Bzzz, I've been very similar to you. After a moderate day of use texting (10-20 messages a day), browsing web, and playing around with the phone, my phone would be drained down to around 20-30% by the time I'd put it on the charger at night around midnight. I could practically watch the phone drain when I'd turn the screen on.
I had an HTC Battery widget and lockbot, started thinking those could be culprits as my battery was still measly after rooting the phone and flashing FRESH 1.1 ROM on my phone.
Well this weekend I experimented with a couple things:
1. Removed a few apps I don't use much anymore, reducing my total number of apps to around 40 and available internal memory to around 50MB.
2. Uninstalled Lock Bot Pro and put the phone back to the stock lock screen. Actually, flashed one of the clear lock screen from Noj.
I tried the phone again and the battery seemed to be much improved. After a day of heavy use, I was at around the same spot as I was with low use.
Then I tried uninstalling my HTC Battery widget and put on Battery Indicator yesterday. Once again used the phone pretty heavily and my phone was at around 40% when I put it on the charger. This was the best i've ever had at this point in the night.
So, I decided to try putting LockBot Pro back on my phone today. I've used the browser quite a bit, as I took the afternoon off work and was browsing using both Opera Mini and the stock browser quite a bit. didn't text too much (6 messages), but I did send a couple e-mails and got a bunch of e-mails via gmail (About 40 today). Right now my phone is showing 48% battery!!!! WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON?!?!
I decided to check Spare Parts to see if maybe battery INdicator is giving me a false reading. Nope, showing 48%. Checked my Phone Status in settings and it says I'm at 15% awake with an up time of 34 hours.
I don't know what the heck is going on with my phone, but i'm getting better battery life than I ever have, and really have not made many changes. I need to take a snapshot of what apps I have installed right now and back-up my current settings so I don't lose this configuration.
One observation, something I just remembered. Yesterday morning I was playing with my phone when I got a message on my phone that my PRL was being updated. Wonder if that had any affect. I didn't make any other changes to my phone and am shocked at how much my battery life has dramatically improved.
If I can post some of the apps I got rid of, i'll let you guys know.
I'm interested to hear more form Bzzz as well.
I should add that I don't use a task killer (that is something I just started doing a few weeks ago and that was a big start in the right direction, as my phone would sometimes be dying by the time I'd get home from work). I also keep everything off (GPS, Blue Tooth, WiFi).
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