well, i've had this baby since launch day. fully updated to DI18. i have yet to put this device through all that it can do, such as playing a full movie (HD or otherwise), DNLA, video calling, etc. i have made voice calls, conference calls via speaker and headsets, i have SMS and MMS, used different browsers (stock, Dolphin HD, Skyfire, xScope), tapatalk to other forums, news reader, live wallpaper, took a few photos, videos, gmail (included within 3 other accounts), stock email (2 accounts, 1 checking hourly, other never), friends and feeds for twitter, facebook widget, 3D games and regular games, streamed Pandora and Rhapsody, clock and weather widgets, etc.
i listed all that to show i have not babied the battery, but i also do not have the device on for extended amount of time, maybe on average 30 minutes continuously, between varied idle periods. i do have the display setting at it's lowest level, change only when necessary such as out in direct sun light.
i don't have a lot of services running in the background. these are the usual suspects: juice defender, quick battery, live wallpaper, stock email, gmail count, news reader count, and the stock services sans DRM and Hotspot. of course, i'm conscious of killing services i manually start and no longer need, like dropbox and recently vlingo.
anyway, i use Juice Defender (and Ultimate Juice) to automate a few things. i'm now averaging about 10-12 hours or so before needing a charge, which i'm pretty happy with. nothing like others posting of 48 hours or 29 hours, etc. (i still look through the posts for anything new that might improve it even further, without of course, giving up functionality.)
here are my J/D settings, with today's usage (still 20% left, 11+ hours unplugged):
i listed all that to show i have not babied the battery, but i also do not have the device on for extended amount of time, maybe on average 30 minutes continuously, between varied idle periods. i do have the display setting at it's lowest level, change only when necessary such as out in direct sun light.
i don't have a lot of services running in the background. these are the usual suspects: juice defender, quick battery, live wallpaper, stock email, gmail count, news reader count, and the stock services sans DRM and Hotspot. of course, i'm conscious of killing services i manually start and no longer need, like dropbox and recently vlingo.
anyway, i use Juice Defender (and Ultimate Juice) to automate a few things. i'm now averaging about 10-12 hours or so before needing a charge, which i'm pretty happy with. nothing like others posting of 48 hours or 29 hours, etc. (i still look through the posts for anything new that might improve it even further, without of course, giving up functionality.)
here are my J/D settings, with today's usage (still 20% left, 11+ hours unplugged):