttle down clockspeed to a minimum when the screen shuts off. By underclocking my Atrix when not being used while the display times out or when I click the power button, I have noticed a considerable increase in battery life.
[Atrix 4G General] jaydon34:
Less than a full week and the battery seems to be getting better. 17 hours with 30% left. Can't beat that
[Atrix 4G General] lsxrx7:
on some other devices that i've had, if i throttle down with screen off profile, when i try to wake it up with the power button it would give me black screen once in a while

i have to press the power button a few time to actually wake it up

do u have this problem so far ?
[Atrix 4G General] MrLeon:
i def don't mean to rub it in... but the battery life is amazing on my phone. i didn't make any calls, sent quite a few texts, played a game or two, browsed the internet, looked at maps once for like 10 minutes, gps always on (but it only turns on when looking at maps), no wifi, no bt, screen below middle... and voila..

http://i54.tinypic.com/30ku78z.jpg

http://i55.tinypic.com/11l4sk9.jpg
[Atrix 4G General] voteccow:
Not fantastic, but way better than any other Android

I wish I was getting battery life as good as the iPhone 4 had. I make it through about a day before I have to plug this bad boy in. Definitely one of the fastest phones I've ever used. I've gone through about 3 full charge and drain cycles. One of which I did a restore on. I tried just leaving everything stock for a day and still experience quite a bit more drain than I'd like. I currently have the brightness turned all the way down. Phone idle is using 59%. It at 90% after 4 hours since being unplugged from a full charge. I'm kind of at a loss of what to do to get the amazing battery life that some of the people in this thread are getting.

The stats that I stated above are from very light usage today, only syncing my gmail and exchange account. Haven't done anything really on my phone.
[Atrix 4G General] exume:
On my first charge I got around 5 hours, second one jumped up to 15 and I was using it heavily especially in the last hour or so trying to kill it so I had time to charge before work.

I'm pretty optimistic that its going to work pretty well throughout this next cycle
[Atrix 4G General] lesterp:
I have had the phone for a week now so the battery is probably well conditioned (did 3 full bump charge cycles) and battery life has improved consistently as many have observed.

Right now I have 10% left - totals are;

39 hours 16 min since unplugged

total running 8h

screen 3h 36m

phone on 56m

wifi on 3h 46m

wifi running 3h 39m
[Atrix 4G General] kbc88:
Same. It appears that my battery life is getting better. On my third charge, I was almost 40 hours till I had to recharge and I play some games, surf the web, watch youtube, bring it all around campus and use facebook etc. Note that I also have not rooted my device yet because I had planned on exchanging it due to battery life but it's getting better and better.
[Atrix 4G General] Xarinn:
at the 15% warning message which just now popped up:

18h 57m 33s since unplugged

Display: 46%, 2h 19m 22s

Phone Idle: 32%, 16h 38m 10s

Cell Standby: 14%, 18h 57m 33s (Time without a signal 0s)

Wi-Fi: 6%, 5h 43m 0s

Voice Calls: 2%, 1m 28s

Maps: 2%, 56s CPU, 2m29s GPS.

Battery Voltage: 3609mV.

I'm happy enough with it. This isn't the best usage i've seen, but this is the first time i intentionally charged it before i went to bed so that i could leave it off charger all night and today.
[Atrix 4G General] EvilEvo:
52% left.

9h 2m since unplugged

Phone Idle 43% Time on 8h 9m

Display 38% Time on 52m 29s

Cell Standby 18% Time on 9h 2m

Wifi 2% Time on 35m

I feel like I shouldn't be at 52% yet based on some of your guys posts. Browsing the forums some, texts and emails. No games or videos.
[Atrix 4G General] plmiller0905:
When I brought my Evo to work with me I would get about 6-7 hours of battery life before I had to charge it. However with the Atrix, I'm getting good battery life. I disconnected the Atrix from my car charger at 1155am and its 658pm ...and I still have 70% of battery left. :D:D
[Atrix 4G General] jlai:
just a quick question. when you bump charged it after the first initial charge with the phone on, you turn the phone off then charge it to 100% again. but mine says its already 100%. did you just leave it plugged in for a couple hours?
[Atrix 4G General] Gavilaso:
I think my is not that good.. 7h 9m 35s since unpluged and i only have 20% and i haven't use the phone that much.. just like 2 call and lest that 5 min... and i have the iphone 4 that was unpluged at the same time.. and have user it alot and still at 80%... any advice on this????
[Atrix 4G General] goxxy:
I had been having similar battery issues, AT&T replaced my battery, no questions asked. The performance has not much improved.

edit: poor typing
[Atrix 4G General] JoshRH:
For those of you who are getting between 24-48 hours of battery life could you post your push settings as well as anything else you can think of.

i seem to be stuck at about 19 hours with no phone calls or games and 3 hours of screen time
[Atrix 4G General] nowise:
So this seems kind of weird, sometimes my battery life starts sucking really bad and the phone gets really warm even when not really in use. There is no data being pushed or anything.

What I did the last two times to fix it was disable the fingerprint unlock method and set it back up with a new profile and new finger swipes. YMMV.
[Atrix 4G General] bsp120167:
I'm not sure how my battery life is doing. I got about 9.5 hours today before my phone hit zero. Given I did about 5 hours of talk time and have 4 email accounts on push as well as twitter and applications which can drain the battery. I guess i did pretty good considering the heavy usage.

Still much better than my OG Droid, Droid X, that I had.