any suggestions from T-bolt users?

You can try it, but everyone that I have met that goes from a smart phone to a simple phone have regretted it immediately.

Try to pick up an extended battery, the larger one obviously adds a lot of life but is a little bigger.

The biggest thing that I have found is to have the auto-brightness turned off, and hit the lock button as soon as you're done with the phone.

Sent from my rooted Galaxy Tab

 

My set up.

I have an extended battery
lv kernel
set cpu profiles set so screen of is throttled back to 600
background data off
lte set to 3g only when I am i a weak lte area

And my battery life is great. 6 hours of moderate use and I am at 90+% I will turn brightness up when I want to show off a photo or something but for regular use I dont need the screen that bright.

 

Have you done the bump charge? Since doing that and just being smart about all of the typical settings I went from 4-5hrs max to going a full day no problem.

 

In short, a bump charge is when you plug your phone in to charge it, then disconnect it after it says full, and plug it back in. Doing this a few times is supposed to bump up the capacity of the battery. While it does work, it lowers the overall life of your battery.