I know many of us want to know, so to all the Defender owners out there (I'm still waiting for mine from Amazon) can it be modded to work with the 2600mAh battery or one of the 3500mAh eBay batteries? The commuter is just a tad to small for it to work, I'm hoping the answer is yes for the Defender.
I've ordered a 2nd battery door that I'm planning on cutting out a hole in so the battery pokes out. I suppose you could roll without a battery door at all as well. The next step would be to cut out the inside silicone membrane of the Defender to make room for the battery. At least that's my plan anyway.
OneStepAhead said:
I know many of us want to know, so to all the Defender owners out there (I'm still waiting for mine from Amazon) can it be modded to work with the 2600mAh battery or one of the 3500mAh eBay batteries? The commuter is just a tad to small for it to work, I'm hoping the answer is yes for the Defender.
I've ordered a 2nd battery door that I'm planning on cutting out a hole in so the battery pokes out. I suppose you could roll without a battery door at all as well. The next step would be to cut out the inside silicone membrane of the Defender to make room for the battery. At least that's my plan anyway.
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Sounds exciting my man. Waiting to see the final product
I too am wanting to know the answers to this question...
after looking at a defender case on a friend's Iphone I was thinking it may be possible... but you would prolly have to cut some of the Defender's hard casing up to make it all fit
we really just need someone who has one and an extended battery to "eyeball" it for us
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I really wish a Defender owner could chip in here
OneStepAhead said:
I know many of us want to know, so to all the Defender owners out there (I'm still waiting for mine from Amazon) can it be modded to work with the 2600mAh battery or one of the 3500mAh eBay batteries? The commuter is just a tad to small for it to work, I'm hoping the answer is yes for the Defender.
I've ordered a 2nd battery door that I'm planning on cutting out a hole in so the battery pokes out. I suppose you could roll without a battery door at all as well. The next step would be to cut out the inside silicone membrane of the Defender to make room for the battery. At least that's my plan anyway.
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I wouldn't see why not, but you'll be cutting through the hard plastic, not the silicone, the defender has the plastic on the inside and rubber on the out,so it will allow a bit of leeway depending on the elasticity of the silicone wrap. But without first seeing how far the 2600mAh battery sticks out, or knowing the thickness of the Otterbox's plastic, it's kind of a measure it and find out or just do it and find out.
Judging from pictures the 3500 battery looks to be about 2 times thick as stock. Which should put you about flush with the camera lens without the stock battery door. Everything looks like it should work hollowing out the inside of the defender exept they moved the kickstand up a little higher so you probably wont have enough meat there to support it.
i think the kickstand would be in the way... unless you want to cut that out completely and have no kick stand.
Im looking at my commuter and see the possibility of cutting out the battery back along with modifying the seidio battery cover to remove the rails... it should work better than on the defender.
dont know whether or not i want to commit to sticking a dremel tool in my case and doing some surgery.... i miss my extended battery though.
I have a defender case that I was willing to cut out but after studying it I realize its not worth even trying. The kickstand area would have to be completely cut out, the protector for the camera lens and led would also have to be cut out because the bottom edge would have to be cut for the battery to go through. The only hope is one of the seidio extended cases, the rugged in particular.
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I currently am using the rugged but dont have the extended but my sister in law does so ill do some investigating and ill post back the results. I think it should be ok but itll lose the silicone camera lense cover. Theres no kickstand so thats good. Only prob i think is the plastic outer might be too narrow.
Keep us posted, if it works I will buy one in a heartbeat. I can't stand having my EVO naked any longer but don't want to lose the extended battery either.
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For the amount of cutting that would need to be done, it probably would not be worth it. There is a lot of plastic to knife through. The silicone isn't terribly flexible either.
The case would be butchered due to fitment. Not worth spending $30 to essentially destroy a decent case.
I did it!
I have a big fat 3500 mah battery.
I also own a Defender. I put my EVO in the plastic Defender case WITHOUT the battery back on. I did not try to close the plastic case (it won't close), I just carefully stretched the rubber exterior over my ghetto rig and voila, IT FITS!
The answer is:
1) Leave the battery back off.
2) Don't try to clip the plastic case closed.
3) Carefully stretch the rubber exterior over.
Take pics I wanna seeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!
No need, just looks like a slightly fat defender.
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mitchellvii said:
I have a big fat 3500 mah battery.
I also own a Defender. I put my EVO in the plastic Defender case WITHOUT the battery back on. I did not try to close the plastic case (it won't close), I just carefully stretched the rubber exterior over my ghetto rig and voila, IT FITS!
The answer is:
1) Leave the battery back off.
2) Don't try to clip the plastic case closed.
3) Carefully stretch the rubber exterior over.
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So what about the 2600mAh one from Sprint. If I leave the back door off do you think the case would go together?
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So what about the 2600mAh one from Sprint. If I leave the back door off do you think the case would go together?
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I tried it and the hard case won't go together.
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jeriel05 said:
I tried it and the hard case won't go together.
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The plastic case wont snap shut but if you stretch the rubber over it it works fine.
jeriel05 said:
I tried it and the hard case won't go together.
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The plastic case wont snap shut but if you stretch the rubber over it it works fine.
** However, with an extended battery and the Defender Case, you have transformed your sleek EVO into a big ass heavy brick.
I'm not an expert modder or anything but I had a Pt case sitting around so I decided to use a new box cutting blade to cut out a section and allow the case to fit with the 2600 mah battery.
The battery will sticks out a bit but i wanted protection for the edges and the screen when i lay it flat.
The way I did it was by cutting around the felt. I'll take more pics.
Only problem is securing the case which I have yet to figure out.
Here are some pics. Let me know what you think. Thanks for looking.
I did the same thing, my phone had ghost armor on the sides so case fit nice and snug. Maybe just try lining the inside of the case with some tape on the inside edges?? Nice job.
I want to get an extended battery (nothing huge, no 3500 for me, but something in the lower 2000s will be fine) but I don't want to sacrifice being able to use a badass case like Trident cyclops or defender (can't decide which I want).
However, I don't think there's a 2000+ sized battery that'll fit in the stock case, so do any of those companies make cases for phones that have extended batteries?
If not, can anyone tell me the largest battery you can fit inside of a stock back door?
1800 is the biggest that will fit under the stock door....I just got a 3500 and will NEVER go back..awesome!
you can fit the sprint 2600 in the ballistic case with some modifications... there is a thread about it somewhere on here where someone was asking and I posted pictures showing what needed to be done
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no one makes a rugged extended case except sedio man... thats it, your only option other than modding the ballistic case.
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i did this and its awesome!
I have the Seidio Extended battery and simply took one of my TPU cases and modded the back to be cut open around the extended part. The remaining cover still houses the sides and corners as usual and the extended case protects the camera/flash area. I have dropped it a few times and it has held up just as well.
At $4-5 a case, simple enough to do. I didn't want the added bulk of the Seidio Rugged, and the slim one piece case just simply fails to protect the phone when being dropped.
Some very small [email protected] pics from my webcam.
***Just read elsewhere that a credit card makes the perfect shape to cutout for a perfect tight fit to the Seidio Extended's bumpout.
Ceger
Are there any known cases that fit with this battery in place?
Scott
Where did you find a battery that big for the X because that is awesome. Getting back to your question I think you might have to custom make one.
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Even though this is dated( ), I thought I'd throw this out there for anyone else interested, the Trident Electra will fit an extended battery (and most kits will actually come with an included battery.) I've got one for my droid x2 and while the case is quite thick (about 2x thickness of a normal Dx/dx2) it is a BEAST. I really like the combination of the hard shell interior and silicone exterior, and I've even accidentally tested the durability by leaving my phone on top of my car after getting gas. Phone fell off as I was driving down the street and all it did was scuff the silicone a bit on one corner. Definitely worth the investment IMO, but I would try to get a case on Amazon or equivalent as Trident wants 80 bucks new! You can find it for half that elsewhere!
This is sort of reaching, but I wonder if I could apply heat to the back of a generic TPU case so that it would stretch enough to fit over the phone with the extended battery cover installed . I would leave the battery out when doing this to protect it from the heat .
buy a silicone one and cut the backing out and glue it on the back of the battery holder. Simple
i have the virgin mobile galaxy s3 [rooted with stock ROM] with otterbox defender case AND a hyperion 4200 mAh extended battery, and have gotten the two to work perfectly together with NO cutting of anything.
what i did was use the rubber wrapping of the otterbox as well as the front part of the actual hard case. with the phone and the extended battery with the backplate hyperion supply, its impossible to fit it into a defender case with the whole hard shell, but what i did was plop the phone in the rubber wrapping, (with the hyperion extended battery and back plate it came with) and then just put the front portion of the hard shell on. it takes a bit of force to get the edge wrapped all the way around the front part of the hard shell because of how much more space is occupying the rubber portion, but it actually fits perfectly. i've always thought with the otterbox hard shell there was too much wiggle room between the rubber and the hard shell in the middle of the back of the phone anyway, but this fills it in perfectly.
unfortunately because i'm a new user it won't let me post the link to the battery+case combo, but if you google "galaxy s3 hyperion 4200" its the third link @newegg
the only problem with this setup is that because you have no back portion of the hard shell in place, the pieces of rubber that cover the headphone jack and the charger aren't locked into place by the hard shell anymore, and because the side locks of the hard shell are located on the back portion, you can't put the phone into the belt holster because it has nothing to clip into anymore. in my case, i never use the belt holster, and the headphone jack and charger cover don't flap around or anything, so it works perfectly for me.
the problem i had with the cutting of the hard case solution is that if you were to drop the phone and it landed directly on the battery, theres a good chance somethings going to break. with the backplate that hyperion offers, theres still plenty of heavy duty plastic (and rubber with the otterbox case) between the ground and the inner workings of the phone and i get the insane battery life of the 4200 mAh battery.
unfortunately i don't have a camera to take any pictures with at the moment, but figured i would post it here so hopefully someone else can enjoy the same type of setup i have.