[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] cj chitwood:
You're right, stock, there was no way in hell that phone would last all day, but I did in fact have about a thirteen hour or so drain of about 50% multiple times. I mentioned the one 30-hour or so because that was the absolute extreme, and like I said, I never was able to repeat it. I was able to repeat a roughly 12 to 13 hour drain of 50%, which comes to 24-26 hours full life, but the only way I was ever able to do so was by simply not using the phone at all.

Also, not using the phone at all got me that, so in reality, not that much better than DREAM. Like I said, once I start using it, even for just trivial stuff, it drains much quicker.

I've read it from day one, and reread it a couple times. The main reason I waited so long before flashing the ROM was the battery killer. I love CM, but I need my phone to be reliable.

again, not using the phone at all got that kind of drain. What I would be impressed by is using the phone regularly and still having half the battery remaining when I got back home 10 hours after I left, without need for charge. Of course, even with that I'd still charge it, just to keep it near full (why not charge if it's convenient, after all).

I wouldn't know and I wasn't suggesting otherwise, apologies if it came out that way. I was just suggesting to make sure it was configurable.

I'll have to search how to tell. Is that just when the "What's using the battery" shows the phone as "not awake"?

Perhaps I should have provided more context. On the DREAM, I could go with either 2G, 3G, or both. I almost never went both, because there was no point draining the battery if I wasn't actively using the phone, so I usually left it 2G only and went 3G only (manually) when I was using it. I noticed on days that I ran 3G-only that the 3G radio [seemed like it] took more battery to run than the 2G radio did. I don't remember, it may also have been stated in XDA or elsewhere, but because of this I've always used 2G-only unless I was actively using the device.

Enter the DoubleShot. I've noticed -- and maybe I'm wrong, IDK, maybe it's a misconfig in the ROM kernel or something -- that the 2G radio lately seems to take more battery than the 3G radio. That's what I meant by it seeming backward, is not that shutting off one radio takes less than having two on (I'm not that daft) but rather that the 3G seems to need less energy than the 2G when either is used by itself (and I still never intentionally have both on at the same time). At the same time, I haven't cared or had time enough to measure it and do scientific analysis, so I may well be off my rocker here. I'm basing this on my perception, which is never without a grain of salt.

Okay, compared to drastically short battery life, yes, this is long battery life.

I just consider it average.

Still, how's this, I've only used this ROM for two days now, and I'm comparing it to the stock ROM as well as to Bulletproof 1.1 and for that two days, the battery life is comparable to what I had on the other ROMs, so that's another reason I say it's only average (and again, I'm not complaining -- it's certainly enough). I've clearly not had enough time to make a thorough run-down nor do I intend to aside from my usual everyday use. BUT, after I've been using it a while, I'll post more of my experience. I just wanted to share what I've found with it so far.

[EDIT!] dhkr, I've gone looking, because I know for a fact I posted more than one screenshot from my G1 indicating battery drain, but I can't seem to find them now. I did however find a post where I was once having 1% drain per hour. I remember that now. Of course, that's 100 hours battery life, right? Well, of course not. As I recall, it was 1% of drain per hour, for only the first few hours. After that it started reading more realistically. Honestly, my batterystats.bin might have needed a wipe, but my G1 did last a full day without any charge once. Again, I hardly used it for anything other than checking what the battery level was.

[EDIT AGAIN!]

Found a pair of screenshots. Granted, Safe Mode on the G1, not the shots I was looking for, but you can see the one is 3% less battery than the other, and was only a couple minutes later. Almost no drain until I turned the screen on. But again, not the screenshot I was looking for. Just posting what I've found. here is the post

Another, showing MASSIVE drain in airplane mode here.

No screens, but here is a drain report of 26% in 8 hours with basically no use.

Aha. THIS IS IT. I saw 20 hours and only about 36% or so of drain. 40 hours would have been 64% of drain. I'd have gotten nearly 60 hours worth of not using the phone between charges.

Thank you though, because had it not been for this little exercise hunting down posts, I would not have remembered some of this (and proven to myself that I don't always remember things the way they really were). But admittedly, I never saw that kind of life expectancy again. Still, if I could see that in the DoubleShot with the stock battery -- that would be impressive to me, and that's what I would call long battery life. but again, I haven't really had this long enough to even try yet.

Thanks Marc, I remember seeing that option before in CM7 on my G1, and had forgotten to look there. Sometimes it's the obvious things that get us.