[Motorola Droid 3] mupi2k:
Pretty sure you're wrong, and the X2 does not have a pentile display like the D3 has. In all the things I have read, you hear a lot of people complaining about the pentile display on the D3, and nary a peep about the X2. I personally don't see the big deal, but some people will create a nit to pick if they can't find one.

I'd also like to point out, however, that just because the screen does usually take up most of the battery on a smart phone, does not mean it is supposed to. I have a friend with a D1, granted he almost never actually uses his screen (mostly he uses bluetooth and plays music), but his display battery % is less than mine.

My opinion is that because you don't have the screen eating 30-40% of your battery, your cell standby and phone idle are a higher percentage. Because display, cell standby and phone idle are all essentially system functions, and with the exception of display, run basically 100% of the time, dropping 20% in any one of them is going to spread that 20% into the other two.

for the record, I just plugged my phone in this morning (I do normally plug it in every night), but after a typically light usage sunday, I was sitting at 40% or so after more than 24 hours off charger.

The ONLY setting I have changed is setting network mode to CDMA only. I use the stock launcher (I like ADW, and will probably go back to it, but I do like the 3d animations in the stock launcher, and I really like the way it rearranges icons for you automatically for you if you add icons. I use the stock power control widget, and I do keep wifi off most of the time. This is because by default, it will attempt to connect to open wifi it finds, and at work we have an "open" wifi, that once connected, you have to open a browser and enter a username and password, before you actually get an internet connection.

If I do streaming over 3G (iheartradio) it does suck battery pretty fast, I'll drain my standard battery in about 4-5 hours, while streaming. However, it charges faster than my D1 or D2 ever did. With the D1, if I was actually doing something with the phone (say, streaming audio) it could barely keep up with the discharge while on the charger. turn on the screen (say, while using navigation), and the battery would discharge even when connected to the charger. On my d3, it DOES charge while in nav, and it might take 3 hours instead of the normal 2 to charge from the 10% mark, but it DOES actually charge. Didn't have the car dock for the D2, so I didn't try it there, but it was pretty similar in most ways to my D1, so I'd expect similar results.

I did notice that the first couple of charge cycles the reported percentages were pretty skewed. for example, the first charge, after it got to 15%, it stayed there for something like 3 hours before it dropped to 10%, but the more I've used it, the better that's become. Which makes sense given it stores that information in a file...For those that aren't aware, when you go to the battery manager to see what's draining your battery, if you tap on the graph at the top, you'll get a full screen graph that shows more detail, including 3G signal, phone "awake" status, display "on" status...could be useful for those trying to figure out why they aren't getting as good a battery life as others.

Also want to re-iterate the no task killers. I don't even use the stock motorola app manager. I wanted to strangle the VZW rep in the store who was trying to tell a customer that he needed a task killer on his new droid 3. Then again, this guy didn't apparently know about the CDMA-only network mode setting, either, so maybe it was just ignorance...