The battery on your android goes out way too fast

This is the biggest complaint on Android devices. The fact is that Android devices are doing so much in the background, like notifying you of new email, you will never run for as long as the basic phones what just make calls only.

If you want a great battery life, take the bullet and get a crappy flip phone from a pre-paid vendor and it will last you longer before charging than any android or iPhone will be able to do!

Okay, if you are like me, there is so much cool things you can do on Android there is no way I would go back to a basic phone.  You can extend your battery life out as much as x 2X to t0 3X easily.

You just have to get rid of apps that are chewing up your processing and battery.  If you can turn it off when not needed, here are the biggest hogs of battery.   WiFi, when not used, GPS when not needed, about 90% of the time.  Change screen brightness from  maximum to as low as you can stand it will help more than anything!  If you are in bright light, make it higher, but manually change it to as low as you can in a dark setting, say when you are reading in your bed.