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Yes, personally I think it is very slow. Coming from an iPhone 3G, I never used the wall charger, only ever had it plugged into my laptop. I could be at 20% and plug it in for half an hour and be over 50 again, and a full charge in a couple hours. Having the Incredible plugged in to the same laptop for a couple hours yesterday (charge only) and it gave me maybe 10-15% back.

I tried one thing yesterday, plugged it into my laptop then turned the phone completely off briefly. During that time it seemed to charge much faster...so it seems that the charging by USB doesn't offset the battery drain very much.
 
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...I tried one thing yesterday, plugged it into my laptop then turned the phone completely off briefly. During that time it seemed to charge much faster...so it seems that the charging by USB doesn't offset the battery drain very much.

Bingo. The Incredible is a pretty powerful phone, and USB is a low power connection. Infact, if you plug your phone into USB and start using it pretty heavily, you'll still drain the battery:) It's just part of having a powerful phone.
 
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Incredikernel offers fast charging, for those with root and willingness to flash a new kernel. I have been using it for the past few weeks and it was charging as fast via usb as from a wall socket. Pretty cool. You do have to enable the fastcharge after installing the kernel. All the instructions are on their website. just google search for incredikernel.
 
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