Totally agree. I love this phone. I want it to succeed. People ask me how's the phone, I say great. People ask me how's the battery, if I am honest I gotta tell em, if you off almost everything you will get good battery, but whats the point? I understand I have to off unused stuffs, all smartphones have to off em to prolong battery. But at least make it easy to off em, even paying for an automation program like Tasker is not easy to control these things easily.
I really don't understand what Sammy is thinking. If fully charged gotta make sound to wake you up at night. Read somewhere that after fully charge, if not pull out charger then not good to battery. But, you have got 2 super smart cores in there, can't you build into the system to off the charging and save the battery when fully charge, rather than to ask to user to manually do so?
I also understand that some people need or want to set their CPU. That is all good. But for even a technically inclined guy like me, what makes me think that even after all that I have read up, I will be better at tuning the CPU? Doesn't it make sense for Google or Sammy to tune down the CPU automatically when I am not doing much at night when I am asleep? You have 2 cores, I am sure there is a way you can detect processes and tune it down when the phone's not doing much, rather than asking me to become a CPU expert and tune it myself.
If I buy one for my wife, and I ask her to tune the CPU, all hell will break lose

I know how to turn it off. I only complain that I have to run circles or take many steps to do it. Actually I am asking for about 1.5 days. Fully charged during the morning, unplugged, charge it the next night. That will be good. IF you can get 36 hours, perhaps you would like to share how you do it.
Actually the processor will stay in idle mode if there is no processes running. It will not always run at 1.2, in idle it will take probably 10-15% only. Tuning cpu is more for those who do not need the full power at 1.2 in order to save some juice.
"If I buy one for my wife, and I ask her to tune the CPU, all hell will break lose
Battery life is quite bad among the many android devices i have owned. Still can be optimised but im still too lazy to root and change ROM