Here's a hopeful fix for the Android OS device.
The Droid Incredible won points for its HTC Sense interface and blazing speed, but users have long complained about the battery life. Reports of the battery draining from 100% to 85% in a span of a few minutes have pushed the user community resort to a variety of fixes.
Here's another proposed solution: based on stories of the Incredible's confusion regarding its own battery life, this fix focuses on resetting the smartphone's "battery full" state. From the XDA forums:
- Charge your battery like normal
- When you see the green light unplug the phone and power it down
- Plug it back up (you should see the orange light again for a while)
- When the light turns green again, then you are fully charged.
Alternatively:
- Charge your phone fully (don’t just go by the orange light turning green check your battery under settings>about phone>>battery)
- Reboot in Recovery and get adb shell running
- Once you have adb shell (#) running type in the following commands:
mount -a
rm /data/system/batterystats.bin
- Reboot the phone immediately after running the commands
- When your phone reboots disconnect your cable and DO NOT CHARGE until the battery dies (the phone will shut off)
- When the battery dies out charge the phone like you normally would.
Any Droid Incredible users out there? Got any battery fixes to share?
People like to pick favorites.
Its also about money, google pays for the companies to deploy more smartphones that uses android OS. They use apps and other things to collect info about users to sell to get even more money.
Most of google's software/projects has issues with privacy (look at the recent Wifi data steal issue). And the "If you don't have anything to hide then you don't have a problem" attitude of google is quite annoying, or else why is it called "Privacy"?.
Lets wait for winmo 7 and see how good is it.
Other ways for extending cell phone battery life is by getting rid of the sound your cell phone makes when you press a key. You should find how to do that in your phone's settings. Use a ring tone instead of the vibration alarm whenever possible, since ring tones drain less energy.
http://www.battery-company.com.au/mobile-phone-battery.htm
Standby time: Standby time is when the phone is ON, but not "IN USE." Standby times vary from phone to phone and are dependent upon type of battery (NiCAD, NiMH, LiON), type of phone, and individual charging habits.
Talk time: Talk time is when the phone is IN USE. Again, times are vary with batteries, phones, and charging habits.
http://www.ebattery.com.au/Mobile-Phone-batteries.html
Yeah no kidding. I see these kinds of stories and just shake my head. I have a Blackberry storm that runs tons of useful apps, has a decent sized screen, and most importantly for a portable device the battery lasts a *long long long* time. Two days with reasonable use, a full 24 hours even with heavy use. Typing is easy and the signal reception is great especially compared to just about any AT&T phone *cough*.
But nooo, it's the "worst touchscreen phone ever" and no reputable website will say anything good about it, at all. Well, have fun with your call-droppers and battery-killers, kids. This old man will stick with his reliable dumb old smartphone.
"Simply"? We have different definitions of this word, it seems. It's a shame too, I was seriously thinking about getting the Inc in a few weeks if Verizon starts a promo on it after the new Droid comes out and if (a big if, yes) they start using a LCD screen to speed up supply, like the rumors have been saying. With the disappointing picture quality on the OLED screen and the super disappointing battery life, I am in no hurry to switch.
Im not being forgiving. My Android performs flawlessly. Which problems do you speak of? Many of these "Problems" Your speaking of most likely have to do with new smartphone users and their steep learning curves. Others are due to hardware designs that clearly cant be the fault of the OS. Seems to me that Android is loaded into more phones than any other OS and that bound to create some issues. Its not like Apples easy approach of just one phone.