My Droid X definitely has a battery or battery hog problem... Screenshots Inside

[Talldarknfugly]

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First battery life was poor, so I went to VZ store to get it replaced.
Battery got replaced there, but the store attendant had already opened the "new battery packet" before he came out, so there's a possibility he just cycled the previous complainant's battery to me.
I ran the "new" battery to the ground, then recharged twice in a row as recommended here and there online.

I have stripped my phone of most widgets and ALL social networking accounts. I have also tweaked the phone settings to yield the least power utilization possible. I feel like I've pretty much crippled the phone almost to a halt so only the bare minimum apps are constantly running.

For example, check out my home screen. I'm running adw to reduce screen count from 7 to 2. My 2 screens are as follows:
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My Email delivery settings. I have 1 gmail account and one exchange account for work.

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My Battery Profile

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I have no weather, time or other widgets running. Definitely nothing that needs updating except for my Calendar appointments widget, yet my battery drains from 100% to 10% in within 10 hrs of moderate use. By moderate use, I mean NO GPS, NO WiFi, little browsing, 30mins of talk-time, etc...

The only explanation I can come up with is this guy here... "Mediaserver". I just installed OSMonitor last night and noticed today that I've had Mediaserver running in the background using up to 98% CPU at times and fluctuating at an average of 85% for hours on end. I can't kill or stop this process for naught.

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Apart from replacing the battery, does anyone have any other ideas why this could be happening? I'm heading to Verizon later today to get a brand new battery replaced and this time, I'm asking them to let me watch while they open the package. My patience is wearing out...

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[drummer]

I don't understand what the problem is. 10 hours with moderate use is exactly what you should be getting. Are you new to smartphones? I use no GPS, no wifi, little browsing, and just texting and no widgets and I get 10-12 hours tops. Most of the people on here who claim to get 17 hours are either exaggerating or are barely even unlocking the phone for hours.

However, if you want to slightly improve, you could use the gmail app for email which automatically receives email and turn your actual email app as pictured above to only fetch manually. That's a little less syncing for your battery to deal with. Also, is your brightness set under 20%?

But like I said.. 10 hours is normal. Don't read these boards too much.. you'll start expecting a battery that never dies

[didiwags]

Umm yeah that is good battery life!!! Welcome to the smartphone world!!! They dont last days on in like regular ole phones do!!!

[BOWIE]

I don't understand what the problem is. 10 hours with moderate use is exactly what you should be getting.

I agree. People want to have the huge screen, powerful processing, slim design, but they don't want the battery to to drain quickly. You can't have it all.

Regarding the Media Server thing using 98% of your CPU, that sounds strange. When I monitor the CPU, it averages between 6 and 11% when nothing is happening. And, half of that is just the CPU monitor itself.

[drummer]

I'm wondering if you did a good amount of downloading from the app store, and if that correlates at all. I know when I had the psx app stuck on authorizing purchase my battery widget showed "Media" as using a lot of network use but I discovered it was coming from the store

[C-had]

I get around 10 hours or so on mine also. I have wifi on all the time. I text about 50-100 messages during the day, check fb pretty regular, make 3 to 4 10-20 min calls. In the evenings I usually have 40-50% battery left so I watch or try to watch youtube vids or something on tv.com just because I have battery left. Now when I first got my X the battery wouldn't last 6 hours because I wouldn't leave it alone, but now I get easily 10 hours. Seems to have better battery life than my droid did. Only smartphone I had with better battery life was a blackberry but thats really apples to oranges i would say

[didiwags]

^^^ I agree about the blackberry comment. But even then I had to charge my curve every other night!!!

[C-had]

^^^ I agree about the blackberry comment. But even then I had to charge my curve every other night!!!

I had a storm and it was the same. But over all compared to the droid or droid x those phones were nothing. Don't get me wrong they do what they do very well but they do not have the cpu a droid x does nor the screen size. I am sure battery life will get better with newer phones but realistically coud you imagine running a 1 gig processor for more than 10 hours on such a small battery? People want faster this and that but don't want to compromise anything for it and right now thats impossible.

[Talldarknfugly]

I'm used to the blackberry and didn't really expect to have awesome battery life on the X, but I guess I'm gauging my experience based on what I read from other posters here, who I feel should have no reason to lie about their battery lives. From what I've read, some people are experiencing much better performance from their batteries than I am so naturally, I imagine something's wrong with mine. What baffles me is that it seems people are running 10 times more apps, widgets and stuff than I am, yet achieving longer battery use so I had to speak on it.
I'll wait for the release of the extended life batteries and get a couple of them so I can just rotate them like I did with my BB Bold, I guess. Thanks for all the responses, guys

[DoctorOta]

There could be other factors in theirs those. The could be running lower screen brightness which honestly helps a ton, different battery settings, the may have other widgets and apps completely shut down or use their phones in compleetely different manners not to mention also have their phones broken in. Like they say batteries really take 5 cycles or so to get their full useful charge. 10 hours isn't too bad with moderate use but i would adjust your brightness settings. My friend and i found that running on 20% brightness is perfectly fine for indoor lighting and there's apps to run that make it so screen adjustment is just a tap away. One i know off of the top of my head is Brightness adjust. I say give it a shot and see how that affects your phone and if not just enjoy especially since 10 hours isn't horrid.