Ok I recently bought the RAZR MAXX with the 16GB internal storage(but you can only use 8 of it...ssshhhh) and the 21 hours of promised talk time. I actually had to use my phone as a phone yesterday but I wasnt worried. I had the RAZR MAXX.
I unplugged around 6:00AM. 100% charge.
Talked for maybe on hour around lunch.
By 2:30 I was down to 40% -there was no way this was going to last all night so I plugged it in while I could
I was able to get it back up to 70% before I left the office at 4PM.
I talked for a few hours after unplugging it between 5 and 8pm.
By the time I got off my call at 8:30PM my phone is at 10% and battery indicator is red.
So with the 30% bump i gave the phone in the middle of the day I went through 120% of battery life.(100% down to 40% then 70% down to 10%) If I didnt bump it during the day I would have died by 7 at the latest.
Here is my battery break down at 10:30PM...
Total time since last 'full charge'(this time includes the 30% bump) - 14 hour 40 minutes
Battery level 10%(I havent touched it since 8:30)
Call Time usage - 61% - 4 hours 3 minutes - ummm where is my 21 hours of talk time
Operating system - 16% 2 hr 37 min 20 kb sent 97 kb received
Display - 14% 3 hour 59 min (this is with the screen set to 'battery saver' mode which dims the screen)
Angry Birds Rio 3% 15 minutes
Standby 2%
Idle 2% 10 hours 40 mins
So I talked for 4 hours/3 minutes and used 61% of my charge(and that is with a 30% bump). The rest is just operating system and display. The phone was idle for over 10 hours out of the 14 it was unplugged and my battery is at 10%???
How long can Verizon get away with this marketing scam before people start to call them on it?? I was told by level 2 tech support at Verizon(and I quote) "Sir, the 21 hours of talk time was acheived in a lab under ideal circumstances...you wont get these same figures"...omg...I understand that I wont get the 'lab' figures but I would atleast expect to get close to that figure...or maybe 2/3 of that figure...or maybe half of that figure(kind of like the half of the internal storage I get to use....sssshhhh)...
Do I have another dud RAZR MAXX? Is anyone really getting anywhere close to 10 hours of talk time let alone 21...?? Can others who actually use the phone as a phone post their battery figures at the end of the day? I need to see if it is just my phone or if it is just another Verizon deception? Thanks
