Battery Life On Droid

HarleySTKR
Newbie

I'm using the GPS/mapping on my droid and the car charger can not keep up with the drain on the phone. Are there any other options for charging, or other chargers available?

I know the standard life of my battery is around 6 - 8 hrs per day, but the map feature with routing is way over the charging capacity of the verizon car charger.

 

I did get the Froyo update on Saturday night, which makes the device faster and adds more features, but hasn't seemed to change the battery drain on the droid.

 

Thanks!

 

Jerry

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m2jpilot
Newbie

Have you downloaded the Auto Kill from the market?  If  not, do so, then goto the settings and set it to autokill.  I set mine to every hour. You can set it to ignore programs you dont want it to kill like email and such

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PJNC284
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The phone is probably overheating.  Get a vent mount instead of using a dash/window mount.  I have one of those generic $5 mounts from walmart and haven't had any issues with battery drain or overheating while using nav since.

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