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ok guys as advised by someone i fully drain my vodafone magic till it dies and then charge it to a 100%.
last night i did the same just before goin to sleep,when i woke up in the morning the battery was at 76% after about 8 hours.I just had 1 missed call,1 sms,1 tweet and 1 email.
How can the battery drain so fast for no work at all???
pls help......
Do you have alot of widgets running? What do you have switched on, Bluetooth,GPS,WiFi? How often do you have the "Data Synch" set for? All of these drain the battery, if they are all working at the same time it goes pretty quick.
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Woa! For the battery to drain overnight to 76% is crazy. never had this problem with my magic. It actually last very long.
But 76% overnight most likely means your battery is faulty and or you are leaving gps,wifi,and have quite a few things running on the phone like ClintonH stated.
however if you have everything off, as well as the brightness set low. Then contact Vodafone and let them know your issue. they should replace your battery at a free cost.
I suggest people use their battery for a week or 2 to see better results with their battery life. I started having poor battery life with my magic but now I can last about 2 day before I recharge it again.
As other user mentioned, it also depend what you have on or running in the background when your phone is on standby. I suggest you use task manager applications to kill unnecessary applications that might be running.
thanks guys
nope i have gps bluetooth and wifi turned off
i turned the background data off from settings
will try gettin task manager and see if it makes a diff!
thanks once again
also sometimes my trackball keeps flashing white for some reason.....there is no notification....is there any reason for this???
celester340 said:
also sometimes my trackball keeps flashing white for some reason.....there is no notification....is there any reason for this???
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Yes, are you by any chance downloading apps? Sometimes they hang and the download stops / continues lots of times. And when they complete your trackball flashes white.
ok thank mate i'll keep note of that!
I read a quite interesting post in the vodafone forum.
A user complained about the battery life of his HTC Magic. Check the answer from Wayne_Vodafone:
The HTC Magic employs a battery that requires overcharging and topup charging. You must charge it as much and as often as possible. The more you charge the better the battery life becomes. So after a few charges you should see the benefit of this. Letting the charge drain out undoes this so try and charge as often as possible
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It actually seems to work. At least for me, try it for yourself.
I have to charge my HT-03A every night if I do not want it to die the next day. I am assuming that is why HTC gives you two batteries, because the battery goes so fast. As long as you are able to carry that second battery around with you, and be able to charge it every night, I don't really see a problem. But for it to go from 100% to 76% overnight means you are running programs that you do not need to. I will add that I have Wi-Fi continuously on, and my Contacts and Calendar are continuously synchronized. With barely any use I am usually at around 50% by the end of the day.
Isilmalith said:
I read a quite interesting post in the vodafone forum.
A user complained about the battery life of his HTC Magic. Check the answer from Wayne_Vodafone:
It actually seems to work. At least for me, try it for yourself.
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Pretty interesting, and that was an official vodafone response? Why wouldn't HTC say that in the first place? Will give it a go anyway...
Yeah, was a official Vodafone Response.
For me: I've loaded mine over night this morning, now its 19:26 and it's still over 85%. I used it for some SMS, receive a MMS and some WLAN.
ok guys thank u so much for the responses,im gonna give it a go too!
im using taskiller and defi my battery life has improved cause i keep killin the apps im not using
about the flashing trackball.......it still happens...no notifications.....
You never want to drain a Lithium-Ion battery. NiCd batteries have memory, in which it's better to drain them. But not Li-Ion. They will die quicker if you do
ok thanks xantonin.....
i charged my phone to 100%,then made a call for 41 min,battery went to 91%.
went to sleep immediately after that,woke up in morning with 1 missed call and 1 sms,after 8 hours......battery at 70%......thats not right is it?
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ok thanks xantonin.....
i charged my phone to 100%,then made a call for 41 min,battery went to 91%.
went to sleep immediately after that,woke up in morning with 1 missed call and 1 sms,after 8 hours......battery at 70%......thats not right is it?
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That could be right.
Depends on what's running.
Where are you checking for 100%?
If you are charging until the green light comes on - that's 90%. The phone takes longer to charge passed 90% than it does to charge up to 90%.
I charged to 99%, and drove around with the GPS on for a few hours (about 2) and came back at about 75%.
However some days, when I charge my phone over night (true 100%), I can listen to music on my way to work (40 mins) on my phone, play with it a bit at work, and 3 hours later it will say 94%.
So, the battery is very touchy it seems...
Try turning off 3G (It's still pretty fast on 2G, try it for a day)
And also make sure GPS is off. Keep your brightness no more than 30%, and make sure WiFi is off. Make sure you don't have any widgets that connect online either.
You should get good standby time
Use apndroid to save battery life
Download apndroid from the Market. Use it to turn off the cellular internet before you go to bed and whenever else you want to save battery life.
There's also an app called Spare Parts in the Market that could help you. As well as giving information about your battery status and battery health, you can also see stastics of your application usage and battery history. A very useful app!
Plus it also enables other features like enabling fancy animations for the keyboard and screen rotation.
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Download apndroid from the Market. Use it to turn off the cellular internet before you go to bed and whenever else you want to save battery life.
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If you longpress the red phone button you can also enable "airplane mode" disabling any radio. Which helps your battery life too.
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If you longpress the red phone button you can also enable "airplane mode" disabling any radio. Which helps your battery life too.
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Thats cool too. But APNdroid allows you to keep using your phone and sms's
Hello,
I understand people complain about the battery and search around here for issues regarding it and find many.
But mine seems to be shockingly bad. I have HSDPA on, weather, stock updates every 4 hours, twitter every hour, and tend to use Palringo on constantly (maybe this is the issue?). With about 2 hours of FM Radio, maybe an hour of music... the phones battery only lasts for about 7 hours which is not great.
Is this about right for the phone? Or is this shockingly bad compared to others? Its hard to quantify from searching about what the "par" for this device really is.
This is not much, but not shockingly bad. Have you enabled the power saving mode in Palringo?
(I actually don't know what it does, but there is one )
Palringo and beejive on my HD2 sucked the battery like a over active dyson vacuum cleaner!
Nimbuzz seems to be better for battery life but not perfect.
On sunday I managed to kill my battery <5 hours so 7 hours is better than what I get sometimes
another post. geeee
i had asus p750 which battery last for a day or so with minimal usage
i had se w910i while only on 2-3h of phone calls i had to charge the battery every 36 hours
i had an iphone 3g which i had to charge every 2 days with very gentle using
a friend of mine is using htc mda something with the hardware keyboard and has to charge the phone every day
anyway - i can charge my hd2 every night if necessary - it is a very good phone anyway
That might explain it then
I can appreciate that hammering the data connection or whatever Palringo does will not do the battery much good sadly. anyone else use Palringo and get better battery life?
I have the power / data saving mode enabled, although as you said, quite what that does I dont know
Thanks for the replies....
My HD2 is significantly better than my T-Mobile G1 I had previously - that phone definitely needed charging every day and I hardly used it really. I get a good 2-3 days with light usage from the HD2.
I had the same poor batter life before when I first had it. But last couple of days I finally realized that it's the 3G data connection sucking the battery life like nothing. No I only enable data connection whenever there's no wifi for me. But I keep the WiFi on constantly with push mail. The battery life lasts almost about 2 days. So I'm more than satisfied with it now. The iphone/ipod touch needs to be charged every single day mind you. So my advice is to avoid data connection whenever possible since wifi doesn't really suck much battery juice it seems.
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In my case using palringo the battery drain is 8 % per hour. Without palringo running is 4% so double battery life. I ve repeated the test many times with same result...
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In my case using palringo the battery drain is 8 % per hour. Without palringo running is 4% so double battery life. I ve repeated the test many times with same result...
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Thanks mate, this is exactly what I was hoping to get confirmed. I'm seeing something similar, I guess short of not using Palringo there isnt much to do. I do have a charger on my desk at work, so I'll just plug it in.
Interesting I did see that with it plugged in charging and turned on (set to Disk Drive mode) at work the charge barely increased 1% over a period of an hour or so. (I did check that the option to not charge when connected was not ticked). So it wasnt that, just caught me by surprise as it seems it barely charged.
I just got my droid x a few days ago and I'm having problems with battery life. I work 12 hour days at a state penitentiary which cell phones are not allowed to enter the building. My phone is rooted and I have about 8 bloatware apps removed like blockbuster, skype, ect in case that matters at all. My typical day is waking up at 4 AM unplugging my phone fully charged. I get to work at 5 AM and between 4-5AM I prolly send one text and sometimes visit one website. So at 5AM my phone is in standby mode until I take a lunch and come out to my car between 12-2. So the phone is on around 9 hours so far but not used much at all. Today I took my lunch at 1PM and when I pulled my phone out my battery was at 15%. The battery ussage is like 72% cell standby, 14% screen, and like 14% Phone idle. I checked my signal strength at work and it was like 99-102 dBm which I beleive sucks. Also today was very hot 100+F so that might also play a factor but I came from a iphone 4 last week that went through the same daily routine and never had battery problem (of course att may have had better reception at work which used less battery). So what do yall think? Is it because of the poor signal strength that runs the battery down within that time even though its in standby? Is there a problem with my phone?
I know this isn't really a fix per se, but any reason not to put it in airplane mode?
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I know this isn't really a fix per se, but any reason not to put it in airplane mode?
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yeh thats what Im going to try tomarrow. Just weird my wife has the same phone and in a full day of her using her phone it still has 70% battery life when Mine is in standby all day and it dies. But I do work at a prison out in the middle of nowhere and im sure the reception it very bad but i didnt think that would cause a phone in standby to go from 100% to almost dead without using it. Guess ill figure it out tomarrow when I try airplane mode.
Try juice defender
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Try turning off GPS. That made my standby mode last 10x longer.
Just a thought are you using handcent? I was until 2 days ago after do some tracking it appears that it was not acting well with something and my battery died very quickly. Since my wife has it on her phone as well I am guessing it is with something else I have DLed but since my wife has not gotten many apps I have a hard time finding out what it might be. But changed to chomp yesterday and at the end of a 16 hour day while taking 130+ pics along with texting browsing ect was at 60%.
Are you using an exchange account to sync email? I found that when I leave the exchange email sync set to "push" or "as arrive" (or whatever that setting is) it totally drained my battery. However, when I set it to sync every 15 min my battery life improved probably 2x.
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battery usage all depends how the user phone is setup, if you have email clients with push activate, that will drain battery, having gps location on will drain battery, screen brightness will drain battery, widget that update though internet(3g, edge) will drain battery and etc; take all that into account and try out the battery manager on the phone that turns off data connection after 30mins of inactivity.
Hi.
Since buying my phone I have been suffering with serious battery issues and been following steps and advice within these forums to try and combat it. The other night I took the phone to bed on a full charge and when I got up at least 8 hours later, my battery was at 60 odd %, and has been like that and worse sometimes since buying it, and have had to put it on charge every night as throughout the day it would drain considerably.
I started the thinking that perhaps the battery was faulty, I did get my phone second hand at a bargain price so had started wondering if that was why, and as nothing I've read on here seemed to be helping, that had cemented my thinking.
One of the last things I did before going to bed last night was to remove Facebook using Titanium backup, and changed the quicklaunch bar for the Beautiful widgets, widgets (wifi, BT ect). Woke up this morning to find my battery at 88%, it was at about 94% when I finally stopped using the phone, so I'm quite a happy bunny this morning.
Perhaps some might think it's still drained a bit too quick?, but as it's clearly a vast improvement, I'm more than happy with that right now.
I find it odd that so many X10 users are having problems with their battery performance. My stock Canadian (RB20) X10 lasts over 3 full days if I don't use wi-fi or voice much --granted, for those who make lots of calls and suck up 3G data, no phone will yield over 3 days per charge. I haven't uninstalled the standard apps either and have my screen brightness at maximum all the time (though I always immediately shut it off when not in use).
Just making a few calls, sending a few texts, checking my e-mail a couple of times per day on wi-fi, and playing about 2 hours of music, my battery drops 10-15% only.
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I find it odd that so many X10 users are having problems with their battery performance.
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It is strange, and stranger that a little bit of tweaking seems to sort it out. I'm going to see how it goes and try not to charge it over the next day or so. It's only 10 mins or so that it's dropped to 87%, which as I've said is a considerable difference to what it's usually been.
i also find it interesting that people are having problems with battery life, im coming from a samsung i8000 Omnia II and before that the i900 Omnia I, my omnia 2 did have better battery life as i didnt use as much of the phone as i do now, bearing in mind with my omnia II i made about 20-30 calls anywhere between 1 and 40 min each, i sent about 30 sms/mms, checked my emails (not push option) a bit of internet and maybe hour of gaming and my battery would be at 40% at the end of the day 8am-11pm). now with my SE X10 i do all the same but i get my emails checked automatically every hour, weather every hour, same amount of calls and sms/mms, play games for about hour, check the news blogs, find something thru google maps or 'layar' app, download a few wallpapers, maybe update apps, and i have 30% left by 6pm so its not as good time wise as my previous phone but i use the phone more that i did before, and that is something people dont realise is that they are actualy using the phone alot more, the iphone had a similar problem, APPLE didnt expect people to spend so much time on it, but id suggest that if your at the office or in the car, just plug it in for a bit it will make a difference
just my 2 cents and observations
i set facebook to never update automatically, so it does not drain my battery. I noticed that the sync with google calendar drains the battery really fast. I had the google calendar auto sync checked and there was only 56% left every morning from a 100% charged battery before going to bed. After I unchecked that option it only drains about 3% now.
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i set facebook to never update automatically, so it does not drain my battery. I noticed that the sync with google calendar drains the battery really fast. I had the google calendar auto sync checked and there was only 56% left every morning from a 100% charged battery before going to bed. After I unchecked that option it only drains about 3% now.
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Unless your Google Calendar is changing I don't see why it's syncing?
I have background data on, 4 email account polling every 10 minutes, 1 push email account, Twitter, Facebook and I'm dropping 1% per hour unplugged.
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I find it odd that so many X10 users are having problems with their battery performance. My stock Canadian (RB20) X10 lasts over 3 full days if I don't use wi-fi or voice much --granted, for those who make lots of calls and suck up 3G data, no phone will yield over 3 days per charge. I haven't uninstalled the standard apps either and have my screen brightness at maximum all the time (though I always immediately shut it off when not in use).
Just making a few calls, sending a few texts, checking my e-mail a couple of times per day on wi-fi, and playing about 2 hours of music, my battery drops 10-15% only.
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Don't take this the wrong way but if you don't make calls, no WiFi and it sounds like you're not using much 3G, few text and email a couple of times a day .... sort of should last long, No?
Kind of like if I put gas in my car and don't drive it
XperiaX10iUser said:
Hi.
Perhaps some might think it's still drained a bit too quick?, but as it's clearly a vast improvement, I'm more than happy with that right now.
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If you want to be really happy
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=725796
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If you want to be really happy
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=725796
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Thanks, but no thanks, the thing I love about the Xperia is it's sleekness, so the last thing I'd want to do is stick an ugly ass extended back cover on it. If push came to shove I'd just buy another battery and rotate them, but as I seem to have sorted my issue out it looks like I won't have to.
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Don't take this the wrong way but if you don't make calls, no WiFi and it sounds like you're not using much 3G, few text and email a couple of times a day .... sort of should last long, No?
Kind of like if I put gas in my car and don't drive it
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That was my point. It should last, yet some here are reporting that their X10 loses an insane percentage every hour without any activity.
For people having problems with the xperia battery life, two questions:
1. Are you using moxier mail?
2. Are you using SE built-in flickr account?
If you are using either, try turning them off (delete the flickr account from phone and restart the device) and share what the progress is. I would be very interested to know the before-and-after difference, and am very hopeful you find your issues a thing of the past with this change . Lemme know.
For email you can still use the other built in apps, not to mention K-9 mail.
My solution.
Hi,
My phone would burn 10% per hour, without use.
I went on holiday with it and it suddenly behaved itself. I put this down to the Roaming preventing data access.
On my return to the UK I've loaded an app called 'Data on Demand' from the market. It prevents data access when the screen is off. (default settings)
My phone will now last 4 days with my light usage.
If your only getting one day, give this a try, If I remember correctly it was free too.
Kind Regards,
Paul.
I have wifi and BT off, GPS on and I use 3G.
Thanks for the tip Paul.. I'll give that a try.. sounds good..
Guys its a smartphone with a 1 ghz processor and a large screen. I dont get why people think the battery is supposed to last forever. Anything over 20 hours is great in my opinion. If you want a powerful smartphone, you WILL have to charge it every night. Get used to it. I dont see why this is an issue.
I guess the issue is the relative difference people have in battery life compared to each other
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Paul5015 said:
Hi,
My phone would burn 10% per hour, without use.
I went on holiday with it and it suddenly behaved itself. I put this down to the Roaming preventing data access.
On my return to the UK I've loaded an app called 'Data on Demand' from the market. It prevents data access when the screen is off. (default settings)
My phone will now last 4 days with my light usage.
If your only getting one day, give this a try, If I remember correctly it was free too.
Kind Regards,
Paul.
I have wifi and BT off, GPS on and I use 3G.
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I've tried Data on Demand on my X10i and it seems not to turn data off properly in automatic mode. Could it be a problem with Switcpro widgets? Do you use this one too?
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I've tried Data on Demand on my X10i and it seems not to turn data off properly in automatic mode. Could it be a problem with Switcpro widgets? Do you use this one too?
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No I don't, but I do find a re-boot after charging helps. I guess there must be some naughty app/service in there somewhere.
The effect I get using Data on Demand is dramatic. I'm hoping others will see this result too.
Regards, Paul.
48-hours, over two dozen short calls, handful of SMS texts, some wi-fi, screen brightness maxed, 4 hours of music, still over 25% charge. I didn't use data though, but even if I had, I still could have lasted the 2 full days on a single charge.
If your X10's battery is not lasting, then you are doing something wrong, or there is a problem with the battery/phone.
Thanks for the heads up, Paul, will let you know if it improves the battery life on my x10i 026 rooted.
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48-hours, over two dozen short calls, handful of SMS texts, some wi-fi, screen brightness maxed, 4 hours of music, still over 25% charge. I didn't use data though, but even if I had, I still could have lasted the 2 full days on a single charge.
If your X10's battery is not lasting, then you are doing something wrong, or there is a problem with the battery/phone.
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So aside from the WiFi you used it like a Moto Razr, yup it does play mp3's
It seems that you're comparing your non-smartphone type usage to users having battery problems using all of the features. You then go on to say the users are doing something wrong. Which is what? Using the features of the X10? I imagine if I charged the phone, turned it off, it would last for days
GPS ON
WiFi off
Bluetooth ON
3G ON
Background Data ON
Gmail syncing mail, reader, calendar, contacts
Twitter and Facebook both running
Emails 20
SMS 10
Talk time 90 minutes
Screen at 50%
Playing online Poker for 2 hours
Reading XDA Forums 30 minutes
NewsRob 20 minutes
Market for 15 minutes
Total screen on time about 4.5 hours
This is in 10 hours, battery remaining 62% ... it's a 2600mAh extended battery.
Yes, I actually use the features of the X10.
I'm sorry but it's getting annoying hearing people say that they're getting great battery life with the original battery but .... do this ... turn off all of the features.
Here's the bottom line. If you use the features to the max then the battery will drain.
I wouldn't have even commented on your comment but when you said "then you're doing something wrong" .... well ... I think you"re wrong on this issue.
Dear all,
I have the Galaxy S2 since friday and my battery is lasting about 4 hours with normal usage. Without usage about 8 hours, tested during the night. I had also high Android OS percentage, I tried hardreseting, that lowered the percentage but with no markable results for battery live. I attached some photos. The second discharge was during the night doing nothing. From 90% to 10% in about 8 hours.
I now did a hardreset again, and tested the discharge in original condition (only battery app installed, no WIFI, no sync, just google account for market). I lost about 2% in 1 hour (phone idle) what is think is normal and gave me an estimation of 2d5h.
Now I created my exchange account with syncing contacts, mails and calender with backgrounddata and automatic sync on (everything on default) and now I need about 9% in 1 hour (phone idle) and I have an estimation of 10h06.
Would I use the phone in a normal way I assume I would have 4 hours battery live again.
Do you think that this (exchange) could be a reason for the high battery consumption?
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Michael
the first image shows "WiFi Sharing", right? Why, if you said you did not do anything besides Google and Exchange?
Did you read all these threads about WiFi sharing killing batt life, and also certain routers?
I am using Exchange, get about 15 hours with light to moderate usage. Not perfect, but better than yours.
Hi,
thank you for your reply and sorry for being not exact. The images show the status of the phone before the last hard reset, so after the hard reset I did nothing beside of Google and Exchange.
regards
Michael
OMG, that is a SUPERB drain! And I thought I had battery issues. Bro, I think you need your device replaced, else do a factory reset, don't install anything and start monitoring. There is definitely something wrong with your phone.
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thank you for your reply and sorry for being not exact. The images show the status of the phone before the last hard reset, so after the hard reset I did nothing beside of Google and Exchange.
regards
Michael
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What are those icons in top left corner? If you are keeping some weather app pull weather data every 5 minutes, and some battery program ping your battery every minute, that would also drain.
I agree, I think you should try a reset, set up the phone while still on 3G , only then connect to WiFi, configure Exchange, and then test with nothing else installed or running.
My battery life was not perfect, but I think it is improving. Over the past week I had to charge at least twice a day, now it is getting to about once a day.
Remove calender sync from exchange server. Had same issues on sgs and gingerbread. Give it a try...