battery drain fix tutorial – motorola droid

we put together another quick video tutorial to help you with your battery drain issues. basically it comes down to the number of apps your phone is running when you aren't using it. if in standby mode and you have 15 apps running, you can said "bye bye" to...

first droid battery drain last night

went to bed with 2/3 of a battery and woke up this morning with a dead phone. at first i thought it was just a screen freeze up, but then after turning it back on realized i had 2% of my battery left.as you can see from this forum post, battery drain has...

more droid pics from the game

at first glance, these pics look pretty sharp. and then you blow them up or really focus in and you can see that the camera is still under-performing for a 5MP camera. oh well, still fun!

droid mounting in windows usb issue?

i can get my droid to mount on my windows 7 machine without hesitation.  however, when i try to mount it to my windows xp machine, it can't figure out what the hell to do.apparently google and android developers have been using a fixed usb driver that...

tonight’s prep – photos in an arena

in about 10 minutes i'll be off to check out the detroit pistons vs. the portland trail blazers here in oregon and plan on snapping a ton of pics.  i'm definitely going to put this droid camera through the ringer tonight and hopefully it pulls down some...

first bug! sound error

ran into my first bug last night and i have no idea what it stemmed from.  basically, after a day of playing with my new motorola droid, my sound went almost to silent.  at first i thought it was my locale profiles going a little whacky, but an...

inside droid camera shots

as you can tell from these inside pictures, the camera struggled again. i messed with different settings by taking it off of "auto" and you can see that the results vary. it's definitely a camera that needs tweaking and we'll just hope it gets a software...

moto droid camera remains questionable

i stepped out just a few minutes ago to snap a few pictures to show many of you how inconsistent and questionable this motorola droid camera really is. obviously it's dusk and a tough time for any camera, but this thing can't take anything clear.