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Anyone else getting terrible battery life on any Froyo Rom?

Is it just me? I really can't believe it is. I mean there isn't even 3G where I live so my phone is set to 2G permanently, yet I can't find a Froyo ROM to last even a day. Even with all my tweaks and minimalistic settings, no luck at all.
What has been your experience on any of the Froyo roms?

Anderdroids AOSPish is the first and only froyo rom I've flashed. I was running mostly either stock or bionix stuff prior to this. I'm now getting, by far, the best battery life I've experienced since buying my phone a few months back.
Maybe give it a try if you haven't already.

Same...with JI6 I get better battery life. Everyone else it seems like they get better battery life with 2.2

I am getting GREAT life with onyx r3.1. Screen shots attached. I went over 24 hours and still had 50% battery left. That was with light usage. I included display time to show that there was an hour and 42 minutes of "usage" and also included a systempanel shot showing that in standby, it has very little power consumption.

compared with my own usage, I get better life with Froyo. Mainly because of the google cloud for push notification for IM apps. before my IM app would drain the battery due to pulling.

gregc2009 said:
I am getting GREAT life with onyx r3.1. Screen shots attached. I went over 24 hours and still had 50% battery left. That was with light usage. I included display time to show that there was an hour and 42 minutes of "usage" and also included a systempanel shot showing that in standby, it has very little power consumption.
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where did u get 3.1 from? only v3 is released ,,

gregc2009 said:
I am getting GREAT life with onyx r3.1. Screen shots attached. I went over 24 hours and still had 50% battery left. That was with light usage. I included display time to show that there was an hour and 42 minutes of "usage" and also included a systempanel shot showing that in standby, it has very little power consumption.
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Very nice. I couldn't get more than 16 hours on onyx r3. Are you using 3 or 3.1?

i have gotten excellent battery life on all roms except macnut 12.

I'm also getting incredible battery life. Are you reconditioning?

sroach23 said:
i have gotten excellent battery life on all roms except macnut 12.
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how much of a difference are you getting?? i was getting amazing battery life with r10 and also with the very first leaked 2.2 from eugene. i just flashed r12 and just finished reconditioning my batters... just wondering what to expect.

I am using Onyx 3.1 from TWs site.
After reading the write up of how the battery works, I don't do any kind of conditioning and my battery has just gotten better.
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When I ran 2.1 I had about 10 hours of life. Running Axura gives me about 12.
Sexed by Axura

axura is good when it comes to battery for me. i'm at 91% for 2 hours with 40 minutes of usage.
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I think I am doing ok here....
14 hours with 2.5 hours of web browsing and 40 min phones calls, 2 hours 20 min on wifi

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sroach23 said:
i have gotten excellent battery life on all roms except macnut 12.
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Same here. Flashed 12 yesterday and love it for everything EXCEPT the awful battery life.
Is there any other Froyo ROM that does not show text messages in the call log, because that's the biggest reason I am using Macnut 12 right now... ?

Ive been using the Odin Froy for almost a week and i get better battery life that stock JI6. I have yet to condition the battery so Im sure Ill get better after I do that. Ive had good luck so far with this.

it really does depend on the kernel you're using. I know TW for a lot of the newest releases uses a modified I9000 kernel, which causes battery drain, relatively speaking.
Check This out:
Yes, that is hr:mm. and my phone had been running for ~5 hours with only that much drop.

Shrivel said:
Same here. Flashed 12 yesterday and love it for everything EXCEPT the awful battery life.
Is there any other Froyo ROM that does not show text messages in the call log, because that's the biggest reason I am using Macnut 12 right now... ?
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Eugene's Macnut R11 used the stock JK2 kernel and had amazing battery life. I just flashed back to it from R12 today. Right now the battery usage app is telling my I have 33 hours left as opposed to the 12-13 I it displayed with R12. There's something about the I9000 kernels that drains the battery while in sleep mode that nobody's been able to figure out yet.

geoffcorey said:
it really does depend on the kernel you're using. I know TW for a lot of the newest releases uses a modified I9000 kernel, which causes battery drain, relatively speaking.
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Yes, that is hr:mm. and my phone had been running for ~5 hours with only that much drop.
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Which rom are you running. Which kernal? I've been getting terrible battery life with v3.1 tw obsidian, by far the worst of all the roms I've tried. I'm barely getting 12-16 hours with light use. I was running fusion and getting excellent battery life.

My experience with flashing in the pursuit of better battery life.

So I upgraded my Pre for the EVO when it came out and have been using the same phone and battery since getting it. I found XDA and immediately started rooting and flashing. I started with Fresh and DC when those were about the only options. I use my phone fairly heavily as I am almost always listening to downloaded radio shows either thru a plugged in headset or a jawbone icon BT set. I would say that I averaged about 8 hours of battery life no matter what ROM and kernel combo I tried. This is everything from Fresh, DC, Virus, Warm, CM6, EViO, Evo-NonSense, MIUI, and all of the applicable kernels. The best I had gotten with all of the various combos was a little over 16 hours (with an SBC kernel), which I thought was AWESOME! Needless to say, I used Warm TwoPointTwo (including betas) for a while and touted its look, feel, performance, ease of use, and feature set alongside an SBC kernel.
I ALWAYS keep an eye on the development section for something to pique my interest and pull me away from my current setup. After trolling Lucid's thread for cm7 for a while, I took the dive when the official cm7 nightlies started rolling out. I have been with cm7 ever since. I also took advantage of savage and zendroid kernels and now savaged zen.
The longest I have gone so far is 2 days 10 hours! How? Well...conservative governor on an SBC savaged zen kernel and toggling mobile data off when not in use. Will that same setup work for you? Maybe. Unfortunately all EVO' s are not created equal.
Moral of the story? It takes alot of time, reading, and work to find the thing that works for your EVO. It was a pain to find the right combo, but it is worth all the work.

Thanks for your post. When you got the battery to last over 2 days, it looks like the phone mostly sat there, am I seeing that incorrectly?
I, like you, have tried all different things with the Evo trying to get battery and performance. I am locked on MIUI right now, it gives me the best of both worlds. If you want to try a Sense rom, try Ava's stuff. When I get "bored" with MIUI I will go back to Ava.

lehalter said:
When I get "bored" with MIUI I will go back to Ava.
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God will kill a kitten if you switch from MIUI. You don't want that on your conscience now, do you?

Yeah it really depends on your usage without it the 2 days 10 hours don't mean much. 2 days is no problem if I only use it to make a couple of calls. every 8 hours it only loses 4% charge when untouched with autosync on. The evo battery isn't bad it just takes tweaking like the op says

I get on average two complete days on a charge. With heavy usage I het like a day and a half, with light usage I can go 3 days. MIUI 1.1.28 w/ savage 1.6 kernel. I used to shut off my data too when I wasn't using it but with the MIUI build I'm on, I don't need to.

I really don't trust the battery use(in settings) in CM7 at ALL. I had my phone plugged into my car charger for 45mins on the way home tonight I unplugged it at 7:38pm.
It is now two hours later(10pm) it is showing I have been unplugged for10h55m9s on the posted screenshot. Then if you look at the other screenshot my battery indicator pro is showing the correct amount of time since unplugged.

I've noticed that the battery stats in cm7 do not reset unless you fully charge your phone. Otherwise it continues the count even if you plug a charger in.
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I get on average two complete days on a charge. With heavy usage I het like a day and a half, with light usage I can go 3 days. MIUI 1.1.28 w/ savage 1.6 kernel. I used to shut off my data too when I wasn't using it but with the MIUI build I'm on, I don't need to.
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MetalHead, do you overclock/undervolt? If so, would you mind sharing your settings? Lastly, have you noticed an increase in browser speeds since you flashed MIUI and tweaked your settings?

I know I need to come up with something. my battery drain is friggin' horrid.
Unplug @ 100%, turn the screen on, let it sit with nothing, pretty much, running in the background and in 10 minutes will be down to about 93%....
Tried several different combos, but all are pretty much the same results...

taadow1030 said:
MetalHead, do you overclock/undervolt? If so, would you mind sharing your settings? Lastly, have you noticed an increase in browser speeds since you flashed MIUI and tweaked your settings?
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I overclock at 1152 with smartass governor 98% of the time. Savage 1.6 is a HAVS kernel so I guess technically it is undervolted. I honestly couldn't tell you about the browser speeds, I've been on MIUI since the beginning of November so I really have no clue what the browser speed on a Sense ROM is. Everything is a lot faster with MIUI so I'm assuming my browser speeds have also increased.

HipKat said:
I know I need to come up with something. my battery drain is friggin' horrid.
Unplug @ 100%, turn the screen on, let it sit with nothing, pretty much, running in the background and in 10 minutes will be down to about 93%....
Tried several different combos, but all are pretty much the same results...
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This is typical, unless you use an SBC kernel, bump charge your phone, or unplug it exactly when the light turns green.
Any non-SBC kernel will not keep the phone at 100% charge while on the charger. Some will argue that doing so is dangerous for the battery or methods like bump charging put too much wear on the battery.
This is most likely the reason that phone companies rarely have a true percentage shown on their batteries, because they all do this. If we didnt mod to get that real number shown, you would think your phone was acting just fine.
Personally, if I am really going to be using my phone a ton in one day, Ill bump charge it, but otherwise I just accept that its going to drop that first 10% really fast.
The best measure imo of battery performance is how much % you lose when the battery is somewhat discharged, and off. Every phone will drain while you use it, but most of the hours of a day, your phone is off and idle. If you lose 1% per hour, or 5% per hour, that will make a huge difference in your up time per charge.

Unfortunately, mine doesn't stop at that 10%. For instance, mine came off the charger at 5:30 AM at 100%.
By Noon, it was down to 70%, and I had 1 - 3 minute call, no texts and maybe 20 minutes of playing Klondike before work.
I guess I'm gonna have to go SBC. Worst that can happen is I end up buying a new battery, just incase it does so it in.

So in 10 minutes you drop 7%, and in the next 6 1/3 hours you drop another 23% with moderate use?
That sounds like pretty typical battery results to me, thats about 26 hours uptime with a fair amount of use. But maybe others could chime in.

Dude, 5 hands of a card game is NOT moderate use. It's practically no use. Klondike doesn't use data, GPS, etc... nothing, except minimal graphics.
The one phone call literally lasted less than 5 mins, so yes, a phone that drops 30% doing nothing is drastic.

I seem to get pretty good battery life on Myns rom.
I can go at least 24 hours with moderate usage, all on the stock kernel.

Looks like I may have found a little better stability with the Netarchy-Toast CFS 4.3.2 Havs SBC less.
30 minutes of moderate use today and it only dropped 5%

The best battery life I have gotten is from Feb 09 Plutonium.

Miks 4.5 4.2 sbc, gps on updating all every hour call, text, surf, angry birds all freaking day, and get 14 to 16hours every day

MIUI
Wow i have been wanting to try MIUI for a while and i definitely will now.

I'm getting pretty bad battery life with MIUI 2.11 on hw 003. Can anyone recommend a good kernel? I'm hesitant to try the SBC kernels based on the potential battery damage, so savaged-zen is out, also savage-zen seems to have issues with usb mounting.
Is there a link to savage 1.6 CFS, which I've read in a number of threads now is a good one. Speed is not imp, stability, bt+usb working and battery life is.

Had awesome battery life, switched over to Trigger.

So I was running Bionix 1.3.1 and by the end of everyday, I have like ATLAEST 50% battery left.
And now that I've switched over to Trigger, it's only been 8 hrs and my batter is at like 59.
I mean it isn't that bad, but it doesn't compare at all to Bionix.
Yes, I've use the BatteryCalibration app on Trigger.

What modem are you using? Bionix 1.3.1 was KA7 I think while trigger is KB5. Those are fairly different modems with KB5 known for good data speed at the expense of battery life. Flash KA7 or whatever modem Bionix was using and see if it helps. Could also consider another kernel.

did you give it a couple of days?

The simple answer is that trigger is a amazingly awesome experience. You find yourself unable to put your phone down resulting in faster battery drain. I had the same problem.
Samsung Vibrant
Trigger 2.9.3

I can run the same bionix v 1.3.1 gaming all day and get 24hrs +. What modems/kernels are you using. And how can you know anything about a rom without giving it a week or so?
Sent from my badass t959 2543 quadrant, 20.193 linpack using bionix v 1.3.2 + bullet 1.42oc

Of all the roms I ever used Axura hands down was best battery life and best GPS
You must be lucky on Bionix I never god very good battery life out of it
Trigger Is pretty good I get 14 hrs with mod to heavy use and still above 50%
You may have you phone set up in a way that is causing some drain. Look at the Gallery, that often is a culprit.
If you do not like battery drain then I would advise you to stay away from 2.3 roms they use more battery for sure.....

Try the Bali 1.8.4 Kernel. It really helped my battery life. I use the KB1 Modem because that is what the developer of Bali was using. Not sure if I should be using KB5 or not, but it seems to work well with Trigger 3.2 Final. Smooth, fast with good battery life.
Edit: Thanks to the link on the OP, I'm going to try KB5 modem and see if there is a difference.

kwes1020 said:
I can run the same bionix v 1.3.1 gaming all day and get 24hrs +. What modems/kernels are you using. And how can you know anything about a rom without giving it a week or so?
Sent from my badass t959 2543 quadrant, 20.193 linpack using bionix v 1.3.2 + bullet 1.42oc
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I was using this same Rom and Kernel and only got 1600 for a quadrant score and never got 24hrs of use out of it. It was more like 6 to 7 hours. Can you elaborate more on how you got such good battery life and scores? I had SetCpu running the OC and used TB to freeze unnecessary bloat, but still no love.

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I was using this same Rom and Kernel and only got 1600 for a quadrant score and never got 24hrs of use out of it. It was more like 6 to 7 hours. Can you elaborate more on how you got such good battery life and scores? I had SetCpu running the OC and used TB to freeze unnecessary bloat, but still no love.
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He was not gaming all day...guaranteed.
Display time is what it's about, which many people fail to mention.
The most display time you'll get on average is probably anywhere from 3.5 to 5 hours max on a basic 1500 mah battery. He probably got 24 hours with 3 to 4 hours display use. I assume with 6 to 7 hours of battery life, 4-5 of those are display?

Im running trigger 3.02 or something like that with the overstick 154 and wifi calling installed and running from8 to 5 and I get 3.4 to 4 % battery drain per hour. I feel that is really good with wifi calling. If I freeze wifi calling I drop to 2-3% per hour hour. I have my setup phone setup to sync all the time and 1min display time out. I normally get about a full day(24 hours) with wifi calling calling 8 hours with 1 hour or so of calls on both wifi and network and 30-40 txt meshours and 1-2 hours of gaming. Oh and the display is set to minimum. I felt those are pretty good numbers. But my fiancees nexus one on 2.3.4 gets 4 hours of non stop gaming and still has 20% battery left.

Bi-Winning v3.0 + Bali v1.8.8UV = 48 hour battery

I thought I would throw this out there just because I found it quite amazing after a year of tweaking the vibrant. I just decided to swap back from Simply Honey to a 2.2x rom because I was having issues with reboots while on the phone. I had been using Bi-Winning prior to installing SH-3.9 so I went back to that but this time I installed the Bali v1.8.8UV kernel after reading some tips. I'm getting 48 hour battery life on moderate use where I was getting 18-20 before. This Bali kernel is something else. I think this setup is a keeper.

you just put on bi-winning and bali or did you undervolt as well? settings would be great cause with a 48 hour battery thats enough to get me to go back to froyo haha especially now that netflix is on froyo as well

cmrn89 said:
you just put on bi-winning and bali or did you undervolt as well? settings would be great cause with a 48 hour battery thats enough to get me to go back to froyo haha especially now that netflix is on froyo as well
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I just put bi-winning on it, rebooted, put bali on it. I'm trying to think of anything else I did but I can't. I installed this combo friday night and I thought it was a fluke or I had forgot that I had plugged it up sometime over the weekend when I woke up monday morning with 25% battery. I made it from tuesday morning @ 7:00 until just now with 40% left. I Just plugged it up and I'm going to make an effort to actually benchmark it this time as I don't believe it either. I also just put the same combo on my wife's vibrant to see what kind of resultes it gets.
Am I subconsciously plugging my phone into the charger?

Yep, I get similar results. Currently I'm on ZenDroid 2.0.1 with Bali 1.8.8UV and I'm sitting at 35% remaining and 48 hours since unplugged. Light-moderate use I guess but with some gaming, lots of texts, several 15-20min calls, and wifi on 24/7.
ECOTOX's DragonMODz ULP kernel performs very much the same as well. I have a hard time picking between the two.

jneal9 said:
Yep, I get similar results. Currently I'm on ZenDroid 2.0.1 with Bali 1.8.8UV and I'm sitting at 35% remaining and 48 hours since unplugged. Light-moderate use I guess but with some gaming, lots of texts, several 15-20min calls, and wifi on 24/7.
ECOTOX's DragonMODz ULP kernel performs very much the same as well. I have a hard time picking between the two.
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wow thats awesome, just checked out bi-winning and there are some decent themes as well. So this is with data and sync on as well?

I'm currently running on Asgard 3.1.2 (Same devs, right?) and it's running awesome.
Thought I'd upgrade to Bi-Winning 3.0 on my Vibrant.
I'm kind of new to this.. so since I'm on Asgard running the Bullet Kernel, all I have to do is flash Bi-Winning via. Odin3, right? If so, will I lose any of my apps/data?

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wow thats awesome, just checked out bi-winning and there are some decent themes as well. So this is with data and sync on as well?
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Indeed. Full Google account sync and Facebook once daily. Data is on and using KB5 modem.
Oh and I've also started using the Screen Filter app to reduce screen brightness even more than the android minimum and it seems to be helping a lot as well. Check it out.
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Just wanted to add a testimonial to the OP since I'm running exactly the same thing. Just Bi-Winning and Bali 1.8.8UV, it already comes undervolted by -25 I believe and I'm getting similar results on battery life. Kernel and ROM go very well together and it's quick, responsive and very very smooth. I'm using it with ADW EX launcher by the way.

flashed both and so far so good, battery is a little better but nothing as significant as 48 hours, do I have to wait a day or 2 to let it settle in first? Cause I know when i was on cm7 they said let bali run for a day or 2 then after that youll notice the difference

No pics, no proof

Anyone of yall use GPS at all or just moderate use....

The stock battery will not last with more than 2.5 hours (+/-) of Display use, no matter how you slice it.

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The stock battery will not last with more than 2.5 hours (+/-) of Display use, no matter how you slice it.
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Well, that's just plain wrong. I've been gaming through multiple episodes of "The Good Wife" with my family and my battery is down maybe 20%.
Now, 2 1/2 hours of an all white background on maximum brightness might kill your battery (flashlight apps), but not typical use.

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Well, that's just plain wrong. I've been gaming through multiple episodes of "The Good Wife" with my family and my battery is down maybe 20%.
Now, 2 1/2 hours of an all white background on maximum brightness might kill your battery (flashlight apps), but not typical use.
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I don't know exactly what "gaming through multiple episodes" means but a screen is a screen. There's no software affects the display's energy use. Like I said, the +/- depends on your brightness settings and exactly what you display on your screen. I challenge you to show me battery usage screen shot with more than 2.5 hr of display on time on a single charge (with stock battery). I don't doubt you can push 48hrs on a single charge, but chances are, the display on time is less than 3 hours

Does anybody have some screenies to prove it?
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I have the exact same setup and my battery life is nowhere near as good. And this is just with data on, no bluetooth, wifi, gps, sync, etc.

Echoing the sentiments of others... Seeing is believing screen shots guys. Thanks
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I don't know exactly what "gaming through multiple episodes" means but a screen is a screen. There's no software affects the display's energy use. Like I said, the +/- depends on your brightness settings and exactly what you display on your screen. I challenge you to show me battery usage screen shot with more than 2.5 hr of display on time on a single charge (with stock battery). I don't doubt you can push 48hrs on a single charge, but chances are, the display on time is less than 3 hours
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Well, you're in luck! I'm breaking in a new 1700mah battery and want to drain it down to 20% anyway. I'll do so with the screen on my default homepage instead of using the flashlight app. I'll run a stopwatch app in the background and get you some numbers. If you're right, I'll eat my hat!
Then again, since you said +/-, even if it lasts 72 hours, you're still right. It's just 2.5hrs +/- 69.5 hours

I'm the OP and for the last two days my battery has not been lasting nearly as long. Of course I have gone for light/moderate use to heavy use but also I'm seeing it chew through more battery when idle. I'm not sure what has changed to make this happen. I've kept wifi off. I don't think this had anything to do with it but it seemed to start using more battery as soon as I installed the google maps update but the battery profiler doesn't say anything about maps. Oh well...

Well, after 2hr30min, my battery is at 84%. Sure, it's a new battery, and the 84% is probably a little inaccurate, but I haven't stopped the test, so we'll see where it goes from there. Wifi, Bluetooth, and Data are on as well as several widgets on my homepage. I haven't done much with it except keep the screen on indefinitely and send/receive a few texts.
Anyway, the proof is in the pudding. Mmm... pudding...

Looking for some suggestions on ROM's or apps

Have a EVO now with Sprint Lovers ROM on it. kinda cool I suppose. However here is my big thing. I use my phone mostly for email / some texting and a boat load of talking. SOmetimes I will be on a conference bridge for 2+ hours straight. problem is I seriously have to have a charger handy all the time. Cuz I can pull off my phone from the charger after charging all night and loose 1-4% battery life right away. Not sure what thats all about.
I just last night did a battery calibration and installed setcpu (paid version). and this seems to have helped some. but not where I'd really like to see it.
I know with using on a average-high day 500+ minutes during that day. it's not going to last me all day. thats fine. but having to plug it in before lunch time to recharge it, seems a little to much for me.
I am open to any and all suggestions on what/how to fix this. new ROM, software hacks etc... or both.
Software I run:
Flex dialer (paid ver)
built in email client (checks 2 different account every 15-30 minutes, which i know is a battery drain)
text (average light use)
CSIPSimple (sometimes)
web browser ( once in a while)
Thanks for the help!

Try an aosp rom like CM7 or Miui they get better battery life than a sense rom.

Best battery life I've ever gotten was with the Deck rom 1.2.1 and the savage zen BFS SBC kernel version 2.2.1. If you couple that with an extended battery you could go for days without charging.
With a year old stock battery and that setup I had pulled 20-36 hours (I know its a broad range, but 20 hours was the low) depending on usage.

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Cuz I can pull off my phone from the charger after charging all night and loose 1-4% battery life right away. Not sure what thats all about.!
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When your battery reaches 100%, your phone stops charging and lets the battery drop down to 90% before it will kick in again.

any AOSP such as CM, Decks, omfgb, miui.us, ect. coupled with tiamat or savagezen SBC kernel you will be free of charging worries & smiling.

ROMs
Swagged Out Stock, Lithids Freedom kernel universal, either more or aggressive. Pretty good battery.

I get 8 hrs of heavy use like you with bt on.
MikG 2.55
More freedom kernel
Uc to 800 mhz with setcpu
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