cyanogenmod destroying droid battery life?

[slackerinabox]

It feels like I'm getting really terrible battery life post mod- about 5 hours of standby or mere 45 minutes of use (I charged my phone completely, browsed the web while waiting for a plane for 40 minutes and the battery went from 90% to 5%).

I'm not overclocking anymore so I'm baffled. The droid used to have what I considered spectacular battery life (coming from a palm pre), now something is killing it quickly. Is it normal for battery life to suck so much post mod?

 

[Spoooon]

Nope. Something is going on with an app or something. What does it show when you look at what's using the battery?

edit: One thing that happened to me was that a bug in Beautiful Widgets caused it to try to get a GPS fix while I was deep in the bowels of my office building. Killed 50% of the battery in an hour or two.

 

[Phobic9]

Battery life on my Droid running the latest Cyanogen is relatively good and my Droid is OC'd to 1.3 GHz. I agree with Spoon, something must be running or perhaps the ROM was glitched when it was flashed.

 

[slackerinabox]

Nope. Something is going on with an app or something. What does it show when you look at what's using the battery?

Dumb question, how can I tell what's using the battery? Just fire up a task killer/manager?

 

[dguy6789]

Go into settings on the phone then status. You should see a battery life usage thingy.

 

[Phobic9]

Dumb question, how can I tell what's using the battery? Just fire up a task killer/manager?

Settings >> About Phone >> Battery >> Battery Use

 

[slackerinabox]

Thanks guys - Beautiful widgets was taking up 35% of my battery life... Which seems a bit much, so I uninstalled it. Also, my car charger (original Motorola car dock) doesn't seem to charge as fast as google maps uses battery power - I left the house with 100% battery, immediately docked my phone and used google maps for about an hour - unplugged the phone from the dock and the battery life was at 60%. Obviously, using the gps and screen on for an hour will eat up battery, but I assumed the charger would "keep up"

 

[Spoooon]

Thanks guys - Beautiful widgets was taking up 35% of my battery life... Which seems a bit much, so I uninstalled it. Also, my car charger (original Motorola car dock) doesn't seem to charge as fast as google maps uses battery power - I left the house with 100% battery, immediately docked my phone and used google maps for about an hour - unplugged the phone from the dock and the battery life was at 60%. Obviously, using the gps and screen on for an hour will eat up battery, but I assumed the charger would "keep up"

It shouldn't be doing that.

I've been unplugged for 6 hours. Beautiful Widgets is at 3%. Maps, which I used for all of about 2 minutes is also at 3%. Do you have it set to use GPS instead of Geolocation? Refreshing too frequently?

edit: I got lazy and purchased a Rocketfish USB adaptor for the car. It charges faster than GPS uses the battery.