PLEASE READ: Do NOT worry about Apps running in the Background

[Over50Droid]

Best post I have ever read!! Made a whole lot of sense to me!!

[burkey1000]

Just to clear things up here, when i said the gps was on i did mean the navigation i thought i made it clear. It was trying to give me directions so the nav was running. Not just gps enabled, and just wanted to point out that when using the navigation its heavy on the battery. hope this clears things up a little, but thought i made it clear on my post that the sat nav was running the program. Hope this helps to clear it up.

[kunak83]

So how is everyone's battery life without killing any apps?

[ThePhoneGuy]

So how is everyone's battery life without killing any apps?

Great, the only Apps i kill are, maps, bluetooth, WiFi, and GPS.

[New2u]

the apps that come native on the phone i keep running except browser. Everything else i kill when i'm done with it, i don't care if i need to or not, just what i do.

[BzB]

good information in this thread.

as for battery life, between the time i take the phone off the charger and the time i come home in the evening, i'll need to put it on the charger for at least a little while during the day. battery life seems mediocre for me right now but i'm also using the phone a lot more right now than i used my old phone (storm 2). bluetooth is on all day but i usually disable wifi unless i'm browsing the web.

[noles200]

good information in this thread.

as for battery life, between the time i take the phone off the charger and the time i come home in the evening, i'll need to put it on the charger for at least a little while during the day. battery life seems mediocre for me right now but i'm also using the phone a lot more right now than i used my old phone (storm 2). bluetooth is on all day but i usually disable wifi unless i'm browsing the web.

Same here. Battery life is not great at all. I thought it was bad on my Tour but it's worse on this. I attribute that to a bigger, brighter, crisper screen and the fact that I can't put it down now. I'm going to see if I can find a cheap battery somewhere so I've got an extra.

[smolander]

So how is everyone's battery life without killing any apps?

I'm a heavy phone user and I'm easily getting through the day without worry.

[Attackcenter]

To me it sounds a lot like running Windows. On Windows, if you run applications continuously until they go to a a crawl, then you simply waited to long before doing a system shut down (or restart).

If you simply shut down your Droid or Windows operating system every so often after you've opened and used numerous apps, then your device will run optimal.

AC

[Zenmervolt]

To me it sounds a lot like running Windows. On Windows, if you run applications continuously until they go to a a crawl, then you simply waited to long before doing a system shut down (or restart).

If you simply shut down your Droid or Windows operating system every so often after you've opened and used numerous apps, then your device will run optimal.

AC

I can have months of continuous uptime on my Windows machines without shutting down and I've yet to experience a problem with things slowing to a crawl. Sounds like you're using some very questionable programs.

The big thing is to just make sure that you're not leaving applications that have active data/GPS connections running in the background. The only thing I have active continuously on my phone is the Exchange Active Sync. If you manager your programs moderately well you shouldn't ever need to reboot the Droid unless an OTA update requires it for installing.

The biggest problems with computers (and the Droid is, IMO, effectively a computer) are dodgy software programs. If you're only installing programs from trustworthy sources there's no reason to expect instability or a "need" to reboot every so often.