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Help What's your battery life?

RocketFoot

RocketFoot

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OK folks, we all know about the battery life problem with these phones and I'm sure most have been experimenting with power saver apps...so, what are you up to in battery life?

I am coming up on 48 hours on one charge! (20% left right now) with normal to light use.
All I am using is JuiceDefender Beta with custom settings...I still want to try a task killer to make sure the gallery stays off when I'm not using it.
 
I'm a fairly light to medium new user. I have sync, wi-fi, gps etc turned off. It's down just a little after 24 hrs. Turning sync off seemed to make a big difference. I was lucky to get 12 or so before. No power saving apps.
 
Its now day 5 that Ive had it,and at 14 hours ....its only down to half charge.Getting better anyway.It was only like 3 hours at first when it would die on me. :(
 
I am done worrying about battery life,the best mobile device for battery use i have ever owned is my 4th gen ipod touch,if i do not touch it and leave the wifi on 3 days it will last,even light use 2 days.
 
I went 18 hours before it hit 20% today. I had data turned off which helps a lot. I'm going to try turning off auto sync and see how much more that adds once I have a full charge.
 
I would love to hear how you all are getting such great life.

DISCLAIMER:I have only charged once, so that may be part of my issue.

2 calls (12 min. used) and 2 apps downloaded. Maybe 30 min. of Pandora. Left 3G on from 8 AM until 9 PM, when I got a yellow bar.

No running apps but the basic google mail, android system and swype.
 
I can get close to 2 days if I make sure I turn off my 3g, lowest brightness, I use quick setting and also I make sure that the background Data setting is off. Doing all of this is what I do.
 
I estimate I'm looking at about 30 hours until dead with GPS, wifi, etc. disabled. I've gotten pretty aggressive about killing apps as well. I still have an occasional day where the charge will run down much faster for no apparent reason, and then the next day it's back to 30 hours or so.
 
I was getting around 24 hours using the VM+Xiona now Im getting around 35 with RodimusROM v1.2.2 I also have any stock app I dont use removed.

I removed stock email,gmail,mms,calendar and use replacements that dont load into memory.
 
My usage varies a lot.

When I use the GPS and apps a lot I get maybe 10 hours. If i'm streaming live audio, I get about 6-8 hours.

On lighter use (mostly stand by time with only calls and texts and occaisonal app use) I can get close to 35 hours on a charge and still have 20-30% left. I also have GPS and data off. Juice Defender and Advanced Task Killer and Wi-Fi connected.

When it comes down to it, it's the GPS and data that drains the battery. If you are using either you can expect a quick battery drain, so turn them off when you do need them.

The battery life works fine for me because I work in an office an can charge my phone anytime I want. I can charge in the car, office or at home so battery life isn't much of a problem. It would be nice if it charged faster though.
 
With everyday use, I need to charge it every night, but it's never totally dead. That's with occasional 3G web surfing at lunchtime, and some Wifi browsing at home.
I'll take the phone off the charger at 7:30AM when I wake up and usually it's at about 20-30% remaining battery at 10:30 or 11PM that night when I plug it back in. That's about 14 hours, so it probably has a few more hours before it would be down to 0%.

The only battery saver app I use is the one to stop searching for WiFi when you are out of range of your saved locations (Y5 Battery Saver). I leave 3G and notifications on all day, and GPS turned off.
 
Disable background data - i get 2-3 days of casual usage on a single charge. it does mean you do not get push email and have you manual refresh to get new messages in GMail. Market does not work as well.
 
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