i recently bought a motorola devour and i love it. the only problem is that the battery barely makes it through the day, about 12 hours with normal usage (a text every hour or so, 5 of internet once in a while, not being used all the time)

i turned the brightness down to about 30%, does anyone know of anything else i can do to extend the battery life?

Turning off things like wifi, bluetooth etc helps. Get a power manager maybe.
But yea, battery life is pretty shitty on them. I tend to charge mine everyday since i use pandora and the browser a lot.

not only that but there's a program called app killer for the droid phones i think you can get it for free but basically what it does is saves your battery by closing the applications you would otherwise have thought were closed. it may take a second longer to load some applications but this will also increase the total speed of your phone as you'll have less applications running while it also saves your battery.

got a power manager, installing an app killer.
thanks. ill see how long it lasts today