I fixed the battery problems of my Motorola Droid RAZR
I fixed the battery problems of my Motorola Droid RAZR
During my vacation, my Motorola Droid RAZR was a real pain, the battery drained so fast I had to put it on sleep mode to try to maintain enough juice to be able to make calls.
I was quite frustrated and promise myself to return to Verizon to have it checked and changed if needed. I did everything needed to have to smartphone hold a charge for at least 10 hours but nothing worked, 6 hours was the very maximum I could get from the Droid RAZR while I could have the Motorola Droid X running for almost 24hours.
If I forgot to put it on charge at the hotel, the android phone would be off the next day and would take so much time to charge in the car that it would not be useable the next day, yes it was that bad even with Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth, and data background turned off! What the point of having a very powerful smartphone if the only way to use the features is to have it plugged in?
Until… at the airport waiting for my flight back home I realized that my live wallpaper might be the problem, I was using the very cool Map live wallpaper which show my location in the background – great but something I totally forgot is that live wallpaper is constantly using the GPS for the location and downloading the local map… each time I move around the thing is working hard to keep the wallpaper updated. Nice but very costly.
I replaced this cool live one by regular static wallpaper, et voila! No more battery drainage and after re-adding Wi-Fi, background data and GPS my Droid RAZR holds the charge for at least 12hours. As I write, I’m still on last night charge and I’m still at 60%.
Bottom line, if the battery of your Motorola Droid RAZR is going out fast, check if there is not a cool app running 100% of the time in the background. In my case it was the Maps live wallpaper.
