Ideas on how to extend battery life?

Hello - I'm new - please forgive me if I'm posting this in the wrong area - I'm not sure where to put it...

Ok - I charged my battery all day and all night yesterday and came in to work today - now I'm looking at the battery and it is down to 24%!  ouch...I haven't watched any videos nor listened to any music on the phone today. I have been online but just Facebook - nothing to drain the battery that much!

I thought I did the whole - recharge fully then drain already but maybe I need to do it again?

I have 4 emails...1 syncs every 6 hours, 1 syncs as soon as mail arrives and the other 2 are set to manual.

I just changed and now I have 2 syncing every 6 hours and 2 manually.

My screen brightness is less than half and my screen turns off automatically every 30 seconds.

Does anyone have any other suggestions that will increase my battery life?

Same here. Full charge in the morning and by 1pm I have maybe 20% battery life left with less use than I did on my curve. I turned off "location services" because it said that might drain the battery but didn't help one bit. This is not good!!!

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Palm Pixi Battery-Saving Tweaks

Log out of IM

The Messaging apps keeps you logged into both AIM and Google Talk even after you dismiss the card. The IM protocol on the Palm Pixi is currently afflicted with a bug that makes is suck the life out of your battery. The bug is aggravated if you have a lot of buddies. For now, unless you expect you'll be actively using it, click the green circle at the top of your buddy list and select Offline.

Turn Bluetooth off

I've not seen the Pixi do anything particularly nefarious with Bluetooth and battery life (seems to not make much of a dent to me), but better safe than sorry.

Move your phone

I have to admit that despite my complaints about poor coverage, there are places around with slightly worse coverage (I'm in one now). The Pixi drains quickly in areas of marginal coverage -- so if there's a spot in the room with better signal, it wouldn't kill you to be sitting there. (see below for more options).

Change your Fetch Interval for Email

I still have Gmail set to "As Items Arrive" because I'm stubborn and push Gmail is too nice to give up. Still, if push email isn't critical to you, consider setting your fetch interval (in email preferences, under your account info) to 30 minutes or a half hour. Heck, depending on how often you get email, setting your interval to "As Items Arrive" may help your battery life. It's something you need to play around with.

Check your screen settings

Does your brightness really need to be maxed out? Do you really think the screen needs to be on for 3 minutes before it turns off?

Hotmail? May be an issue

Folks in our forums are identifying Hotmail as a particularly nasty culprit for heat and battery issues. To be fair, this one could be as much Microsoft's bug as Palm's. But if hotmail isn't essential for you, shut'er down.

Turn off GPS

If you're not using (and not fixing to use) GPS, you can head into your location preferences and turn it off. In my testing this hasn't made a huge ding because the Pixi doesn't have GPS on all the time, but if you're using Google Maps a lot, it could help you.

Turn ON WiFi. No, seriously

Palm told us that the Pixi was very efficient at WiFi and that we might just see better battery life with WiFi on. I haven't done extensive testing yet, but yesterday I spent all day in a spot with absolutely terrible Sprint signal. In the morning, WiFi off and the battery drained rather quickly, down to 50% in three hours of moderate use. In the afternoon I turned WiFi on and with the same usage, it managed to keep it up to 25% four hours later. Still not great, but surprisingly better!

So: poor signal but good WiFi? Turn on WiFi. No WiFi around, turn it off.

Close apps, especially 3rd party apps

Can't hurt! In fact, you may even want to consider deleting them (Opt + Tap in your launcher). We haven't confirmed yet, but it's possible some 3rd party apps may be failing to close cleanly and killing battery.

Reset the device

You never know, even built-in apps sometimes behave badly on the best of platforms.

Glad to hear that!!!

Keep cards closed, dim the display, stay off AIM, turn on WIFi when you need it, same with bluetooth, and you should be good.

My iphone was the same way and I had to do all the same things.  Its really just a useage issue.  Having the instant messanger running all the time is like being on the phone all day.  I think its cool that you could pop another battery in the pre though if you have an extra.