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Battery Issue after update?

My battery seems to drain down very quick now, I have an app that shows battery % and in just a little checking out websites suck as Facebook it can drop to 75% in less than an hour and down to 25% in 4 hours. I use task manager and stop programs after using so nothing is running and GPS is off and WIFI off too. This seems pretty bad that battery can drain completely in 6-1/2 hours like it did yesterday and di not do any calling or texting just checked Facebook and emails.

I'm not blaming the update as I thought it was bad before but now it does seem worse always charging back up before I go somewhere. My friend has IPhone and does same as I and only charges up at night. Any Ideas?

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yoworm

Mine seems to be draining faster than normal as well. I do however leave GPS all of the time but I did before the update too. I normally charge once a day since the update I charge at least 1.5 to two times a day.

Herbb623

I agree. I have 3 Fascinates and the battery just does not seem to last as long post DL09.

All three:

GPS off, Wifi off, Bluetooth off, All syncs set to manual,

Wallpaper set to solid black. ( super amoled uses no power to display black. )

No games, no market apps running.

Used to get 2 days out of them this way easy.. ( phone calls, lots of texting, some web viewing. )

Now only seem to get about 1 day.

Must be something 'new' running in backgroud maybe ??? If so, how do we find it and turn it off.

apeast

My fascinate drains very rapidly now, brand new battery. After update, I have to charge every day.

They need to fix this.

mdram4x4

mine lasts fine, from 6am to 6pm @ 15-20%

there are times it drains fast, i reboot and it fixes it

bigfrank69

I took phone off charger this morning and it sat hour and a half with one 9 minute call and it dropped to 87 percent. I have a gauge that shows the percent left which is nice and that seems bad that battery is dropping so soon. Mine lasts half a day and have to charge again no good

OsheaG

What I recommend you do is charge the device to full power. Once it reaches this point, power the device off. You will then need to remove the battery and let the device sit for 15 seconds. Then, replace the battery and you power issue should be resolved.

M91-30

the update enables the touch panel backlight to be lit whenever you use it. common sense tells us this will decrease battery life. this being said, my battery life seems about the same as before under light usage. I see two to three days regularly out of my phone with the standard 1500MAh battery. there are various battery system resetting techniques to be done, if you feel it's insuficcient, though. check xda developers for those.

Indianchief

It was stated in an earlier post that if you power down your phone before charging, the battery last longer (don't ask me why). I always turn my phone off while charging and it does indeed extend your battery life. After the update, it seems even better not worse. I get two to three days with moderate use, one day with heavy use.

NuDroidUsrr

What do you consider moderate use and heavy use?

HarleyDrifter

Have you checked the phone's "Battery Use Monitor"? When I first got mine I checked it and found that the display was consuming like 70% of my battery power. Mostly, this was just from me playing around with it.

Check your battery use:

Menu > Settings > About Phone > Battery Use

This will tell you where your battery power is going. For example, what mine says tonight is this:

16 hours 47 minutes since last unplugged (battery power remaining about 70%)

Voice Calls 40%

Display 19%

Cell Standby 17%

Phone Idle 12%

Google Maps 11%

Android Live Wallpaper 2%

Android System 2%

Furthermore, I turned my display all the way down to the minimum and found it to be more than sufficient for everything except for outside on a bright day. I also set automatic brightness adjustment to "off". Check your display setting here:

Menu > Settings >Sound&Display>Brightness

I admit that I haven't downloaded the latest update yet (still waiting for you guinea pigs to find all the bugs) but when I do, I'll keep you posted..

- Lance

M91-30

2 days, 22 hours unplugged. 48% battery left as per battstatt app. post dl09 update.

45% cell standby

29% phone idle

12% voice calls

12% display

OsheaG

Sorry about the issue you're having with the battery life on you phone. When you charge your phone do you have it powered off? Charging the phone with it being powered off holds the life of the battery longer.

bigfrank69

Osheag I dont see how that can help being on or off while charging but if you can give more facts how that makes a difference I will try it. Thanks

bigfrank69

Im sorry but I do not buy what your saying unless you really dont use phone at all. I have read many things about phone and not complaints and it seeems phone does not last that long with out charging.

M91-30

Bri333

I can't get my phone to stay off when charging. It turns itself right back on. Anyone know how to fix this?

I, too, noticed worse battery life after the DL09 update and figured it was the backlight at bottom. Is there a way to set a timeout on the backlight?

mwnahas

Check under settings, applications, development, STAY AWAKE. If checked it will STAY AWAKE when charging.

bigfrank69

Flash-Lite just because you have stay awake while your charging on wont hurt battery life as it is charging. I have Pandora radio screen turned on while listening and put on charger and it is all lit up and the phone still charges to 100%

rudyo760

I must be blessed... I have owned a Fascinate for 3 weeks... my battery life lasts 2.5 days. I use some internet, 5-7 texts a day and just a few phone calls..... I am amazed.

bigfrank69

rudyo760 wrote:
I must be blessed... I have owned a Fascinate for 3 weeks... my battery life lasts 2.5 days. I use some internet, 5-7 texts a day and just a few phone calls..... I am amazed.

You must be blessed because my phone with everything turned off except phone power itself drops 25% over night idle

PJNC284

I could maybe go 2 days with minimal use but I put mine on the charger every night since it isn't good to constantly drain the batteries all the way down. Not to mention DL30 Froyo is a bit more a battery hog than DL09 Eclair as shown below with pretty much the same usage. And if you ever wondered why the battery drops quickly from 100 or may show less than 100 when you take it off the charger, you can see the trickle charge that is being used in the screenshots.

DL09- wifi only

DL30 - 3G only

And just for amusement, I checked to see how much continuous usage would kill the battery. Took ~4.5hrs on max brightness of watching shows on the tv.com app and using flash through the browser to play the google honeycomb event from last week.

starmanjb

Yes. I'm having the same problem. Replaced the battery, no change. Replaced the phone, no change. Battery hardly runs 10-11 hours before I get the orange icon and "Connect Phone To Charger" message. This needs fixed.

PO_pack_mule

starmanjb wrote:
Yes. I'm having the same problem. Replaced the battery, no change. Replaced the phone, no change. Battery hardly runs 10-11 hours before I get the orange icon and "Connect Phone To Charger" message. This needs fixed.

From what I've been reading, the battery itself has a sort of "mini computer chip" on it that communicates with the phone. You cannot overcharge the battery and likewise it will not let you completely discharge the battery either. It also will not develop a "memory" and it likes to be charged before you get the warning message.

Best things to do to improve the battery life:

1. Change the wallpaper from "live" to something static - the darker the better if possible.

2. If out of cell coverage, switch to airplane mode. The worse your coverage/signal is, the more juice your phone will use to try and boost.

3. Change to a longer interval for backup/sync settings.

4. Change polling frequency for email.

5. Lower brightness setting for screen.

6. Lower timeout setting for screen.

7. Use the Task Manager to close unnecessary apps.

Please excuse if this is duplicated!

- For me, I noticed a huge difference in just changing the wallpaper. The screen is way nice, but it likes the juice!

DonM

I have looked over the suggestions here and I have been following the vast majority for a while but I encountered something that may be of interest.

I recently uninstalled an app as an experiment to see if removing it had any effect on the phone. It has a reputation of heavy processor use and I wanted to see if removing it caused the phone to act "zippier". I notice nothing different after a few hours so I reinstalled. Lo and behold my battery use was markedly better. I went from a charged-to-drained time of a little over one day to slightly over two. Granted this isn't great battery life but it was a significant improvement over what I had.

I can't explain what exactly happened. I reinstalled from the website, the initial install back in October the reinstall last month. There have been a few minor updates between but when I went over the various install logs at the site there was no smoking gun that would explain what happened besides I allowed all OTA updates when prompted.

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