How do you define long battery life? What's standard for non-Android smartphones? And what services do you have running?

One thing misleading about Android--your average task killers are not good for you. Don't use them. I think Juice Defender just works on the big battery killers and leaves your standard apps alone. So it's good.

can you delete the exchange account and then add it back in?

I did, multiple times. I'm forcing IT to reboot the mail server overnight.

How do you define long battery life? What's standard for non-Android smartphones? And what services do you have running?

I wasn't expecting to have to charge it on the way home from work, with mild usage during the day. The HTC Amaze is a notorious juice hog. Once I tweaked a few settings and added Juice Defender, things got much better. I lowered the brightness, shortend the screen timeout and changed the autosync settings.

I purchased Juice Defender Ultimate for $1.49 from the Amazon App Store a few days ago. (It's normally $4.99). It's worth every penny. It's a CyberMonday week deal. Bluetooth automatically turns off after two minutes if there's nothing attached. Wifi automatically turns on when the phone senses I'm at home (I still need to train it to my other frequent wifi locations). It allows me to set schedules, so connectivity is disabled while I'm sleeping, running at my selected interval during peak hours, and a much longer interval at non-peak hours. I can also set weekend peak/non-peak, in case it's different than the work week. There's lots of things I'm forgetting too.

I'm at 83% right now--with moderate phone and data use--and I pulled it off the charger yesterday morning at 7:30. Juice Defender says that I've increased my batter life x 2.12 in the last 48 hours. I'll take that.

Wifi automatically turns on when the phone senses I'm at home

I thought Wifi was one of the things that used up a lot of battery. Does it use less battery than the normal data connection?

I can make calls that don't count against my minutes over Wi Fi, so it's always worth it. Battery is insignificant against that.

I have GPS and Wi Fi running all day, so I have to charge by about 4, but before that I could make it home fine.

But I use Locale so it's worth it for me to have it do all sorts of fancy location-sensing stuff. Battery life isn't usually at a premium for me.

P-C, it turns off the data connection so I don't zoom through my high-speed allotment. If I'm at home, I theoretically have access to a charger.

When I leave the house, wifi turns off after five minutes, even if I forget to toggle it. Huge battery savings there.

I can make calls that don't count against my minutes over Wi Fi,

I am so pissed that T-Mobile is advertising the Amaze and Galaxy S II with UMA calling, but it's not enabled on the phones yet. Supposedly it's being pushed OTA very soon.

That's the one thing I miss about my BlackBerry. Service in my parents' restaurant is non-existent, so I relied on wifi for calls and texts. Now, I got nuthin'.

Oh my God, I keep forgetting about WiFi. I have been so annoyed that I don't get 4G inside my office...BUT I CAN TOTALLY USE THE GUEST WIFI.

So I think I need to get that Locale thingy to do that automatically, huh?

So I think I need to get that Locale thingy to do that automatically, huh?

Locale is a simpler way to do it, but Gris can pitch Tasker to you, which has more flexibility. I think it also has more precision, but if you don't need to tell separate floors apart at the same address, it's probably just fine for most purposes.

I think of my smart phone as a mini-computer and both use it as such and expect to have to charge it as such.

I can't compare it to my last, much older phone that could T9 text and vaguely get online if I was really desperate. I didn't use it the same way or as much and the battery life was much longer, but it was apples and oranges.

Probably if I had a long-ish commute, I'd have a car charger though.

What is the difference between sleep and hibernate? I mean, I know that they're different, but...what is the purpose of each?

I really did not check which thread Read New took me to and was a little confuzzled for a while.

Tasker also has the ability to turn on GPS when I use Navigation and turn it off when I exit, which is nice.

I don't think I need to use WiFi at home instead of 4G; I have 2 GB a month and haven't come close to using it all so far. But automatically switching to WiFi at work would be really nice.