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Has anyone tried buying a non official battery for their MS2 and care to comment or recommend any? Im going on holiday to france and i know my phone wont last a whole day without charging, so I was thinking of buying a second battery.

I read in another forum that using a non-Motorola battery displays some kind of warning. I'd go with an original battery.

jambo89liam said:
Has anyone tried buying a non official battery for their MS2 and care to comment or recommend any? Im going on holiday to france and i know my phone wont last a whole day without charging, so I was thinking of buying a second battery.
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using a non-original battery could have detrimental effects on your phone. there was a discussion on this on the forum of another phone. using a non-original battery could lead to leaks and other problems which would eventually lead to the warranty of your phone being voided.
stick with original motorola products. yes the battery might be very underpowered, but its the safest bet to ensure the longevity of ur phone

With a non original battery, the battery indicator of your phone shows a interrogation symbol. Also, it does not charge with the phone charger.
Sorry my analphabet english xD
@Motorola Milestone 2

bp7x 2300mAh battery

I 'm using a non-original battery . The MOMAX and everything's good ,it feels just like the original one except for battery tempperature sensor. the temp is always 26 in celsius

I personally have used seidio for my milestone and it works like a charm, its the extended 2800mah one it really performs like it should and not like how a lot of people claim thats its way less than stock! It does not always read it correctly but a quick reboot fixes that, like 50% after reboot would usually be about 70-80%. They way i used to use my phone (light to moderate level) would last about 2-3 days but after the extended I got twice that and some more. Just make sure you get stuff from the original manufactures either way and don't go for deals at amazon or whatnot as those guys might be selling either defected or not proprely stored stuff. Batteries are critical components don't go cheap on them! And no, my phone has not been messed up or had any leaks or anything and I have this for about 3-4 months now. The original battery degraded in about 6months if you have to compare.

That sounds promising, does the battery need to be charged with an external charger? And does the milestone complain that you are not using the official bettery
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metalron said:
I personally have used seidio for my milestone and it works like a charm, its the extended 2800mah one it really performs like it should and not like how a lot of people claim thats its way less than stock! It does not always read it correctly but a quick reboot fixes that, like 50% after reboot would usually be about 70-80%. They way i used to use my phone (light to moderate level) would last about 2-3 days but after the extended I got twice that and some more. Just make sure you get stuff from the original manufactures either way and don't go for deals at amazon or whatnot as those guys might be selling either defected or not proprely stored stuff. Batteries are critical components don't go cheap on them! And no, my phone has not been messed up or had any leaks or anything and I have this for about 3-4 months now. The original battery degraded in about 6months if you have to compare.
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reebooting your phone to get the exact picture also works on the standard battery. my question is, does the back part which houses the battery heat up when used? does the phone get hot during charging? do you need a new battery cover for it? and besides the longer usability, have you noticed any other performance issues on the phone?

agent008my said:
reebooting your phone to get the exact picture also works on the standard battery. my question is, does the back part which houses the battery heat up when used? does the phone get hot during charging? do you need a new battery cover for it? and besides the longer usability, have you noticed any other performance issues on the phone?
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Actually the rebooting to get the exact picture is not the same here, a jump to 20-30% on a stock battery? I don't think so. No I never encountered any odd behavior with the other battery. No getting extra hot during charge or use, get the typical little bit of heat while using 3G and browsing like mad but that would happen on the stock battery too. Battery cover for a 2800? of course, that stuff is huge! its protrudes like mad! a quick heads up though, the extended battery for the milestone 1 and 2 can use the same extended batteries. Don't know about the droid x though. Anyways, no performance issues, no heat while charging. The back covers supplied by these after market guys are not the best quality though so if you are someone who loves dropping phones and what not would recommed getting a spare back cover from the guys you get the batts from.
jambo89liam said:
That sounds promising, does the battery need to be charged with an external charger? And does the milestone complain that you are not using the official bettery
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No, I use my original charger and no complains or warnings by the phone. Not on the milestone 1 at least. In fact some times i use my ipod's adapter so no big issue. And it charges at the same pace as the stock, additional 1 hour or whatever. restart the phone to getting a proper reading as it shows 100% but upon restart its 70-80% since only the stock level is charged. I hear this app called battery left does great for calibration.

ALSO a thing to note, I only know of Seidio and Mugen to be relialbe after market battery guys hence their hefty pricing at times. The others claiming to have bigger batteries have cheated people with stickers and what not and usually end up underperforming and degrading considerably faster than burning paper! I remember 1USD batteries for nokias back in the day good for a quick one time run i suppose but these 1USD guys are now selling them with a better branding for like 20-40 USD.
Anyways Sedio and Mugen have facebook profiles and keep people posted on the latest on devices usually there, although its kind of sad since seidio have not followed through promised products at times.

metalron said:
Actually the rebooting to get the exact picture is not the same here, a jump to 20-30% on a stock battery? I don't think so. No I never encountered any odd behavior with the other battery. No getting extra hot during charge or use, get the typical little bit of heat while using 3G and browsing like mad but that would happen on the stock battery too. Battery cover for a 2800? of course, that stuff is huge! its protrudes like mad! a quick heads up though, the extended battery for the milestone 1 and 2 can use the same extended batteries. Don't know about the droid x though. Anyways, no performance issues, no heat while charging. The back covers supplied by these after market guys are not the best quality though so if you are someone who loves dropping phones and what not would recommed getting a spare back cover from the guys you get the batts from.
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thanks for the info mate. ill do a lil more research and probably check it out myself.

Thanks for the info i have bought a Seidio Innocell Extended Life for Motorola milestone 2 from mobilefun £30.49 its the 1500mah version same size as original battery so no extra cover is required.
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jambo89liam said:
Thanks for the info i have bought a Seidio Innocell Extended Life for Motorola milestone 2 from mobilefun £30.49 its the 1500mah version same size as original battery so no extra cover is required.
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Cool but as I suggested try and get them off the manufactures themselves as I have noticed some people complaining when purchased via 3rd party retailers.
Also another bud of mine had picked up one for the Nexus one, that phones back cover is a full one unlike the moto's and he too can vouch for the products positive performance. Either ways also check out some reviews from amazon.com for peace of mind.

http://yfrog.com/gz1yj2j
http://yfrog.com/h8n307j
Got my battery today looks official, I will charge it over night and test it tomorrow will let you know if it goes well.
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cmxyz said:
I 'm using a non-original battery . The MOMAX and everything's good ,it feels just like the original one except for battery tempperature sensor. the temp is always 26 in celsius
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can yo still charge it though because i bought the aninda battery and i could only charge it with an external battery charger

jambo89liam said:
http://yfrog.com/gz1yj2j
http://yfrog.com/h8n307j
Got my battery today looks official, I will charge it over night and test it tomorrow will let you know if it goes well.
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is the battery meter being shown or are you getting an error message because i would like to buy one

No complaints from the phone about it being the incorrect battery the battery has been charged within/by the phone no external charger required. I got the 1500mah version from mobilefun I doubt it will give much more performance but will see.
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After my first day of use I got around 11 hours of use before reaching 5%. Here are the usage statistics at 15%
https://picasaweb.google.com/105351366297036719015/DropBox?authkey=Gv1sRgCJna6ZH6hLKxzQE
Wifi was on most of the time, I was using my phone for the usual things. Occasionally checking socialfeeds, engadget, xda every hour or so and internet browsing I played 10 minutes of angry bids. Updated some apps and downloaded a few new ones.
Overall not a significant increase in battery life maybe an hour or so more from what I am used to.
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Time to replace my stock evo battery ?

Its been a year since i got this phone and the poor battery has had nothing but heavy usage the the entire time. Im wondering how after 500+ charges a evi battery should be holding up and what the life span of it is till its time to replace after heavy usage and on quite a few ocvasions more than one full charge per day.. Old age is a ***** haha. Thanks guys

Unless you notice it's not holding a charge like it used to, heating up a lot, or swelling up, I'd say it's still perfectly fine.

First 75% or so just drops fast. 75% through 25% so so and the last 25% holds strong like the whole 100% used to. I wasnt sure if it because miks rom and heavier usage from 3.0 though?
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They are cheap enough, worse case you now have two batteries in case it dies.

aimbdd said:
They are cheap enough, worse case you now have two batteries in case it dies.
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U got the point there. U made up my mind. I hear u cant get one thats 2000mah that fits under the stock hood? I havent found one online, any suggestions?

Yea I wouldn't mind finding that battery too. I really don't want to make my phone thicker with the big extended battery.
We're comin from a pure power source.

Usually batteries typically should last a year (or longer) but when I used to work at tmo I found that they start to lose full charge at around 8 months; im only speaking for HTC batteries based on my exp w/ their devices. If you can get another one id say go for it.
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The batteries are indeed cheap, I bought the two 1800mA with external charger and almost exclusively use the 1800mA.

Sunsparc said:
The batteries are indeed cheap, I bought the two 1800mA with external charger and almost exclusively use the 1800mA.
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Where did you pick them up from?

Check the thread in my sig.

just got my extended battery with the oversized back. So far its great. I keep the extra smaller one in the case. Pretty sure I can go all day now and do pretty much whatever I want. The back case actually fit tighter than the original

The era of wireless charging will begin soon...

Mmmm, my phone half caught fire.

Just went to charge my phone, saw that it wasn't charging. Tried a different cable, reset phone, etc and then I noticed a burning smell, I just thought it was someone cooking outside (its nice weather) until I held the phone next to my face and I could smell that electrical burning smell coming from the Micro USB.
Funny thing is, the phone works fine, but I cannot charge it.

So now?
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You need to charge your battery with an external device.
I think you can buy this at some eletronics store.
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So now?
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Now I plan on taking it back today to the store today (it's under a year old).
It's rooted and ROM'ed but I do not see how that could be an issue.
The reason I'm posting this thread really was for reference, seems like a rather strange defect that came out of nowhere.

mind sharing ur phone setup; ROM, kernel
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DannyDroid said:
Just went to charge my phone, saw that it wasn't charging. Tried a different cable, reset phone, etc and then I noticed a burning smell, I just thought it was someone cooking outside (its nice weather) until I held the phone next to my face and I could smell that electrical burning smell coming from the Micro USB.
Funny thing is, the phone works fine, but I cannot charge it.
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how‘s going now？

andara said:
mind sharing ur phone setup; ROM, kernel
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Sure, but I am 99.9% sure it has nothing to do with the phone going bang,
ROM: Jellybro - A release from sometime a week or so ago.
Kernel: *Matr1x* - 22.5 (CFS)
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how‘s going now？
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Sent to the store today. The guy opened the box and that electrical smell filled the room. He believe the battery may have gone pop (which makes sense, sorta*) and that he'll send the whole unit away to (hopefully) get it fixed, and I should get it back in about a week (which means I am stuck with my Motorola Milestone D: ).
* I say sorta because the phone refused to charge but the battery life was perfectly fine meaning it didn't die quickly or anything like that so I am a little confused as to how it could be the battery yet the battery life was perfectly normal.

Anybody tryed this extended battery?

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CH1LIJW/ref=cm_sw_r_an_am_ap_am_us?ie=UTF8
Never heard of this brand and would like some feedback especially because it seems this is the only slim extended battery available at the moment (3030mah)?
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They might work ok. I haven't heard anything bad about the brand but, cheap Chinese batteries are usually not made well. They get hot, are not really the mah advertised, and this one has no nfc so you would lose anything that used your nfc. (Wallet, sbeam etc)
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for that price i guess it wouldnt hurt to try it unless it catches fire in your pocket and turns your phone into a smore. i have tried the 3rd party extended batteries and have yet to be amused. if you want more mobile battery life get one of these
http://www.monoprice.com/products/p...=10831&cs_id=1083110&p_id=9283&seq=1&format=2
and before you balk at the price, monprice is legit and i have been using one for about 6 months and it works great (havent tried on s4 yet). you can get 2-3 charges out of it usually.

Shiftlock said:
for that price i guess it wouldnt hurt to try it unless it catches fire in your pocket and turns your phone into a smore. i have tried the 3rd party extended batteries and have yet to be amused. if you want more mobile battery life get one of these
http://www.monoprice.com/products/p...=10831&cs_id=1083110&p_id=9283&seq=1&format=2
and before you balk at the price, monprice is legit and i have been using one for about 6 months and it works great (havent tried on s4 yet). you can get 2-3 charges out of it usually.
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That will be last option if I can't find a slim extended battery or at least one that doesn't add too much bulk.
Oh and I know about monoprice. I buy my speaker wire from them. Cheap and great quality materials used in everything I've bought from them.
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Who's liking their fast charging?

Loving it! Kinda took me by surprise even though i knew i had it. Waited until my battery got to 1% then plugged this baby in, went to do something whick took 2-3 minutes. Now im already at 10% wow! I could see this as being super useful in rushed situations.

It came in handy this morning. Apparently I was so tired last night that I set my phone down on the wireless charging station (forgetting that I didn't have the wireless charging cover) and forgot to plug in it. At some point in the night my phone died, meaning my alarm didn't go off. Luckily my wife's goes off about 10 minutes after mine normally would. So, I plugged it up & was able to have a 50% charge before walking out the door to go to work this morning. That was a very pleasant experience with the quick charge feature.

LaRosa217 said:
It came in handy this morning. Apparently I was so tired last night that I set my phone down on the wireless charging station (forgetting that I didn't have the wireless charging cover) and forgot to plug in it. At some point in the night my phone died, meaning my alarm didn't go off. Luckily my wife's goes off about 10 minutes after mine normally would. So, I plugged it up & was able to have a 50% charge before walking out the door to go to work this morning. That was a very pleasant experience with the quick charge feature.
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Note 4 being clutch! Haha

I don't know. I set my phone down to charge and within 3 minutes I was at 100%. Then again, the battery was at 98% and my N4 doesn't support it.
P.S this is meant as a joke not a troll
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Project:Frankenphone said:
I don't know. I set my phone down to charge and within 3 minutes I was at 100%. Then again, the battery was at 98% and my N4 doesn't support it.
P.S this is meant as a joke not a troll
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Haha:silly:

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Project:Frankenphone said:
I don't know. I set my phone down to charge and within 3 minutes I was at 100%. Then again, the battery was at 98% and my N4 doesn't support it.
P.S this is meant as a joke not a troll
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P.S. Are you sure about that? LOL

why is this a thread? like anyone would complain about faster charging

Misterjunky said:
P.S. Are you sure about that? LOL
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Kawaisa said:
why is this a thread? like anyone would complain about faster charging
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P.P.S Defintitely not sure about it but you can be.
Greenpeace would complain because more power is used to charge quicker and for more power used, there is more power needed but for the extra power needed, coal power stations need more coal and to get the coal you dig it out of the ground. So in other words, the dinosaurs may be dead but they are dead pissed.

Kawaisa said:
why is this a thread? like anyone would complain about faster charging
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Some people on other forums said it would ruin their battery quicker. So not everyone is typically fond of the idea.

Does it have wireless charging out of the box?
I'm thinking of making the jump from my Note 2 to Note 4. I still don't know if it's worth the price.....
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premiatul said:
Does it have wireless charging out of the box?
I'm thinking of making the jump from my Note 2 to Note 4. I still don't know if it's worth the price.....
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It doesn't come with it out the box, but you can always buy the back cover from Samsung.

Mavman42 said:
It doesn't come with it out the box, but you can always buy the back cover from Samsung.
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Or this if you do not want a thicker back cover. I hear that the back cover is slightly thicker and may not fit some cases.
http://www.amazon.com/N4-PWRcard-Wi...+Receiver+Card+Coil+for+Samsung+Galaxy+Note+4

The biggest I see with this "Faster Charging" is that, this is the first phone I have ever owned that doesnt die on the charger.
What I mean by that is that, when I using the HotSpot Tether and playing games and multitasking all at the same time, my previous phones would either over heat and force the phone to cut off to cool down "LG G3" or the battery percent would get lower and lower while on the charger.
This has been my problem on every phone from the HTC M8 to S5 to M7 to Note 3 to Nexus 4/5 everyphone.
With this faster charging it charge fast and is able to keep up with my multi tasking demands while using the phone.
This may be a feature of the Snapdragon 805 being able to handle the work load better.