I have had my Inspire for 2 weeks. I've been reading this forum for a few days, trying to get some tips on improving the battery life. But, since the most I'm getting out of it is 6 hours, I'm wondering what else I can do.
I got up this morning and unplugged my phone and turned it on around 6:45 am. I answered two text messages and listened to one voice mail. I then went to church. Used my phone to read the scripture during service. Received two voice mails during church. Called my friend after church and talked to her for maybe 15 minutes. By 1:30 this afternoon, I was down to the 10% battery warning. I turned it off, charged it all afternoon to 100%. I just made another 15 minute phone call, listened to two voice mails, and I'm almost at 50%. According to the phone's battery use information, it has been 11h 17m since it was unplugged (I unplugged it about an hour ago), and the phone has been awake for a little over 5 hours.
For settings:
Wifi - off - unless I want to stream movies or music - haven't been able to do that much because of the battery
Bluetooth - off unless I'm driving
Mobile Data - it's set on, but it's my understanding that JD enables and disables this - however, I do have a widget on my home screen so that I can disable it, as well as the wifi and bluetooth
Display - not sure how you tell the percentage, but I have it so dark that nobody else can read it but me (I've got pretty good eyesight for an old woman *smile*)
Screen timeout - 30 seconds
Flash LED for notifications
Background data on
Auto-sync off
GPS - off
I'm running Juice Defender Ultimate on Advanced mode
I must also add that because I'm living in a rural area, I received a free MicroCell. Whenever I'm home, the phone is on MicroCell. Since I'm unemployed right now, I'm home most of the time, so 95% of the time I'm using my phone right here in my home.
In the time that it took me to type this, the battery has drained even more and I'll be getting the 20% warning very soon. It drains even when I'm not using it. I'm not running Facebook in the background - I have the computer for that. I've checked the running apps, and I can't for the life of me figure out what might be draining the battery when the phone is on standby.
I'm typically a moderately heavy user of a smartphone. I'm coming from the iPhone. But, most of the things I did with my iPhone, I can't do with my Inspire because the battery won't last long enough. I was even worried about going to church with it this morning, but I figured I'd take a chance. Not sure I want to do that again, since one more phone call would have drained the battery completely and I would not have had the bible apps.
I'm at a loss as to what else I can do. I've read all the discussions about the difference between heavy and light users. Personally, I think my use today has been very light. I don't want to get in the habit of using the phone while it's charging, but since it is my only phone (I don't use a landline - only cell), I may have to opt for that if I can't figure out what the problem is.
Thanks in advance for any help. And I apologize because I know some of you are sick and tired of hearing whining about batteries. But if I can't get this to work for me, I'm guessing I'm going to have to take the phone back to AT&T. I love this Inspire - much better than the iPhone any day. I just need to get at least a day's worth of battery usage, that's all.