[Desire General] th3:
Hmm.. your device battery does sound awfully different to mine. Is mine abnormally good or yours the vice versa...or do we have very different known/unknown settings engaged?

I've been collecting more data. Latest datapoint:

I've took this off charge yesterday 3pm (100%) when I got home, and used this to browse forums and post (including here) for ~5 hours continuous, including checkup on about 60 news reports (which must've took at least an intermittent hour), check 10 stocks 1*, weather updated 3*, gmail updated>retrieved>sent 9*, sent 3* 3-4 liner messages, received 7, made 2* ~2min calls, from then to 9.30pm using WiFi. I didn't manually disable WiFi at any point during that time and 3g/Bluetooth remained off but my WiFi is set to the 15min sleep option. Taskpanel light was used 11*, Compass 1* for about 3min, NoteMe 3* for ~20mins, ConvertPad 3*, PDFView 1*, VoiceRecord 2* for ~3min, Maps 2* without GPS for ~30mins, GPS Status 1* for ~2min, Settings 13* for ~3min, played 5* audio lasting 14min, ES File Explorer 3*, ES Task Manager 2*, JuicePlotter 1* for 20 mins, WiFi Analyzer 3* for ~2min. Screen on lowest brightness, vibrate on, background is that plain dark one, over 10 widgets scattered among the screens, Seepu, WaveSecure, VoiceSearch, Sense, Launcher, Xda tool, News, Mail all running in the background. 9.45pm I knocked out reading some news, phone still on. Got up at 4am and was ready to leave home at 5.30am - by when I started playing with it again. Battery was still high so after that I used the phone continuously till 9.30am (repeat of all the above really). Only addition being that I accessed 4* on-line vids for ~30mins too. I kept using it just like that till 11.30am before checking the battery -> 75%. Impressed. So I left WiFi on and continued with similar albeit intermittent use till now - 7.30pm - standby time when screen sleeps and locks is now totalling at ~9.7hrs since the last charge, most of which was at night. Battery is now at 38%.

Cell reception around here is very poor. Most of the time I have none to one bar.

P.S. All mins I've given are aggregates of total usage on each task.

Keep in mind I've had this for over 2 weeks. I haven't done anything above the simple stuff (sorely waiting for root access). In the beginning, I let it die completely (it had some juice) and then placed it on charge for nearly a full day (went on a trip and left it charging). On first use I basically tried everything including installing/removing tons of apps. That lasted ~34 hours which was around 15 hours above my hopeful expectations with such usage. Next [more refined and controlled] use lasted nearly 4 days. So it has been excellent since the get-go.

The only stock phone I've had touching this is a HTC C500 from many years back, which would last 5-7 days with similar usage levels -- but that's many orders of magnitude inferior to the functionality, flexibility and usefulness of this. Ever since that build quality and robustness, I've valued HTC highly and waited for something up-to-date but similar in crucial aspects. Very impressed with HTC launching something of this overall quality in mass manufacturing especially with the customizability.

I've had miserable battery-life phones and know how down, cheated and helpless that feels.

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