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Originally Posted by wingzero
My battery suck big time and I consider myself a light user. I have to charge it twice a day or it will die one me.  A guy at work has a Cingular 8125 and he said he could go on without charge for 3 days. They both manufactured by HTC, go figure. |
Well, the 8125 doesn't have evdo on it and the radio has been shown to drain more battery.
I have to disagree with pzztgotbagz re: phonealarm. I'm a long time user and try all the betas and alphas out there and would notitce if there is a battery drain, in fact if anything it
saves batteries if you setup correctly.
The biggest drain on batteries on the 6700 is wifi and the backlight. If you use wifi, make sure it's turned off (Phonealarm is good at doing this automatically, or at least visually alerting you to the fact via the skins).
Your backlight should be kept very low. Once again through Profiles, Phonealarm is good at managing this. So at "night" I keep my light very, very dim. Duing the day, brighter. At home, dim. I on average keep my backlight at 15%.
Make sure you "timeouts" are low e.g. the time for device turn off and before the backlight turns off. Have your backlight auto-dim after 30 seconds and device-off after 1 minutes. That way if your device "pops on", it'll shut off quickly. Once again, PhoneAlarm will manage these settings on a per-profile basis.
Don't have emal auto-sync every 5 minutes the whole day! If you need better battery life, consider longer times or just sync manually.
And although everyone tells you turn "beam off" and don't use BT both have been shown to use very little battery life (in the case of "beam off" almost none in the 1st place).