[Omnifox]

The Tour will not be searching for GSM towers in the US. Only when overseas.

Depends on your SIM card.

[traldan]

I lasted from ~10pm last night until ~6pm today, phone was on but idle overnight, used it pretty heavily for email/web browsing/applications while at work. Played around with GPS, not too much on the media though.

I mean, it's what I would expect. For a media intensive phone, and on a day when I was probably playing with it more than I would normally at work (lol), it did quite well.

[Jodiuh]

So you have to condition a lithium ion battery? They have no memory, so what's the complete drain for?

No memory, but a full drain will calibrate the battery w/ the device so the meter's right. I don't fully understand why, but after a few charges on my Storm, it got much better.

[lindros2]

Now, did you disable radio? On my curve, I have had it actualy pick up a signal for short bursts of time (Sending some SMS and a 20 second Voice Call (My other hald still has the msg in her mailbox as proof ). Anyway weak radio signals are the fastest way to burn up your battery.

Just makes me curious if you turned it off or not.

I turned the radio off - I'm pretty good about that on flights (I forget every once and a while and I'm afraid the Tour will in fact super-drain in a situation like that...).

[sigtwenty]

i dont see the complaints being very valid.

youmail drains it fast i noticed that same with storm as well.

930pm monday on charger at about 65% battery.

Tuesday:
Current settings:
backlight on autodim
backlight set to turn off after 10 seconds
memory cleaning disabled
GPS off
background apps to minimal (4 core apps)
bb msgr running
BT on, but not connected.
all ringers on loudest settings
vibrate not on at all.
holster not used.
GSM off
sim card removed
EVDO only data setting used

0309, off charger.
0443, call placed: 2:04
0445, call placed: 1:24
0818, call placed: 0:30
0852, call placed: 0:42
0933, missed call
0942, call placed: 18:31
1105, missed call
1117, call placed: 4:14
1138, call placed: 9:01
1148, call placed: 3:38
1216, missed call
1220, call placed: 0:58
1329, call placed: 10:58
1457, call placed: 12:57
1511, call placed: 0:29
1649, call placed: 13:12
total: about 88 min

17 text sent
14 text recvd

BB messenger:
52 messages total

facebook:
about 35 messages/comments etc.

4 emails
about 100 webpages browsed maybe more, nothing downloaded.
3 people playing with new phone that liked it for about 10 min each
4 pix taken
2 pix recvd
played with ringers for about 5 min
about 2 times an hour checking on battery life status
about every 10 min turning backlight on to see the time

time of posting: remaning battery life=30%

about same life as my storm. usually i use phone about 30-40 min more but i was testing it today and didnt wanna run out of battery life, even tho i took my storm battery with me for backup.

time of posting: 1911PST

[sigtwenty]

oh yea, and i started up with 104.2mb, now im at 99.6mb