How to Increase the Droid Incredible's Battery Life

At the end of April Verizon Wireless released the long anticipated HTC Droid Incredible Smart Phone. This smart phone comes with a lot of features barely any other phone has to offer at the moment (even though we all know that this will change pretty much monthly with new smart phones being released all the time). While I personally are happy with the battery life of my Droid Incredible, some users in forums are not. As everyone uses the phone in a different way battery life will be different for each case. But before you head out and buy an extended battery for your Droid Incredible, try some of these battery saving tips for the Incredible.

Maybe this is just what you need to make this phone your perfect phone?

1. Set screen brightness to lowest you feel comfortable with.
2. Turn off Wi-Fi/Bluetooth/GPS through each widget when not using them.
3. Use the Advanced Task Killer app to kill not needed apps.
4. Put your Droid Incredible phone into airplane mode when spending more than a short time in an area with poor reception or no signal at all.
5. Reduce usage of live wallpapers or use static ones entirely.
6. Turn off FriendStream, Google Finance, Pandora, and other always updating apps when on battery.
7. Disable calendar syncing if you do not use the Gmail Calendar at all.

Of course this is not a "one size fits all" list of tips to improve battery life of your Droid Incredible. Experiment and look at what apps you are using. Also make sure that the apps are compatible with Android 2.1 as well. Anything that auto-updates or streams data continuously to your phone is a suspected problem for your battery. Some of these apps should rather be used while being at a location where you can plug-in the phone to a wall outlet or connect it to a PC. Pandora and other radio stations are an example for this. And if worst comes to worse, buy an aftermarket battery. I recommend the Seidio Innocell 1750 mAh Battery. This battery will probably get you up to 3 hours additional usage out of your Droid Incredible Smart Phone. It has the same size as the stock battery of the Incredible, but holds more battery power.

Conclusion: The HTC Droid Incredible is really an incredible phone, but it requires some tuning and consideration to get the best out of it. Do not make the mistake to assume that the stock phone with no customization works best for you. But if you are willing to put a little time and effort into this phone, the results can be... well, really incredible.

Chris Puetz is a frequent writer and article author. He has been writing about the Droid Incredible for a few weeks now. He has also written about Media Management Software that allows for better access to videos and music media that could be used on a smart phone. Get brand battery you can go here: http://brandbattery.com