I just bought my Hero thanks to a trade in credit available to me and an early Father's day present from my wife.
First thing I noticed was the horrible battery life!
Started searching my best friend, Google, for an answer, and found this forum and thread.
Implemented everything I found in this thread and nothing worked well until I turned off the GPS. That alone seems to have done it for me.
Since yesterday, I have had to charge the phone 3 times, but, I have not let it go completely down, but, already, after turning GPS off, I can tell the battery drain is dropping.
Don't see why I would need GPS, I would think that the cell tower location method will work fine, I have a Tom Tom for use in my vehicle, so I will rarely have to use Sprint Navigation.
I do like the Handcent SMS application and Google Sky, and so far, really love the phone now that the battery life thing seems to be solved.
My last phone was the original Instinct and the battery was getting to where it would no longer hold a charge for the whole day, and it came with a 2nd battery and I really didn't want to have a new phone with the same problem!
Thanks to all who contributed to solving this problem!!
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