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Originally Posted by fluidj
I don't think a lot of people here are being honest about their battery usage. It ticks me off to hear "Oh I charge my battery throughout the day and I get GREAT battery life" well DUH! of COURSE you do! That's not a true measure of how good your battery life is. Do what I did. Charge it at night, use your phone like normal until it gets to 10% and THEN recharge. Do this for 2 months and you will gradually see that your battery lasts longer by the week until finally you don't even use more than 50% by bed time. I did this when the phone was first released and my batt life was superb after the first month and a half. Did this when the new Verizon stock ROM was released and it took about a month to get to optimal batt usage. Now with the onset of custom ROMs i'm doing the same procedure.
Not sure of the science behind it but for some reason or another, these phones take a month or so to get to optimum battery usage after a ROM flash.
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LOL, a month for the battery to stabilize? Yes, because there is a magical number of +/- 30 days that magically makes battery usage different?
First off, for anyone reading FluidJ's post, please take them with a grain of salt, as this is NOT the case with the Imagio and any of the new ROMs.
Battery life on the Imagio is typical of any phone, meaning, the more crap you enable that is constantly polling, updating, syncing, the worse your battery life will be. The less frequent of these updates, the better battery life will be.
Perfect example, just flashed to the r03.Full.Deck ROM last week. With Sense, I have it syncing weather every hour, Facebook every 2 hours, Windows Live and my Exchange ActiveSync email set to sync "As Items Arrive".
My usage on SMS is pretty light, as is my email usage from the phone. On average, I can go from 7am til about 6pm on a full charge. By the time I go to get back in my car, I am around 15-20% battery life. And this is consistent, day to day.
The newer ROMs battery usage will be better than stock, as you will have less of the VZW bloatware to slow the phone down by its constant services running, constant updates, etc.
That much, has been proven