New take on battery life

[cwindsor]

43 hours my ass

Dir sir I woundn't want 43 hours with your ass... LOL

[andonnguyen]

It's been nearly 3 hours, and my battery is at 94%. I've been listening to my last.fm program music, I have wireless on, and I am using the web browser. I also have the RC29 update. Before, with RC19 3 hours of the same usage would have drained my battery to 50%.

[ayo991]

43 hours, lol. More like 7 hours for a good day.

[McParty]

I have never had a problem with my battery, I charge it every other day. Now I don't have 3G in my area so that must be a big drain but I do have wifi on all the time and do some surfing and some texting but mostly just phone calls.

[Tunster]

It's very simple......

If you are not using internet or downloading apps, place the phone into "2G only mode". Why do you need 3G all the time? Apps such as the GMail and IM can cope fine on GPRS and whilst all the other functions are fine offline.

I can stretch my G1 over 3 days with moderate use on phone calls/text messages with 3G off. I can only imagine the code is not effeicient enough with the 3G chip, that's why I can only get 1 day out of the G1 with G3 on all the time.

I guess there's a bonus that the battery can charge up from very low to full in just over an hour....

[danguyf]

I installed the Dev Tools yesterday and have "Show processes" checked so I can see what's running at all times.

It appears that the FBook app runs constantly even when you haven't started it since last reboot. I uninstalled it and will see today if it makes an appreciable difference on battery life.

[inportb]

It appears that the FBook app runs constantly even when you haven't started it since last reboot.

It runs as a service and is super-annoying. i.e. it has no option to not autosync... I've removed it as well.

[MobileMan]

My battery life is OK. I carry around my charger with me. I found its a little better now that I have RC230 and I keep GPS off. My BT is always on since I use it. I only notice a real drain after I get off the phone after talking over 30mins.

[johnsto]

It runs as a service and is super-annoying. i.e. it has no option to not autosync... I've removed it as well.

Same here, fBook is a HUGE drain on my battery, even with 3G and wifi and GPS and things off, it was hard to make it through a single 12hr day on a full charge.

Been testing the past few days and removing it has easily doubled the lifespan. Easily lasts the entire day without dipping below 50.

[neonewb]

Shouldn't logging out of the fbook app be enough for it to not auto sync since you are no longer logged into it?