[stevesr0]

When I use my PE, I am not impressed by it's battery life, but actually depressed. For me, it seems to require recharging after ~3 hr. I say seems to because I haven't timed it.

Mostly, my reaction is based on observing that my wife's iPad goes on all day (including periods of hibernation) and will often continue to have an adequate charge for two or three days without recharging. I haven't monitored this in detail, but it does seem a gross difference.

So, I have several questions:

1. What are others estimate of typical battery life (without careful tweaking of the functional state of the PE)?

2. What are useful tweaks that will extend the battery life significantly without interfering grossly with the functionality of the PE (for example, shutting off one of the displays or disabling wifi function)?

3. What are useful tweaks for people who don't want particular functionalities that are on by default (for example, wifi)?

4. Does the removal/renaming of the telephony.apk materially increase battery life? If so, is there a drawback (such as loss of Android market access, gapps functionality, or ability to use telephony services like netatalk)?

5. What is the maximum battery life that anyone has reported with the PE and how did they achieve this?

I know that there are posts about this in a number of threads. I thought it might be useful to try to centralize the info in this thread, as it would likely turn up in any search on the battery. I would be happy to receive references to existing other threads as well as people's experiences.

Thanks and happy new year.

Steve