How to disable Verizon backup assistant? My friend has an HTC Droid Incredible and his phone's battery is draining like nothing else. He says Verizon Backup Assistant seems to keep getting hung up while his battery is draining. During this time he also can't get Google to snyc.

From what I can tell Verizon Backup Assistant offers no useful features once your contacts are already in Google so I'm thinking just disable it. Does anyone know how to do this?
Can you uninstall the application?  Or is it one of those pre-installed apps?

If it's preinstalled, you'll have to get root access to remove it completely, see here.

However, removing it can potentially cause a brick if you factory reset your phone.

EDIT: It looks like there are no easy ways to disable this app.  You have two choices:


Factory wipe. During setup process, do NOT enable the backup assistant.
Do some trickery using this method mentioned in this post (quoted below).  It does not require a Factory wipe.



  1) Be sure to have all your contacts backed up to your Gmail account. Check
  online before proceeding to step 2.
  
  2) Log into your My Verizon account.
  Go to the contacts tab, sort by list
  view and select all contacts. Delete
  the entire list. There's a deleted
  contacts tab as well. Select that and
  delete anything that's in there.
  
  3) Go into your Incredible settings
  tab, select applications, manage
  applications. Do not sort or filter,
  allow list to populate. Select Sync
  Service, (icon resembles backup
  assistant icon) select clear data.
  
  4) Also in manage applications scroll
  down to backup assistant, select clear
  data. This should do it.
  
  5) To verify backup assistant is now
  disabled, select settings, accounts
  and sync, then under manage accounts,
  select backup assistant. You should be
  looking at a license agreement screen.