Thanks very much for your input! I do have the display brightness maxed out because the auto is too dim for my eyes. That's probably a big thing.
On Dec 10, 3:37 pm, Eric F <[email protected]> wrote: > I feel like my battery life wasn't that great when I first got it but > now I think battery life is pretty good for this class of phone. > > I think the largest change I made was: set display brightness to > adjust automatically. > > After that I did a few things: > Gmail email is pushed > Not signed into Google Talk > Facebook refreshes as infrequently as possible (every four hours?) > I have Google Voice refreshing ever 15 minutes > Wifi is off, Locale turns it on when plugged in, and off when > unplugged > Bluetooth is always on > > After making these changes things seemed, ok. but one night I wasn't > able to plug it in. It got to 5% at like 1am, I woke up the next day > at 8am or so, and it was still 5%. I then used Google Maps Navigation > for about 35 minutes and the phone died. > > Since recharging it after that, battery state drops more realistically > like how I would expect it to drop. After a day of moderate use my > battery usually indicates I could go a whole extra day without any > recharging. > > Also just got the 2.0.1 update which states improved battery life. > Unplugged my phone at about 8:30am this morning. it's 2:36pm now, and > my battery is at 90%. I've been using my phone a decent amount too. > > -E > > On Dec 10, 2:18 pm, Sundog <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Haven't seen any discussion on this... Who else finds the Droid's > > battery life completely unacceptable? If I use it even moderately, no > > phone calls at all, it goes dead halfway through the day. Not even > > close to acceptable if I was using it as a phone and not a development > > platform. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en.
