Originally Posted by MrB206

The answer to your question is NONE. All phones have bloatware and the quantity varies by carrier. In my experience, the Motorola phones have less than this LG does, BUT, Motorola uses other proprietary apps to suck up battery life.

As for 3g/4g, you can turn it off with apps like Quick Settings, but turning on wifi and using your home connection will essentially turn off mobile data, unless you get a txt. But 'smartphones' are designed to use background data 24/7, to update your widgets and other crap. You can reduce drain by not using widgets or controlling when they use data (weather apps like Beautiful Widgets allow for update only when 'awake' or in use). If you're at home, use wifi.... it uses SUBSTANTIALLY less battery than cdma/4g, because it's less work for the receiver, than searching for cell towers. There's a Verizon app that can even turn on your wifi when you're within a mile of your home and when you get in range of the wifi signal, it'll connect. I use it on all my phones.

The simple solution for the battery is to root the Spectrum, get an app like Root Toolbox Pro (best $5 you'll ever spend) and freeze all the stock apps, except for necessary ones like LGHome. If you ever want to remove the root, simply use the tools to unroot OR use the 'hard restore' method that comes with the phone. Then, use wifi when at home.

Case in point, here's my stats, rooted with most apps frozen I don't use and my widgets on 'only when awake' mode and yes, that's after streaming Sirius for 45 mins; I'm still @ 91%: