Sprint battery killing me

[galingula]

Originally Posted by bobturismo

Seriously, you want a phone that lasts 7 days, get one of those crappy phones that doesn't do anything.

I moved from a Treo 650 that did a lot, just not as much as this guy. Battery life was better by 2, so I was just curious.

http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/geeksonthego/8928/

I'm really happy I was able to get that to work on the TP2. I would have missed it a great deal

[HTCotta]

Treos don't have a 3.6 inch LCD! All that screen=lots of battery usage. Then add in manila running on top, and all the updates and stuff happening in the background. I'm a college student, I text a lottt mostly (lots of time with the screen on and flipping 1x to Ev etc etc) and usually my phone shows around 50% when I go to bed, unless it's midterms or finals, in which case it reads about 65-70%. I also have a Sprint TP2. I've been trying to figure out lately if taking my phone out of global mode and putting it in CDMA only has a positive effect on battery, but I don't think it does anything.

[bobturismo]

Originally Posted by galingula

I moved from a Treo 650 that did a lot, just not as much as this guy. Battery life was better by 2, so I was just curious.

http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/geeksonthego/8928/

I'm really happy I was able to get that to work on the TP2. I would have missed it a great deal

Originally Posted by HTCotta

Treos don't have a 3.6 inch LCD! All that screen=lots of battery usage. Then add in manila running on top, and all the updates and stuff happening in the background. I'm a college student, I text a lottt mostly (lots of time with the screen on and flipping 1x to Ev etc etc) and usually my phone shows around 50% when I go to bed, unless it's midterms or finals, in which case it reads about 65-70%. I also have a Sprint TP2. I've been trying to figure out lately if taking my phone out of global mode and putting it in CDMA only has a positive effect on battery, but I don't think it does anything.

The screen is probably one of the biggest things and manilla definitely doesn't help either.

disabling manilla would considerably increase battery life.



disabling global mode on my sprint tp2 seemed to make a huge difference, I think the biggest thing is where you live.

You might as well disable global mode anyways until you travel out of the country as there is no reason to use it in counry as far as I know(unless something as changed since th phone came out)