[Riley]

I have installed the battery fix and have seen some improvements in the battery. I have tried everything including turning off the beam, lowering the screen brightness, flashing new custom roms, etc. The only thing that has worked for me is to set active sync to manual. I look at it this way. As much as I need my exchange push email, while at work I don't need it since I am sitting at my desk for most of the day. So I only set active sync to "as items arrive" before and after work but not in peak times. Occasionally syncing to update my mail throughout the day.

Just to experiment today I kept my active sync on manual all day, turned the phone on around 10:30am and ran it all day and night until around 1am with light usage (a few calls, texts, 15 min of web, 15 minutes of youtube, rss reader, etc. I still had around 70% battery life remaining. also to be fair I was in 3 bar evdo the whole time. Normally with active sync on set to sync every 15 minutes I would be at 30% or less. So for me, active sync is using a tremendous amount of battery life.

off subject, I also noticed my data coverage in my house improving this week with ev 1 bar in my basement with no roaming where as before I was dead down there. Not sure why unless they fixed something or is it possible my phone is doing better finding a signal? I'm still using the stock radio as well.