[Q] MAXX High Battery Usage (High Android OS Usage)

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an21281

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Not sure why this worked, but it did. At least through one day of testing ;)

I ready elsewhere on Droid X forum someplace I think about draining the battery completely until your phone shuts off and then recharging. It's supposed to re-calibrate it. Sounds sketchy at best I know, but it seems to have worked!

Yes this works and is the best way to calibrate the battery, I do it once a month... Drain till it powers off, charge the phone off to 100% and turn on.

Sent from my XT1080 using Tapatalk
 

Y_Yan_C

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Jan 25, 2010
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Yes this works and is the best way to calibrate the battery, I do it once a month... Drain till it powers off, charge the phone off to 100% and turn on.

Sent from my XT1080 using Tapatalk

I didn't think calibration is the problem here, as the topic and the screenshot suggest, the Android OS usage is abnormally hiigh
 

spiral777

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Oct 21, 2011
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Google Pixel
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Hi I have a just got a MAXX and updated to 4.4 without root. I found that my battery is not staying up as long as it should, it lasts for like 18 hours. The following are the details:

- Canadian user, Fido sim card, exceptionally bad reception (3 bars tops indoors) (My Phonto Q / Razr Maxx gets full bar when I plug in the same sim card)

- Screen On time at about 3-4 hours

- Rarely turn on data

- Rarely Game on Phone

- Non-rooted

- I keep wifi turned on, connected most of the time

- Use apex launcher instead of MotLauncher

- Active Display, Touchless Control on

- Location Services are in "Battery Saving Mode" (Meaning the phone uses wifi and mobile network to estimate location)


Is anyone else experiencing the same problem? If so, is there any solution? I see a similar thread made early but that is for the Ultra, and even the ultra got around 12 hours of discharge time

Edit: So far based on doogald 's reply, I suspect its the poor reception thats draining the battery, the following photos shows the reception differences across different devices with the same sim card


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Droid Maxx XT1080 with fido sim card (KK Stock w/o root)


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Razr Maxx XT910 with the same fido sim card (ICS Stock with root)


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Razr Maxx XT910 with the same fido sim card (KK CM11 with root)


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Photon Q XT897 with the same fido sim card (JB CarbonRom with Root)

one thing that helped me was go into settings, than developer options...and scroll down to background process limit....(dont need root)

i havent known this to effect anything...and i dont know what the standard limit is...but i changed it to at most 3 processes...instead of the standard limit
 

naixx

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Guys, thats awful. Airplane mode + wifi. Kitkat 4.4 rooted.
73% by Android OS.
 

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Jumnhy

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Apr 6, 2011
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Interesting. Yeah, doesn't appear to work on the Moto phones. I see from the screenshot above that "suspend_backoff" is the wakelock causing you issues-which is interesting. I had the same problem, and just got my battery life back today by changing a setting in WiFi. Go to WiFi>Advanced>Wi-Fi frequency band and change it from "Auto" to 2.4GHz only. That worked for me--although I have ongoing questions as to whether it messed up my voice inputs. Will update if I learn anything more!