How to Increase Battery Life on HTC Desire, EVO 4G
The HTC Desire, Evo 4G and Droid Incredible’s battery life gets a lot of negative attention. Many owners said their phone’s battery dies at 6 hours! To improve observed battery life. HTC is developing some handset software optimizations that are expected to increase device operating times.
You can also try those setting to extend your battery life.
Traditionally WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth, and display brightness all greatly impact battery performance.
With Android 2.1 another feature that can kill your battery are the Live Wallpapers. If you’re using Live Wallpaper just turn if off.
Adjust the Brightness of the display (Menu | Settings | Sound & Display | Brightness). By default it is set to auto adjust but you can manually adjust it down. Consider adjusting the display timeout (Menu | Settings | Sound & Display | Screen Timeout). The default value is 1 minute but you can reduce it to as low as 15 sec but 30 seconds.
By default your HTC Incredible vibrates every time you press a key. Turn it off by un-checking the box ‘Vibrate when typing’. Menu | Settings | Language & Keyboards | Touch Input | Text Input | Vibrate when typing.
If Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Email, App Updates, or many other things are constantly popping notifications, consider turning some of them off as notifications do impact battery performance; This is done in each app
To also help with Battery Life you can do these steps exactly:
Turn your device ON and Charge the device for 8 hours or more
Unplug the device and Turn the phone OFF and charge for 1 hour
Unplug the device Turn ON wait 2 minutes and Turn OFF and charge for another hour Your battery life should almost double, we have tested this on our devices and other agents have seen a major difference as well.
