ABQNM
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OK my phone has been on for about 5.5 hours.
Display has been on 54mins using 57%
Wi-Fi has been on 5.21 hours using 9%
Android System has sent 246KB and received 245KB using 8%
GPS has been on the whole time. Location ON settings are Standalone and Google - not VZW.
Battery is at 54%
The display usage at about 60% lends itself to having a higher brightness. The more power you use there the shorter the battery will last, of course. Also, the display can be a bit deceiving as if you are using a lot of animations or games that number will be higher. Not having the VZW location services on means that the phone will not use the cell network to locate you, so if you have anything that determines its location automatically, it will be forced to use GPS every time. This can use quite a bit of battery, especially if the phone is not outdoors all the time as it would be constantly looking for gps satellites.
From the above though it looks like the display is consuming the most. I use lower brightness settings unless I am going to be outside because the stock auto-brightness was way too bright for me. On stock, I could get 60-80 hours on a charge easily with about 3 hours of display usage. 5 hours of display would take that down to about 40 hours. The display will use the most battery, so keeping brightness as low as you can for the environment you are in will be the best way to conserve power. Or just charge daily.