Motorola Droid battery very hot and losing charge quickly.

I have noticed that since charging the phone yesterday and playing around with it the battery becomes very hot and it would not hold a decent charge. I left it plugged into the wall charger overnight and when I left the house this morning it was at 100% charge. Less than 4 hours later the battery was again hot as can be and I was under 15% charge and getting the notice that I needed to charge the battery. I closed all running applications that I could several times during the morning, yet it still ran hot and ran out quickly.

I checked google and could not find anything about it other than a few pre release reviews that mentioned the same thing I experienced, but no solutions.

Any ideas/advice?

Accepted answers

kenyu73

Using Spare Parts, look in "Partial Wake Usage"... It should be "Android System" on the top of the list. Also, looks in Settings --> about --> status... scroll to the bottom... the "awake" time should be a relativelly small percentage. The "awake" counter should stop once you lock you screen. If that "awake" counter never stops, then you have a renagade application!

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kenyu73

Go to the Market and download Spare Parts. It will list the top running CPU applications as well as top usage for battery. You have something running that's "pegging" out your phone I'm sure.

GhostBravo

Taken from another forum

"Be sure to update the PRL, frequently or when you travel. You accomplish this by dialing *228 and entering option 2. It is not done for you automatically when you get the phone (I don't think).

This helps the phone to have an up-to-date map of the cell towers, connecting to nearer ones with less power than far thar ones with more power. The excessive power drains the battery, overheats the circuits and then the phone shuts down (crashes?). So this is a possibility. Anyway ... do the procedure and then if you take it back to Verizon and the guy tells you to do this and come back later, you can say you did."

bryada

I did the *228 and downloaded spare parts, will see what happens. Thanks!

kenyu73

bryada

For "Partial Wake Useage" e-mail takes up about 90% of the useage, android system is a very small bar followed by an almost not there bar for dialer, google and messaging. and I notice in the short time it has been up doing nothing battery life has dropped to 90%. I havent e-mailed anyone either.