What Is Heavy Use?

[MrTD]

What is considered heavy use? How many hours should I expect to get?

After a week of using my new Amaze, I just receive my extended Anker battery and now get roughly 9 hours before dying. That is using roughly 55 mins of talk time and 2 hrs of screen time looking at emails and text messages and 5 mins of camera use. Wifi is on with screen turned down. This is the third day with the extended battery and recharging as instructed but can't say it's noticibly better than the stock battery.

Is anyone getting alot more with the extended battery?

[going_home]

I keep the screen brightness on the lowest setting unless I'm in direct sunlight,
but I easily go all day before needing a charge.
I am on the phone talking and surfing constantly.
Never felt the need for an extended battery.

[ChromeJob]

Probably depends upon what radios are in use. I definitely need a midday charge, but I'm using Wifi, cell, and GPS once in a while while in the office.

I use the Automatic setting on Brightness, but have Llama turn it down at night. Sometimes at the office, I'll turn it down manually (using the Android Power widget). Why? It's a bee-YOO-tiful screen, I want to enjoy it.

[stixzadinya]

Before unlocking, I used to get about 13 -16 hours on a single charge and I'm more of a moderate to heavy user. Funny thing is my brother (also a moderate/heavy user) got the same phone at the same time as me but he only got about 9 hours or less usage time. The difference, I fully charged my phone (left it on the charger for two hours after green light came on) before turning it on and I let the phone completely drain before fully charging again while my brother didn't.

Here's some settings I use to help save battery:
*My network is on 4G only (Live in LA so 4g coverage is pretty good)
*Forward work POP email into a gmail account I've created so they Push and not Pull as they would if I were to set it up using the Mail App
*Facebook only sync contacts and calendar once per day and I turned off notifications
*Turned off automatic time update from network
*Turned off flip for speaker, pocket ring and lower ring when picked up (not sure exact phrasing in settings)
*Turned off phone locator. I use Where's My Droid
*I don't have Google backing up my phone. I use titanium backup
*I use accuweather from beautiful widgets and it updates every two hours
*Turned off Auto Brightness. Use Elixir toggle to control brightness and set to 10%, 25%, 50%, 75% and 100%. 10% I use at night or in dark rooms (don't want to go blind with a bright screen) 25% indoors and 50% or 75% outdoors (75% if I have my sunglasses on)

Hope this helps.

My phone is unlocked now and with moderate use I get about 24 - 30 hours on a single charge. If you understand how to unlock Amaze I would recommend you do that and flash a custom ROM but only if you understand what you're doing.