First, a follow-up on yesterday's entry. I ran the phone with the same settings as mentioned before all day, and with "normal phone use" (i.e. occasionally checking the time, a few texts, a few calls). Here's the numbers: 13.35 hours later the battery was at 58% - that's a drop of 25% on the 1500mA battery, or 375mA - an average battery pull of 28.09mAh. Not bad. Granted, with the settings this I'm not really taking advantage of the device... but it's nice to know it could last 53.4 hours. I'm still dissatisfied with how much battery is being used for how little is going on.

Since I haven't had time to do any further research on what else to turn off, I decided I'd turn something on for the next overnight test. So I turned on Wifi - it's connected to my WPA2 encrypted verizon fios router (MI424WR). These are the overnight results: After 8.25 hours the battery dropped from a charge of 96% to 87%, a 9% change on the 1500mA battery = 135mA - for an average battery pull of 16.36mAh. Hmm, that's quite a bit less than before. Surprised? Yes. Wifi is less expensive than using the mobile network for data transfers, but there should be very minimal amounts of data transfer going on given my settings. I would have assumed that having the radio on and ready to receive traffic would have exceeded the savings of using Wifi vs mobile data. This may warrant another test with the same settings.