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Adrynalyne - now that "banden" has provided us with a way to disable the Mobile Network I'll see if my Droid's batt life is increased just as my wife's Eris is when the Mobile Network is disabled on her phone (again , this would like if the phone is just sitting idle while at home / work , when you wouldn't need access to anything online but want the phone on in case a call or SMS comes thru) . Her Eris' batt lifespan increased quite a bit once I discovered how to turn OFF the Mobile Network.

The reason this may be a big deal to ME - My Droid eats up the battery quite a bit even with App Sync OFF - just "sitting around" all day at my home - but this may be because there's a very WEAK signal at our house. It constantly jumps from 3G (even a full signal but that's deceiving) to 1X - I'm guessing that this is a drain on the battery (the phone trying / moving from both bands in the background all day). If that's the case , then disabling the Mobile Network should help (the same for the Eris , so I know it's not just my Droid that has an issue getting a signal, it's weird though - even though they both don't get a steady 3G signal , each gets a 3G signal temporarily at diff times , guess it's just flaky because of a weak signal).

What really bites is that we had Sprint - the signal was very weak - (dumb-phone , one bar) ; I also have an iPhone 3gs (for work ) and it can only pickup the Edge network here at home ; so I figured when we recently went with Verizon that I'd get a decent signal but no! Just a block away and signals for all three providers - 3G at full ! So it's like we are in a direct dead spot (even out in the yard the signals are low , walk down the street ... it's fine) .

Thanks BANDEN for the info , very much appreciated (I bet it will help me save my batt just as with the Eris , with the fluctuating signal). The Any Cut app is also pretty cool (that combined with Folders - I now have a "tidy" setup , something I can't say for the work iPhone).

(note: you can see this setting automatically kick on / off when enabling / disabling WiFi <since WiFi kills the Mobile Network> , when I 1st tried it I saw that it was already Un-Checked so I was "shocked" to see it un-checked b4 I got to it! But I realized that I had WiFi enabled <the ONLY way I can reliably get on-line while at home>)