What I did to get fantastic battery life on my iPhone 4

I followed loads of advise and tips in this forum and many others but the things that worked best for me was jsut to hard reset my iPhone 4 once after installing ios4.1 and then go into notifications and enable all notifications, especially selecting all three options under the game center and then i waited for a couple of minutes and turned off notifications entirely. I am at about 2 hours of usage, 2 days and 1 hour of standy and with about 45 minutes of talktime, my remaining battery is at 75%. I have 3g,push and all notifications turned off and only turn on 3g when i need to. I used the camera a little including taking a video and surfed around the app store and facebook a little. still at 75% after 2 days of standby? i can hardly complain.

Whether the battery performs to quoted specs is another thing but have any of you guys ever used smartphones by other manufacturers?? Fact remains that you can get a day of heavy use out of the iPhone 4 (if not, yours is faulty) and that's pretty good going! All these people who expect to use their phone for hours, have push on, 3G on, wifi on and then have 99% battery remaining just haven't owned phones by other manufacturers before - I'm sure of it. Your powerful phone has a small battery inside it, this will deplete when you use it. Go figure.
If you're a heavy user and charging your phone once every 24 hours is a problem, that problem is yours and not Apple's. I'm the pickiest person on the planet, you should have seen me over on the HTC forums complaining about just about everything 9 months ago! I'm on my first iPhone, my first iPhone 4, this is the first phone I've not had to send for a replacement and I'm very happy with it. Does it perform to spec? No. Does it have issues? Yes. Is it basically fantastic? Yes. I've never seen so many moaners as I do on these forums! I thought I was bad!!

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