[Johnny.Bravo]

After letting the battery drain all the way to zero and letting the phone turn itself off, my battery life has gotten a lot better.

I use the auto-brightness feature, turn off Bluetooth and GPS unless I need them, I don't live in a 4G are so that's not an issue, and I leave the Wi-Fi on all day and I am getting about 15 hours a day out of my Epic.

One thing to consider...earlier this year there was a pretty lively discussion about battery life in the TP2 section and someone brought up a very good point that I think is worth repeating. We want more and more in our phones and still expect them to run for 2 days on a 1500mA battery. At some point something's gotta give. We need to be realistic and understand that there is only so much power in that little battery, and we expect these smartphones to perform like a laptop computer. Sure the community is going to figure out how to adjust a bunch of stuff and put out custom ROMS to improve battery life, but in the end we need to stop whining about how bad battery life is on these superphones.

You can't drive a Ferrari and expect it to get the same gas mileage as a Honda Civic.