FRUSTRATED With Battery Life (or should I say lack of)  Incredible vs. Fascinate

I got the Droid Incredible in January  (my first smartphone) and for the most part - I love it.  I HATE, however, the lack of battery life on this phone.   I have searched the forums and done pretty much all the suggestions from disabling background data & auto sync, changing sync for mail, weather, news, facebook, etc. to either manual, once a day or every 6 hours, I have ATK (although I know there is some disagreement on if it is good or bad), I have my widgets on the screen and my gps, wifi, etc. is always off unless I am using it)   and charged the battery last night as suggested by keeping phone on and charging til light was green, then turning phone off (while plugged in) and charging until green and then turning phone on and the battery almost seems worse now.     I find it a bit ridiculous that you have to jump through all these hoops to try and extend your battery life if you are simply using the features of the phone.  Isn't that what a smartphone is for basically?
I got up this morning, sent two emails and played one game of spades and my battery went down to almost half!!!!    That just doesn't seem right to me.  I usually spend (not at all once) maybe 4 hours a day of phone use??    I charge my battery either twice or at least once a day --
I am curious if the battery life of a Fascinate is battery than that of the Droid???      Or, does anyone have any other suggestions for me?   TIA!

@EmsMom, I know it sounds ridiculous, but the "bump charging" technique did help me a lot. But one difference in how you described it vs. how I do it is, after switching off the phone, I let it get to green. Then unplug and replug. It again takes some time to get to green. I do this about two times and have seen improvement. Other than that, I did post about my specific settings a while back on here. Here's the link:
http://community.vzw.com/t5/DROID-Incredible-by-HTC/After-2-2-this-phone-is-trash/m-p/286838#M12260
Keep in mind. If you use other market apps that need to sync regularly, you need to monitor their refresh settings as well.How much battery you end up using also depends on individual usage patterns. So, if nothing else works, I guess you are then left with an option of getting an extended battery.
At the end of it all, I do agree with you! There needs to be some serious research and upgrade to the battery technology to keep up with all these smartphones and how we use them.
Hope this helps!

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