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Originally Posted by BigDaddio13
Like everyone else, I have been scouring the forums for anything that will improve battery life. My friend constantly reminds me that's the way it is in the CDMA world. Just idling, no push mail, check 2 gmail accounts automatically every 30 minutes and light usage otherwise, I lose about 10%/hour. And it can discharge much faster if I up my usage in any area.
I've tried different ROM's, different radios, updated my PRL and all of the other things everyone else has done. Currently, I'm running a ROM I cooked in eRice's kitchen and it's giving me the best performance I've had in awhile, but I'm still not certain that I have figured out the best radio/rom/etc. combination for where I live (Denver, CO). If anyone local has some experience to share, throw it out there.
I have a cradle with a spare battery at work and I'm about to get another for home with a couple more batteries too.
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Checking the both of them every 30 minutes may be worse for the battery than just keeping push enabled. I'd recommend SEVEN but as far as I know, you will still get hit with international text messages at 20 cents each... On the other side, I averaged about 10 a month, so not a huge charge, really.
With Juicy's ROM and the Telus radio, if my phone sits idle all day, I've had it as high as 91% still... this is 9am-7pm we're talking about. If I use it to text and stuff lightly through the day, it will average 70%... if I use it to browse sites and look stuff up, it's often considerably lower. Calls really kill the battery too.
Same situations, but with SEVEN running... instead of 91% I'd be around 74% through a whole day of sitting idle. The other things like texting would cause the battery to drop about equally, but browsing sites and stuff seemed then to have less of an impact. I still could easily make it a day, often more.
The thing about battery life is that it really depends on how you use your phone. If you really can't make it through the day, carry two batteries and pick up a charger that will charge both at the same time... pop them on the charger overnight and you're good to go.