[trance2002]

I have had the same fast battery drain issues as many. I have been trying tweaking data settings and running the overclock widget without much success. I did a few things yesterday and today I finally have a useable battery life. Problem is I don’t know which one is actually responsible for the improvement or if it is a combination.

I did the on and off recharge from this post enough times that I lost count. I never had it be green the moment I turned off the phone. At the end there was always a couple of minutes of amber before it went green but the first couple of times I turned off the phone it was 10 minutes of amber so the duration did get shorter. Maybe that did something.

The other thing I did was have the task manager start aggressively killing idle processes. Before that I just let them run because of things I had read about not needing to kill things in Android. Even though I had my sync settings at 4 hours across the board for anything going out to the internet, I suspect news widgets and such were draining the battery with persistent connections. I can’t prove that but now that I have anything idle getting killed I am getting good life.

Finally I disabled Background data. The only thing I have found that asks me to turn it on so far is the Market and I just disable it again when I’m done there.

Before the changes I would lose 20-40% during the 8 hours I slept. Last night 9%
Before a 20 minute TED video would eat 20% of battery, today 6%
Before a 20 minute video stored on my phone 15% today 4%

I wish I could say which one of these has done the trick but if you are having problems, give them all a shot and maybe it will work for you. I’m glad I can finally enjoy the phone.