[bugsysiegals]

Wow, I hard reset the phone and didnt install anything and my phone lasted all day and still had plenty of energy.

Even though I wasnt starting Palringo, there was something in the windows/startup that said Palringo. My guess is that any application that keeps polling the server or listening for push notification must really burn down the battery.

I wonder if it's because of the running of the program or because it activates the backlight frequently.

There is autodataconfig, poutlook, and voice command in there with a fresh image so I'm guessing none of those listen for data or they do it silently in the background without activating the backlight.