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Tip: Increase Droid Incredible Battery Life

Written by  Droid Attic Published: November 15, 2010

Ever unplug your HTC Droid Incredible in the morning only to find it down to 85% in a matter of minutes, without even doing anything? I know I have, and it is VERY frustrating. Now I'm not a crazy battery watcher, but when it drops down that fast there has got to be something wrong. Some of the guys over at XDA have come up with a couple solutions, one you have to be rooted to use, and the other doesn't require anything special....

Method #1 (ROOT ONLY)

  • Charge your phone fully (don't just go by the orange light turning green check your battery under settings>about phone>>battery)
  • Reboot in Recovery and get adb shell running
  • Once you have adb shell (#) running type in the following commands:

mount -a
rm /data/system/batterystats.bin

  • Reboot the phone immediately after running the commands
  • When your phone reboots disconnect your cable and DO NOT CHARGE until the battery dies (the phone will shut off)
  • When the battery dies out charge the phone like you normally would.

*We are not held responsible for any bricking or damage to your phone*

Method #2 (STOCK or ROOT)

  • Charge your battery like normal
  • When you see the green light unplug the phone and power it down
  • Plug it back up (you should see the orange light again for a while)
  • When the light turns green again, then you are fully charged.

These two little tricks may even work on other current HTC phones. Give it a try, and let us know your results.

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