Droid Incredible users will probably know this feeling where they hear the dreaded low battery alert in the middle of the afternoon. With just a few hours under the belt, the stock battery is quite the let down in terms of powering this smartphone. There are a few aftermarket extended batteries like the 1750 or 3500 mAh varieties from Seidio or the oversea 2600 mAh cheapies from eBay. I’ve tried the Seidio and the cheapies and they seem to be great the first few days and then it kind of just goes downhill. Would you be satisfied only being able to pull 5.5hrs on the 1750 mAh Seidio? Nope, neither was I.

Luckily, Verizon had the 2150 HTC branded extended battery and door in stock. I had some great performance with the OEM Motorola Droid 1/2 extended battery, so I thought why not try an OEM HTC extended battery. The package comes with a replacement door, since the extended battery is roughly double the size compared to stock.

I was real happy to start using this new found power, but in doing so, I lost the ability to use my Seidio Innocase Active. I’ve grown to really like the combination of a hard case and a silicone case in one. So to remedy this roadblock, I grabbed my utility knife, some snips, and a metal file and started working on the case.

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Here’s a neat bootanimation from xda that should be familiar to PC builders. No root access required to install this. You can either ADB push this zip or follow the below terminal emulator steps.

  1. Download the bootanimation for your device. The Moto Droid/Milestone version is linked locally below for your pleasure.
  2. Rename the downloaded zip to bootanimation.zip and place it in the root of your sdcard.
  3. If you already have a bootanimation.zip installed, make a backup or else the following step will overwrite it.
  4. Open up terminal emulator and type – cp /sdcard/bootanimation.zip /data/local/bootanimation.zip
  5. Type reboot and wait for the animation.

Droid/Motorola BIOS bootanimation – Login Required

[via Android Central]

 

The camera and video recorder sounds are there to help victims of voyeurism. However, for normal folks like us, we just don’t want to wake a sleeping baby while snapping the cutest picture known to man. Let’s disable the sounds shall we?

Note: This requires root access as well as ADB or terminal knowledge

To make this work, open up an ADB shell or open up a terminal emulator and type in the below commands. The comments in parentheses below are not to be entered.

I prefer the terminal method as it is easier in my opinion.

  1. su (gain superuser access)
  2. mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/mtdblock4 /system (makes /system writeable)
  3. mv /system/media/audio/ui/camera_click.ogg /system/media/audio/ui/camera_click.ogg.old (renames the camera_click.ogg sound file to camera_click.ogg.old, this allows you to revert back to the sound if needed)
  4. mv /system/media/audio/ui/VideoRecord.ogg /system/media/audio/ui/VideoRecord.ogg.old

Open up your camera or video recorder app and you will not hear the shutter sound anymore.

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