[Touch Pro, Fuze General] ekruse:
I've seen lots of different discussions on battery life on this forum and others, but I have yet to see a comprehensive wrap up of how best to set things up. And, sure, suggestions go so far as wearing your phone on a hip holster rather than in your pocket to keep the device cooler to extend battery life.

With all of the different variables out there, I'm thinking we could work to figure out the best combination of settings with these two different scenarios in mind:

1. Well covered metro area. All 3G - All the time.

2. Poorly covered rural area. (this is me). The phone totally kills itself switching and searching for antennas throughout the day.

Advanced Config gives easy access to a lot of power settings. I'd say we focus on things that can easily be changed here, but I don't want to refuse giving people a chance to edit a registry entry.

In Advanced Config, these are the power/battery life related options I can see. Add to the list if you like and I'll edit this original post:

POWER MANAGEMENT

SD Memory power management (Disabled by default, enabled is advised)

MMC Memory power management (Disabled by default, enabled is advised)

NAND Memory power management (Disabled by default, enabled is advised)

SIM Memory power management (Disabled by default, enabled is advised)

AsyncMAC Power mangement (Disabled by default, enabled is advised)

PPTP Power managment (Disabled by default, enabled is advised)

L2TP Power management (Disabled by default, enabled is advised)

(USB CHarging is a no-brainer. Leave at YES)

AC Resuming from suspend timeout (1 second default)

Battery Resuming from suspend timeout (1 second default)

POWER MANAGEMENT

(lots of non-battery related items except for:)

Turn off Wi-Fi if no activity: Yes (default)

Wi-Fi auto off timeout: 2 Minutes (Default)

DATA CONNECTIONS

GPRS Auto Attach: (enabled by default)

GPRS disconnect (Disable button is default)

EDGE ICON (Enabled, but probably doesn't matter)

HSDPA Icon: Enabled, but probably doesn't matter)

Legacy GPRS notification: (Enabled, but probably doesn't matter)

HSUPA Support (Disabled by default)

Private interface for Internet Sharing: (Does this matter???)

G-SENSOR

G Sensor polling interval: (100 default, does higher number reduce drain?)

LIGHT SENSOR

Light Sensor polling (Enabled by default, Does disabling reduce drain?)

Light sensor polling interval (What's the best setting?)

Light sensor threshold: (5 is default, does this matter?)

Light sensor threshold to turn screen off: (again, 5, but does this effect battery?)

CONNECTIONS SETTINGS (hit 'menu' soft key then 'more' then 'connections')

There are three options for each band. MEdiaNet and AT&T ISP GPRS can both be disabled, enabled or Always On. And, each radio has a 'disconnect after' option. I have both set to 'enabled' and 'disconnect after 1 minute' to allow the phone to shut down radios. But, what is the best here? I'm going to assume this differs for the two groups, one that has blanket 3G coverage and one that has spotty coverage.

Also in this menu is 'Enable WiFi on standby mode'. I'm going to guess that leaving the WiFi radio on would be bad for the battery life. So, I would have to guess leaving that unchecked would be ideal.

Anyway, I've been playing with this quite a bit and have made some improvements, but I still think there's room for improvement.

Share your ideas or findings here.