I tried asking this question in another thread, but haven't gotten any answers. I may have a faulty Droid X, which I'm trying to determine, but before I drive myself crazy trying to find out, I need to know if what I want is even realistic.
I've tried searching through tons of threads before and after my purchase, but I can't seem to find out.
I recently came from a BB Tour(which I still have, if I need to go back to). I had 1 gmail account, 1 business email hosted on gmail, 1 yahoo, 1 hotmail, and my work email all set up to push. I had the Facebook app which pushed messages and wall posts, synced to my calendar(a feature I really loved for not forgetting birthdays) but I didn't sync it to the contacts because I tried once, and it destroyed my battery(actually I just linked all the facebook friends who were already in my device address book, probably around 90 or so, when I unlinked it left the pictures though, which was cool). I had the Twitter app that pushed direct messages to my inbox. I always left gps on, and probably used it with google maps a half hour to an hour each day, probably messed around on the web 1-2 hours(mainly on google reader using the Google App plus the Reader App, which displayed through the browser) I probably talked anywhere from 30 mins to 2 hours each day, maybe 2-5 texts, a couple pin messages, and received around 10-15 emails(I rarely replied, probably only even read half, deleted the rest). I had an alarm going off every morning in the dock, and probably a couple reminders going off each day.
It came off the charger every day by 8am, and I usually get off work at 6:30pm.
On the heaviest usage days, I'd usually have at least 50-60% battery left as I headed home, but it was probably more common that I'd have 80-90% left.
The one caveat to this is when I would upload or email pictures(especially when out of 3g areas), more than a couple and I'd be on the charger by mid day. But I didn't do it that often.
My last phone before the Tour was a Curve, before that a Motorola Q. I won't even get into the Q because that was a device not ready for market with a buggy version of a powerful but somewhat buggy OS. The one thing I missed most about Windows was the customizability, seemingly universal file compatibility, and the fact that it liked being tweaked. But I don't think I need to explain what I loved about Blackberry, it just did what BB's do, which is do a few core things better than anything else.
My reasons for going to Android were that the Tour GPS was buggy, often needing 20 min battery pulls to work, the tiny screen, and constantly scrolling left to right, up and down, just to read text.
I don't mind using separate inboxes, in fact I'm starting to prefer it, if I go back to BB, I will switch to separate ones. I don't use Twitter enough to care about instant direct message reception, I mainly just tweet stuff for work. I don't care about pictures for my contacts, but I would like my Facebook calendar to sync. I don't need constant updates on my facebook contacts(but it might be cool when I'm communicating with them via other means to see the updates). I don't mind using the GPS toggle widget to only run it when using Google maps, though I do miss location based searches. I would like push gmail and Yahoo(or near-push) because several of my still BB toting friends use emails like texts(and my wife with her Pre). I could get Hotmail once a day, and work emails once an hour.
But what I must have is a phone that has enough juice to make a call at the end of the day, without relying on a charger(heavy usage days excluded).
So to all you Droid X users, is this possible? I don't mind using third-party apps if necessary, but can this happen, or do I have the wrong phone?
I've tried searching through tons of threads before and after my purchase, but I can't seem to find out.
I recently came from a BB Tour(which I still have, if I need to go back to). I had 1 gmail account, 1 business email hosted on gmail, 1 yahoo, 1 hotmail, and my work email all set up to push. I had the Facebook app which pushed messages and wall posts, synced to my calendar(a feature I really loved for not forgetting birthdays) but I didn't sync it to the contacts because I tried once, and it destroyed my battery(actually I just linked all the facebook friends who were already in my device address book, probably around 90 or so, when I unlinked it left the pictures though, which was cool). I had the Twitter app that pushed direct messages to my inbox. I always left gps on, and probably used it with google maps a half hour to an hour each day, probably messed around on the web 1-2 hours(mainly on google reader using the Google App plus the Reader App, which displayed through the browser) I probably talked anywhere from 30 mins to 2 hours each day, maybe 2-5 texts, a couple pin messages, and received around 10-15 emails(I rarely replied, probably only even read half, deleted the rest). I had an alarm going off every morning in the dock, and probably a couple reminders going off each day.
It came off the charger every day by 8am, and I usually get off work at 6:30pm.
On the heaviest usage days, I'd usually have at least 50-60% battery left as I headed home, but it was probably more common that I'd have 80-90% left.
The one caveat to this is when I would upload or email pictures(especially when out of 3g areas), more than a couple and I'd be on the charger by mid day. But I didn't do it that often.
My last phone before the Tour was a Curve, before that a Motorola Q. I won't even get into the Q because that was a device not ready for market with a buggy version of a powerful but somewhat buggy OS. The one thing I missed most about Windows was the customizability, seemingly universal file compatibility, and the fact that it liked being tweaked. But I don't think I need to explain what I loved about Blackberry, it just did what BB's do, which is do a few core things better than anything else.
My reasons for going to Android were that the Tour GPS was buggy, often needing 20 min battery pulls to work, the tiny screen, and constantly scrolling left to right, up and down, just to read text.
I don't mind using separate inboxes, in fact I'm starting to prefer it, if I go back to BB, I will switch to separate ones. I don't use Twitter enough to care about instant direct message reception, I mainly just tweet stuff for work. I don't care about pictures for my contacts, but I would like my Facebook calendar to sync. I don't need constant updates on my facebook contacts(but it might be cool when I'm communicating with them via other means to see the updates). I don't mind using the GPS toggle widget to only run it when using Google maps, though I do miss location based searches. I would like push gmail and Yahoo(or near-push) because several of my still BB toting friends use emails like texts(and my wife with her Pre). I could get Hotmail once a day, and work emails once an hour.
But what I must have is a phone that has enough juice to make a call at the end of the day, without relying on a charger(heavy usage days excluded).
So to all you Droid X users, is this possible? I don't mind using third-party apps if necessary, but can this happen, or do I have the wrong phone?
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