good article and backs up just about everything I have been saying...
my exception is
Airplane Mode, for me, it is useless and fraught with you forgetting to turn it off.
I just turn the phone OFF, and be done with it. For myself, I have no interest in games...
I have NFC, all motions/gestures turned OFF.
When my screen is locked so is the internet, no DATA, no WiFi, no Bluetooth.
Aqua Mail never does a damn thing unless I open the app and request a Refresh...
I leave
DATA and WiFi OFF all the time, the only time either is turned ON is when the internet is needed. There is
Zero Need for the internet unless you are physically using the phone.
but then, I have retired from the Work-a-day world, and avoid 'Push' and 'Notifications' like the plague.
No social apps period....
Ghostery as mentioned, works wonders compared to other browsers for internet surfing.
My phone is still very much a Smart Phone, if I want the internet, it will do anything that I ask of it, but on MY terms.
when it comes to my phone and what it does, I am a Total Dictator fanatic.
sometimes, the battery draw is less than 25% for 24 hours... well, yes, it was ON, the screen just wasn't unlocked. but it was listening for a phone call, and SMS.... none came, so no battery draw.
Other days, we are out and about, and the battery plunges to 40% just on a trip to the doctor's office, stop for lunch, use Google Maps to find something, go shopping in the "At Home" store, which I hate, so I am on the phone surfing, looking at Facebook via Ghostery, while the wife shops.....
there isn't any such thing as "Normal Battery Use".
Each of us is different, and how we use our phones is different.
My setup will make some folks pass out, they can't be "unconnected from the world" for even 30 seconds.
thanks for posting that article, I had seen it before about a year ago, glad to see that it has been republished again. This time, I bookmarked it for all of those "What is wrong with my Battery Threads...."