I recently bought a droid 4. My battery runs dead in a few hours with nothing but the phone being on. I spoke to someone at verizon and was told to shut down apps I'm not using. I thought apps were suppposed to shut down when you stopped using them but according to the running services screen in the application section of settings they seem to turn back on and run by themselves. There are apps running there and turning on that I don't want on, but can't seem to get them to stay off. For example verizon locator agent. I don't need this on all the time. Googale maps, I don't need this running all the time and weather? But they all keep turning themselves back on after I've shut them down. I'm beginning to think this was not a good phone to buy. I'm also thinking that there needs to be a place to get info on what apps are important and which are not. For those of us that would like to have the convenience of searching the web or a map while away from our computer and only really use phone, text and email There should be somewhere to get answers to these issues. I'm not seeing them however. Can some one point me in the right direction?
