During my research on which phone to go with next, I ran across an interesting tip on the forums on Motorola’s site. Supposedly, there are times when the phone’s radio will work much harder and therefore drain more battery than really necessary. This happens because it may not be working against an up to date list of towers, etc.

The steps are to just dial *228 and select option #1. Then dial *228 once again and select option #2. Simple enough.

I just did it a couple of hours ago so I haven’t had much of a chance yet to see any potential improvements that may have caused but we’ll see…