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[Atrix 4G General] douggrif:
I use my Atrix for business support. I average perhaps 5-10 calls daily but a good deal of other use too. I charge my Atrix every night. By the end of my business day the phone shows between 50 - 70 percent. My usage statistics (over a week since the phone was actually turned off) are 1) Cell Standby = 27%, 2) Phone idle = 21%, 3) Display = 11%, 4) DoggCatcher = 7%, 5) Skyfire = 6%, 6) Android OS = 6%, 7) Wi-Fi = 5%, Mediaserver = 5%, 8) Maps = 4%, 9) Bluetooth = 3%. I leave Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS service on all the time. I have noted GPS does not draw power unless I am using one of my GPS service apps. Most of my downloads are via Wi-Fi at home or the office. I mostly talk via bluetooth. The biggest battery saver I can recommend is to simply turn off the display when you do not need it, including when talking on the phone or listening to podcasts or music. By the way, the side volume control works great with the display off. The finger swipe works great for password protection and easy turn on. I download some 35 podcasts weekly using DoggCatcher. I use the automatic display dimmer too and it really works well in all light conditions. I push email to my phone every 15 minutes using two primary email accounts. I rarely use the camera. When I use the Google Maps in the car I plug in a cigar lighter power source if my ride is going to be more than 30-40 minutes. By the way, I use velcro on the Atrix and attached it to the middle of my steering wheel which keeps it within easy view and listening distance. I did purchase two replacement batteries from a cheap China source (2 batteries were about $15 with shipping and they both last as long at the original). I like to carry a replacement battery in my geek bag, just in case, but so far I have never needed it. I do rotate them every two to four weeks. The Atrix is the best phone I have used with my Nexus One being in second place.
[Atrix 4G General] jjwatmyself:
Nice overview. I followed your reccomendation on the podcast software as found that Google Listen was mysteriously using a lot of CPU when it should have been idle. The other app that uses CPU around the clock is Latitude. DISABLE DISABLE DISABLE!! Lol. I went from 100% to 92% from 8 am through 4 pm today with data disabled and set to 2g. Then Latitude started partying all by itself. By 6 pm I had dropped to 65% while reading your post. I think the key is to find apps that don't misbehave.
[Atrix 4G General] toddran1:
Im constantly browsing the web, on youtube,xda app, texting, and playing games from morning to nite...never been below 25%

Running greyblur 2.1 on 1.83
[Atrix 4G General] droid_does:
ClockWorkMod

its a custom/third party recovery that you can do loads of stuff with

but since you don't know what it is and what it does

I suggest you do alot of reading before messing with your phone otherwise you risk perma bricking it.......
[Atrix 4G General] Rred:
" By the way, I use velcro on the Atrix and attached it to the middle of my steering wheel "

Nice idea, Doug. I've been looking for a place to keep mine in the car. Just beware, if you have a steering wheel airbag, that Atrix could become a missile.

I've tried using the voice commands on mine, so I can dial without taking my eyes off the road. Very disappointed so far, miserable results. And that's after years of having great results with similar software on a Treo, and enunciation that even Tom Brokaw would be happy with. (What, it needs Valley Geek Speak to be happy?)
[Atrix 4G General] SuperDeform:
I never heard anyone here using android praising there battery life from versions 2.1 and up
[Atrix 4G General] sylvaron:
I'd just like to give a general overview of my battery life experience with this phone, and to start... the battery life, for me, is AMAZING. I got the phone about a week and a half ago and have had no complaints the entire time I've had it. Mind you, this is unrooted and running Motorola's stock Motoblur interface on 4.1.83.

When I first got the phone, I was only averaging about 3 hours of battery life, but I realized this was due to my hyper-extensive use of the phone (constant connection to H+ via the Market and Browser, testing how the browsers performed with flash videos, etc) and was not all too worried. After slowing down and now only using the phone to occasionally access a browser, make phone calls, and play games, I can say that going through an entire day is extremely easy, with a lot of battery life to spare.

One example of exactly how great it is is that I'm able to watch several, several episodes of 960x540 anime episodes. Each episode, going from beginning to end, drains approximately 10% of battery life (most definitely less, I'm only using the built in battery manager which measures in increments of 10%). After a long session of watching a series, I can say that on extremely low brightness, I was able to get through 10 and a half episodes before the battery went critical on me. My old windows phones (LG Incite and HTC Fuze running WM 6.5) pale in comparison, probably lasting 4 (Fuze) to 6 (Incite) episodes each.

I'm also pretty impressed with today's stats after opening up the phone this late at night (it's 1:00 AM here) and checking the battery manager. I've posted stats from today below;

Battery Life 80%

12h 20m 24s since unplugged

Phone Idle 20% -Time On 9h 6m 52s

Display 20% (50% Brightness) - Time On 2h 14m 8s

Voice calls 19% - Time On 28m 54s

Cell Standby 15% - 6h 54m 2s, Time Without Signal 8%

Android System 5% - CPU Total 15m 2s, (not sure what exactly this is makes up)

Sakura Falling Live Wallpaper - 4%, CPU Total 14m 59s

com.motorola.home (?) 3% - CPU Total 8m 47s

Android OS 2% - 4m 14s

Dungeon Defenders 3% - CPU Total 10m 52s

Mediaserver 5% - CPU Total 10m 18s

Text Messaging 2% - 3m 19s

Opera Mobile 2% - 1m 39s

This is with wifi off, H+ on in a semi-solid network area (for a short while I was at a friend's house where service drops out entirely though), display at 50%, a live background, and the OS untouched (no root / custom ROM or custom UI)

I figure 80% over the course of 12 hours... if you were to assume that that equated to 12 hours per 20 percent, that'd be an estimated 60 hours off the charger with the same amount of use being given evenly.

I don't know if that's a normal amount or an extremely high amount as I haven't viewed too many replies, but by god I know that this is not bad battery life with some people on here saying they drain to 70% within 3 hours of being off the charger.
[Atrix 4G General] Rred:
"I never heard anyone here using android praising there battery life from versions 2.1 and up"

OK, I'll praise it. Now you've heard of one, from a hard customer at that.

Big screen, bright screen, lts of radios (four: cell, wifi, bt, gps) that can suck power and most folks have no idea how to conserve it, or that their battery needs to be cycled for a week or two before it comes up to full strength, so the battery life you see in the first week is NOT the real battery life.

With just the cellular radio on, listening to music but not watching videos, I'm often amazed at the battery life I'll see in 24 hours. Turn on eveyrthing, use everything, sure you can chew it up, but this phone starts with a generous battery to begin with.

If you want better battery life you need a bigger battery which means a bigger phone and the mass market wants TINY phones. So the market got what it wished for: TINY phones, which mean short battery life.

What's the big deal? You get an external battery refiller or a spare battery and you're good to go. That's always been the way. $20-25 will buy you a Moto or Duracell rechargeable external battery refiller, plug it in and it can bring you from empty to near-fill again in an hour or two, without turning off the phone.
[Atrix 4G General] mario925:
Battery real good but with the QVK extended battery that I'm going to get the battery life will be great!!! :D
[Atrix 4G General] vinay427:
That seems to be amazing battery life! I've exchanged my phone for another Atrix due to an unrelated issue and both devices had about the same battery life as I have now. I'm at 85% after 52 minutes of constant display usage during 54 minutes of unplugged time with wifi on for 32 minutes (auto display brightness). This includes downloading a few apps and browsing the web without a live wallpaper. 12 hours including more than two hours of display seem amazing to me, though! But I think I have more background apps than I realized. Do you use a task killer?

Edit: Just realized I had GPS on all of today so far. That couldn't have been helping.
[Atrix 4G General] JackTheMan18:
In my opinion, (after having had 6 Android phones so far), the Atrix has by far the best battery life. This is simply due to size - the Atrix has a huge battery (1800+ ma) in comparison with other Android phones.

Bigger battery = better battery life.
[Atrix 4G General] Wond3r:
WOW thats all your screen used after 12 hours and on 50% ??!

I have mine on 10% brightness and its never that low on consumption
[Atrix 4G General] jjwatmyself:
51 1/2 hours since the last charge and I'm at 15%. Had my son not been playing Tegra 2 enabled games last night, it would still be at 50%.
[Atrix 4G General] Wond3r:
Anything specific you do to maintain battery life like that?
[Atrix 4G General] jjwatmyself:
There are a few things...

I'm running GingerBlur (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=991595) + Motorola keyboard (http://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=562498&d=1302126258), although this is not the "secret". However it is an un-bloated ROM.

Google Latitude and Google Listen eat CPU and therefore battery. Latitude has a three step process to disable (see earlier in this thread). Listen was uninstalled and replaced with Dogcatcher.

I'm using SystemPanel to monitor processes around the clock, so can see what is doing what as far back as 7 days. My Android battery profile is set to maximum performance. I enable wifi, cellular data (APN toggle), sync, BT, GPS on an as needed basis and have set phone to edge/2G (GSM only).

I have used Autostarts to stop apps from launching on phone boot and I have opted to manually kill specific applications with SystemPanel that I am not using in order to minimize CPU usage of anything misbehaving in the background. It's important to do this interactively so you can see which apps come back to life. There is no point killing apps that re-spawn. I am not an advocate of auto task-killers for this reason.

The combination of all of these settings results in the phone sipping juice from the battery. On the first 12 hours, on this test run, I went from 100% to 92% in 12 hours.

In terms of if the above is practical... so far my vote is yes, as the alternative is using lots of juice when you're not using the phone.
[Atrix 4G General] droid_does:
thanks! i'll give this a try when I get my atrix!
[Atrix 4G General] jjwatmyself:
When you get your Atrix, you'll be like a kid with a new toy for at least the first week! Have some fun with Angy Birds and Riptide GP!
[Atrix 4G General] jjwatmyself:
With less than 15% of battery, I started playing music via Bluetooth at noon today and my Jambox decided it had run out of juice two hours later. My Atrix then continued in a battery sipping mode until 4 pm when the lights finally went out on it. So, in total I managed to get 56 hours from a single charge. I think that's pretty good! It would be great if there was a widget that would work on the Atrix for toggling between 2G and 3G... For now, it is back on the charger for the two hours it should take to fully charge.
[Atrix 4G General] Vangelis13:
Amazing results.. How much screen time?
[Atrix 4G General] hem.acharya:
i used to have battery drain fast say from 100% to 80% in 2 hrs. but yesterday i let the battery totally drain out to zero level and when the phone shut down..

then put the phone to charge the whole night. picked up the cell in the morning and went for work.

here are the stats and i m impressed.

current level 80%

voice calls .. 34% .. 21m

phone idel 20% ..7h 44m

display 19% ... 45m

cell standby 9%

android system 7%

launcher pro 3%

android os 3%

swype 2%.

total time since unplugged 8h 30m
[Atrix 4G General] hem.acharya:
i have wifi off since unplugged 3g off only 2g data on.. no GPS no BT on
[Atrix 4G General] Rred:
Vangelis-

Pardon me for thread drift but " playing music via Bluetooth" I've been wondering about that. Can an Atrix play music to a standard BT earmic? Or does the BT device have to tell the phone "you can send music to me, I'm special" ??
[Atrix 4G General] Vangelis13:
Your Bluetooth headset has to support A2DP. Every Android version after 1.6 supports it so the Atrix does as well.
[Atrix 4G General] jjwatmyself:
Stated another way, your BT device has to say "I'm special and can play music" :D There are a few ear pieces that do this. One such item is the latest Jawbone, which will give you A2DP in the one ear that the Jawbone is in. There are others, and some that do two ears, but it depends what you want. The advantage of Jawbone is the incredible little white dot that touches your face. This senses vibration in the skin and is used as part of the insane noise cancelling that the product offers. It really does work as the video propaganda advertisements that Jawbone have put out with a hot women working around loud machinery. I demonstrated for people in our data centers and they couldn't believe it.

EDIT: The only A2DP device I have is the Jawbone Jambox that follows me to the shower in the morning or downstairs for breakfast with TuneIn Radio streaming my fav international station. It was blasting tunes yesterday when I was working outside, while my phone stayed in teh comfort of my living room. It's a great device with INSANE battery life.
[Atrix 4G General] rsolitario:
Which method do you use to set the phone to edge/2g only?
[Atrix 4G General] jjwatmyself:
On the Android Services Menu.

Dial *#*#4636#*#* then choose Phone and change as follows:

AT&T:

GSM (auto PRL) = UMTS, HSPA, HSPA+

GSM only = GSM, Edge

I created an address book contact called "Android Services Menu" so can dial 26764 to find the record in the address book easily.

There are other posts that dive into definitions of all of the options on the list next to GSM, etc. You might think you know what they are but trust me you will be suprised when you read about them. The two I have listed are definately what you should use with AT&T in the USA.
[Atrix 4G General] Vangelis13:
Download Any Cut from the market and make a shortcut. Go to Activity and scroll down to Phone Info, choose that. Voilà
[Atrix 4G General] jjwatmyself:
A-ha!!! I tried using that app but couldn't figure it out. Thanks for providing the steps.
[Atrix 4G General] Vangelis13:
I'm sure you know where the "thanks" button is located..? :)
[Atrix 4G General] jjwatmyself:
Grrrr! I'll give you thanks!!!! :eek:
[Atrix 4G General] brewstermax:
Motorola needs to optimize the battery. That or Google does. My battery life is jumpy. Some days it will go, and go, and go. Other days it gives up before the end of the day. It all depends. I think that the issues will iron themselves out with a few very important, pending updates.
[Atrix 4G General] tdamocles:
I think Motorola needs to optimize their Motoblur social app updating process. Something in that was causing my phone to eat battery life. My phone was eating 5-6% of juice per hour even at night when I wasn't using it. I originally setup my Facebook account on Motoblur account setup. I am using launcherpro with GladiAtrix P-ROM. After freezing a few processes I am now getting a 1-2% drain an hour when the phone is not used.

Processes I froze:

com.motorola.photowidget 2.2.2

home screen tips

news & Weather

News 2.2.2

Quick contacts

Quick tutorial

Social Messagingg

SM Service

Social networking

social sharing

social status

talk

universal inbox

weather

work contacts

All the frozen processes above weren't even being used. No widgets were used as updates (none for weather or facebook). I saw the most change with freezing. Maybe deleting the Facebook account from Motorblur would have stopped the drain but I froze other things that I did not use.

The changes below did not noticeably help me with battery drainage. (This stuff was performed way before any of the steps above)

I also changed the wifi sleep policy to turn off wifi when the phone is in sleep mode. I changed the Market to not notify me when there is an update. In battery manager I had it turn off data after 15 minutes in the peak hours.
[Atrix 4G General] jjwatmyself:
Identifying offending processes is 90% of the solution. I agree with the comment on 1-2% per hour when in sleep mode. That's where I'm at. If you move to GingerBlur, all of the bloat is gone. I personally like it a lot.
[Atrix 4G General] droid_does:
have you tried using watchdog? (i have mine set to alert me if above 30% load)~but thats on my captivate
[Atrix 4G General] junooni.1980:
Ok so this morning I took it off the charger and within a few minutes it went to 80% and while I was typing on this forum it set to 70% wtf is wrong with this phone. I've used numerous androids this is by far the worst I've ever used when it comes to battery life.

P.S: Im using go x launcher pro.
[Atrix 4G General] jjwatmyself:
Did you follow this thread all the way back to step by step instructions on optimizing? There are some detailed walk throughs including some I wrote.
[Atrix 4G General] ekerbuddyeker:
Guys

If you want to remind yourself what a really crap battery life feels like, get an SGS2. I own one and im lucky if I get 4 to 5 hours out of it. That's a disaster (read all the posts in the SGS2 forum ) and its the reason I havent given up the Atrix (that plus sound quality, loudness on speaker, video quality, resolution and gps which is so much better on the Atrix its unreal). Atrix practically always gets me through a heavy day of usage.

I just wish this thing ran sense.
[Atrix 4G General] junooni.1980:
So really after all these devices we've used, it still so surprising all these devices are so powerful but one thing they all are unable to conquer is the battery dilemma. Android should really step when it comes to battery. I really love the atrix but just hate the battery life and video performance its sucks a$$, i sold my HTC IS to get Atrix but i cant even play HD videos on it. God knows whats killing my battery but now my phone is completely dead and i charged it half way this afternoon, followed by a full over night charge. :cool:
[Atrix 4G General] davidletterboyz:
Hi all, this is my first post here. :)

I just bought a used Atrix a week ago. The previous owner installed Gingerblur 4 into it and it's all good, except one thing, the battery consumption. When I first got it, I didn't know how to turn it to EDGE only. So, with HSDPA, I got only ~23 to 24 hours of battery life from a full charge (partly because of heavy usage too, since I got a new gadget :P). Soon, I saw jjwatmyself's thread, and begun to take notes of killing processes etc. It does improve a lot, particularly switching to EDGE connection only. It consumed around 35% of battery for 15 hours of light usage (no gaming at all). But it's still nowhere as good as jjwatmyself's battery performance. After that, I performed battery calibration, and guess what... it's now significantly better. After 20.5 hours of usage (which includes 30min+ of gaming here), it still has 64% of battery life!
[Atrix 4G General] MdX MaxX:
So, with a live wallpaper going, a constant WiFi connection, and facebook and Twitter syncing every 30 minutes, I get about 45 minutes of screen time per 10% battery drain. That's about 6 hours of screen time. Once my usage becomes more normal I should have no problem getting this thing to last through the day. That's good enough for me.

:eek: And I thought I had good battery life... I should figure out what this jjwatmyself guy is doing.
[Atrix 4G General] Vangelis13:
How much screen time?
[Atrix 4G General] jjwatmyself:
Monitoring your phone is key which is why I use SystemPanel. I am finding more and more that data usage is a significant offender so I leave it disabled when phone is in pocket and at night. I plan to test 3g with data off to show a comparison of 2g vs. 3g.

Another tip for those with the standard dock... I docked my phone a couple nights ago with the charger unplugged and turned the screen off. By the morning I found that the phone did not show that typical occasional cpu flutter but the steady line that made me single out latitude's friend finder service. So the tip here is that having the phone in the standard dock will trigger cpu activicty even when not charging and with screen off. I am guessing that the lcd does not turn off despite the light being OFF. Can anyone imagine how we would teach our parents all of this stuff? The more I work with Android the more I see why backgrounding is a double edged sword.

Btw 21 hours and I'm down to 15%. So it isn't always the ammzing battery life I've written about. Tapatalk (parent ap to xda's app) might be a battery offender. Already posted once about keyboard lag so there might be something going on with their code.
[Atrix 4G General] jesuis_lm:
Hi I´m a new user but I have more that 30 day with my atrix and I have the same battery problems but Friends this is no mystery the problem is consumption.

If the battery is 1920 = 1880mah means that in order to make use 24H or more of global consumption should be to approximately 78.33ma. By formula according to wiki it's time to download = Electric charge mha Battery / Power Consumption positive.

As 24 = 1880mah / X is equal to X = 1880mah/24H = 78.33ma

My consumption according to the Battery Monitor Widget is between 166ma to 355ma up so I have only 11.3 to 5.2 hours of use I believe I am in that range.

Now I will perform tests to determine what really consumes me.

I will be reporting.

PD: I think it would be of great help if the holders of those fabulous Atrix lasting up to 36H to indicate that we could use the LCD has the powertutor and what is your average consumption and the Battery Monitor Widget.

Greetings
[Atrix 4G General] hem.acharya:
My best result

what do you guys think. i am not using the 3g much and rooted with gingerblur 3.5

attached are my results
[Atrix 4G General] nightsbird:
One thing I have noticed with both the atrix and bravo is removing yahoo mail and messenger apps greatly improved battery life. Not sure who actually uses them so YMMV
[Atrix 4G General] martinisadork:
My battery life was terrible until I started running gingerblur and now it is pretty good I think, on par with all the other smartphones.

I think the motorola socialnetworking services are huge culprits on battery drain. Take any facebook, twitter, etc accounts out of your blur account and use the regular facebook, twitter apps instead.
[Atrix 4G General] DiamondJay20:
the battery life on this phone is amazing, what are you talking about? or maybe you haven't had an Inspire 4G, which gets less than half of this phone. Remember, the recent 2 updates for Atrix are supposed to increase battery life. Also, you can uninstall bloatware on this phone that you can't on Inspire.
[Atrix 4G General] hotweels258:
On my phone, the display is using a HUGE amount of battery while on auto brightness. (47-56%) Is there any to lower this while keeping it on auto?
[Atrix 4G General] PuerkitoBio:
Exactly. I don't really understand this post (I do understand the "getting better mileage" parts, but not the "this phone's battery sucks" part) . Had a Galaxy S before, I had to charge at least an hour during the day to get through the day. This one goes to sleep with life to spare.

Sent from my Atrix