I've just bought a 3600mAh battery by Sino Cameron from Ebay, and followed the manufacturers recommendation to fully charge it before using it in my IIi.
I have also cycled it 5 or 6 times now and i still cannot get it to last any longer than my OEM 1300mAh battery. It doesn't take too long to charge up and the OEM battery is lasting a bit longer than the new one even though i've had it over a year. I've tried charging it through my alpine and in the spare slot on the OEM charger but it still makes no difference.
Does the battery need cycling a few more times or does it need more use?
Do i need a different charger?
Could it be a faulty battery?
Is it my IIi that's the issue?
I was expecting the battery to be effective from day one, last at least twice as long +, and be a significant improvement on my old OEM battery. I have read a couple of reviews about their 2400mAh battery lasting almost twice as long as the OEM battery, and i was thinking my new battery would be even better than that but i have to say i feel pretty well dissapointed.
Any suggestions before i send this battery back to the retailer would be appreciated, and has anyone else had a similar issue?
Sorted!!
Great News.....
I got the retailer to exchange the battery for another one and BINGO!! This one is working as intended and is lasting about 2.5 times longer than the standard 1300mAh battery.
So it was a faulty battery after all and thats a big relief. I have to sing the batterys praises as it truly does do what it says on the tin and i cannot believe how long i can leave my IIi on in standby phone mode, and the battery indicator hardly moves in hours!!
Excellent battery, highly recommended
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Me and my wife both have EVO's and for some reason hers doesn't hold a charge very good. Is there somewhere you recommend to buy another battery? Id like to have a charger that hooks into my cigarette lighter that'll charge a battery itself.
Check Amazon under EVO Battery.
EVO battery life sucks. You have a choice - slim sexy phone with lousy battery life or big fat phone with good battery life. Your wife's phone may drain faster simply because she uses her phone differently yours. Things like Facebook are known to drain battery very quickly, etc.
Either buy extra batteries or an external battery recharger - anyway, Amazon has them all.
On the battery charger for the car, make sure you get one rated at at least 800 ma. Many car chargers only charge at 500 ma and if you are running navigation or stream audio in the car, your battery will drain faster than it is charging so it will eventually go dead even though it is plugged in. The EVO NEVER runs directly off plugged in power. It always runs off the battery - so even when it is plugged in, it is running off the battery so you have to charge faster than you use.
Battery is fine if you tinker a little bit. But I got 2 batteries +wall charger + free shipping = 10.00 $ from ebay
I'm on Facebook twitter all day with my phone +email txt, talk and I get a full day from each charge
from my phone duh
I disagree with the comment above (mitchellvii), the Evo with the extended battery isn't that fat. Due to a large screen it evens it out. You can still use (with the extended battery) a spring holster and it will fit in a craddle and you can use the kick stand. I also like that more sturdy feeling which gives it a better weight, in my opinion, while holding it.
Amazon is a good place but so is Ebay. You have more batteries to pick from at ebay. I have bought 2 3500mAh batteries from ebay and the battery life is GREAT. Can go almost 2 days without charging with normal use (constantly on facebook, internet, and yelp- normal daily use of talk and text). Price ranges from $9-$85. Most batteries are shipped from Hong Kong so can take up to 3 weeks to ship to the U.S. And buy, if you can, using paypal for a little insurance in case the battery is defect.
You have options: If you want to stay with a slim phone- ebay has some batteries with higher charge capacity than the OEM without needing to buy a backcover- keeping it slim (1800mAh-2000mAh).
You may also look into software as well. Keeping your wifi or bluetooth on will drain your battery faster. Here are some great tips from goodandevo... http://www.goodandevo.net/2010/05/20-tips-to-improve-htc-evo-4g-battery-life.html
Hope it helped.
Try www.spider-foot.com. I got a couple for the Epic and they are great. I'm waiting for the EVO batteries to come which I ordered on 18 Nov. Also free shipping.
Ebay is the way to go. I have 8 batteries, including two 3000mah and two 1800mah along with two wall chargers and I paid less than $60 for all of them combined.
Hi all.
Let's share our experience about batteries, this is more about hardware than software side. Where is better to buy quality replacement batteries and etc...
I'm using two normal capacity 1350 mAh replacement batteries on my HD2 Nexus android. Both of them I bought on ebay quite long time ago and... what can I say, they performing ok, maybe slightly worse that was original one (lost). Recently I bought extended battery on ebay, twice thick and twice heavier than original one with back cover, 2400 mAh. Strange thing, it lasts about the same (sometimes I think even less) as original capacity ones. Peope say do calibration... This is what I'm going to do tonight, but strange, these normal capacity ones have not done any calibrations and last well. The question, why double capacity one does'n last any longer???
I will update you about changes after calibration.
Because of the calibration it just charges it till the normal capacity battery would be full, and but since this is a extended capacity battery it will need to be calibrated so that it knows that it can be charged further.
But, that's my theory. just try it out and see for yourself.
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Tikras said:
Hi all.
Let's share our experience about batteries, this is more about hardware than software side. Where is better to buy quality replacement batteries and etc...
I'm using two normal capacity 1350 mAh replacement batteries on my HD2 Nexus android. Both of them I bought on ebay quite long time ago and... what can I say, they performing ok, maybe slightly worse that was original one (lost). Recently I bought extended battery on ebay, twice thick and twice heavier than original one with back cover, 2400 mAh. Strange thing, it lasts about the same (sometimes I think even less) as original capacity ones. Peope say do calibration... This is what I'm going to do tonight, but strange, these normal capacity ones have not done any calibrations and last well. The question, why double capacity one does'n last any longer???
I will update you about changes after calibration.
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Extended batteries will drain down to 15% then should stay there for a while. And even if the phone shuts down due to drainage all you have to do is remove the battery, put it back in and you're back to around 40%.
I use 2 extended ones from ebay and they last at least 1.5-1.75 longer than the skinny original htc one.
Try to wipe battery statistics in advanced option in CWR Recovery
Bought a spare battery for Desire HD, mainly to have with me when at football as one battery through the day is simply not enough
Question is, if i charge a battery up, how long will that battery keep its charge whilst not in the phone. Has anyone got any examples of timings and performance. Both batteries are official 1200mAh batteries.
http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/how_to_store_batteries
But since all that's not viable in real life or worth it, I store my battery at 100%. Quite a few times I've used my spare battery a week or so after charging it, and it showed 98-99% when I put it in the phone. Of course that's the phone's reported battery percentage which can be erratic and fluctuate a lot, but when I checked the battery voltage it hadn't decreased by much.
I have 2 spare batteries, both older than my active battery and one slightly bloated and not the best to use (the one I got with the phone). Both are OEM 1230 mAh. I last charged them a week back and didn't use them after. These are the voltages measured with a multimeter as of now -
1st spare battery (1 year 10 months old) - 4.18V
2nd spare battery (1 year 2 months old) - 4.2V
As you can see, that's hardly any decrease in the first one and almost nothing in the second one, considering a full charge is 4.2V (4.204V to be exact). I carry them around with me when I'm outside, so they're exposed to some amount of body heat and ambient heat when the weather is hot. Like I said before, I last charged them one after the other a week ago or a little more than that, and they haven't been used since. So you shouldn't see any significant voltage drop unless you don't use the spare battery for a month or more.
Just in case you weren't aware of this, you can check your battery voltage from your phone easily by keying in *#*#4636#*#* in the dialer and choosing 'battery information'.
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antcox HD said:
Bought a spare battery for Desire HD, mainly to have with me when at football as one battery through the day is simply not enough
Question is, if i charge a battery up, how long will that battery keep its charge whilst not in the phone. Has anyone got any examples of timings and performance. Both batteries are official 1200mAh batteries.
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The battery will retain its charge and best way is to flash a custom ROM like TrickDroid(Sense 4.0). I have it and battery is amazing even with heavy usage.
Are they reccomended? I've thought about picking one up for those days I'm playing with my phone for hours on end, but I have one thing holding me back...
When using a battery case is the phone draining the main battery and the battery case is just supplying a steady charge as its used? Or does it bypass the OEM battery while its plugged in being used till it drains? I know lithium ion batteries start losing capacity after 500 or so charges and I'm wondering if a mophie juice pack or equivalent would reduce the lifespan of the main battery?
I've been using the ZeroLemon S5 extended battery+case (8500mah) and have been using ZeroLemon for all my previous phones as well. On stock, I can last about 7 hours on a full charge. On ZeroLemon. I can go through 2 whole days of use. This however does remove the stock battery and replaces it with a MUCH bigger one which requires a custom case which they provide.
Galaxy S3 Neo has a ridiculous stock 2100 mAh battery which offers a very poor duration. That's the reason I need an extended one. I have tried lots of extended batteries of different brands such as DSK, Anker, and one that I don't know its brand, I bought it from http://www.tucargadorsolar.com/. All of it have offered me a very poor duration. They are supposed to have twice the capacity of stock battery but here are the results that I got with all of them:
Original 2100 mAh battery, 100% charged, holds for 5:30 hours on continuous video playing until it reaches 5%.
Different extended batteries (4200 to 4400 mAh depending on the brand), 100% charged, hold for 6:45 hours on continuous video playing and in exactly the same conditions of the other test (screen brightness, bluetooth, wifi...).
I have repeated the test lots of times and always get the same results. If an extended battery of 4200 - 4400 mAh has a double capacity and original battery holds for 5:30 hours, why the extended one does not hold for the double, 11 hours?
I suppose that I have been testing batteries coming from not reliable brands.
I ordered a battery from Mugen Power 3 months ago, because it is supposed to be a reliable brand. But 3 months later still know nothing about the order I've made, and now they don't answer my e-mails.
What can I do? Is there another brand which is reliable enough to offer me a good duration?
I am really annoyed with this, I have lost very much money and time and all batteries I buy are in a very bad condition.
Well you could just money to buy another phone Anyway, if you're on stock, I can't say much, but using a custom kernel with governors etc, it would be really a great option as with the default battery, it last way more longer.
It's really strange, really. Have you calibrated the batteries right by reading the manuals? Are you sure about the capacities (Have you tested them with a multimeter)? Have in mind (if you haven't already known that) that I9300 batteries are exactly the same, because it's wide known and there are for sure reliable sources. A phone like Neo, is easily targeted with fake things. Last, you should buy from Amazon and read the reviews. Oh, did you try to contact with the companies?
Again, it's very strange....
S3 neo's battery functionality is a joke...
I try a lots of extended batterys baut only one is in right...Anker 7200mah(buy from amazon)
But s3 neo have a "bug"...completly charge of ectended batery is possible just if you replace battery after first charge to "100%" and put on charge again...aproximately after replace cell, phone was display the true charging %...
After 2x 3x replaces battery was true 100% charged...
Discharging is same way....after first 1-2% level replace the batt....it shows aprox. 70% after....
Replace "trick" is only one way to use extended batterys capacity.