There is a lot of unneeded stuff running in this thing. I have not charged my phone since noon yesterday and it still has 10% left. Thats 25 hours of battery, and use. I will admit the calls were very limited, but I'm guessing with a normal day worth of calls you could easily get a 15-16 hours out of it (once a day charge overnight).
Here is what I did..
-Turn of continuous internet connection
-Turn of sync for stuff like stocks, back up assistance, and news if you dont use those apps
- Go into running services after powering the phone on to see what apps are set to run. That way when you download new apps you know which ones can be disabled if needed. If you know what you are doing you can even disable some of the default running services. If you dont know what you are doing do not do this!
- HTC sense facebook has a live feed.. if you are popular your battery will hate you! Turn off the live feed if you can live with only getting hourly updates. I set my updates to 4 hours. If I want to see what people are doing I can just go online and look.
- Dont run useless widgets in the background if you dont have to. Most of them stay connected and update constantly.
- Have weather update ever 3 hours if you can. I like to know what messed up Ohio has in store for me so I do that hourly.
- Avoid live wallpaper. It looks cool but is a huge battery killer on almost all android phones.
Anyone having trouble test this out. Another thing I thought of is to have you look at your connection strength and signal. If you are on the edge of 4g/basic signal your phone will have to work a lot harder to hold a signal. Stopping the constant connection with help with 4g, but with your basic wireless connection it will not. That in itself will drain the battery. Also keep in mind that the fail percentage on new phones is higher. If you got one from a bad batch now is the time to swap it out before you are stuck getting a refurbished one later on.. which will more than likely be a fixed phone from someone that had the same issues you have now.