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[Atrix 4G General] EvoAtrix:
I had battery issues as well but after a couple charging cycles it normalized, its been almost 24 hours since my last charge and I'm at 25 percent. Maybe because I have ultimate juice, avg anti virus, and set cpu working hand to hand lol
[Atrix 4G General] bl0wf1sh:
I think you (and others) answered it right there: meebo. It is a huge battery drain (just like yahoo! chat), and I would not leave it on continuously. 40% in an hour does not even surprise me.
[Atrix 4G General] Xarinn:
Meebo for iOS uses push notifications, and iOS prevents it from staying connected in the background (switch off of it for a bit and switch back, and watch it say network connection distruption). iOS allows meebo to use push notification when the application is not in the foreground.

Meebo for Android keeps the connection live and the processor from sleeping. It's a horrible implementation in comparison with iOS.
[Atrix 4G General] diablo009:
Add meebo to the list of auto kill tasks in built in task killer. If u forget to logout n put phone aside, n if meebo starts using up excessive batttery, task killer will kill it.

Sent from my Motorola Atrix
[Atrix 4G General] s1mpd1ddy:
Believe it or not, the car charger I got with the Atrix charges the phone pretty well. I can go from 20-to-80 or maybe even 90 in about an hour or so of driving (I drive a lot).

It fairs A LOT better then using USB, It's quite comparable to using a wall socket. I have yet to let my phone die out right and charge it from 0 (only let it go to 15%) but I'll be doing that today. Thanks for the tips and the links!
[Atrix 4G General] s1mpd1ddy:
Yup -- The MEEBO implementation on Android fails to compare with it's iOS counterpart. I'm just using straight gTalk nowadays for my IM needs... if only the Talk application supported AIM and Facebook chat --- that would make it rawesome. ..

does it?
[Atrix 4G General] :
The first Atrix I had got terrible battery life (only had it one day) but I exchanged it for another one because of a camera issue, and the new one is so much better! I feel like there are some faulty batteries out there.
[Atrix 4G General] s1mpd1ddy:
I'm going to try to drain my battery right now to calibrate it (I havent let my phone die once yet, the lowest it's gotten was 15%).

I have wifi tether on, streaming pandora, my co-worker is streaming pandora as well from his iTouch connected to my wifi. He's also browsing the internet on my wifi thru his Incredible, and I'm keeping my screen on. My battery was at 90% when this started ---- lets see how long it takes to drain.
[Atrix 4G General] KryptosXLayer2:
No problem, but what I was saying about NOT using the charger while driving and not using GPS at the time was that I have been trying to keep the phone off the charger during the day when applicable - using GPS in the car, yeah, it's gonna need some juice, but other than that, I've been trying to see how long this thing will go without any assistance throughout the day. I think everyone should be trying to do the same while calibrating their batteries instead of b-ing and m-ing (you all know what I mean by that....)
[Atrix 4G General] kumarshah:
I started the day 7:45 am at 100%, was down to 15% at 6 pm, so around 10 hours unplugged.

I forgot to get exact stats, but according to stock battery information, my Phone Idle time had used by around 35% of the battery at around 8 hours.

I saw when using smarter stats, that "Sensor usage" was at the same number of hours used by the "Android system".

I had fingerprint scanner turned off today.

I am going to try and drain the battery today and recharge without powering it on to 100%. Use it tomorrow again and see.

My normal usage for phone is:

1. Almost constant WiFi connection

2. Some browsing to news sites

3. Playing chess (one moves only) 4-5 times a day.

4. Some gtalk use when I am not in front of my computer and talking to colleagues

No voice calls today at all.
[Atrix 4G General] diedemus:
Seriously, get off the "not designed for dual core" kick
[Atrix 4G General] Ceverson70:
Guys use battery doctor its afree app, and for some reason its the only way to calibrate the battery, after using that from my normal use I can get two days outta my phone, I'm still testing the network with pandora so with my large(3-5 hours) pandora usage I have between 30 and 40 percent but I'm usually on here our facebook while using pandora too
[Atrix 4G General] psymont:
Been using battery doctor, juice defender, green power, spare parts and I can't get more than 12 hours out of this thing... Just unplugged about an hour ago and am down to 80%! With average use. Xda, market, web browsing. This can't be right... Please help.

Sent from my Atrix
[Atrix 4G General] Ceverson70:
Ok but what are you during those 12 hours and what do you have on wifi etc we need other setting and usage data
[Atrix 4G General] bumoftheday31:
I've had my atrix since Tuesday. Up until yesterday, I was getting mediocre battery life. Yesterday, went 9 hours and the battery only dropped to 80% with average usage, including running gps test several times.
[Atrix 4G General] psymont:
I haven't been running much. Haven't used gps, wifi or bluetooth. It has been 2hrs now and I am down to 70%. I have even uninstalled progs that use autosync (except gmail & voice). I called ATT to see if I could get another battery and they told me to just come in and get a new handset. So frustrating...

After 2hrs unplugged at 70%

dislay 55%

voice 39%

phone idle 4%

cell standyby 4%
[Atrix 4G General] Ceverson70:
Ya sounds like software issue, it can happen with any phone, you can try restoring your phone to default, you have to realize att can't just replace the battery because they aren't three manufacturer, they are just a phone reseller
[Atrix 4G General] Scoop3:
Same with me... my second device seems to be functioning much better...
[Atrix 4G General] s1mpd1ddy:
battery is pretty fine. I do find myself having to charge 1.5x per day, and thats from drained to full 100%. --- so I average probably about a good 16hours per full charge.
[Atrix 4G General] robstunner:
i must be doing something wrong. unplugged for 2 hrs im at 80%
[Atrix 4G General] psymont:
Can you please explain your settings. I am getting nowhere near that kind of battery performance...
[Atrix 4G General] robstunner:
So far (after 4 days of having the Atrix)

2h 33m 9s unplugged

Voice calls 69% (26m 22s)

Display 14% (21m 36s)

Phone Idle 10% (2h 11m 33s)

Wifi 5% (2h 17m 3s)

Cell Standby 5% (2h 32m 58s)

IM sitting at 73% Battery remaining via circle battery widget app.

It seems that the Atrix displays 80% for the battery when in actuality its in between 76%-85%. Being at 73% on the widget, the phone shows 70%, but when it was at 76% on the widget, the battery manager under setttings still showed 8)%.
[Atrix 4G General] mister_al:
Um... can you back up your statements?
[Atrix 4G General] KryptosXLayer2:
It rounds up, just as you would do on an elementary school test - is 76% closer to 80 or 70?
[Atrix 4G General] kumarshah:
It's something to do with the Phone Idle Usage I think.

I am at 5h30m since unplugged, battery at 56%. I let it drain yesterday and recharged to 100%.

I have got:

Phone Idle 32% 5h4m4s

Display 30% 26m19s

WiFi 18% 5h30m

Cell Standby 13% 5h30m (what is this?)

Bluetooth 5% 5h30m (not actually using it/not connected to any devices)

Voice Calls 4% 60s

I do have RSS syncing in my widget every 1 hour. Email is set to push notificaton for exchange, gmail is every hour or so. Some other home widget apps.

Is that what drives the Phone Idle usage up?

I might try a factory reset this weekend.

But, having customized the phone and have it setup the way I like it, that's going to be a pain to go through again.
[Atrix 4G General] robstunner:
Thank you. I would have never been able to figure this out if it wasn't for your much needed clarity of the issue.
[Atrix 4G General] KryptosXLayer2:
Anytime! It deserved you writing out two sentences to tell us all about your findings, so I didn't mind helping you figure it out in a reply! :rolleyes:
[Atrix 4G General] robstunner:
Because I didn't know that's how it was calculated so i figured I would post it? I didn't know your time on XDA was so precious that any kinda of information that was already known to you should be smited.
[Atrix 4G General] bumoftheday31:
I'm using Juice Defender and Watchdog. I've got Juice defender set up to always allow Google Voice and Google talk. Other than that, nothing special. I have sync on, bluetooth always on(for the car) and medium screen brightness.

It almost seems like Android had to adjust itself. Prior to yesterday, I was getting at least twice the drain under a similar usage profile. Yesterdays results are mirrored today.
[Atrix 4G General] JasjarMan:
Charge the phone all the way up first! Than do a restore. You will notice better battery life.
[Atrix 4G General] kumarshah:
Yea, I am going to try a factory restore this weekend

Today's stats:

9h 31m 49s since unplugged, now @ 20% battery

Display 35% 54m51s

Phone Idle 30% 8h36m57s

WiFi 17% 9h31m42s

Cell Standby 13% 9h31m49s

Bluetooth 5% 9h31m49s

Voice Calls 3% 60s
[Atrix 4G General] Aielman:
I had to do the same. First device had to be recharged 3 times in 2 days with no wifi, no gps, less than 10 min of calls and the second day no apps but the factory install.

I returned it and got another one and it's been running pretty much the same as everyone else's has that hasn't had a problem. I run it all day with wireless on and data off (capped my data pretty quickly downloading for 2 different phones, heh), using it probably 30-40 min out of every hour and it runs from 7am until 11pm and is down to about 20% charge.

If I don't have the wireless it'll go 24 hours pretty easily.
[Atrix 4G General] reeceb73:
I came from an iphone 3g. At first I hated the battery life of this phone, but over time its gotten much better. I keep my phone on battery saver night time

I ran the battery down to zero and fully charged the phone for the last 3 days and it seems to make a big difference. I thought this was bs, but it really seems to work. Here are my current stats:

Voice calls 1hr 9 minutes

display 3hrs 23 minutes

phone idle 10hr 27 minutes

cell standby 13hr 50 minutes

Its currently down to 5%, but it has been a champ today. I got thought my day on making phone calls, texts, emails and surfing. I started around 9:00 am and around 5pm I still had 50% battery life

After work, i put on youtube on HD to run the battery out, just to do this one more time and I am currently at 5%. My usual activity on the phone and I would be around 40-50% battery life after a full day and this is all I can ask for. This is probably the last time I run the battery all the way down, unless it starts to give me issues.

This is about the same results I got from my old iphone in its prime.

I was concerned about the battery, but this is all I need to get through a day.
[Atrix 4G General] robonoob:
17hr running with heavy usage on wifi and h+, web, gaming, texting and phone calls and im somewhere between 20 and 30% this battery life is 4 times better than my aria.
[Atrix 4G General] tuantuti:
i think we should report battery life with more information such as how many apps installed, data or no data connections, etc. to give better judgement.

Mine is as follow:

- Full charge at 7:30AM - go to work. normal setting - auto brightness, night mode battery saver,

- wifi on constantly

- no data connection because it hasn't been unlock yet :(

- installed games, mostly games, facebook, twitter, rock player, tunewiki, advanced task killer, and more apps continuously (my 1st android so i play with it alot)

- rooted the phone at noon

- about 30mins of charging while plugging USB to root and transfer movies

- watch like 10min of one episode of Spartacus

- off work at 6PM. battery is at 30%

- play angry birds for like 30mins, watch the full episode of Spartacus (about 1hour), browse web,

- turn off and go to sleep. battery is at 5%

i don't know if this is good or not. i have to wait until the phone is unlocked and has signal and connections to give better judgement. but im pretty happy with it :D
[Atrix 4G General] Ceverson70:
Ya yesterday I listened to pandora all day ill put my battery usage in later but I was on 3g the while time at least 6 hours of music alone, also I was originally told to use it by an engineer from apple who did testing of his battery with it
[Atrix 4G General] psymont:
Returned my Atrix last night, got a new one and gave it a good 12hours initial charge. Fingers crossed for better battery life.
[Atrix 4G General] liveordie56:
Here is my 15% on Moderate/Heavy Use. Mainly alot of calling/texting

Rooted/Frozens Apps.

16h 58m 9s since unplugged

Voice calls 68%

Time on 2h 28m 34s

Display 12%

Time on 1h 17m 16s

Phone Idle 12%

Time on 15h 40m 52s

Cell standby 11%

Time on 16h 56m 39s
[Atrix 4G General] djkinetic:
Well my battery life is crap...let the phone run down to 1 percent then did a full charge, took it off the charger overnight, 10 and a half hrs later with no use, no wifi no gps no bluetooth, no social network syncing, frozen apps, and only push email enabled, it was down to 50 percent by morning =/ i went into the *#*#info#*#* screen to check usage while unplugged, and found that somethin was preventing my phone from sleeping for 3 and a half hrs... which i'm pretty sure is why the battery was zapped, so i'm gonna try to full charge and do a factory reset on the phone. Hope it works cuz i just got my unlock code and rather not have to return the phone =/
[Atrix 4G General] Vangelis13:
I'm not sure if it's been mentioned earlier: dial *#*#4636#*#*, go to phone information, change "Set preferred network type" to GSM Only when you're not connecting to the internet. That way your phone is picking up a stronger signal & doesn't drain the battery as fast looking for better signal.

Green Power (though with some glitches here & there) does miracles too.
[Atrix 4G General] nickleson:
I'm at 50% battery with moderate to high use and I'm literally at 8:45min. I had played quite a bit of angry bird fix as well as words with friends and even about 30 min or so of music. With the usual phone features being used including half a days worth of an average of 150 texts or so per day. I don't think there's much wrong with the battery.
[Atrix 4G General] fl13dl1c3:
I've been pretty unsatisfied with the battery life on this phone. I doubled checked the battery info and there's no app that's preventing my phone from sleeping either. Here's my usage info so far throughout the day.

8h 47m 52s since unplugged

Display - 43%

36m 46s

Phone Idle - 41%

8h 11m 5s

Cell Standby - 17%

8h 47m 52s

Voice Calls - 2%

22s

Only this and I'm already at 55%... the battery life really seems underwhelming for me for this little usage. I played maybe 15m of Fruit Ninja, some light browsing, and some texting through Google Talk and Kik Messenger. I have it under performance mode, with Facebook and Twitter updating every 1hr.

What do you guys think of this? Am I just worried or is this a problem?
[Atrix 4G General] snlu178:
Wait, 8 hours and you still have 50% and this is bad battery life? Also remember just because Facebook and twitter are set for hourly doesn't mean they check at the same time so you could be making calls in every 30 minutes not to mention email, voicemail, etc.

I think your battery life is average not phenomenal but good enough.
[Atrix 4G General] fl13dl1c3:
Yeah it's just that coming from my N1 I'd usually have at least an hour of display on before I get to around 50%, but for this phone the screen time has been about half, and everything syncing is the same as my N1 with same intervals and all that and I've been using the phone pretty much the same way.
[Atrix 4G General] snlu178:
Curious do you use MotoBlur? It syncs about twice as much as the N1 in the background. Even if you use a second launcher but have not frozen those apps they are still running and syncing in the background. Look at your running processes and how many Motorola items there are b
[Atrix 4G General] wackydavo:
For those that are performing full drains of the battery, it is not needed. It actually hurts the battery. Best to charge more frequently.

I can't post the link (new user) but search google for lithium battery care and it iis the link from battery university.
[Atrix 4G General] fl13dl1c3:
I'm currently using Launcher Pro Plus. I never synced Motorblur with anything else. Should I freeze them regardless?
[Atrix 4G General] snlu178:
It's just my view but all the Blur items open in the background. So I froze the widgets to stop them from running in the background.
[Atrix 4G General] ram130:
Thats bad battery life compared to my DX with smaller battery..I could take my phone off the charger at 11pm and by 9am my phone is either still at 100% or 90% ..I have 104 apps, tweetdeck syncs every hour, weather bug and news widget every three hours..

if you guys need pics let me know..
[Atrix 4G General] fl13dl1c3:
Yeah I figured that the battery wasn't too great with those statistics... I'm now at 27% and here's the battery info:

14h 9m 36s since unplugged

Display - 51%

1h 58m 36s

Phone Idle - 31%

12h 10m 59s

Cell Standby - 14%

14h 9m 36s

Wi-Fi - 6%

4h 36m 21s

Would this usage be considered normal for the 27% battery level? It's just that everyone praises their battery life to be phenomenal. And with those remarks, my expectations for battery life is higher than normal!
[Atrix 4G General] ram130:
Nope, I use to get that on my Vibrant and N1..on my DX this is what it looks like unless I'm listening my radio station via 3G:

I was even on a call for 5hrs at one point, got to find those pics :D ..

Now remember the DX has a 1500mAH battery while the Atrix has 1930mAH..maybe something is using your cpu.
[Atrix 4G General] milk242:
I'm satisfied with my battery life.

I started the day at 7a, listened to pandora for for my morning commute (40 mins). Streamed family guy from fox.com for about 2 hours and browsed and texted throughout the day. Drove home streaming pandora for another 40 mins and was at 20% around 7pm.
[Atrix 4G General] planoman:
ANy way to take the network to EDGE to save battery?

It there anyway to turn of 4G or what ever the default network is and put into EDGE? I do that with my captivate when I need to save battery life.
[Atrix 4G General] Rev1vaL:
I get great life. On almost three days since the last charge
[Atrix 4G General] Vangelis13:
Check my post on page 7
[Atrix 4G General] oFUNGUSo:
wow.....i guess there really is a conditioning period. my first charge only lasted me about 16 hours with 3 hours of screen time with brightness on minimum the whole time, and no use of bluetooth

last charge last 43 hours with 3.5 hours of screen time, bluetooth on for at least 12 hour and half the time with the screen brightness set to 1/3rd instead of the dimmest. over all i would still call my use for this charge at 'medium low' for me, but im still very impressed.

other thing i noticed is that the phone got hotter at first than it does now. wierd.
[Atrix 4G General] planoman:
Thanks for that info. That would be a good app for the atrix so you would not have to do all the keystrokes.
[Atrix 4G General] nickleson:
I got 17 hours of use yesterday before I got down to 5%. Pretty solid performance I would have to say. I don't have any details about specifics but I sent around 175 texts, an hour conversation, 45 minutes of playing music, a couple hours of playing angry birds and gun bros, and other general things such as email, facebook, and looking up the news.
[Atrix 4G General] abanh:
Try using imo.im for instant messenging - I use it for Facebook chat and AOL instant messenger. It's the best messenging program for battery life that I've found.
[Atrix 4G General] kumarshah:
I got green power, but does it still allow me to use push notifications for corporate sync?
[Atrix 4G General] voteccow:
I just don't get it, I just did a factory restore on my Atrix, before the restore, it was at 78%, after I did the restore, it's at 94%. I don't understand why there's such a huge difference. I'm going to try charging all the way and then doing another restore. The battery life I've been getting has been alright up to this point, about 20 hours being unplugged with a bunch of twitter, facebook use, gmail, school e-mail account using imap, and company email using push, and about 2 hours of phone calls. All that and it was down to about 20%.
[Atrix 4G General] slimslim:
Comparable to my old Tilt2, easily go through the day, charging overnight.
[Atrix 4G General] Vangelis13:
I've asked the dev of Quick Settings if he cannot include it in his (awesome) app, waiting for response. For now just save the dial as "2g", it will show up as first in your contact list, faster than dialing the whole thing every time.. :-)
[Atrix 4G General] Vangelis13:
What does Green Power have to do with that? I don't think they are related..
[Atrix 4G General] exume:
Had the phone for about 5 days now and I just had to charge after 26 hours, sorry for the lack of statistics but I had about 2+ hours on calls, 50 or so texts, probably an hour of fruit ninja and angry birds, browsing facebooking whatever. Very impressed
[Atrix 4G General] master346:
Is this okay with my battery?

When I checked my battery stats using "VizBattery" app...I have got the following stats...

Total Time Since unplugged: 15h 31m 54s

Voice calls: 36% (45mins)

Display: 35% (3Hours &15mins)

Phone idle: 16% (12 hr & 16 mins)

Cell Stand by: 8% (15hrs & 31 mins)

wi-fi: 7% (9hrs & 55m)

Remaining charge is 30%.

I have been using Juice defender and have been auto killing all the services which would each the battery immeadiately after the screen turns off. Even syncing account and everything except the gmail.

Looking at these stats...is my battery working as normal or working in poor condition? Shud I return this battery? I luv the phone though.

THanks,

Sunny
[Atrix 4G General] gshocker:
People who are getting poor battery life might want to talk to AT&T. I had poor battery life and muffled sound and exchanged my unit and now I am getting amazing battery life. Night and day really so it could be a bad battery or a bad batch of devices.

My old unit was getting much warmer than the new one gets with use.
[Atrix 4G General] z3r0soul:
I had trouble with the battery but after a few charges with the batterydoctor I drained my battery to 5% them battery doctor. I did it twice and them I did a factory reset at 100% fully charge not phone last me 24 hours with wifi on and auto sync.
[Atrix 4G General] eallan:
My phone today has been "running" 20% of the time, while the screen has only been on 4% of the time. Looks like bad work by motorola, if only the bootloader was unlocked this wouldn't even be an issue...
[Atrix 4G General] kumarshah:
From what I understand, green power will switch of Wifi/Data Connections after some inactivity. So, if thats the case, will notifications/sync for email work?
[Atrix 4G General] multimedialeech:
juice defender vs green power

anyone else have an opinion of green power vs juice/ultimate defender?

I've tried both and juice defender seems better for my needs at the moment. Green power was looking good but it's setting of enable wireless on screen on (or turn the wireless on whenever the screen is on) didn't seem to be working, and thats a must for me. Both seem to be pretty good at keeping up my battery life pretty evenly.
[Atrix 4G General] Vangelis13:
No, they won't until the connection is active again. You define the length of the inactivity periods yourself though.
[Atrix 4G General] hiltun:
When i first go my phone my battery would be at 30% after 8 hours. I turned off latitude ( it keeps you logged in even after you close maps) and my battery life was much better. Anyone else running google latitude?