Droid Incredible battery life?

SunMoon&Stars

This is my first smartphone ever, so please bear with me. I've had it for only two weeks. I'm having intermittent battery life problems.

I charge it overnight every night, but sometimes the battery dies during the day. Once it was before noon, other times it's in the mid-afternoon. I was on vacation last week and at Disney all day with my nephews, so I didn't have an opportunity to sit down and troubleshoot. I would have called Verizon, but the issue seemed to resolve itself, or so I thought.

Last week when the low battery warning came on, I was able to view where the power was going. I saw that bluetooth was using some of it. Since I don't use bluetooth, I disabled it and that seems to have helped somewhat. Of course now I can't figure out how to access the screen that displays where the battery power is going.

The yesterday it died on me again; I don't know what else I can do.

I've been running the "I heart radio" app while driving. Is an app like that a power hog? I didn't think it was since I was using the car charger, but again, I'm a newbie at this.

Any tips on how to conserve battery power are welcome. Thanks

 

bearsinpants

Do you have the advanced task killer app? This app will shut down any applications that are still running but you are not using . It is meant to be a battery save . the one downfall of most Smart phones is the short battery life , since you are constantly connected to the internet , you are using more battery power . I would suggest downloading the advanced task killer app  (it's free) . Also if you are not using wifi , disable this feature because this is drowning your battery just as well as the bluetooth .

subdola

In addition to the above suggestions, switching off the GPS when you don't need it will also help.  The task killer (I have TasKiller...it's a little red robot, there's another that has a little green creature but I prefer mine because it kills all running apps with one tap) is ESSENTIAL.  I still charge mine every day if I use it a lot, but it can last for more than 2 days now if I don't play with it all day. 

is_it_over_yet?

Just tagging this thread since my Incredible should be arriving next week and this seems to be good advice.