Extending Battery Life :)

[jaymit]

I know there are a lot of threads talking about battery life but I've made this one to look at trying to find the best roms, radios and tweaks to get the most out of the diamond.

Can anyone with a battery life of over 10 hours on heavy use (regular text and email use, maybe an hour of music and an hour of web surfing / gps and atleast half an hour of calls a day) please give any details of rom, radio, tweaks youve applied.

That way we can try and find the best solution for optimising battery life :).

Im currently getting 10-12 hours of runtime with duttys 2.6 rc1, radio 1.00.25.08 and no tweaks applied. Screen brightness set to auto. Bluetooth and wifi off, wired headset plugged in for about 1.5hours of music.

Thanks in advance to everyone that helps by writing down their info! :)

[programatix]

If you let the device running without going to suspend mode, the battery would last for about 4 to 5 hours. That how many hours the battery would last and you can't do anything much with it, unless you buy the extended battery which would last about 7 to 8 hours.

By going to suspend mode (pressing the power button), the battery is put into suspend mode where it uses the minimum power which would last for about a week (if you never wake the device up after a full recharge).

So, my point here is, it doesn't matter what you do, you could only use your device for 4 to 5 hours (usage time, not including suspend mode) and believe me, you can't possibly tell how long you've actually used the device unless you use software to tell you exactly how long you have used the device (not including suspend mode) as sometimes you thought you're listening to music for 20 minutes but actually you've been listening to music for 30 minutes, or you've waked up the device from time to time to send/receive sms which could have totalled up to 1 hour, where you aren't aware of.