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Battery first charge

hi
what the recommended method to charge the new battery?
1)charge few hrs till full and drain till 0% and charge again?
2)charge >10hrs?
I used to have N6288, it will auto stop charging when full.
Therefore i tend to charge my hp before i sleep and wake up in the morning to off the charger. So which is like charging for >10hrs.
Since i do not own htc before, so i'm not sure about how they charge.
lets say if battery full till 100%, will it auto stop charging?
i only afraid with my charging pattern (charging while sleeping) will make htc batt spoilt.
any advices?
thx alot

htctc16 said:
hi
what the recommended method to charge the new battery?
1)charge few hrs till full and drain till 0% and charge again?
2)charge >10hrs?
I used to have N6288, it will auto stop charging when full.
Therefore i tend to charge my hp before i sleep and wake up in the morning to off the charger. So which is like charging for >10hrs.
Since i do not own htc before, so i'm not sure about how they charge.
lets say if battery full till 100%, will it auto stop charging?
i only afraid with my charging pattern (charging while sleeping) will make htc batt spoilt.
any advices?
thx alot
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Of course it will stop. Every battery will stop charging when it will be full otherwise it would burn or explode.

erzketis said:
Of course it will stop. Every battery will stop charging when it will be full otherwise it would burn or explode.
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i see..thx
so how long u charge the 1st time?

Before when I bough Tytn II, I charge it over 10 hours and that works well (3~4 days). Recently I bought HTC Touch Cruise09 and I only charge it for 3~5 hours (because the LED turns its color and I just remove the charger). I will see how this battery works.

How to charge a new battery... the solution. ;-)
Hi,
As erzketis says, you have an internal tools wihc switch of your charge.
I'm an electronical technician...
As the charger is a 1Aand the battery is a 1.1 Ah.
In two hour maximum it should be OK.
For me, I went to the sport and 3 hours after, it was OK.
What we usually forget to says is 2 things:
- After the first charge try to use at maximum your battery, let put it close himself (memory effect even if we says taht Lithium has a minus effct, it's a bull****). Try to reperform the same thing 5 times before going on the second tab...
- Avoid to charge you phone when it's not necessary (desactive auto charge when connected on USB). I'll says, wait till 10~0% to charge it. I know it's not prctical, but you'll have a better battery life.
I hope it will help you.

Faster charging?

Does using the AC charger charge the phone any quicker than using the USB charger?
I know I could try it, but Im trying to open as little of the packaging as possible in case I send the phone back.
I cant believe it takes SO long to charge and yet so little time to discharge

Should the phone be switched off when charging? It seems that if it is on, it drains the battery quicker than it charges??
Mine has been on charge since just after 9am and it is at 76%! I got to go to work in an hour

91 minutes ago I took the galaxy off charge . Dow
n to 81% battery. 30 minutes of that was travelling on my bike.
Ill be generous and say I spent 10 minutes browsing. That is some terrible battery life.

using AC adapter / mains power is always going to be faster than charging via usb because usb can only draw a certain amount of power... and no it does not matter if it is on or off when charging .. when battery is full it stops charging...
next... the battery life is fine. I get two days use with have HSPDA / wifi on 24/7 .. I listen to music for about 2 hours a day... email is getting pusher over as soon as possible...
Use advanced task killer.... and other memory 'cleaners' ...
and turn auto brightness off and set it to minimum when you can

Battery will NEVER fully charge!!

I've been experiencing problems(like most) with battery life on the Epic, so I found a thread here from the EVO forums about "recalibrating" the battery. It involves steps of fully charging with it on, removing cable, powering down, plugging back in, etc...
Well I've actually come to realize that a blue LED should turn on when the battery is fully charged & the phone should stop charging(duh). Well i've tried for the last two days for the blue LED to come on after countless hours of charging, resetting the phone, etc. I've now had my phone on the charger for 8+ hours & my battery widget states 100% yet it continues to charge!
Has anyone else experienced anything like this?

No, but my wife's battery would drop immediately from 100% to 75% as soon as it was removed from the charger. This occurred no matter what charging regime I tried. I know that the battery may start to discharge after its peak charge has been obtained, and that it is possible to remove the charger and see only 90% on the battery, but 75%?
I returned that battery last night and now today I see that this battery never gets past 98%. I'll give it a day or so to see if the battery life degrades again, in which case I'll know it is the phone and not the battery.

vanstrien said:
No, but my wife's battery would drop immediately from 100% to 75% as soon as it was removed from the charger. This occurred no matter what charging regime I tried. I know that the battery may start to discharge after its peak charge has been obtained, and that it is possible to remove the charger and see only 90% on the battery, but 75%?
I returned that battery last night and now today I see that this battery never gets past 98%. I'll give it a day or so to see if the battery life degrades again, in which case I'll know it is the phone and not the battery.
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Are you getting the blue light and what app are you using to tell what percent? There are other thread that say some of the battery apps are off a bit. What kind of battery life are you getting?

Success!
I used a few different apps to tell the battery charge so it wasn't the apps.
I found a fix that not only allows my battery to charge to 100% but also seems to give a better charge. Since doing this my battery shows 100% when fully charged, doesn't drop significantly when I unplug the phone, and so far has caused the battery to go down very slowly. In the three and a half hours since coming off charge the battery has gone down to 93%, while holding up to my wife using it for calls and ShopSavvy. I intend on doing the instructions below every few months.
In the Evo space there are two sets of directions on how to prep your batteries for a good charge. One involves plugging and unplugging your phone while at full charge, and the other involves briefly turning your phone on and off between charges. Because I'm impatient I've amalgamated the two with success.
Fully charge the battery with the phone on (several hours)
Once the charging light is blue, unplug the charger
Turn the phone off, then plug the charger back in, for 30-60 minutes
Unplug the charger, turn the phone on for two minutes, then turn it off.
Plug the charger back in for 30-60 minutes
Then repeat this cycle about ten times: unplug the phone for five seconds, then plug it back in until it says it is at 100% (about two minutes)
For the record, I think this has little to do with the battery and a lot to do with how the phone recognizes the battery as full.

I haven't had any of these problems. My battery charges %100 with blue light and it doesn't drop after I unplug it either. Guess I'm lucky

DevilDogVIKING said:
I haven't had any of these problems. My battery charges %100 with blue light and it doesn't drop after I unplug it either. Guess I'm lucky
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I don't run a battery app. When the blue light comes on it's done. I get about 11-12hours before I get the low battery warning.

Ha! It really worked. She's at 17% and its been 1 day and 11 hours. Not as good as my Evo.

I guess I'll re-try calibrating the battery again, first time I tried it my battery ended up at 95% instead of the regular 98%, really odd.

vanstrien said:
I used a few different apps to tell the battery charge so it wasn't the apps.
I found a fix that not only allows my battery to charge to 100% but also seems to give a better charge. Since doing this my battery shows 100% when fully charged, doesn't drop significantly when I unplug the phone, and so far has caused the battery to go down very slowly. In the three and a half hours since coming off charge the battery has gone down to 93%, while holding up to my wife using it for calls and ShopSavvy. I intend on doing the instructions below every few months.
In the Evo space there are two sets of directions on how to prep your batteries for a good charge. One involves plugging and unplugging your phone while at full charge, and the other involves briefly turning your phone on and off between charges. Because I'm impatient I've amalgamated the two with success.
Fully charge the battery with the phone on (several hours)
Once the charging light is blue, unplug the charger
Turn the phone off, then plug the charger back in, for 30-60 minutes
Unplug the charger, turn the phone on for two minutes, then turn it off.
Plug the charger back in for 30-60 minutes
Then repeat this cycle about ten times: unplug the phone for five seconds, then plug it back in until it says it is at 100% (about two minutes)
For the record, I think this has little to do with the battery and a lot to do with how the phone recognizes the battery as full.
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That seems a little crazy. All you should really need to do is drain it until it won't power on anymore (not even for a second) then charge to 100%.
Still, the epic's sensor just isn't very accurate at the top-end (most aren't), so you're gonna get some strange behavior near the 100%.
All the older WM phones were weird like that too in the 90% range; the sensor just can't detect it very accurately near full charge. The difference was that they showed battery in 10% increments, instead of 1% (unless you use a hacked driver).

too crazy for me.

I think I'm going to just buy some spare batteries for this phone. Immediate unplugging leads to 100% battery.
Sent from my SPH-D700 using XDA App epiicc 4g

I have the same problem, I'm using battery life and juiceplotter and they give me the same %
Sent from my SPH-D700 using XDA App

vanstrien said:
Fully charge the battery with the phone on (several hours)
Once the charging light is blue, unplug the charger
Turn the phone off, then plug the charger back in, for 30-60 minutes
Unplug the charger, turn the phone on for two minutes, then turn it off.
Plug the charger back in for 30-60 minutes
Then repeat this cycle about ten times: unplug the phone for five seconds, then plug it back in until it says it is at 100% (about two minutes)
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Thanks for this. I was having trouble getting my device to recognize the top 3% of the battery, and one iteration of your plan above did the trick.

^After I noticed these steps in the Evo thread last week, following them did the trick for 1 iteration.
My phone rarely has stayed long @ 100% after coming off a full charge since then, though.

Nexus 7 Battery not charging?

So I just back my tablet after it being away for 10-15 days for repairs. It hadn't been charged once in that duration. Now however the battery is zero and I've been charging it for an hour and it's still stuck at 0% and says "0 seconds on battery." And if you unplug the charger it says battery low and shuts down. Is this normal due to not being charged for a long time? Or it something to be worried about?

i have the same whenever i do not use the charger cable that came with it. i dont know why ...

Has anyone figured out this problem? My nexus is at 0 percent and when I turn it on it just turns off after 10 seconds. I left the cable in over night and it did not charge at all. Would appreciate any help.

[Q] Note 3 battery questions

Hello guys, i want to ask you some questions about the note 3 battery. So..:
1. When on 13%, i plugged it on the wall using the stock charger. Exactly one hour later, it went up to 75%, like 1% per minute. After another 20 minutes, it went to 91%, slightly slower. 20 minutes later it was at 98%, and it needed another 20 - 25 minutes to charge completely from 98%. Is it normal? In total, it needed 2 hours and 10 minutes to charge completely from 13% and i guess it would need another extra 10 minutes to charge from 1% to 100%. These numbers are normal for the note 3?
2. I noticed that from 100% until 90%, the battery discharges faster than from 90% and down. Is this normal too? With moderate and maybe light use, and i mean some gaming, a little messaging and calling and browsing, from 100% i managed to come to the 13% mark in 2 days and 3 hours, and i thing is a pretty good number.
3. As i said, i have the stock charge that is 2 parts, the one that fits the wall and the other the usb cord. Some days ago, i left it overnight charging from 15%, and 6-7 hours later it was at 70%. I have one battery app installed and it said that it recognized the charger as a USB charger and not as an AC charger. I pushed the usb cord to fit better in the other part and then it recognized it as an AC charger. First, as it recognized it as a usb charger, is normal to need so many hours to charge it this way? I havent use it directly to a pc via usb to see how much time it needs to charge thiw say. And second, why the phone recognized the charger as usb and not ac? Its because that the cord didnt fit quite well in the first place or is it because of some sort of malfunction?
Thanks in advance guys!
EDIT: Sorry guys, I didnt notice the "no questions in the general forum!

2 things.
1) battery percentage is an estimate. For the health of the battery, they tell you it's 100% at anywhere between 85-100% actual charge.
2) charging speed is largely dependent on voltage differential. a battery at 3 volts can receive charge faster than a battery at 4.2 volts.

Xampos said:
Hello guys, i want to ask you some questions about the note 3 battery. So..:
1. When on 13%, i plugged it on the wall using the stock charger. Exactly one hour later, it went up to 75%, like 1% per minute. After another 20 minutes, it went to 91%, slightly slower. 20 minutes later it was at 98%, and it needed another 20 - 25 minutes to charge completely from 98%. Is it normal? In total, it needed 2 hours and 10 minutes to charge completely from 13% and i guess it would need another extra 10 minutes to charge from 1% to 100%. These numbers are normal for the note 3?
2. I noticed that from 100% until 90%, the battery discharges faster than from 90% and down. Is this normal too? With moderate and maybe light use, and i mean some gaming, a little messaging and calling and browsing, from 100% i managed to come to the 13% mark in 2 days and 3 hours, and i thing is a pretty good number.
3. As i said, i have the stock charge that is 2 parts, the one that fits the wall and the other the usb cord. Some days ago, i left it overnight charging from 15%, and 6-7 hours later it was at 70%. I have one battery app installed and it said that it recognized the charger as a USB charger and not as an AC charger. I pushed the usb cord to fit better in the other part and then it recognized it as an AC charger. First, as it recognized it as a usb charger, is normal to need so many hours to charge it this way? I havent use it directly to a pc via usb to see how much time it needs to charge thiw say. And second, why the phone recognized the charger as usb and not ac? Its because that the cord didnt fit quite well in the first place or is it because of some sort of malfunction?
Thanks in advance guys!
EDIT: Sorry guys, I didnt notice the "no questions in the general forum!
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1 and 2 are normal. 3 is nothing to worry about.. When you have charging issues or something, just reboot ur phone...