[t00ncin8r]

I think the battery killer is the new radio, in particular the evdo. Let me explain what leads me to this. . .

I have a 6800 (obviously) on Bell and have mostly followed dcd roms as they have come out. With this last one I noticed a serious battery drop, and I base that on my use of the phone for sirius radio.

I stream sirius radio over the evdo network to some stereo bluetooth speakers to listen to stern. I do this fairly regularly, and since I have had this phone can get a good solid 4 hours, usually a bit more, before the battery is beeping at me and soon to die.
Ever since the upgrade to the 3.35 radio, regardless of the rom, the time I can stream sirius over the evdo is barely 2 hours. One nite for an experiment I took my phone out of hybrid and forced it to 1X. I was back up to almost 4 hours. Let it go back to evdo, drains so fast you can almost watch it.

Because this was also killing me for when I am travelling, just using the phone to get email and make calls, (no stern even) I decided to drop back to the dcd 2.3.2 rom and the 3.27 radio I was running before. I can see that the phone runs slower from a gui perspective, but, you guessed it, I am back to streaming my howard stern over evdo to the bluetooth speakers for 4+ hours.

Sorry for the long post, just thought I would share this for those of us wondering if they have gone crazy or was that battery draining quicker. I have seen it first hand, and if I remove 3.35 radio, the quick drain has stopped.