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Posts: 92 | Thanked: 92 times | Joined on May 2011 @ Stellenbosch, South Africa
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Yeah, I almost never get the chance to drain my battery completely, but for example: Today I went on an 8 hour hike, ran Columbus and logged the track while my phone sat in my pocket. Took maybe 30 photos and sent off a few SMSes. Got back and my batter was on 60%.

Currently running Kernel Power v48 at ULV250-600 with VDDC1 and VDDC2 enabled; oh and my backlight level is set to 1. I am also running Karam's CGROUP patch which may or may not help battery life but it sure helps responsiveness.

Rock stable and I find the only thing that really hits my battery life is if I read a book with the backlight always on. In which case I get about 10 hours between charges.

Never had the chance to see what it is like in standby for a long time, I use my phone a LOT by anyone's standards and never does a day go by where I don't do so.

Other usage cases which have impressed me with my current setup are as follows:
  • 6 Hours active use as a music source in a car, using the FM transmitter and forcing the backlight to stay on most of the time by constantly changing songs. Battery finished at 40%. And that was over 20 hours since it was last charged.
  • 56 hours of semi-active usage before the phone's battery died. In all fairness though I was constantly rebooting it which probably hit it quite a bit.
  • Used as a portable GPS for a walk I did, connected to the internet the entire time for an hour and a half walk, with the GPS active and using GeePS. Only used about 10% of my battery

Overall, even my old N97 can't match my N900's battery life
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