“ Originally Posted by D/\SH 
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i get great battery life on my touch. i can talk on it for 2 hours surf the web for 20 minutes and send around 100 texts a day and 12 hours later will still have 50% battery left. the problem isn't activesync since that runs at all times and deals with the the push email. their are many possibilities why the battery could be draining so quickly.
1. push email is set to check too often like every 15 minutes if your using any other than mail2web this applies.
2. bluetooth is on at all times which drains the batter quickly
3. you have apps running in the background
4. you dont hit the lock button before turning the screen off
and for the battery comment on not charging the phone unless under 50% doesnt apply for short term use, what he was meaning was that if you continually do it in the long run you will be shortening the battery life of the phones battery.
hope this helps and tell me how it goes since im not having any of the problems with my battery and all i can't say for sure but i hope this helps you since the touch is a great phone.
1. I think i have mine like check every 1 hour
2. Bluetooth is set to off
3. no apps running in background i close them each time
4. i just push the top power button once to "lock" the phone.
Does pushing the top button not lock it? how do i properly lock the phone than? I dont know hopefully i dont have a crappy phone or battery because this thing sucks the battery dry quick. I had an iphone and i thought that had bad battery life than i get this. But i guess its not the norm so im trying to figure it out. Hopefully changing settings in activesync will help as i read on another forum it has for others. Thanks for all the help guys!