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Originally Posted by mxl180
Why not install NuePower... and see what your discharge rate on idle is and report back?
My IDLE drain rate is 161 mA with the following settings.
Brightness on #2 (from the left)
Data Off
Radio On
Bluetooth On
With DATA ON and IDLE ... 161 mA
With DATA ON and ACTIVE... 410-423 mA
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I didn't use NuePower, but instead the Battery logging application from Palladium (or something like that) found in another thread. When I was getting bad battery life (12-14 hours max life with barely any usage) my numbers were something along thie lines of:
113-157 with data, wireless, bluetooth off, with phone on, but inactive
400-600 or so with using data or an active phone connection
I think the key would be to check what the current draw is when the device is off/suspended, since this is where it is the majority of time, and in my case, when I was only getting 12-14 hours, where it was nearly 100% of the time.
I'm also pretty positive that something I installed, or some setting I had changed was probably causing my fast drain, since I've now had 2 charges that have lasted me 1.5-2 days under the same usage patterns (after reverting to the stock setup). Though it doesn't really explain why the first 2 days after reverting to stock I was still only getting ~12 hours of use per charge before it died.
Can anyone here comment on the current draw of radios of other phones? is 500+ mAh common when using the phone or data? It seems a bit excessive to me, but what do I know...