I said once and I will say it again, HTC Desire is a great phone. However, similar to any great smart phones out there, battery life time is one of the main problems for any users.

If you are like me,  where I am totally dependent on my phone for email, social networking, web browsing, and other activities, then it would be a great dismay to find your beloved handphone could not keep up with your usage in terms of battery life time. With that, here are some of the tips that I have acquired via forums, websites and advices from friends, in which I have tested myself.

11 ways to conserve your HTC Desire Battery Life:

1. Reduce Screen Brightness:
HTC Desire has one of the best screen displays out there. With AMOLED high resolution display, it consumes most of your batterylife too. You can reduce your screen brightness via Settings > Sound & display > Brightness > Untick Automatic brightness > Reduce Brightness by sliding to left.

2. Disable Background Data syncing:
By disabling background data syncing, your phone won’t connect to servers to fetch latest data updates. To disable, go to Settings > Accounts & sync > Untick Background data.

3. Disable Auto-sync :
Settings > Accounts & sync > Untick Auto-sync

4. Disable WiFi:
By enabling WiFi, your HTC Desire will constantly looking for new WiFi signals, and this will consume battery too. To disable WiFi, go to Settings > Wireless & networks > Untick Wi-Fi.

5. Reduce Screen Timeout Interval:
Settings > Sound & display > Screen timeout. The default screen timeout is 1 minute. In order to conserve battery, you may reduce to less than 1 minute (15 seconds minimum).

6. Disable Bluetooth:
Settings > Wireless & networks > Untick Bluetooth.

7. Stop or Disable Unnecessary Running services:
Settings > Applications > Running Services > Select and stop any applications that you are not using.

8. Turn Vibrate Notification off:
No doubt setting your phone to vibrate will consume quite alot of your battery life. To disable, go to Settings > Sound & display > Untick Phone Vibrate

9. Turn Off Haptic feedback:
Haptic Feedback allows you to have your phone vibrate whenever your press soft keys. To disable, go to Settings > Sound & display > Untick Haptic feedback : Vibrate when pressing soft keys and on certain UI interactions.

10. Customise Intervals or Frequency Individual Apps Updates:
For any Apps that are set to auto update, you can customise or change the frequency or intervals for updates or simply disable background syncing altogether. Apps such as Stocks, Weather, Twitter Clients, Facebook Clients, RSS Feeds and POP Mails.

11. Use the Android Power Control Widget:
Starting with Android 1.6, you can use the Android Power Control widget which gives you the ability to quickly toggle WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, Data Syncing, and Screen Brightness.

Updates:

12. Disable Live Wallpaper:
It is nice to have moving wallpapers on the Desire, but if you think you can live without them then your phone’s battery will last longer too. To disable, go to Settings > Personalize > Home Wallpaper, and select anything other than ‘Live Wallpapers’.

There you have it. If you have any other tips, please leave your comments and share with me.