Best battery usage I've had so far...

I've been through about 5 cycle charges now, and the phone is a lot better.
3g on, push off, location services on, autobrightness at 40%
Phone RARELY ever goes to EDGE (less than 1% of the time). It uses nothing buy WIFI and 3G.
Usage: 6 hours, 57 minutes
Standby: 1 day, 7 hours
This is with texting, using the phone, surfing the net (a lot), playing apps, and listening to some music (I'm always doing other things on my phone while listening to music at the same time).
Overall I'm very satisfied.

The best I have experienced with my 3GS phone is
Usage: 4 hours, 34 minutes
Standby: 3 Days, 4 hours
Remaining battery was at 2%
3G on, Wifi on, Push email on (exchange account) 3 fetch (manual) accounts, autobrightness set to ~50%, auto lock set to 1 minute, location services on
The usage consisted of web browsing, phone calls, text messaging. Had full 5 bars of 3g for service.

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