I am going to a 4 day music festival next week bringing my WP7 Samsung Omnia Phone and I need to save as much battery life as I can, while still being able to SMS and phone.
Last your I brought a HTC Hero Android and that didn't last more than a day and a half without a recharge.
I am in the process of figuring out what to disable and I think I am on the right track. I changed the settings 8 hours ago. I have send 20 SMS messages and been on the phone for 1 ½ hour and the battery is around 90 % full. So it looks pretty good for WP7 on this one
Current settings:
Turned off Bluetooth, WiFi, Data, 3G, GPS (Location)
Screen Brightness: turned auto brightness off and set brightness to low
Switch team to brown. Should save power because black will be the primary color present.
Set screen time-out to 30
Anything else you can think off and what is reason for that WP7 seems to consume less power than the Android?
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