Motorola droid battery usage help

[carloscldz]

hi, i own the droid 1 and i have some questions about the phones battery usage, c the thing is tht the phones battery dies very quick. For example lets say that the phone is fully charged and 4 hrs later its in 30 percent. The reasons are because i use wi fi to downlaod aps, and use apps that use wi fi for about a hr and a half and i hav the brightness on 0 also i made a couple calls and total minutes used in those calls where about 20 total, i also listened to about 4 songs using the speaker, and now the phone is in 30 % its been about fours hrs since it was fully charged? is tht normal?lol and the other day it was in like 20 percent then i turned it off and turned it back on and the battery percent was at 60... well any advice or answers would be helpful.

 

[ClumsyNinja21]

Battery drainage has been the topic of many discussions for the og(original Droid).
Give us some background, ie r u rooted? Task killer? Apps running in background? Sync? GPS? New og? Used? Etc.
As u probably guessed, there are ALOT of variables...

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[carloscldz]

my droid isnt rooted, and yes i do use task killer and well the background apps would be facebook and the other original apps that come with the phone and nothing is syncing and the gps is off

 

[ClumsyNinja21]

First off u should drop the task killer. It does nothing but drain more battery. Second search this forum for battery drain. There r a couple of really detailed posts on non rooted battery life. Third see second. u will find a ton of info when u search battery drain.

 

[carloscldz]

lol ok thxs

 

[carloscldz]

i didnt find anythin useful so some1 help me D:

 

[jdailey1981]

I recommend using watchdog. This is not a task killer, but it watches active apps and it throws an alert of there is an app hogging ram. Gives you option to kill. I stopped ATK since going to watchdog.

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[naknak95]

The top 3 things that drain the battery are the On-screen Display, Browser, and Cell Standby. You could also try buying a bigger battery and/or using the app Advanced Task Killer to kill background apps and save more battery.