[Epic 4G General] prfella:
I have done everything humanly possible to conserve battery life. I have done every trick, downloaded juice defender, monitor my power usage, control apps , kill services, turn off data connection, and I am NOT satisfied with my battery life.

After having all this done after about 9 hours I have 60 percent left. Now for everyone reading this right now you are saying to yourself "what is this guy complaining about, that's a great run!" But let me tell you the kicker...I barely use my phone. I can describe my usage as lower than "light".

For the above battery run, my day's summary went like this: at 11 AM disconnected from charger after it says full...its actually at 97%. No Biggie. Throughout the course of the day I sent/received 16 messages, browsed the web for a total of 6 minutes, and the rest of that 9 hours was spent looking at the time, with screen still locked and turning off the screen after about 4 secs, and killing services to try to extend my battery life. No calls, no heavy usage, no streaming, no using any cool apps. Again everything is OFF and disabled. from my usage, this should be pretty close to being standby.

Yet after doing everything that has been described to do around the net, others have reported getting the same run or even more after moderate or even heavy usage. I dont get it.

I can tell you a few things, I do not suffer from the TWS bug, as my TWS is consistently under 6%. My screen brightness is at the absolute minimum, GPS, Bluetooth, 4g AND 3g is disabled. Autosync is disabled. Only like five apps have been downloaded, as this is a brand new epic. They are not running in the background, nor are their services. No Live wallpaper is used, only a pure black one.

There is only two things I can think of that could be causing an issue. One is that I have vibrate on for SMS, as most of the time im at work, but as I stated earlier, I only sent/received 16 messages total in 9 hours. And no one else has said anything about the vibrator draining battery. The other thing would be that my Epic is only 9 days old and I would have to "break" my battery in, but others have reported increased battery life in as little as 2 days of cycling their battery.

The best I can deduce is that with the above usage, my battery is draining at about 4% an hour. with the only real usage coming from texting and 6 minutes of web surfing, and with all the tweaks and settings in place that's, well, atrocious.

Obviously if I just stick to this usage Ill be fine, the thing is I have to disable essentially 95% of the phone just to have respectable usage. What if I want to watch some youtube videos during the day, or listen to music for a half an hour or so? from the looks of it I cant do that. After applying the tweaks that I have, others can, and obviously this phone is designed to do so.

And as if to add injury to insult, after the initial 9 hours, I made a one hour phone call (60 minutes) and the battery drained 20%. Like, really?

I know without images and such its hard to say whats the cause, but can anyone try and shed some light here? I really really hope is not a defective battery, as this is a new Epic, as well as the Epic is now EOL'ed with Sprint, so I dont want to go through the hassle of trying to get a replacement one.

I apologize for my long post and I thank anyone who has read it through to the end.