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[Atrix 4G General] Rred:
"I bought an atrix for my girl and ether battery life is horrible. Mine took about a month to finally get running well."

And the reason you haven't generously swapped batteries with her, so SHE can get the great battery life right away is....?

<VBG>

New batteries need to be broken in. We know that.
[Atrix 4G General] jjwatmyself:
And then there is the battery stats file too... It's the little train that could all over again!! :D
[Atrix 4G General] flaviocc:
it is possible to specifically describe what the services we have to freeze?

I took a look at TB, but there are so many that I was in doubt.

Do not use any application run by social MOTOBLUR. Only the account that is mandatory to create.

Thank you.
[Atrix 4G General] Vangelis13:
Search for "freeze" in the development forum. ;-)
[Atrix 4G General] jjwatmyself:
I had a bad battery day today. :( From 8 am to 2 pm my battery went from 100% down to 15%. Yikes!! The offending app, revealed by System Panel was the cars.com Android app. This app that does not have any config options had been sitting for 6 hours trying to get a gps signal. I tested and even during outdoor use it maintains use of gps. What a waste. All it does is populate a zip code field. So as we have seen before, there is always an offending application to blame for severe battery drain and sometimes running in the background missbehaving. That is 3 so far: Latitude, Listen and Cars.com to date that I have uninstalled for this reason.
[Atrix 4G General] primeboss:
Does Google listen really take that much battery? If that is the case what is the best alternative for podcasts thats syncs up with my google reader. I love using google products and software so i like having a central account.

So what is a good alternative to Google Listen that intergrates well with google reader. So far I have been loving google listen.
[Atrix 4G General] RogerPodacter:
I've been using Google listen on my nexus one for a year. It never appears in the system panel apps list for high CPU. Is it a bug specific to the atrix?
[Atrix 4G General] jjwatmyself:
I love(d) it too until I caught it misbehaving on more than one occasion. I agree completly regarding the reader integration making it SUPER!! I'm just reporting what happened. :( I use dogcatcher now and I tell you what. It is realy slick. The fast forward and rewimd are configurable so you can skip through th ads easily and it never forgets where you are at. It lacks reader integration nut it is much more advanced in my opinion.
[Atrix 4G General] OSNPA:
Why not use LBE Privacy Guard to revoke any app permissions you want? Like cars.com is not allowed to access location?
[Atrix 4G General] jjwatmyself:
Nice tip thanks. To be homest, I'm not up for keeping a list of app tweaks. LOL
[Atrix 4G General] lesonal:
Look at my battery life =] nice ehh?
[Atrix 4G General] droid_does:
which gingerbread ROM are you running?
[Atrix 4G General] hem.acharya:
you have charged your phone twice.. this is cheating :D.. we are counting the battery life after a full battery charge
[Atrix 4G General] dLo GSR:
LOL wow. nice catch.
[Atrix 4G General] SS2006:
Hah busted buddy
[Atrix 4G General] jjwatmyself:
You may remember some of my previous posts with suggestions and test results for simple steps to extend batrery life as far as almost 3 days without top off charges. The end result saw no less thn 2 days is an easy to achieve target. So I've been doing some additional testing to measure battery life without any optimizations. With auto 3g, data enabled, wifi on (no active connection), bt, gps, sync, and auto brightness all enabled, the expected battery life for a full charge is 12 hours. This is pretty shocking stuff. Screen shot from Systempanel attached to demonstrate. Sync is a big piece of this. I am doing an additional test today with sync turned off and will post results after a full drain.
[Atrix 4G General] hem.acharya:
Here are pretty impressive results I have got only in 2g network this is the best I have got ib kenneth gingerbread beta 4 release
[Atrix 4G General] RogerPodacter:
please do post your resutls later today. i see even for times when you did not use your device, your CPU average was still around 3%. on my nexus one when i dont use the device, system panel shows those areas as literally zero CPU usage. it alternates between 0.3% and zero percent. cyanogen should fix this i'd imagine for the atrix!
[Atrix 4G General] Magnetox:
Guys if you install juicedefender it will increase your battery life by almost 2 times
[Atrix 4G General] Jonous:
Guys if you go back to froyo you will surely increase your battery life by two times ;) . Glad i did, no worries anymore.
[Atrix 4G General] jordinho:
hahaha, nice catch indeed :)
[Atrix 4G General] jjwatmyself:
Uhhh, 41 pages... I think we covered this already friend. :)
[Atrix 4G General] jjwatmyself:
Here is a screen shot of the last 24 hours. We're approaching the 20 hour mark and looking at about 50% used. The only change on this test is shutting sync OFF. CPU dropped significantly as a result of turning sync off and the wifi connection remained active overnight. Interestingly, I left my phone on the Moto car dock from 7.30 - 12.00 and bking in the sun! You'll notice CPU was up and so was rate of drain. Not sure if this was from being docked or HOT! The phone had a warning messahe on the screen because of tje heat too! At lunch time I undocked the phone and CPU dropped. The data connection was cellular from 7.30 am through until around 7 pm. I used navigation for a few minutes at 4.30 pm. Yikes, it dropped pretty dramatically as soon there was some cellular data. You'll notice that the rate of drain over night while on an idle wifi connection is very close to the idle cellular data during the afternoon. I would assume that data usage in wifi would not hit the battery as much as data usage over cellular data. So the good news here is that simply turning off sync allows us to have approx 4 times the battery life. (12 hours with sync on vs. 48 hours with sync off). This is an interesting and impressive stat. We already know that turning cellular data off and switching to 2g extends this further, having incremental setting measurements to further our understanding of where the juice goes is always a good thing. Green Power premium addreses this while allowing sync to be left on by turning data on periodically. Wow, what a simple concept!
[Atrix 4G General] hem.acharya:
Look at the best I have got til now in gingerbread till full discharge
[Atrix 4G General] dLo GSR:
any settings or wisdom you can share with us as to how you got such good results?
[Atrix 4G General] hem.acharya:
1 let the battery drain completely.

2. charged it to 100%. even after that kept it charging for more 1-2 hrs.

3. Used 3G network only when needed. used wifi instead.

4. display at minimum as i dont need to go outdoor much.

5. kept looking at battery usage :D

6. sync was always ON.

the KEY .. point 2. and 3.
[Atrix 4G General] primeboss:
I know Juice Defender is a good application to use, what are some other applications and tricks to increase battery life. Does SetCPU work well in saving battery?
[Atrix 4G General] Vongabe14:
fyi, noticed after flashing KennPens 4.5.9 gingerbread, the battery life drastically improved. Can anyone confirm?
[Atrix 4G General] hem.acharya:
I dont think it improved drastically. I m not even sure if it improved even if it did may b minor improvement
[Atrix 4G General] killersilver:
When i was using stock 4.1.83 (Froyo 2.2.1) the battery life was really impressive, i could use it more than 24h without problemas.

Then i installed Gingerblur 4.5 and all i can get it 8h tops.

Now i have 4.5.91 (GB 2.3.4) and it just got worse. 6h is all i get.
[Atrix 4G General] primeboss:
I undertand the GB 2.3.4 taking alot of Battery, but GingerBlur should gain you battery? You might be doing something wrong?
[Atrix 4G General] jjwatmyself:
No disrespect, but we have 41 pages of battery saving testing, tips and solutions.
[Atrix 4G General] shady_lanem:
I've tried this but its difficult to monitor the battery gauge when the percentage kept jumping all over the place. Was about 88%, reboot then its back to 99%. Then i let it drain to 90%, reboot again its back up to 99%. Could it be gingerbread overdrive its battery power capability to somewhat 120-130% ?!? Lol...
[Atrix 4G General] hem.acharya:
I have also experienced this behavior sometimes so best way is not to reboot the phone
[Atrix 4G General] hem.acharya:
I have got wonderful results after I freezed the bloat ware . Must of the time screen was at minimum level as I dont need to b outdoor much and mobile data was mostly kept turned off.

Can anyone beat this result :-D
[Atrix 4G General] dream5hift:
Of course it can last up to two days with not much usage, but mine drains quick when I'm actually browsing on 3g and playing games a lot.
[Atrix 4G General] hem.acharya:
If u notice the phone has been used a lot display was on for more than 5 hrs
[Atrix 4G General] RogerPodacter:
am i crazy, or does that battery graph which is part of 2.3.4 only showing the 10% battery jumps? i surely would have thought that motorola would use the 1% parameter for that actual graph. that kinda totally turns me off to this phone for something so minor! makes the graph kinda useless...:(
[Atrix 4G General] Magnetox:
That totally turns you off? Haha.

That sucks.
[Atrix 4G General] RogerPodacter:
well frankly, yeah. i've been on gingerbread for around 7 months now on my n1. and i'm trying to upgrade and want an atrix. i use the graph a lot to check usage patterns, awake time, dips in the graph and flat standby periods. its super helpful. such a small thing seems almost insane to exclude by motorola. i feel like i'd move backwards and remove function when i'm trying to upgrade and gain function. i'm just anal though.

system panel should still give similar info i guess though.
[Atrix 4G General] jjwatmyself:
Hmmm 39 hours with 3% left... not bragging or anything, but how does 64 hours with 6% left sound? :p Here's a link to way back on page 36 of this thread.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=14991068#post14991068http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=14991068&postcount=351
[Atrix 4G General] bravogee:
were you on froyo or gingerbread when you achieved this? 64 hours is amazing!
[Atrix 4G General] hem.acharya:
How much time the display was on when you achieved it. And it was in froyo right I m in gb.
[Atrix 4G General] jjwatmyself:
64 hours per drain is on Froyo. The settings are all in my other posts on this thread. To do honest I don't have stats beyond what I already posted, but if you dig through my posts you'll see all sorts of tips on how to get your numbers up. I'm staying away from Gingerbread until there is a solid ROM out there. Im on Gingerblur 4.5 currently and pretty happy with it.
[Atrix 4G General] Magnetox:
define "solid rom". There are many fully functional roms available. I'm currently on one with absolutely 0 issues. ~24 hours battery life moderate usage. OC @ 1.1 ghz.
[Atrix 4G General] jjwatmyself:
That's great to hear. Sounds solid.
[Atrix 4G General] TechnoNeto:
im getting around 16 hours:

3-5 calls

50+ sent and received text's and some navigation.
[Atrix 4G General] Jonous:
Achievable if you don't mess around with your phone too much. With froyo's 1%/hr drop i think this is easy. But i'm sure i can never beat my 6days record i achieved with my stock sgs :D That thing had almost 1% drop over 6hrs idle!
[Atrix 4G General] jjwatmyself:
Yikes! Us Atrix folks are in your rear view mirror for sure. :)
[Atrix 4G General] Pizza4Breakfast:
The battery on my phone is great. I watched shows on Hulu and Netflix for 7 hours straight and still had 15% left.
[Atrix 4G General] crea78:
Using Battery Calibration, I am now at 31+ hours on a single charge. Still have 12% battery life left.
[Atrix 4G General] xxgmon3yxx:
Its the only thing i miss about froyo Battery life.
[Atrix 4G General] versd:
optimised radio and overclocked kernel fixed my battery issues with the gb rom. back to a full day easy (ending with 40% at night) with heavy use.
[Atrix 4G General] xxgmon3yxx:
which radio are u using? care to share a link if you don't mind?
[Atrix 4G General] jjwatmyself:
This is about the point when we will start to see battery optimization tips for gingerbread. Thus far, we seem to have froyo perfected. But it's going to be back to the drawing board with gingerbread. :-D
[Atrix 4G General] droid_does:
this and which kernal again?
[Atrix 4G General] Jonous:
That was months ago, i'm now an Atrix folk like you, never regreted the change :)

Come on give us some detailed info, wanting to go back to gb but this whole bat issue has been holding me back.
[Atrix 4G General] hem.acharya:
Well I used to get a very good battery life back in stock froyo . About one and a half day with display on for at least 3 hrs similar was the result in ken's gb beta release ( the one before alien) then I updated to alien and the battery is too poor without doing any activity in the phone battery level used to go below by 10% in 1 or 2 hrs . Phone idle taking a lot of battery . After a week of experimenting with different kernel and roms charging discharging the battery I was unsuccessful in getting better battery life so today I went back to stock froyo 2.2.2 and m happy with the battery performance so far with about 3.5 hrs of time unplugged and display used for 1hr and 50 mins wifi on alllllllllllll the time I m at 75% battery . M happy with froyo now . Also I downloaded the OTA gb update but scared to install it . Coz it may hard brick my cell later.

anyone also having battery life problems with any GB ROM?
[Atrix 4G General] spiderx_mm:
1 days 11 hrs and 43 mins (nearly 36 hrs) ... and still 11% of battery left. looks like it gonna hit 40 hrs with normal usage.

don't be surprised. it is not from the Atrix, but from my Acer Iconia Smart. I was really frustrated to compare this result with my Atrix, which has a larger battery (1500 mAh vs 1930 mAh) and smaller screen (4.8" vs 4.0") yet still cannot even manage 1/3 of the Acer's battery life. The max I got from Atrix with minimum (or no) usage is only 12 hrs. Many times, I wonder how could it be???

Is our Atrix has got serious battery leakage due to hardware problem? (I've tried many roms/kernels which return the same result). The main different between Acer and Atrix is ...

Display ... (Acer) 4.8" TFTLCD ... (Atrix) 4.0" Pentile TFT LCD display

Processor ... (Acer) 1.0 GHz SnapDragon ... (Atrix) 1.0 GHz Tegra2 (Dual Core)

RAM .... (Acer) 512 Mb ... (Atrix) 1.0 Gb

Battery ... (Acer) 1500 mAh ... (Atrix) 1930 mAh

any idea what our Atrix is missing to save the juice?
[Atrix 4G General] kb5ynf:
40+ Hours

I regularly get more than 40 hours from my stock Atrix. See my earlier posts about my experiences with this phone.
[Atrix 4G General] Elwood_It:
I get 16-20 hours of battery life, i'm in school all day so i always have it on my table, surfing, rss feeds. Nice battery life.
[Atrix 4G General] brianwzb:
I think I can do one charge every 2 days if I shut down the wifi and BT when I am sleeping
[Atrix 4G General] Rred:
spider,

Look for an application that is mercilessly trying to use one of the radios. (BT, WiFi, GPS, cell data)

I can easily get 36 hours in typical use (one day, forgetting to recharge at night, plus next day) BUT yesterday I saw an extra 20% of the battery life disappear between morning and noon. Ooops, I had an app which was trying to get the location from the GPS and I was indoors. That app was persistent and keep the GPS at full power for several hours. Other location-based apps are smarter and will SHUT DOWN the GPS if they don't get a signal within xx minutes.

One app is all it takes, you need to look at eveyrthing you are running, including automatic updates invisible in the background. Something is using power, and that usually means using a radio. Possibly keeping the screen full bright instead of automatic brightness. Some apps apparently defeat the autobrightness too, not because they need to but because they are poorly written.

--Rred
[Atrix 4G General] bluesteve3:
the best ROM for battery life is neutrino its based on cm7 and its quite popular with Atrix users in general. although i do prefer blur based ROM's as they are much more stable and reliable. also they do not have as many random reboots. p droid also works on neutrino.
[Atrix 4G General] rancur3p1c:
That looks like a nuked battery bro.
[Atrix 4G General] clod007:
In my opinion, is a great batery life.

Screen on for 6.20 hours.

Last CM7 nightly.
[Atrix 4G General] maggedo:
focus on right radio

also install happy patcher leads you a better performance
[Atrix 4G General] clod007:
CM7 20120819
[Atrix 4G General] oFUNGUSo:
so, does that mean that you dont want to hear that im at 5% battery right now and my phones been on for 28 hours with 4 hours of screen time? ;)

honestly if its that bad i would through a **** fit to at&t and get it replaced.
[Atrix 4G General] Scoop3:
my battery seems to be doing alright but im a bit dissapointed... I expected more.. I can maybe make it a day if I try... that hasn't happened yet though... I keep all extra radios off, as well as auto sync off..

one question.. under battery info, on *#*#info#*#*, my battery health says good... is that the top tier rating? anyone have an excellent?
[Atrix 4G General] Raspster:
Does the attic have a problem going to sleep? Says its on phone idle for as long as its off the charger..? Never had this problem on any other android device with same apps.
[Atrix 4G General] snlu178:
Phone idle is there for you to make and receive phone calls. That is what it should be reporting. The drain may be high if you aren't getting a signal check cell standby to see how long you are going without signal. If it is a lot then consider putting the phone in airplane when you are in low signal areas.
[Atrix 4G General] CC Lemon:
Based off the first post... this seems like a general battery life discussion thread. Maybe a lot of the posts are related to poor battery life, but the comments of good battery life should be welcomed as well. If there is a discrepancy between battery life, it would be good to identify what would be the cause. Whether that be the battery itself or way the phone is using power.

This is definitely not normal and isn't even consistent with most of the poor battery life complaints. You said you've had it for a week... how has it been the rest of the time? If it hasn't been like that the rest of the time, then obviously something was sucking battery life that shouldn't have and thus the battery life of the Atrix shouldn't be blamed here. I hate to come off as an ass, but if the battery life has been that bad for you the whole time, then why did you rely on that phone, unplugged, to be your alarm for something that was that important?
[Atrix 4G General] milespro:
I've returned mine for poor battery life after 3 cycles and medium to light usage.

I had approx 3 to 5 minutes of total phone calls and 30 to 45 minutes of webbrowsing would leave me with a dead battery after 6 to 7 hours each day. The data was turned off while not using the phone. I had also checked for rogue apps draining the battery and nothing showed up in spare parts or the built in battery gauge.

I was pretty sad returning the phone today, but heres my bottom line... in order to increase battery life, all the tips center around reducing the phones usage, screen brightness, not using data, running battery managers etc.

Well, despite not being a fan of apple, my iphone 4 runs Meebo IM all day, data, GPS here and there, music, and much more words with friends than i care to admit with no battery issues.

Seems like I got a combination of a dud battery and my typical usage is way to much for android. Turning off the features of the phone to make it last is not acceptable for me.

I hope to be back with an android soon though! =)
[Atrix 4G General] Kaaji1359:
It's fine, you weren't coming off like an ass.

The phone has been great thus far but had been extremely unreliable just over the weekend, so it does sound like a rogue app. But when I typed in *#*#INFO#*#*, what I got out of it was that the top battery user was the Android system. The only other high user was VLC Remote at 0.7%.

I have a system monitor application and oddly enough from 4-6am, when I was asleep, my "device usage" spiked to 100% entirely from 3am-5am (but CPU Usage stayed relatively the same all night). My battery then died at 8am. What in the world could have caused this tremendous spike?

I'm not sure if this has anything to do with it, but I've been charging it with my old BlackBerry car charger.

Lastly, I am on "Performance Mode" in the battery manager... To the people with good battery life: do you have a different battery profile?

Thanks.
[Atrix 4G General] shanghei:
Is there a current widget for the atrix? I cant seem to understand whats wrong with my battery. I did a factory reset and it appears I lose about 10% an hour when I am not using my phone at all. I left phone in car during work with wifi off and on stock no apps I am losing 10% an hour :(

CurrentWidget dont work either, something is really wrong here.
[Atrix 4G General] neer2005:
The battery in the Atrix goes down in 10s so if you dropped from 100% to 99% the meter would show 90% and if you went from 90% to 89% it would show 80%
[Atrix 4G General] shanghei:
But I went from 100% at 7am to 20% at 3pm with no phone usage, that cant be normal.
[Atrix 4G General] jaydon34:
I just got 15 hours today on my 1st full charge. I have no complaints.
[Atrix 4G General] neer2005:
Yeah that's a problem.
[Atrix 4G General] phobos512:
So you did a factory reset you say...Did you setup all of the Motorola Blur social networking crap? Do you have a bunch of apps installed? Did you change sync settings on any of the apps?
[Atrix 4G General] lesterp:
Just got over 24 hours on my second full cycle on the battery, with just over 6 hours running, screen on for 5, wifi on for 6 , talking for 20 minutes - all this from battery history info. Once I settle into a normal usage pattern and stop playing with it all the time and the battery is fully conditioned, I expect 2-2.5 days between charges.
[Atrix 4G General] robstunner:
I got 12 on my first full charge. What I noticed though is that according to my battery stats a minute of phone conversation equated almost equally to 1% of battery. Is that true for anyone else?
[Atrix 4G General] saywhat4118:
I can second that. I got 4 hours 30 mins screen on the first charge. Battery life is phenomenal.
[Atrix 4G General] eallan:
My battery is bad. In spare parts it seems that overall the phone is running twice as often as the screen is on. Wifi is also running (not on) twice as much as the screen as well.
[Atrix 4G General] acPIZZA:
It really is so nice to have an android phone that can really take advantage of android, without having to worry about playing with it... last an entire day or more. Awesome product.
[Atrix 4G General] snlu178:
So my experience coming from my N1 is this:

When Android becomes the top power consumer it is some sort of Android bug not the phone. It is odd, inconsistent and I have no explanation for it. Usually a reboot solves it or a custom

ROM (not available yet)

Also, wifi is the worst battery consumer. Hands down it drains the battery fast. I don't know why, but it seems to drain the battery at double the speed. If you can try not using it and see if that improves your battery life.

Just my experiences.
[Atrix 4G General] acPIZZA:
Not necessarily. From my experience, and from what I have learned - it is better to be connected to wifi for your data when you are hanging out at home, work, school... basically any place you are sure you have wifi. The only time it hurts you is when you're bouncing in and out of wifi zones... it takes more power to locate and scan for wifi if you're not already connected.