This thread has been an eye opener. Glad to see that I was not the only one who noticed the meter being so wrong most of the time and also glad to see that after several complete drains/charges, things seem to be leveling out for most folks posting here. I am a few days into my Moment ownership and seem to be noticing improvement each day. One key thing has my attention, though... Sleep Time.
I traded my Hero for the Moment on 11-5-09. I freaked out on 11-6-09 when, after full 8 hour charge, it was dead in 3.5 hours of what I thought was mostly sleep time. I downloaded "Spare Parts" from the market and was shocked to see that my phone was not sleeping 65% of the time. My Hero would sleep an average of 85% of the time with my usage, which is the same with the moment. I don't think the initial tinkering with the phone I did can account for the fact that this phone is only sleeping 35% of the time. I was using "Advanced Task Manager" and had it running as a process to kill off apps. I am starting to think that this was actually waking my phone up to kill apps. I am testing this today and hope to have some answer. If that is not it, I will have to try to figure out what is keeping my phone awake. I also cut off the Background Data feature. I have the Advanced Task Manager Kill Widget on the desktop and just press it a few times a day now to get rid of background apps rather than letting it run all the time "hunting" apps.
Has anyone else noticed that their Moment is not sleeping like it should?
This was what was killing the Hero battery before the culprit was found and a temporary fix detailed. It involved using a different SMS app and cutting the native app notification off. I have not seen any such posts on the Moment so I don't believe this to be an issue.
I also noticed that under Settings > About Phone > Status only "Uptime" is listed and not "Sleep Time" as well. (It's there in SenseUI on the Hero) Am I missing it or is Spare Parts the only way to find out this information?