Motorola Smartphones With Gingerbread May Experience Battery Issues after DST

[dgstorm]

Apparently, Motorola themselves have confirmed in a Tweet that they uncovered an odd problem with many of their Android smartphones. If you have a Moto phone that is running Gingerbread, you could experience weak battery life issues after the Daylight Savings Time change. Luckily, it isn't a major issue that will require anything drastic like a patch. In fact, all you need to do to fix the issue is reboot your phone. But you already do that once every week or two anyway don't you?

Source: @Motorola Twitter

 

[Dave12308]

I was going to say that this is VERY weird and one of the weirdest things i'd ever heard. But then I remembered we're talking about a company that released a phone where the camera wouldn't autofocus depending on the date (OG Droid Android 2.0 camera bug).

What is it with Motorola and date-related oddities?

 

[gadgetrants]

Woke up today with a warm phone (33C), and took a peek at System Panel: seems that starting around 10pm Sunday night, com.motorola.process.system jumped up to 50% or 60% CPU, and steadily churned away until this morning -- when I rebooted. I'd call that "battery life issues."

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-Matt

 

[sb1831]

Looks like the motorola version of the iPhone New Years alarm issue LOL.

 

[NoBloatware]

Will I have to reboot after every change to DST? Just this one time? What about "spring forward"?

 

[chewy74]

Pssh, I reboot at least twice per day for my d1. No worries

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You had me at herro

 

[kylo77]

I definitely experienced this...strange as it may be. A reboot did clear it. Did they provide any explanation????

 

[kylo77]

What app is that below tracking the battery and other usage?????

Woke up today with a warm phone (33C), and took a peek at System Panel: seems that starting around 10pm Sunday night, com.motorola.process.system jumped up to 50% or 60% CPU, and steadily churned away until this morning -- when I rebooted. I'd call that "battery life issues."

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-Matt

 

[FunN4Lo]

My Droid has been warm all day and the batt was nearly dead when I got home. (not normal) Just thought I used it more than normal. Good thread!

 

[lanza_david]

I was getting a notification about high processor use today, so after I saw this about the moto DST issue, I have rebooted several times and now I'm getting a force close for com.motorola.process.system ALL the time. Very frequently. Anyone getting this?

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[NoBloatware]

We won't have to worry about "spring forward" because the D3 will have an update by then, I assume.

 

[Garemlin]

Had the issue yesterday too. With about the same usage as normal I was down to 20% at around the same time of day I usually still have 50-60%

 

[LT*]

Both D3s I have did this too. Reboot seems to fix it with no issues.

 

[warped1987]

Every week or two
? Yeah right. I had to reset mine every hour or two
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[idk5]

i was wondering why my extended battery died in 6 hours