^^ is that the best suggestion you have?
@a2mn2002, install BetterBatteryStats and check what is using up the battery. BTW bad battery life means how much the battery drained? i read Explorer have a small battery but the SOC is excellent one and should offer 2-3 days battery easily.
or check the battery graph thats build into the about phone section. If mobile stays awake, restart the mobile once.
Best in this case atleast.
My Friend is using Explorer for over a week now .
As usual he faced Low battery backup issue since he moved to Android from nokia E63.
2 days after Purchase he rooted and loaded a Custom Rom.Now he is more happy than he ever was.
Those Low end Android Phones owe their poor battery backup performance to Relatively Good SoCs running on comparatively weaker Battery.
Down-clocking may also help as in Case of 832Mhz Clocked Core of SGY which is barely pushed to its threshold Limits.But Explorer already has a quite low clocked 600Mhz SoC(though contextually better than SGY ) and lowering it further no act of wisdom.
@OP.
If you are using any active task/process killer.Remove it.They do more harm to battery performance than any good for Phones running ANDROID above 1.6.