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.

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!

I bought a WD Passport – 320 GB version – USB. This thing is truly plug and play. Pop it in and out of any computer and have an instant hard drive. I’m putting all of my pictures, videos, music, documents and more. PERFECT! 320 GB should be plenty big for now. I’ll report back after I use this sucker for a few months. Here is the picture of it, it’s pretty slick!

You can buy it pretty cheap from Amazon right now. Here is the link: