[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Blue6IX:
Jumped into the task manager (stock app) and hit kill all/refresh. Put me from about 100 MB to about 190 MB out of 575 MB reported total.

Hardware information in /settings/about phone/hardware information still reports 768 MB as ram total, so it looks like what's being reported matches the same readings I was getting before Root. Best as I can tell, the system is reporting everything about itself correctly.

I haven't encountered any force close issues since root, and that includes being in all the settings menus and the stock apps i'm willing to run (+ the few I installed thus far)

My battery is almost completely depleted now, and some of that time was spent sitting here typing on a computer, with the device sitting next to me. I made sure to keep the screen active, and it's been at the maximum brightness the whole time.

Playing with the flashlight app helped to drain it quicker, and I might have enough time to charge it up and run it down again before my window of opportunity to give the device my full attention is over. I don't want to walk away from it without rebuilding my battery stats file over at least one full discharge/recharge cycle.

-In /settings/power/

+Enable Power Efficiency is off - not checked.

+Enable Power Saver is on - checked.

+Turn Power Saver on at: 10%

-In /settings/Power/Power Saver Settings/:

+All on, default settings, except brightness setting is changed to 25%

I just got a 15% power left notification, here's what I got from my battery since clearing battery stats:

Up time = 04:41:40 Awake time = 04:01:15

-In /settings/about phone/battery/battery use/

+Time reads: 4H 34M 12S on Battery

+Display = 83%

+Maps = 10%

+Wi-Fi = 2%

+Cell Standby = 2%

+Android OS = 2%

Bluetooth = 1%

I was also using the flashlight some, screen brightness has been all the way up, and Google maps ate that power in satellite view. Rendering the satellite images ate up more power then it reads the map app actually using.

I imagine it'll end up right around 5 to 5 1/2 hours of battery time with me trying to kill it, and that's about what it was for me before rooting when I tried to run it down. Conservatively using power will get me more time out of the battery - but a higher capacity battery is on my list, and then I can compare it to these stock readings.

Very tentatively thus far, i'll float the idea that Root has had no impact on battery life one way or the other yet. Doesn't seem like anything is running out of control and eating up my battery way too fast, or overworking itself in the background.

I saw before I started this morning that people were having charging issues, which is why I took the approach of trying to document as much of that as possible. My next concern since I dove into that was that the battery would have issues using this root solution, but so far it seems like that is not a concern.

It was always charging correctly, it just wasn't powering on or off correctly I think. So far it seems like battery use itself is fine, and what I got out of it seems to match what I got out of it before I rooted.

I'll be able to say more definitively in a few days after i've had a chance to cycle the battery a few times and use as I did before root, but the situation is looking good so far.

This is great, as once I start getting rid of the stuff it came with that I didn't want I should see a significant improvement in battery life. Battery life is the one area this device stumbles on, so can we reclaim some by removing some of the bloat?

Can the people who have rooted and gotten rid of some of the stock stuff comment on any gains or losses to battery life?

Thanks for the quick reply. I'd rather not revert to stock, but it's nice to know if the option is there.