TERRIBLE battery life

[JoeJxn]

tl;dr - 8 hours of battery life. wtf.



For some reason, I have absolutely horrible battery life.

I fully charged it at about 2pm today.

I downloaded a few apps, did a little browsing, not much texting today. I listened to Pandora for a while, and I had my facebook and twitter widgets open, and this one for gaming news widget, and played a game for maybe 10 minutes

8 o'clock rolls around, and I have to go into work for a couple hours. My battery is at 45%, I'm like "Ok this will last me until I get off work at 12."

I get to work 8:45, turn on Pandora, send a few texts, and just let Pandora run.

10:30pm my phone dies...So I went through a full battery in 8 hours. How is this possible?


And I was killing tasks that I wasn't using with Astro.



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[bomber889]

Pandora is a huge battery drainer.

 

[JoeJxn]

Pandora is a huge battery drainer.

Is it? I love it too much. I've grown bored of my iTunes collection so this is great to listen to at work

Is Slacker as bad or any better?

 

[bomber889]

All the radio apps are battery drainers. Why don't you just bring in a charger to work? Also, you can turn off auto sync if you want. Turn off wifi and bluetooth when not using it. turn down your brightness

 

[JoeJxn]

I have it on Auto Brightness, and I never have WiFi on unless I'm at home, never have bluetooth on either

I bring a charger, but idk, I'd still like to not have to worry about that

Is this battery worth it?

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[bomber889]

Try turning it down to the lowest brightness.
Also, IMO I don't think that is worth it because you can get another standard battery off amazon for 8 bucks instead of spending 60.

 

[titans]

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[Axium]

Pandora is a huge battery drainer.

Haha indeed. When I first got my phone my battery lasted almost? 6ish hours. Can't remember, but it died SO fast.


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[Barkleyfan]

If you wanna dive into root, undervolted kernels will extend your battery alot. Pandora is still a thirsty app, but it gets more manageable with a good kernel. The native Froyo kernel is even better than stock 2.1 for battery life. Another battery saver is actually wifi. A poor 3G signal eats more juice than the wifi radio does.

 

[AlmostHumaN]

I had the same problem until I decided to uninstall some apps I had downloaded over the last week or so. Must have been a bad app because that solved the problem. Battery life is back to normal.

 

[LifeIsABeach]

I have two suggestions:

1. Turn off the display while in work and listening to Pandora.

2. Stop killing tasks. That just takes more resources to restart them.

 

[Bill_Texas]

I am just coming off of a Blackberry storm and I used to use Pandora on it a lot. I never had a battery drain issue using it. As a matter of fact, I am finding the battery life on the storm to be much better than the droid. Maybe a few more firmware updates will fix this.

I could easily get 2 full days on the storm with heavy use. I am lucky to get a full day with the droid. The storm originally had a battery issue but was fixed with firware updates.

 

[Barkleyfan]

If you wanna get 2 days of heavy use on a Droid, you will need an extended battery.

 

[straylight]

Yep, stop killing tasks, but more importantly make sure you completely exit pandora when you are done. Otherwise it will run in the background.

 

[JoeJxn]

I am just coming off of a Blackberry storm and I used to use Pandora on it a lot. I never had a battery drain issue using it. As a matter of fact, I am finding the battery life on the storm to be much better than the droid. Maybe a few more firmware updates will fix this.

I could easily get 2 full days on the storm with heavy use. I am lucky to get a full day with the droid. The storm originally had a battery issue but was fixed with firware updates.

Yea I came from the Storm too. And I could run Pandora/Slacker all night

I usually got 1 1/2 days out of my battery. But it's no problem, gonna be buying a 2nd battery for emergencies, but like I said, I wish I would'nt have to worry about this.