Beautiful Widgets = Beautiful Battery Killer?

[raven1911]

I am in the same boat as the OP here. My battery life is just horrible. I even did a hard reset of everything and removed all apps. It seems some days I have good battery life and other days it just sucks. I can't figure out this phone in regards to the battery life. I have resorted to just carrying my charging cord with me and plug it in when I can.

Regarding all this GPS stuff and finding a signal and all. Is there an app that would automatically shutdown the phone from trying to find a signal and sucking all your battery life? Seems to me, for how smart this phone is, seems pretty dumb to continually look for a signal for hours on end and suck the life out of the phone itself.

[Guerrilla]

The phone isn't smart. It's only as smart as what you tell it to do, so if you tell it to keep itself linked to GPS than it will. You could buy Locale and setup an event for when your battery reaches X% shut off GPS, or just just monitor phone periodically to see if the GPS icon is searching.

I keep it on all day and my battery life is great. I use my phone heavily throughout the day and still have yet to have it die on me before I go to bed. I plug it in at night around 15-20% battery after roughly 14 hours of usage with the GPS on all day.

[DeadRinga]

The phone isn't smart. It's only as smart as what you tell it to do, so if you tell it to keep itself linked to GPS than it will. You could buy Locale and setup an event for when your battery reaches X% shut off GPS, or just just monitor phone periodically to see if the GPS icon is searching.

I keep it on all day and my battery life is great. I use my phone heavily throughout the day and still have yet to have it die on me before I go to bed. I plug it in at night around 15-20% battery after roughly 14 hours of usage with the GPS on all day.

I've tried to use Locale... but it completely crashes my phone.