regarding battery life of Samsung Omnia

Hi all, I'm excited to join this community, having been checking for some active Verizon user forums, seems this site is a decent one.
I have been using this guy for about two weeks, I feel it's quite awkward to use a stylus to make calls & to do general navigating, and have a bad feeling that I may lose it someday. Need to keep my finger nail longer as a backup I guess.
Anyhow I have some observations and would like to get some suggestions / tips:

1. I found the battery life is really horrible, ie. after I have done web surfing for about a hour or two, the battery meter dropped to one (many times it gave me a warning to hook up with a charger). I complained this problem to Verizon, they sent me a new battery, which didn't make a difference. The very basic idea of having a windows mobile phone is to be able to do some productivity stuff, such as emailing, document editing (impractical with a touch screen though), web surfing or watch Youtube, all of them require a decent battery life. Thus I'd like to get some ideas on how to maximize the battery life. I have done the following:

turn off wifi​

turn of bluetooth​

reset everything to factory default​

Unfortunately all of these steps didn't seem to make a noticeable difference. Thus I'm running out of ideas.

2. I noticed it uses "Broadband Access over Cellular Line #777" for broadband access (web surfing, etc), could this be a battery hog? I think turning on wifi will put a dent on battery life, but I have no idea if "Cellular line" is a bigger hog or not.

3. Does my phone work with VZAccess Manager? It sounds like a cool idea to have a "wireless modem" with me everywhere, however I simply couldn't make VZAccess Manager to recognize my phone, either through USB (Windows gave a warning that it couldn't find a device driver) or Bluetooth (VZAccess Manager couldn't see it while I'm able to sync my phone with Windows Mobile Device Center without any problem).

thanks ahead and have a good day!

Hong

 

I think I have tried that approach, I acutally frequently fired up the "Task Manager" then killed all those processes. Guess I'll have to call Verizon to find out some other ways....

Have a good weekend!

Hong