Battery Life of the HTC Incredible is Terrible

Ever since the release of this thing, the battery life has been terrible. I would use this phone lightly for 3-4 hours and it would be warning me of low battery needing charged. I have made myself accustomed to plugging it in everywhere I go. I leave it plugged in at work. Plug it in in my car. Charge it at night. Is this really a “mobile” phone? LOL. I also carry an extra HTC Incredible battery around for emergency use or in case, God forbid, I need to go an entire day without charging.

HTC Incredible “low on space” Issue

Over the last couple months I’ve had another annoyance. I have very minimal apps and data storage running on this phone. I would check phone storage and would have 90% free everywhere. No problems right? Lately, the phone would warn me of “low on space” and basically shut off all notifications and updates. How annoying? This made the HTC Incredible nearly useless for Facebook, Gmail, etc… Basically any app that needs notifications and updates. I could still use the browser but that was about it. Very very annoying.

HTC or Google Released a Fix

So I used the trusty old Google to help me find some potential fixes for this last low on space issue. I tried and tried things but this darn message kept coming back. Finally, last night there was word that a new android software build has been available. 4.08 instead of 4.06 or something. In this build they addressed the “low on space” issue. And there was also a rumor that battery life seemed to improve with this build. Really?

The problem now was I could not get my HTC Incredible to download the new software build. Really again? Geez. Yeah I’m sure HTC wants to test all builds before pushing them out. But this one is important. To Google again. Luckily I found some life saving post on a techy forum talking about this specific issue. It mapped out how to clear my factory phone cache, clear up plenty of space, and basically force the install update onto my phone. It worked without a hitch!

So now I have the new build and guess what – it seems to have fixed the low on space issue. It’s only been 12 hours as I write this but that is way better than before. Hopefully it’s gone. The other thing… Battery life seems drastically improved somehow.

Isn’t it ironic that less than a month before I’m ready to get a new phone – they finally fix the big issues with my current phone. I’m happier now with this HTC Incredible than I have been in nearly 2 years. Sadly, I’m sure I’ll be the dumb one to go grab the latest and greatest (Google Nexus) phone when my contract is up in late December. Such is life.

Facebook is still my most used and favorite social network. That is probably due to the fact that tons of my friends and family use it. But facebook is a huge part of my daily lifestyle right now. I follow friends statuses, update my own status, upload pictures, promote my businesses through pages and more. I think it’s safe to say that I won’t stop using Facebook in the near future.

Twitter is a growing trend because of the celebrity embracement. Movie stars, singers, and athletes all use Twitter. Personally I have a very hard time keeping up with Twitter. It moves so freakin fast. I also have twitter accounts for many of my websites so that compounds the problem. I’d say I use twitter a few times a week and that is mainly for marketing purposes.

I am 100% done with Foursquare. I even uninstalled it from my phone the other day. Check ins just seem like a big waste of time to me. In this busy world I’m trying harder and harder to focus on value added things in my life. Plus, my only goal on Foursquare was to be the mayor of Bww. Success. But then soon after someone overtook me despite me checking in several more times. I don’t understand. Done with Foursquare.

An up and coming social network is Google+. With the google brand running this it is sure to catch some users. They added the concept of circles which makes it slightly different than facebook. But it’s probably not enough different for the masses to use it. I have an account and will start using it sparingly.

Ok that is about it for tonight. What social networks do you use and why?

How to Download Your Facebook History

• Login to Facebook
• Go to “Account” -> “Account Settings”
• Click on “learn more” next to the Download section.
• Read the instructions and go!

It’s very simple to download your Facebook history, wall and pictures.  Not sure there is a huge use for it but I thought it was cool.  And it was something that I didn’t know could be done until today.

Enjoy and feel free to “friend” me at Ryan Knuppel facebook.

Jammin’ Jalapeno - Spicy jalapenos, blended with a touch of tequila and a hint of lime. Sweet heat.

This sounds delicious.  Who wants to go to Buffalo Wild Wings EP and try it out?

In other Bdubs news – I head off to the BWW sponsored trip tomorrow through Sunday.  Pretty pumped to say the least.  Pictures, blogs, tweets and Facebook updates will surely be coming over the next 4 days.

Cars 2 is on it’s way!!!  Lightning Maqueen, Mater and the whole crew in another adventure.  Drew absolutely LOVED cars as he was growing up.  2-3-4-5 years old.  Bryce not so much but I’m guessing he’ll really be into Cars 2.  Be on the lookout for it coming to a theatre soon!  Cars 2!!!

Well, with Facebook Memories it sounds like this may be a possibility in the very very near future.  It was leaked the other day that Facebook briefly had this update available.  Screenshot of Facebook Memories below:

It’s kinda cool (and scary) to think about this.  Facebook Memories can provide your life story or a journal of your life.  Awesome!  The question I have is will this be isolated to just our own profiles?  Or will we be able to see Facebook Memories for other Facebook users like our friends?  Hopefully they make this a preference that we can control.

Anyone else kinda excited to see this new Facebook Memories?  It’s currently not available but it was briefly at one point.  So expect it soon!

Do you own your own name domain name? If you don’t and want some help securing it and setting up your own personal website – let me know.

• Easy access to my social profiles (Facebook, Twitter, RSS, etc.)
• Featured video near the bottom
• Family posts scrollable across the top
• Featured post below that
• Latest blog entries below the featured post
• In the sidebar you will see a Tag cloud, comments, popular posts

That’s just a few of the things that stand out about the new “knup.net”!  Hope you all enjoy it and looking forward to blogging into 2009.

So I continue driving the beast and all of a sudden, my heat seems to be broke.  Crap!  Time for a new car?  Nah, I can handle no heat.  Well, go on a few more weeks and now after I turn the car off – it seems to “run” for a good 5-10 minutes after the fact.  Almost like it’s trying to cool down.  Hmmm.  This car sucks!

Well, my lazy butt finally decided to look into that light.  What do you know!?!?!  My car was completely out of engine coolant.  Could this really help?  I filled the little compartment with the proper coolant – and WALA.  Heat works… Car shuts off properly… Good as new    If it would have only fixed the oil leak.

So moral of the story.  If the car is complaining with a little light on the dashboard – it most likely means something.

So for the last few weeks I’ve been training (running) to be in shape for this race. I like to set goals and I like to meet my goals. So I set a goal of finishing this 2 mile run in 15 minutes. That’s just 7:30 per mile – no biggie right? Well, not back in the day. Back in college we were force to run these in like 13 minutes max! But now, I’m strugglin. I haven’t time myself much but I’m pretty sure to date I’m sitting at around 17 minutes or so. My brother Rodney and I went running today through Morton and finished 3.25 miles in 27:30… Not bad I guess. So, I have a month or so to shave that down to 15 minutes for 2 miles. Can I do it? I’ll report back as the training continues!