Hate to burst your bubble, but that's about normal. I get about 2 hours of screen on time with my Galaxy Nexus. Wife gets about the same with her Rezound. With these dual-core, large screen phones, you aren't going to get much better. I suggest the extended battery from Verizon. Should increase that time by 40-50%

 

I love the extended battery a lot more than I hate how it makes my phone a brick.

It's only $25 at Verizon, so worth it!

 

why are these phones not lasting as long as they claim, its said that we have to dim the display, use wifi, don"t do what the phone is meant to do , these manufacturers/ providers just want us to use wifi as much as possible and not their data, but still pay the data bill,

They need to step up and make these phones work the way they should, Its like buying a Ferrari but then you'll have to dive it at 25 mph all the time, makes no sense to me

 

Doesn't wifi use just as much if not more battery than 4G?

 

Having the display on just destroys battery life. I text a lot and if I'm slow at work my phone is dead by 10:30-11:30 when I get to work at around 7 (up at 5:30 or so) but the other day I was real busy at work and only slow at noon for a bit then busy again my phone lasted my whole work day.

I just slap the extended battery on it when I'm going to be out of the office for a long period of time, I might even pick up another standard battery or two because I prefer my phone with the otter box case.