Love the phone hate the battery life

[ILoveBlythe]

Also, you need to cycle your battery about to full discharge and then back to full with the phone off about once every 30-40 charges.

 

[noaim]

I ended up getting the extended battery from seido and am very pleased I can get through a day now easily and thats all I really needed. It disappoints me that I can no longer use a case with my phone but I guess its the price I pay

 

[ILoveBlythe]

You don't need a extended life battery to get through the day. you need to see whats eating your battery and make adjustment accordingly. An extended life battery should get you two days easily.

 

[mbranscum]

You don't need a auto task killer as the android system kills tasks only when that memory is needed by another program. It takes just as much battery to hold that open space in memory as it does to have an app sitting in the background doing nothing. You shouldn't need an UV Kernel to get a day from your battery. Also at idle EDGE actually uses more power than 3G, only slightly mind you. At full use 3G obviously uses more but i'm sure we would all agree to give up a little battery for speed. WHAT YOU NEED TO LOOK FOR is apps that are NOT ALLOWING THE PHONE TO SLEEP. If you look at your apps, Settings>Manage Applications. Select an app and scroll down to see its permissions. I'll give you a prime example. Weatherbug, great app but it sucks you r battery life if you use it as a widget or enable from the jump. It doesnt allow the system to sleep, the system is always running when there is no need. What i suggest that you do is fully discharge the battery, charge it up fully with the phone off overnight. When you turn it back on start deleting apps ONE BY ONE to see whats causing the battery drain. I use to get the same battery life as most of you. Maybe a good 7-8 hours. Once I figured out what was causing the battery drain i changed my settings for that app. A good tool is systempanel, free for now in the market. ANDROID DOES NOT NEED A TASK KILLER. I can easily go a full day with heavy usage and still have around 20% by 11pm. My day starts at 6am so i say thats is pretty damn good. Ten times better than my iphone and hangs with my BB. I hope this helps some of you and i hope it doesn't offend any as this wasn't my intention. If you need help or have any questions feel free to PM me and i will respond as quickly as i can.

DO you have your phone rooted?

 

[ILoveBlythe]

Yes, running cyanogen 5.0.6.

 

[mbranscum]

Yes, running cyanogen 5.0.6.

That's a big reason for your better battery life. Isn't that OS already implementing alot of improvements that Froyo will have when it comes out?

 

[ILoveBlythe]

There are some but i saw no change i battery life from stk to desire(many different versions) to cyan. the only one that seemed to affect anything was 5.0.5.3, that one sucked battery life. I'm talking like 5 hours max. So the ROM can help some it doesn't do it all by any means.

 

[Yahma]

I found the following apps are poorly written and drain my battery fairly quickly, once I replaced them, my battery life went up:

- Engadet widget
- ShopSavvy
- Older versions of Nimbuzz IM