[EyeB]

thanks for the link, read through it and I'm giving sd booster a shot. In the past I've tried setcpu in hopes i could underclock it when screen was off to improve battery life, didnt seem to work (just mentioning it as snake oil)

Didnt see anything about the ex3 format of data.img in there though, but i feel like it did help a bit. If anyone wants to give it a shot :S though I have no idea if the default data.img that android creates is ex3 or not. I just had the same data.img from a couple releases ago so that may have been the problem