All about Incredible batteries (Replacements, Charging..ect)

[jrapp]

If you're referring to the "Always on mobile data" feature, I have it unchecked and my GMAIL pushes fine... This feature only affects you if you're not in Verizon's area of coverage. A post a while back said it's for use when you go into an area where Verizon leases like Alltel's towers and such. So, if you're in a good Verizon coverage area, uncheck it and save some battery.

The feature you may be thinking of is in the "Accounts and Sync" area that allows you to check or uncheck enable background data. That would disable a GMAIL push...

IMHO, this is not 100% accurate in all situations. I use Exchange. I unchecked "always on mobile data" and noticed a minor, but annoying, issue. Only some of my mail would "push" through to the phone.

If the phone was sleeping and I wanted to check my mail, upon waking the phone and hitting the mailbox, I would get a message that the connection failed and asking me to connect to mobile data or wifi. After cancelling this message, my mail would immediately load. Clearly, that is not true push. And clearly, this is not how the Exchange should work. If gmail works fine, so be it. But this is my experience.

I was not willing to deal with this admittedly minor issue. I have since enabled "always on mobile data" and truthfully, have not noticed any change in battery life at all.

I'm on day 1.5 of the 1750 battery. I've been off the charger for 5 hours. I'm at 90% battery remaining. I plug in every night. Even with my curve, my Storm 1, and my Tour, I plugged in every night. No big deal so long as I get through the day.

 

[scuccia]

I must say the Seido 1750mah battery increased my batter life significantly. I charged it for a few hours last night, took it off at 6:30 and still have 60% remaining 17 hours later. I even used my phone more than normal last night as I was at bachelor party and had to make a lot if calls texts and pics.

Wifi off - GPS off - Mobile Network Always On (I don't like disabling this) - Hotmail polling every 15minutues - Gmail Push - Exchange 30minutes - Twitter updates every hour - Weather updates every hour - Stocks update every hour.

I'm now perfectly happy with my batter life, especially since the stock battery fits in my wallet nicely.

 

[TBolt]

Is there anyone in this thread who streams a lot of radio and has the 1750 mAh battery?

I'd love to know how long your battery lasts with streaming + typical business use (email, some web, texting). Getting anything close to these 15-hour days that people are talking about?

Thank you!

 

[scuccia]

Is there anyone in this thread who streams a lot of radio and has the 1750 mAh battery?

I'd love to know how long your battery lasts with streaming + typical business use (email, some web, texting). Getting anything close to these 15-hour days that people are talking about?

Thank you!

I don't stream much of my Incredible but streaming radio on my Blackberry always sucked the battery so quick, and the BB had awesome battery life. I'm pretty sure internet radio is a killer on any phone's battery.

 

[TBolt]

I am not even going to talk about the 3500mAh battery as that thing is most likely going to be hideous. No one knows for sure yet though...


-Elo

The Seidio web site says that the 3500 will add "only 3-4 mm" to the dimensions of the Inc. That doesn't sound hideous to me -- small size for an added 133% more capacity.

Seidio - Your Single Source for Premium Smartphone Accessories

 

[Droider123]

First of all, I've had my phone a week and I do notice that my battery is lasting longer. But more importantly, I'm fairly certain that the Battery Widget from mippin is not accurate. Right now it says I have 73% left but the battery on the upper right has much more than 75% still green... I have no scientific proof, but the widget shows I lose 10% in the first half hour and then settles down a bit. I'm not saying the stock battery is great, but its seems like the widget makes it look worse than it is.

 

[tony bag o donuts]

I just got 24 hrs on a charge!!! 8 of them I was sleeping LOL!!!

It's weird...battery drains fast but then sits at the lower end for a few hrs, like my old gas tank...

 

[jshaffer75]

How long did it take you guys to get your seidio batteries from seidio? Going on 5 days now. Thought I'd have it by now.

 

[TBolt]

First of all, I've had my phone a week and I do notice that my battery is lasting longer. But more importantly, I'm fairly certain that the Battery Widget from mippin is not accurate. Right now it says I have 73% left but the battery on the upper right has much more than 75% still green... I have no scientific proof, but the widget shows I lose 10% in the first half hour and then settles down a bit. I'm not saying the stock battery is great, but its seems like the widget makes it look worse than it is.

Actually, I personally think the "battery on the upper right" is so small that it's almost useless as an effective indicator. That's just me, though.

I've seen consistent performance from the widget by mippin.com so far. Maybe it's consistently inaccurate, but I don't think so.

 

[VZWBB]

I charged my phone overnight while off. Woke up this morning, tryed the unplug and plug it back in thing to see if I could charge it more. Seemed like I could but i didn't want to wait. I turned it on about 7 am and used it mildly today. Couple phone calls, emails, but nothing really special. Everything is turned on, gps, wifi, always on, bt, anything you can think of.

Its 10 pm and my phone is at about 80%. Its working so well, I'm not going to plug it in tonight and see what its like tommorrow. I don't have a reason why its better, but i think charging while off is helping...

 

[mobilemedic20]

I charged my phone overnight while off. Woke up this morning, tryed the unplug and plug it back in thing to see if I could charge it more. Seemed like I could but i didn't want to wait. I turned it on about 7 am and used it mildly today. Couple phone calls, emails, but nothing really special. Everything is turned on, gps, wifi, always on, bt, anything you can think of.

Its 10 pm and my phone is at about 80%. Its working so well, I'm not going to plug it in tonight and see what its like tommorrow. I don't have a reason why its better, but i think charging while off is helping...

I did the same thing (unplugged, turned off phone, plugged back in until Green [all the way though]) and had equally excellent results. Unplugged at 1030am, 1am right now and I'm at 50%, average use for me. WAY better than before, and perfectly acceptable on the whole.

However, someone needs to come up with a definitive fix for this - I can't spend 20 minutes every morning going through this procedure! If it's an issue with the battery itself, fine - I'll just get a different battery.

 

[pacopar500]

Would it be of any negative effect on the phone to use a cheap secondary battery?
I was looking at this on eBay
2x BATTERY + CHARGER FOR VERIZON HTC DROID INCREDIBLE - eBay (item 250621388293 end time May-24-10 17:53:57 PDT)

 

[TBolt]

Would it be of any negative effect on the phone to use a cheap secondary battery?
I was looking at this on eBay
2x BATTERY + CHARGER FOR VERIZON HTC DROID INCREDIBLE - eBay (item 250621388293 end time May-24-10 17:53:57 PDT)

Let us know how it goes, if you choose to go that route. Personally, I'm going to buy 1 big battery so that I don't have to keep swapping them out.

 

[VZWBB]

Well to continue my battery saga, lol. I did not plug my phone in last night. I made a call or two, downloaded state farm pocket app, went on the internet to register that app, and thats about it. I don't know if its making a huge difference or not, but I made the change the other day to the advanced settings for wifi so it always stays connected when it can, and I have taken to adding every free wifi hotspot I run into.

Just got to work a little while ago. Again, wifi is on (but no wifi here atm), gps locaton on, bt on, all the bells and whistles as I know them, and this is what the status reads:

2 days 1 hours 43 minutes snce unplugged

cell standby - 26%
bluetooth - 26%
phone idle - 25%
wifi - 21%
android system - 2%

up time - 49 hours 52 minutes
awake time - 2 hours 56 minutes

I don't have a battery widget, but the battery level has 4 bars lit of a possible 10, so I assume that 40%.

 

[VZWBB]

Update from this morning. I've done a bit of web surfing, replyed to a post or two using the browser, downloaded and installed scanner radio and listened to it for 20 minutes. Last check my battery status was 9%...time to plug this thing in, but to my laptop as I don't have the charger with me.

The rest reads as follows:

2 days 6 hours 15 minutes since unplugged

cell standby - 25%
bluetooth - 24%
phone idle - 25%
wifi - 21%
android system - 4%
display - 2%

up time - 54 hours 21 minutes
awake time - 4 hours 11 minutes

 

[iLLusive]

Had to register for these great forums. Just want to say thank you all for tips & tricks as well as good information.

Now to more directly to tpc, question to you is. While I appreciate the information on how long battery can last. Everyone, including myself, that has Incredible that actively uses there phone has about 40-50 percent Awake time. To my understanding Awake time means screen is active an phone is in USE. So according to your stats, you only actually used the phone for 4 hours and was in standby for the rest before needing a charge? Completely forgive me, if you weren't trying to give folks the idea of how long the battery last averagely.

I get it was on for 2 days, but if you didn't use it. Is that really accurate impression of what battery life will be for people who actually use their phone for more then couple text an put in standby for rest the day. I do see you downloaded few apps / played with few things for short period of time. I just know with my 26 hours of up time, I have near 10 + hours of awake time. With being forced to charge my phone currently, 2-3 times per day.

Guess I'm more curious as to if they numbers for most people who actively use their phone, have closer to 40 percent up time / awake time ratio.

 

[retro77]

Is anyone seeing where the Incredible will not charge the battery at all? Its been on charge for several hours and it hasn't moved at all. I'm on my 3rd battery btw. I've been having the Verizon store replace it with an Eris one. I'm about to call Verizon to get a new phone.

 

[VZWBB]

iLLusive, to answer your question, or what I think is your question, I am not trying to mislead anyone here with my data. In fact my usage habits haven't changed much if at all from day 1 of receiving the phone. However, the life, or perceived life I suppose of the battery, has changed. Unfortunately I did not chronicle the life and times of my phone before just the other day, so my data may mean nothing to you.

The thing is, many people were describing poor battery life with their phones on minimal usage. With lots of settings turned off. With advanced task killers in place. I had the same experience. I also changed some settings, and one day the way I charged my phone, and things got better for me. Pretty much the reasoning behind my posts.

Are you going to get great battery life if your constantly downloading data every minute or have the screen always on set to maximum brightness while playing streaming slacker radio? No. I think anyone that thinks otherwise is misinformed.

Should you be able to use the phone as a phone, download some apps, play some games and still leave GPS enabled, push mail updating frequently, weather updating frequently, wifi always on, bluetooth always on, and still get decent battery life? Yes. At least in my opinion.

That said, after my last post yesterday, I plugged the phone into my laptop and started charging it (I did not turn the phone off). It didn't finish by the time I left but was about 96%, so I let it finish on my car charger. It took a little over 4 hours to fully charge as I expected it would. For those that are concerned about what I am about to post next, I have not done much with my phone since then. I've checked a couple emails and made a couple calls, and thats about it since 5:30 pm yesterday when I pulled the phone off the car charger. I have yet to put it on any charger. My stats are as follows:

16 hours 1 minutes since unplugged

cell standby - 25%
bluetooth - 25%
phone idle - 25%
wifi - 25%

up time - 74 hours 42 minutes
awake time - 12 hours 36 minutes

Battery level appears to be about 70%. I find it interesting that android system isn't even registering on the phone anymore and that my awake time is 3 times longer in one night than the entire weekend. I hardly touched the phone last night, yet it was awake much longer. When I got to work my battery was at least 80%, and its dropped that 10% fairly quickly since I got here. Maybe it has to do with bad reception? I don't know.

I plan on using scanner radio for a fair bit, so we'll see how heavier use of that has an effect on performance. It pretty much keeps the 3G lit constantly, so I expect it to drain the battery pretty quick.

 

[spicedham]

i charged my phone while it was off and turned it back when it was full. unplugged it then turned it on. left it on all night and woke up in the morning 6 hours later the battery was at 96%.

yesterday, while i was walking around with it in my pocket and not using it at all the battery went down about 10% an hour.

could it be some kind of software issue? in both situations i didn't use the phone but the battery drain is very different. were certain applications draining my battery? but because i restarted my phone those applications stopped? i don't know.

 

[testcellchris]

Seidio 3500 mAh Battery

I just had an online chat with Seidio and asked when the 3500 will be available for the Incredible and the reply was they are still developing the back door. I was told last week that it should be by the end of the month now I'm not so sure.. This is something that should have been done 60 days ago.. They have plenty of 1750 mAh batt's available if anyone's interested.