"drain of 1% in 2 hours", yes this is true. the reason of the slow drain is as I had mentioned, I barely use the phone (except if I am outside the house). in the house, its only use is to rarely send out SMS and receive calls. why? i have tablets and a laptop always on wifi where i spend most of the time which you guys may have been spending on your arc.
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but i guess no point we buy smartphone if we keep our phone in as minimal as possible usage juz to save battery... better buy nokia phone that last up to 5 day. hope that SE will do something bout this battery draining issue
my having a smartphone like arc (in my case) is more for use OUTSIDE the HOUSE. of course when going out casually, i will not prefer to bring my tablets and laptop out, they are inconvenient to use.
just study your phone well. what is the most consumer of battery? usually its display right? then tailor your phone to use the least display.
here are my suggestions to limit the display drain.
1. use lowest brightness, put a widget trigger on homescreen to brighten it and remember where it was so you can use phone in sunlight. the lowest brightness is useful on all environment except sunlight!
2. install "screen filter" from market to further dim it, useful at dark or at night, and eliminates bright light shock.
3. ensure all the stuff you use are in the home screen. the widget(s) that should be there should be readily informative, ie. displays info for you to read so you don't have to open the app. pretend you only have 1 homescreen. you can squeeze in more icons by using more customizable launcher (i use ADWLauncher EX).
4. widgets like toggles for brightess, 3G/WIFI, sound, flashlight, those are what I call useful widgets. what is the purpose of a weather widget when you can just look at the window and see the real weather? what is the purpose of a time/date display widget when time is already displayed at the top left corner, and the date/time is glaringly large on the lock screen? if u wanna get fancy like the htc sense or whatever equivalent of raining cloud wiper effects, heck... just look outside the window and feel the weather on your face! that is the real sense!
5. think carefully what do you use multiple homescreens for? just to enjoy the scrolling swipe effect? do you really use all those apps? then cram them on the main homescreen for 1 click access w/o swiping!
6. do you notice how many seconds you spend to draw a security pattern, type PIN or password to unlock the phone, totalling in a day? keep it secure in a physical way like bringing it all the time so nobody tinkers with its always ready for action! at the best case with one unlock swipe you should be at the homescreen and what u want should be there! best case, take out the swipe to unlock, and once display on, homescreen immediately.
7. i don't even run juicedefender, autokillers or similar stuff, cos i sync only when i want to, and that is when i turn on the phone and click the app. background data traffic is ON, but activate auto sync is OFF. i do run v6 supercharger script to have multitasking management more efficient.
8. i am studying results of betterbatterystats app, which reports more in-depth usage of battery by apps. perhaps i can improve my runtime more.
you get the drift... its not don't use the phone or just move to a dumbphone. Rather, use it EFFICIENTLY, AND use your other gadgets for redundant stuff!
Example, watch movie, why punish yourself on the 4.2" screen? use the 10.1 tablet, or connect the thing to HDMI on your big screen! Web browsing? use your laptop! do you notice how long you fiddle the on-screen keyboard when you need to type password on forums and stuff? use the laptop! Browsing on bed? Use the tablet!
BELOW is my screenshot of usage, and I still have 18% remaining when I took that, good for at least 30 more hours (1 day and 6 hours more) before battery run out. From here I guess the thing would last for 5 days and 10 hours at least from a full charge!
This post has been edited by jtdc: Jan 12 2012, 12:31 AM 
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