[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] cj chitwood:
What I meant, was, if "Long Battery Life" is a feature, that feature doesn't work on my phone. Then again, I'm on the stock battery, and I think a *LOT* of users were conditioned early on in the days of smartphones to make the first purchase a double capacity (or similar) long life battery. So of course, they'll have super long battery life anyway, and some of them report like a full 24 hours or so with no charge, moderate use, and always claim "moderate use of FB and wifi and games". I have yet to see battery last that long.

My G1, on a stock-fit 1400 mAh battery, could see one time a 30-something-hour runtime without charge, but I only saw that once, couldn't repeat, and wasn't on a CM ROM.

On my phone, I see today stats similar to CoNsPiRiSiZe'S, posted here. I have been without charge for seven hours, wifi off, with little or no phone signal, with the phone set to do 2G+3G, and it's been setting on my desk or in my holster without any use at all all morning. In 7 hours and 18 minutes it dropped from 100% to 75%. At that rate, I'd expect my battery to look like the next quote. I don't consider that bad, by any stretch, but I know my phone, and the moment I start doing things with it the battery drops like a rock. Yesterday, I was down to about 35% by the time I got home after 10 hours away, and that was WITH a couple of ten minute charges in the car. I was using it more, mostly voice SMS and calls, a short lookup of maps... nothing too fancy.

But while I don't consider that to be phenomenal battery life (my G1 spoiled me) I do not consider it bad. It's about what I expect. I'm not complaining, I'm just saying I'm not overly impressed by the battery life like some are reporting. Now, if I could get truly moderate use out of it and it be above 50% without a charge when I get home at night, THAT would impress me. But only on the stock battery. To me, the challenge should be "do with what you have".

I wouldn't wait to join hangouts just for that. One of two things, make a joke of it or turn the phone upside down. Of course, this only works if you don't need to type on it ;)

One of the things that annoyed the hell out of me with Bulletproof 1.1 is that I'd pull my phone out of its holster, look at it, and at like 9:00 in the morning it's down to 40% battery and burning my hand. I never found out what was causing this, but the screen was always on. I would check display settings, and it would be set for a 2 minute timeout, but I think what was happening was every damned button on the phone would wake it up. So, in my holster, I'd lean one way or the other, bump into something, whatever, and my phone's wide awake for two more minutes.

On CM9a3, that appears not to be a problem. Of course, I'm annoyed at having to hit the one hardest button on the phone to hit in order to wake it up, and trackball wake would be good, but IMHO I'd recommend that each wake button should be an option. That way you can pick any or all, or none, as you wish, and to what suits the purpose. Otherwise, I'm fine with having only one button that wakes it because I'm fine with my phone not being dead at lunch. :)

---I AM NOT COMPLAINING--- :cool:

Point of note: My processor stays on "on demand". I could deal with a lesser governor, but then it would be laggy.

My screen stays at about 50% when indoors, and 100% outside. Just so I can see it.

I don't normally keep my radio on 2G+3G. I found with Bulletproof that "WCDMA Only" gave the best battery life when in zero signal conditions. This seems backward to me, but it is what it is.

I still haven't had/taken/made time to really go through the phone's settings and optimize it for what I want, so this really isn't bad battery life. I just consider it to be the average, the standard, I expect this. Any less, something's wrong. Any more is cake. Worded another way, I believe I could get through a full day at work with this ROM in its current configuration and not have to charge my phone, but I would be nearly deep-cycling the battery to do so. After 7 hours, 25% drop, with zero use of the phone, I'd expect a 50% drop after 10 hours with moderate use, and if I just can't stay off the thing for whatever reason (e.g. using it to RDP the servers over WiFi), then I don't think it would make it. That is, however, why we have chargers, and I will of course use mine when needed, but to me, impressive would be using it regularly all day and still having enough to play with when I get home at night.

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Definitely a capable daily driver, even with its current list of minor deficiencies. Looking forward to the public release version.