Mine manages around 12 hours and i barely touch it during the day!

Mine is down to 70%, took it off charge at 7:30 this morning.

Mine's fooked since it dropped out of my top pocket into a bucket of water yesterday.
It coincided with me wanting a newer one ... so no harm done

Or do you want it repairing? Did same with mine (except it was a clean toilet) and cost me £56 for a repair.

I thought it was just my battery that was poor since its little swim, but obviously not.

The difference being you know what and how to turn off stuff that you are not using.

What apps do you guys run on the Desire HD then? Not put much on it yet TBH. Haven't seen the need for a power management app due to the decent performance I've been getting out of the box.

I don't think i have anything running on mine???

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Been getting decent battery life from my HD since getting it last Friday though, to be fair, I haven't used it that much however I've had an issue this afternoon - after an overnight charge the battery was still at about 90% until about 2pm this afternoon, then started draining at a ridiculous rate - it was down to less than 10% by 6.

Having looked at the battery usage it appears the Android OS has used 80% of the battery - it has been nothing like that before today. Any ideas? I'll have to do my research in the morning.

Isn't that common for smart phones? You should just have a charger in the car at work and at home.

Charging it at work so it doesn't cost you in electricity is probably the best bet. Leave it on charge almost all day and it SHOULD last until you get back to work the following day.

Another thing is to turn off feeds, bluetooth, Wi-fi, GPS and even data if you are not using them. There are apps to make switching them off a one button press.

But your issue sounds out of the ordinary. I've looked on the Mrs' phone and my work Android phone and both are around 7% in terms of battery use by the Android OS.

Gensoid - Megadrive/Genesis emulator which works brilliantly. Cannon Fodder on the mobile phone. Work you say boss?
Amazon Kindle - If you've got a Kindle you can read your books on your phone as well.
Movies - Quality app with movie reviews, trailers, news etc.
Reckless Racing - Absolutely brilliant old school racing game. Think the controls of Micro Machines but with rally controls. Really good game.
Ringdroid - Instantly ends all those nights spent searching for that special Rhianna ringtone. Just put the song on your phone and you can cut the relevant section to use as a ringtone. So easy to use.
FlickKick Rugby - Another game I've wasted days on recently. It's a rugby conversion game where you swipe your finger to kick the ball. So addictive, they do it in American Football field goal and football (Soccer) varieties as well.
Sky+ - Lets you view the TV guide like you can on your Sky box, gives you programme information and also set your Sky+ box to record programmes. Great for when you get those "Are you watching .." texts or left the house and realised you forgot to record the Rhianna concert.
Ultimate Guitar tabs - You can search for and view the guitar tabs for all the songs on the internet version. If you play guitar its very useful.

I've been charging overnight since I got it - and after a few charges it was getting me through to bedtime (usually between 11 and midnight) still with 20% or so battery left (wi-fi on while I'm home, 3G on when I'm out) - it's just yesterday when it went a bit power hungry.

I charged last night before I went to bed and having just got up it seems to be behaving itself again, with the OS battery consumption down to it's normal 25-30% level. Can't really work out what was using it yesterday afternoon though.

For the first few weeks with any new phone you should always drain the battery completely (to the point the phone is dead) before recharging.

My Desire will last me a couple of days - I'm not a heavy user - texts, occasional calls, very occasional internet and a bit of gaming on the loo. But I tend to try and still drain it before charging and I've had mine several months.

Is there a better Android game than Reckless Racing? Its ruined my entire day, played it so much the phone feels like its going to melt.

I've always done that with phones in the past, after reading numerous, conflicting, accounts online of how best to condition the battery when first getting this one I decided not to do anything in particular on this occasion.

My battery seems to be behaving itself again today, used wi-fi for a couple of hours, sent and received about 40 messages and after 20 hours I'm still on more than 50% battery and OS usage is down to what it normally is, so hopefully yesterday's problem was a one off.

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I've got a similar deal to you on the Desire HD. Admittedly I paid a bit more for the phone. Can't help but feel your going to regret taking a cheaper phone on contract.

The first app any Android user should download is Advanced Task Killer. You set it to kill all running apps at a regular interval and trust me, if you say you don't have anything running you'll be shocked when you see exactly what is running without you realising!!

Worst thing you can ever do, the new android phones are designed to be great at multitasking so that task killers are not needed.

By using one you will make the performance of the phone worse, as when ever you need to run anything it has to load it from scratch.

I've never noticed any lag in my phone and I do know that before I loaded it my battery life was very poor.

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I have just bought a Samsung Galaxy Europa on PAYG from phones4u on with a t-mobile sim. As Phones4u say the phones they sell are generic and can use any sim card I tried to get my giffgaff simcard payg to work on it, but to no avail. Have activated my giffgaff sim card through the website, but phone calls cannot be made as it says call barring is on, neither can i send any text messages or use the internet, even after setting up the apn for internet and mms. What's strange is I can use voicemail and even send *100# to check my giffgaff balance. Can anyone who has one of these phone tell me how you can change the messaging centre number? I emailed giffgaff for support and they say there's nothing wrong with my account.