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I'm still using 4.0.2, the 3800mAh Seidio about a month old battery, well conditioned. I had to swap out 3 different SIM cards to find one that locks onto celltower signal - I determined that searching for signal ate of my battery life more than any other activity. Once my signal hand-offs...

here's an example of my typical daily battery usage at end of my work day consisting of fairly heavy use of phone, email, texts, internet searching etc:

1)take a look at your battery usage on your Battery Indicator (swipe down & click on your %charge icon) 2)If problematic - e.g. bulk of battery life is being wasted on "cell standby" for instance, swap out your SIM card (at Verizon store) until you find one that locks onto the 4G signals & knows...

I seriously suggest to all of you doubters to try repeatedly going back to your central Verizon store & request SIM card changeouts. I've tried this 3 times. The 3rd time was the charm. The 2nd time was the absolute worst - I could not stay in a call, I could not use my phone - it stay 32%...

Bump Charging works guys, do it at night before you go to bed or in the am as soon as you wake up & you're ready for the day. The phone will last ALL day. 1)Charge up your phone til it says "fully charged" 2)unplug the phone from charger - (you might notice sometimes the battery indicator only...

I'm posting my screenshot of battery usage today typical for my workday which is now done. I've had my WIFI on, BT off, google sync on, 4GLTE off all day. Screen dimmed to 20% (visibility fine in fluorescent lighting at work). I made a dozen calls (each 5min or less), used internet 10-12 times...

it's still working perfectly on my unit, but I'll be watching it warily.

I'm a boring adult working-man. I've been using smartphones since Kyocera's Palm units. Before then I used Palm units in various formats since 1993. My last phone was the HTC Incredible. My app list on this phone is almost entirely for functional use. Except for geocaching & skydroid for golf, I...

does anyone know of a podcaster that can play Tess Vigelund's Marketplace Money? For some godforsaken reason, Marketplace Money decided to go only with Itunes & RSS for their podcasts, so Google Reader & thus all the podcasters that used it no longer catches these. Ticks me off to no end.

How Carriers Hamstring Your Smart Phone - Technology Review

Big Thanks to teslatech and logan78511 - update went perfectly thanks to you guys.

Only for my DInc, but not for yours.

double-sided tape Any idea where I could get equivalent 3m stuff to replace it?

If it was double-sided tape, that's even more disgraceful, but using the epoxy was very dangerous - the stringy glue almost marred the glassed circle. It seems relatively easy to engineer a snap closure to keep the lens "cap" in place - what lazy & poor designmanship. Everyone should beware of...

the round red camera eyeball cover to my DInc just came off - it turns out it was held in place by just GLUE. I guess this is what I get for getting a made-in-China htc phone, but still I expected better construction than glue. I got some loctite epoxy and toothpicked some more glue over...