[abrcrmdl23]

When I first got the phone It worked pretty good and lasted ok with the stock battery. When I updated to the 2.1 update 1 software update my battery life went into the toilet. With very minimal usage my phone would go from a full charge to 20% in just under 4 hours and the majority of that time was just sitting in standby. Cell standby, phone idle and the display use the majority of my battery. I have recently found a trick and it will make my phone last for almost a whole day with out a recharge with pretty heavy usage. I have done 3 things 1st is I installed setcpu and I restricted my phone to only run at 800mhz max. the 2nd thing is I turn off all auto brightness and adjust my screen brightness manually with a nice widget I have on my home page. The 3rd thing I do is when I am not using the phone for live data usage I downloaded an app called SMODA Widget it sits on my home screen and allows me to turn off my 3g data connection, but still allows my to receive calls and sms texts. Doing all of this stuff I get great battery life now. I took my phone off of the charger at 8:30am this morning my wife was having surgery and from 9-10:30am was listening to music on Pandora and a little bit of browsing over wifi, then again from 12-4pm using a bit of pandora, and heavy continuous android market browsing,internet browsing, usage of my internet using apps heavy sms texing and a few phone calls, and using my snes emulator all while connected to 4G. I also used my GPS navigation for 20 min either way to and from the hospital and 10 minutes to find lunch in between. I used a bit of 3g web surfing and some texts and 2 short calls from 5-8pm. At 8 pm when I checked my battery I was at 34% still and everything works great still with the cpu restricted to 800mhz, if you go any lower it lags but at 800 it is fine. So that is my tale hopefully froyo will help with the battery drain issue so i can leave more things on during standby but it works for now i love my epic now that is last longer than 4 hours.