[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] pjcforpres:
Many people are getting the Turbo for the battery life it should be getting, and are disappointed with real world results. Personally, I have been super happy. Coming from an iPhone 5S, I am getting much better battery life while in use, but have noticed my idle usage a bit worse. I knew that would happen, Android is notorious for poor idle battery life, especially with out-of-the-box configuration, and initial release firmware for a new phone, let alone initial release firmware for a new chipset / radio / screen combo.

So, like I had done with every Android phone I have owned (I started with Android on a TyTN II, then HTC G1, then Nexus 1, then HTC G2, and so forth)... I setup my Turbo to match my actual usage needs, privacy desires, and so forth. A few items of note that we could all benefit from are the following:

1) Disable unused / unwanted apps. I could probably be more aggressive than I was, but I feel fine enough. (see attached screen captures)

2) Use WiFi over cellular data when possible.

3) Auto screen brightness.

4) Turn off GPS, and even better, turn off location all together.

5) Turn off bluetooth when not in use.

6) The battery needs to go through ~1 week of charge cycles to fully calibrate and settle in.

7) Keep in mind, the more features you use (ie Moto Voice, location aware services, etc) the more battery used.

I use Moto Display, but do not use Moto Voice or Google Now. I have 2 emails syncing, and get ~100 emails a day that I am notified about. Plenty of texts, very few phone calls. Facebook, Facebook messenger, Google+, and I think that is it for apps that update / stay active when not in use.

I have had no problem getting 2 days of use out of my Turbo. Take it off the charger morning of day 1, use it, go to sleep, use it for another, and toss it on the charger when I go to bed. I average about 3-4 hours screen on time each day, mostly spent responding to texts, surfing the web, facebook, google +, and taking pictures of neat stuff I see and think I can use in a web design.

I didn't screen capture it, but last night when I put my Turbo on the charger I still had 24% left, with just over 6 hours of SOT, and nearly 38 hours on battery. Now, I sold cellphones for 6 years, and would consider myself a little above average in my usage based on my personal experience and observations. I would classify most of the folk on here as heavy users.

For me, this phone is about giving us a power house of a device, with a battery to match. I didn't buy into the marketing claims. My expectation was enough battery to get me through a full day. So far, the phone has exceeded my expectations by two fold.

I fully expect future updates to improve battery life even more, especially as Motorola improves their firmware for the 805 chipset, QHD displays, and the new radio chip. As well, KitKat has never been very good at handling idle background apps, so Lollipop should bring a pretty big boost in those regards as well (although, I am only seeing .5% idle drain an hour over night, which is not great, but is better than many others I have seen).

In conclusion, for those still reading, the battery life is solid in my experience. With a few setup tweaks, it is the best I have ever experienced on a smartphone since the old school Blackberry days.