I bought a 3500mah extended battery about a week ago. When I got it, I turned off the evo, inserted the extended battery, and charged the device while powered off for approximately 8 hours. I did this for the first few days. Each subsequent charge, I plug the phone in, power it on, and leave it plugged in for approximately 8-9 hours with the Savaged Zen 2.2.1 SBC CFS kernel.
During this period, I was able to get about 12-14 hours of battery under heavy, almost constant usage. With light usage (texts/twitter/trillian) I was able to pull about 40 hours.
In the last few days however, my battery life has halved. It is still better than the stock battery, but not by much. I am able to pull in around 6 hours of heavy/constant usage before the battery dies. Has anyone experienced this? I've looked at all the tips and tricks and don't see anything that specifically addresses how to charge the bigger battery. I was under the impression that 8 hours with an SBC kernel would fill the battery completely.
Should I be charging the battery with the phone off?
PS: I have tried wiping the battery stats and that has not seemed to help.
I personally use http://electronics.pickegg.com/Elec...-for-T7373-Touch-Pro2-6341706512982200005.JPG
It's SOOO MUCH BETTER on the battery! Plus there's never a chance you'll pull it off the charger before it is finished. Just swap between your normal battery and the 3500 back and fourth for the best results. But everyone knows that our phones won't charge the batteries correctly.
A simple search for t7373 battery charger will take you to places to buy this at. DO NOT OVERPAY FOR IT! I got mine in a 20 buck package. got 2 batteries, this thing, 2 screen covers, case, and so on. 3 clear cases. lol bunch of stuff. on ebay.
GreenTea420 said:
I bought a 3500mah extended battery about a week ago. When I got it, I turned off the evo, inserted the extended battery, and charged the device while powered off for approximately 8 hours. I did this for the first few days. Each subsequent charge, I plug the phone in, power it on, and leave it plugged in for approximately 8-9 hours with the Savaged Zen 2.2.1 SBC CFS kernel.
During this period, I was able to get about 12-14 hours of battery under heavy, almost constant usage. With light usage (texts/twitter/trillian) I was able to pull about 40 hours.
In the last few days however, my battery life has halved. It is still better than the stock battery, but not by much. I am able to pull in around 6 hours of heavy/constant usage before the battery dies. Has anyone experienced this? I've looked at all the tips and tricks and don't see anything that specifically addresses how to charge the bigger battery. I was under the impression that 8 hours with an SBC kernel would fill the battery completely.
Should I be charging the battery with the phone off?
PS: I have tried wiping the battery stats and that has not seemed to help.
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try reconditioning the battery, charge until full(green light) the unplug and after light goes out plug it in again, repete until you get the orange charging light then let it charge fully(green charged lite). see if that helps
dased14 said:
try reconditioning the battery, charge until full(green light) the unplug and after light goes out plug it in again, repete until you get the orange charging light then let it charge fully(green charged lite). see if that helps
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but all that's doing is overcharging it. The average person doesn't have that much time to waste. lol plus the only way it works is if you do it on a daily basis. However, the funny thing is HTC/Sprint actually posted that as an official fix. HAHAHA! It's really just a trick to get the not so smart people to do it and shut up. lol! It's not conditioning it. wait until battery is almost empty then swap battery and let it charge outside of phone. then put back in. ;-)
edit. just remembered. wasn't people having issues fully charging these 3500s? I'm almost sure they were. yeah. the only way to charge them fully is actually outside the unit! I COMPLETELY forgot about that! Did HTC ever fix that issue? I could be wrong. so need an expert in here to give a second opinion. thanks lol
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but all that's doing is overcharging it. The average person doesn't have that much time to waste. lol plus the only way it works is if you do it on a daily basis. However, the funny thing is HTC/Sprint actually posted that as an official fix. HAHAHA! It's really just a trick to get the not so smart people to do it and shut up. lol! It's not conditioning it. wait until battery is almost empty then swap battery and let it charge outside of phone. then put back in. ;-)
edit. just remembered. wasn't people having issues fully charging these 3500s? I'm almost sure they were. yeah. the only way to charge them fully is actually outside the unit! I COMPLETELY forgot about that! Did HTC ever fix that issue? I could be wrong. so need an expert in here to give a second opinion. thanks lol
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so you think its better to carry and swap out batteries and reboot everytime plus buy an extra charger. no thanks, i'll do the not for smart people every once in awhile.
edit: dont know havent heard about any issues not fully charging 3500, or if it is better to use stand alone battery charger
charge it however you like.. I see no difference in results no matter how you do it.. the results in life completely depends on use and how much stuff you have on.. Getting in the habit of turning data off and sync, bluetooth, gps etc is the best way to extend battery life. Charging it full is full.. It doesn't make any sense whatsoever to "recondition" it.. when you fill something up.. how does it get "more full" than full.. logic tells you it's complete bs.. unless you want to believe it then I'm not here to convince you of what is and isn't.. Use the system settings toggles to turn your stuff off.. data and sync are the biggest killers.. You'll still get calls and messages.. just turn it on when you actually want to use your browser.. sittin in your pocket is just wasting precious battery..
Thanks for the input. I'm going to hold off on buying a charger and attempt to charge it as suggested in a couple of these posts. If that doesn't work, I'll invest in the external charger and report back.
GreenTea, any updates on this? I just bought the 3500 and an external charger (why not for $5 a piece). I'm wondering if there's any issues charging inside the phone and whether or not I need to wipe batt stats.
I know this is an old issue, but maybe I can add some input:
I have a Seidio 3500mAh battery I use for my Evo 4G (used it in the my HTC Hero first, then in my Evo 4G). I can get roughly four to five days with little use out of the battery (I'm using CM7.1 right now)...until I turn on 4G.
Once I turn on 4G, I may get eight to ten hours out of it with light use.
What you may want to do is keep the 4G radio off until you need it...this hopefully will improve battery performance.
GreenTea420 said:
I bought a 3500mah extended battery about a week ago. When I got it, I turned off the evo, inserted the extended battery, and charged the device while powered off for approximately 8 hours. I did this for the first few days. Each subsequent charge, I plug the phone in, power it on, and leave it plugged in for approximately 8-9 hours with the Savaged Zen 2.2.1 SBC CFS kernel.
During this period, I was able to get about 12-14 hours of battery under heavy, almost constant usage. With light usage (texts/twitter/trillian) I was able to pull about 40 hours.
In the last few days however, my battery life has halved. It is still better than the stock battery, but not by much. I am able to pull in around 6 hours of heavy/constant usage before the battery dies. Has anyone experienced this? I've looked at all the tips and tricks and don't see anything that specifically addresses how to charge the bigger battery. I was under the impression that 8 hours with an SBC kernel would fill the battery completely.
Should I be charging the battery with the phone off?
PS: I have tried wiping the battery stats and that has not seemed to help.
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You need to download BATTERY MONITOR WIDGET. Put the widget on your home screen. Monitor voltage while charging. Full is 4200mV. Anything less is not full. Recently, i can not get it past 4180mV. Sometimes, I charge overnight with phone off, then plug into my car charger going to work with phone on to try and top it off.
Calibration nor conditioning will fix the issue. It is the kernels and they just are not right yet for gingerbread.
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With moderate to heavy use I'll be able to pull in 12-15 hours on a full charge with my 3500 mah non-seido battery. Light usage will net me about 40-48 hours. SBC seems to give a couple more hours if the phone is plugged in and turned on during charging. I live in an area without 4G, so I cannot respond to 4G battery use. I've heard it is a battery killer though.
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I just received this in the mail yesterday, and I think that it's worth $30. The battery definitely lasts longer. I'm only on my first day of use, but have had the phone on with normal use and bluetooth on all day (9+ hours so far) and I'm at 60%. Had I remembered to turn off bluetooth this morning, it would have been closer to 70% left since the bt accounted for 21% of total battery usage.
Also worth noting... The wall charger seems to properly charge the battery. I drained my original 1500mah EVO battery down to 7% and then placed it in the charger. It charged for approximately 6 hours. Normally, when charging it from empty in the phone, it charged much faster. I'm not a battery expert, and I also could be mistaken, but I get the impression (from reading threads and using the phone and previously owning an iphone) that the HTC software is not properly charging the battery and that is contributing to the miserable battery life right out of the box. Obviously changing setting in the phone software help quite a bit, but I feel like this charger and battery setup help significantly. I'm going to throw the fully charged original battery in tomorrow, and see what kind of performance I get out of it. I'm betting it will be much improved.
Apparently I can't post links on my thread because I am a new user. Just search ebay for chichitec and check out there store. I'm not affiliated with these people in any way. I just happen to be pleased with their product and figured I should share this for any other users that are frustrated with battery life on their EVO.
I just got it (though from another seller).
Figured it was worth the $20 to see if a different battery can help my situation.
I'm at 24 hours up time 3 hours of awake time and still have 26% left. Plus I've got two fully charged spares. Battery problem solved.
Did you actually get red batteries?
They're not exactly the same with the HTC logo, but they are red.
What are the eBay item numbers you guys used?
This is from the same seller for one battery and the charger. He basically charges $10 for each item.
http://cgi.ebay.com/HTC-EVO-4G-BATT...ewItem&pt=PDA_Accessories&hash=item4aa320f7db
And I am convinced that the poor EVO battery life (stock) has to do with using the phone to charge the battery. I charged the original HTC battery with the included charger and I am at exactly 40% battery remaining with 24:37 up time and 3:05 awake time.
So much better than before.
That's why people are using the method from the forum where they charge their battery 10 times to "condition" it. That definitely helped me, but using this external charger is even better.
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And I am convinced that the poor EVO battery life (stock) has to do with using the phone to charge the battery. I charged the original HTC battery with the included charger and I am at exactly 40% battery remaining with 24:37 up time and 3:05 awake time.
So much better than before.
That's why people are using the method from the forum where they charge their battery 10 times to "condition" it. That definitely helped me, but using this external charger is even better.
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Are all the people who brag about 24-31 hours battery time sitting with like 3 hours of actual up time for that period? if so no wonder i dont last any where near that i am usually done at 12 hours with about 6 hours up time.
I consider 3 hours over 24 hours to be very light usage just wondering if that is the reason why no matter what i do i ant get any where close to some of these peoples times.
I wasn't trying to brag. I was just happy to finally get what I consider to be a great improvement over my original battery life. I wish I had more time to use my phone that many hours in the day. Seeing that I don't, this setup works good for me. I know this isn't amazing battery life given my light usage, but so much better than stock out of the box. I haven't rooted yet, and I'm not very conservative with settings that drain the battery.
And to answer your question, yes, that's why your times are shorter, but it seems like you should be getting more. If I have a day where I get more up time, I'll post the numbers.
i just got this battery and did the initial 8hour charge... but im seeing that once i take it out of the plug, battery monitor says it starts at 100% and then after 15 minutes drops to 86%....
is this bad reading from the program? or did i get a defective battery?
using Baked 1.7 with Kernel 6
uget2seconds said:
i just got this battery and did the initial 8hour charge... but im seeing that once i take it out of the plug, battery monitor says it starts at 100% and then after 15 minutes drops to 86%....
is this bad reading from the program? or did i get a defective battery?
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Are you using an external battery charger or are you charging through your phone? I do not have one of these batteries but I'm under the impression that the EVO firmware will only allow a charge of 4.15v which would be far below the requirments of a 3500mAh battery.
If you have an external charger and that is what you are using.... I would say your battery is defective. Contact the manufacture for recommendations.
No, I am using the phone to charge....is this a hardware limitation or is there a patch for this?
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Have you wiped battery data via recivery?
Shouldnt matter but you might try
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uget2seconds said:
No, I am using the phone to charge....is this a hardware limitation or is there a patch for this?
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Seido website says to charge until your phone shows 100% then leave on the charger for 2-3 addtional hours.
Even then I would think an external battery charger would be the route to take to unleash the full potential of the 3500mAh battery.
Keep me posted because I was thinking of buying one of those. But if you have to remove the battery to fully charge it then that would be a deal breaker for me.
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Seido website says to charge until your phone shows 100% then leave on the charger for 2-3 addtional hours.
Even then I would think an external battery charger would be the route to take to unleash the full potential of the 3500mAh battery.
Keep me posted because I was thinking of buying one of those. But if you have to remove the battery to fully charge it then that would be a deal breaker for me.
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I didn't have to use an external charger. The first charge I let go overnight. After 4-5 charge cycles the percentage drop was much more normal for that first 15 minutes, and of course after that the battery lasts forever at idle. I generally get 10-15 hours of heavy use (couple hours of streaming movies/music, texts, websurfing, some video conferencing, that kinda stuff), 20-30 moderate, and 40 with minimal usage.
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i just got this battery and did the initial 8hour charge... but im seeing that once i take it out of the plug, battery monitor says it starts at 100% and then after 15 minutes drops to 86%....
is this bad reading from the program? or did i get a defective battery?
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The Evo cant charge this battery properly. The only way to get a proper charge is in a wall charger. Don't get me started. Look in the other 3500 thread for all you seek.
holy flying ducks!!!!! you guys dont read/search
there is an entire thread (266 replies) on this battery (infact, a few threads RIGHT below this one)....VERY lengthy too... reading and searching is fundamental folks!!!!! http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=736273
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in order to get full charge FROM any battery related to the evo, you will have to remove from phone.... something in the evo whether it be software or hardware doesnt allow us to charge more than 1500 (really 1400 +/- mah) back into the battery. Dont ask me why but it just is that way...sucks i know
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I didn't have to use an external charger. The first charge I let go overnight. After 4-5 charge cycles the percentage drop was much more normal for that first 15 minutes, and of course after that the battery lasts forever at idle. I generally get 10-15 hours of heavy use (couple hours of streaming movies/music, texts, websurfing, some video conferencing, that kinda stuff), 20-30 moderate, and 40 with minimal usage.
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you're actually cheating yourself and making your phone bulkier for no reason at all. WHile that 10-15 hours of heavy usage may be good...... if you actually think about the charging scheme.... you can do the same thing on the 1500 mah battery LOL
so while you THINK you are charging the battery after your light turns green on your phone, you are not. Your phone thinks the battery is still the 1500 mah battery so that is all it is charging. (yea... you got a bulkier phone and those other 1500mah arent being used/charged #fail)
I know so, cuz you said your battery percentage drops for the first 15 minutes.... with my seidio 3500 mah fully charged into the wall.... i leave the screen on for at least an hour and my battery is still a full 98% if not 99%
wall charger makes a world of difference, talking night and day.
im on my phone ALOT... i keep wifi and everything else on... with a wall charged battery, i see an easy 24 hours + !!!!! Sometimes i say to myself "why wont this damn thing die!!!!!!!!!!!!" no bull lol
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goodelyfe said:
holy flying ducks!!!!! you guys dont read/search
there is an entire thread (266 replies) on this battery (infact, a few threads RIGHT below this one)....VERY lengthy too... reading and searching is fundamental folks!!!!! http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=736273
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in order to get full charge FROM any battery related to the evo, you will have to remove from phone.... something in the evo whether it be software or hardware doesnt allow us to charge more than 1500 (really 1400 +/- mah) back into the battery. Dont ask me why but it just is that way...sucks i know
you're actually cheating yourself and making your phone bulkier for no reason at all. WHile that 10-15 hours of heavy usage may be good...... if you actually think about the charging scheme.... you can do the same thing on the 1500 mah battery LOL
so while you THINK you are charging the battery after your light turns green on your phone, you are not. Your phone thinks the battery is still the 1500 mah battery so that is all it is charging. (yea... you got a bulkier phone and those other 1500mah arent being used/charged #fail)
I know so, cuz you said your battery percentage drops for the first 15 minutes.... with my seidio 3500 mah fully charged into the wall.... i leave the screen on for at least an hour and my battery is still a full 98% if not 99%
wall charger makes a world of difference, talking night and day.
im on my phone ALOT... i keep wifi and everything else on... with a wall charged battery, i see an easy 24 hours + !!!!! Sometimes i say to myself "why wont this damn thing die!!!!!!!!!!!!" no bull lol
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Then that settles it..i will purchase a wall charger... Recommend any in particular?
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i just stayed with the same brand bro and got the seidio (lets you charge a battery AND use a usb cord to charge your phone).... beside it being on amazon prime didnt hurt either.
gotta love overnight shipping for 4 bucks
especially for gadget junkies like us
goodelyfe said:
i just stayed with the same brand bro and got the seidio (lets you charge a battery AND use a usb cord to charge your phone).... beside it being on amazon prime didnt hurt either.
gotta love overnight shipping for 4 bucks
especially for gadget junkies like us
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for real! thanks goodelyfe!
no prob homie
So I just got this battery hm around Wednesday or Thursday, and I have let it die down to around 10% or less and recharged it overnight several times and I still only see a slight difference in battery life. I am (I would say) a moderate user and I know some people say they get around 2 days on heavy use so I wonder what I'm doing wrong..? I ran the SU command to delete the battery.bin file to wipe the stats while it was fully charged, then let it run the whole day again only getting around 12 hrs (probably would have been shorter, but I have juicedefender running, and I was at work for 5 1/2 hrs of those 12) and then I stuck it on the charger at about 7:45 and then around 12 it was fully charged and I of course turned it off, then back on and it said it was around 80% so I let it charged to full, reset it again then when I turned it back on it said it was full. I took it off the charger and within minutes it dropped 1% every minute or 2 and now around 15 minutes later it's at 86% and I'm not even doing anything, just sitting here with the screen on and Skype is running. I've only drained it/fully charged it a few times maybe 3 or 4 should I just keep doing that or did I just get a crappy battery? It's better life than the stock, so I can't help but think that it's not crappy just not fully calibrated or "worn in" yet. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
I too have a cheapo extended battery from eBay, for the first week I hated it, but finally I actually just let the thing completely die to wear the phone shut down and wouldn't turn back on, then I recharged the battery completely in a standalone charger(also ebay), then put it back in the phone and used normally, charging and discharging and now I can't even dream of going back to the OEM battery, my battery life has much more than doubled. I use my phone like most here with CM7 up to date on nightlys and I'm happy as can be. I also like the ext back on the cheapos much better than the seidio flavor.
So you use the wall charger from eBay to charge it? I don't want to take my battery out to charge it though every night, let alone turn it off because I use it as an alarm clock :X. I've read a whole bunch of different ways of how to charge it in your phone and most people even one of the legitimate companies (Seido) who sells it, says that if you let it go an hr or 2 after the light turns green its good to go, but I don't believe it charges after the light turns green hence why the charging icon on the battery goes away. people may "think" it does but I honestly don't think it does and if anybody can prove otherwise I might have to buy the external charger :/
Yes get an external charger, Preferably 2 batteries and 1 external charger.
I just ordered a wall charger for like $15 I hope this works. I'll just charge my extended battery at night and use my other battery when the extended is charging
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I used the external charger just once to "calibrate" the battery it seemed? Since then I've not taken the battery from the phone and just charged it with the phone charger(plugging it in) and I have noticed a huge change in run time.
How do you charge it though now that its calibrated? Do you just leave it on the charger for a few hrs after it hits green or do you have to turn the phone off and back on then stick it on the charger
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Well my cheap battery has not blown up with sbc kernels
Yeah, its been about a week and my battery still can't even hold a charge, even if it isn't fully charging. It dies quicker than my stock battery. I told the guy I bought it from, and he said he'd send me a new one so I'm back to the stock battery for now until I get this one next week :/
Hey guys, i know it's a tiny bit off topic, but what about a battery pack??
http://www.amazon.com/XtremeMac-IPU-ICP-11-InCharge-Portable-US/dp/B003FVRYBE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1294354173&sr=8-1
i have two of those things and they work perfectly. plus, i don't have to kill the phone, open her up and swap batteries. additionally, it'll charge two devices at a time. bonus!
Hmm see that's what I'm trying to get rid of lol having to plug it in all the time. Plus I actually like the bigger back, I personally don't like the thin size of the evo I feel like I could drop it at any time.
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How are you guys getting so many hours? I only get like 8 Hours on my heavy use and i bought a 3500mah extended battery wtf? I'm also using the net Netarchy sbc 3.2 more havs and mym rom with setcpu running profiles. What am I doing wrong? I even have juice defender running aswell.
I had my 3500 extended battery and at first it wasnt too good. But after switching to an external charger for all charges and completely letting the battery die out im getting a whole days worth of heavy use with no worries.
No rooting or any battery controls.
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Hey guys, i know it's a tiny bit off topic, but what about a battery pack??
http://www.amazon.com/XtremeMac-IPU...1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1294354173&sr=8-1
i have two of those things and they work perfectly. plus, i don't have to kill the phone, open her up and swap batteries. additionally, it'll charge two devices at a time. bonus!
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I think if I got one it would be the 4400mah gum charger
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I just recently bought a 3500mAh extended battery from amazon. (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0042TY68C/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&m=A1N1UQZS4G6GV9). I just got done fully charging it, i let it charge fully over night, just unplugged it and boom 10 minutes unplugged with me not even touching it just letting it sit on my desk we are down to 95%. I know you are suppost to cycle these batteries and stuff before u can actually see the fully life of it and i plan to do that. My question is i downloaded battery monitor widget and on the main screen its calling the battery a techno-Li-ion 1425/1500mAh battery. I know this isnt right ive cleared battery stats probably 10 times total now, through recovery and through the battery monitor widget app. Im hopping i didnt get ripped off and it just takes a few discharges for the phone to recognize the new battery? Any help would be appreciated.
I plan on letting the battery get to 15-20% and then charge it all the way up again and do these a few times, as well as clear the battery stats. This is what i read to do with new batteries? Please correct me if im wrong..
When using an extended battery you are not going to get a full charge unless you condition it or you could use a SBC kernel.
how much will u get out of it then without the sbc?
I bought this exact same battery. I used it at the time on my Evo unrooted. The first one that came to me (2 weeks late) wouldn't even power up. The second one they sent me I ran for about 3 weeks and put the stock battery back in. I was about to get 9 to 12 hours on my stock battery and with this extended I was getting the same. 2 weeks into using it the battery life got crappier everyday. To me it wasn't worth the added bulk for the same or less life. Since then I now run CM7 on the Tiamat sbc kernel with my stock battery that is almost a year old and get close to 18-20 hours out of an almost year old stock battery.
I use the SBC kernel, battery monitor widget, and the 3500mah battery. The thing lasts for days. Literally. When the green light comes on at "100%", that means NOTHING.
I ran it stone cold dead yesterday on purpose. Plugged it in at 10:00pm using my 800mah AC charger.
10:00pm: Plugged in, begins charging at ~700mah (max for my charger)
12:45am: Phone indicates 100% @ 4018mV but keeps charging at 700mah
2:00am: Charge rate ramping down @ 4197Mv
2:45am: Charge rate 100mah
3:00am: Charge rate 50mah
4:00am: Charge rate 15mah
4:30am: Charge rate 10mah which it remains at when fully charged (4198mV)
Stone cold dead to green light was only about 3 hours. BUT, stone cold dead to actually fully charged was really double that.
Obviously if the battery isn't dea, it will take conciderably less time. If you charge it with a PC, limiting the total current to 500mah, it will take conciderably longer.
So battery monitor widget calling it a 1500mAh battery doesn't mean anything? Right?
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beanx said:
I just recently bought a 3500mAh extended battery from amazon. (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0042TY68C/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&m=A1N1UQZS4G6GV9). I just got done fully charging it, i let it charge fully over night, just unplugged it and boom 10 minutes unplugged with me not even touching it just letting it sit on my desk we are down to 95%. I know you are suppost to cycle these batteries and stuff before u can actually see the fully life of it and i plan to do that. My question is i downloaded battery monitor widget and on the main screen its calling the battery a techno-Li-ion 1425/1500mAh battery. I know this isnt right ive cleared battery stats probably 10 times total now, through recovery and through the battery monitor widget app. Im hopping i didnt get ripped off and it just takes a few discharges for the phone to recognize the new battery? Any help would be appreciated.
I plan on letting the battery get to 15-20% and then charge it all the way up again and do these a few times, as well as clear the battery stats. This is what i read to do with new batteries? Please correct me if im wrong..
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Which battery monitor widget did you use?
The one by 3c06 white icon with a batteryin the middle and graph going through it.
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The one by 3c06 white icon with a batteryin the middle and graph going through it.
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Ahh... yes. I know now which one
I have the exact same battery and I'm wondering is the percent shown total BS? Mine is showing 87% with 4000mV left after charging overnight with an SBC kernal.
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Yea I'm at 8hr40min as of right now @ 17% battery. I've had my display backlight turned down and have been at work the whole day doin nothing with my phone but light texting and posting in this thread. With my stock battery I get around 12 hours before the phone almost dies with regular/mild use.I'm starting to think this battery was a rip off.. hopefully once I charge it back up it will last longer but idk... If anyone has any tips or tricks to make this battery last longer please help me out.
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FYI, after 12hrs, i'm only at 70%. That is with very poor signal at work all day, and playing pandora on the way in.
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So battery monitor widget calling it a 1500mAh battery doesn't mean anything? Right?
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The newest version allows you to override that. Previously, the phone was telling it the capacity was 1500mah because that what the normal battery is supposed to be. The new version let me change it to 3500. So the % estimation should be accurate now. It is claiming I have 70% remaining or 2450mah. And 70% of 3500 is 2450. Now, where it came up with 2450, I have no idea.
The first time after ur charged the battery when u got it did u let it completely die or plug it in when it hit 10% or so?
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My first full charge on the same battery I got the exact same behavior. I was on the Stock Kernal that came with CM7.
Second charge, after changing to the Tiamat SBC, my battery is screaming... 6+ hours of heavy usage (video, web, lots and lots of text and 30mins of calling) and I am still over 50%. By now, I would have had to charge the regular battery...
Very pleased with this thing...
well im about ready to unplug mine for the day and see how it goes, i fully charged it with the phone off with a wall charger. And have been cycling it witht he phone off by unplugging it when the light turns green, waiting for the light to turn off, then plugging it back in until the light turns from orange to green again. Ive been doing this for the last hour or so because somone in another thread about this battery said it help him out alot, i did unplug it when i first woke up and it dropped from 100 to 92 within 3 minutes so thats when i tried this cycling, i did unplug it in the middle after doing a dozen or more of these cycles and it staid at 100 for quiet a while then dropped to 99 after about 5-6 minutes of being unplugged and me browsing the web and market this being a huge improvement so id have to say the cycling of the battery does help idk how or why but whatever im not complaining ill post back later tonight once i see how the battery acts.
So far I've had terrible luck with this battery can't get more time than stock. Charging it with an SBC kernal and it doesn't help, was avoiding spending 60 bucks on a battery but I think Ive no other choice.
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im at 2 hours with it right now, down to 70% i used it pretty heavily about 30min ago to reflash cm7, savagedzen sbc kernal, download all my apps, setup launcher pro plus, and re confiugre everything. It dropped rather quickly from 100 to where its at now so i guess we will see, BMW is estimating 10hr40min remaining battery life right now which would put it at about where my stock battery would die at around 12-13 hours, so we will see :-\
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BMW now saying 12hr10min at 70% battery? weirddd...
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BMW now saying 16hr23min at 65% battery, ive been using it moderately, used 4G for a second and WiFi for a few minutes as well...
Here's why the drop...the Evo along with other phones use bump charging to charge the battery meaning when the light is green you have anywhere between
90 and 100 percent at 89 percent down to zero you should not see such a dramatic drop...its a Evo thing the large drop
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MCL1981 said:
FYI, after 12hrs, i'm only at 70%. That is with very poor signal at work all day, and playing pandora on the way in.
The newest version allows you to override that. Previously, the phone was telling it the capacity was 1500mah because that what the normal battery is supposed to be. The new version let me change it to 3500. So the % estimation should be accurate now. It is claiming I have 70% remaining or 2450mah. And 70% of 3500 is 2450. Now, where it came up with 2450, I have no idea.
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How do you override that value? I looked all through the widget settings and I'm not seeing it.
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How do you override that value? I looked all through the widget settings and I'm not seeing it.
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go into bmw, go to settings, monitoring preferences, second from the bottom battery capacity, just change that value from 1500 to 3500, took me a while to find it as well.
I was wondering how i would set up my phone. Reset batt stats, longer charge times or something on how to get the best out of the extended 3500 battery. Also any hints or advice?
i have the same one and i just cleared the stats after charging the battery till full.
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How do I know its full. ? Just over charge it with it on or off?. That's what u wanted to know. And does the percentage become accurate after doing this?. As I understand right now it should only register at 1500 right until the batvstats are chnage and then registers as 3500. And should display % based on that
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i let mine charge until the green light was on, then unplugged and waited for the light to go out and re plugged did that a couple times until light is orange and charged till it was green again. havent had any problems.(knock on wood)
Do you know how long it took for that process? im getting it green now and will do the rest tonight with it being off. I am hoping that it registers the full battery capacity.
I've had very good luck with a $7 Chinese 3500mah from Amazon. I reset my stats through my battery widget but not until weeks after I had the battery. I don't think I was rooted when I first bought it.
The first day I got it I installed it and it showed 66%. I ran it down to 0% which took a pretty long time. Supposedly that's important, several cycles of complete discharge.
I have this docking station that is absolutely worthless as a docking station, but pretty awesome as an external battery charger. I use that to charge it, and sometimes charge it while its in the phone with the stock wall charger. The phone recognizes the %'s pretty close. At first it would drop to 80ish% pretty fast and then be really long between 50-80. Now it seems pretty steady all the way through.
Hmm I never thought to run down a Li-Ion battery due to it not actually having a memory.. Well i got it fully charged and I will see how long it takes to run down.
So I am waiting on how things will go for it lol. Thanks for the help guys. If anyone else has anything else feel free to chip in.
Get the battery monitor widget int he market, go into the settings and make sure you set it for the maH that your battery is, and then try the guide in my signature.
I have had my extended battery for some time now. I don't have BMW and have no history out my battery on my phone. All I did was put the extended battery in, played with the phone like crazy, killed the battery all the way, kept the phone off and charged it until 1 hour after the LED turned green. No issues.
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I'm in the middle of a record setting run right now. This is very unusual. Usually I get 16-24 hours. My battery and EVO seem to have a mind of their own. But when it works it works good. I still struggle with intermittent 'android system' battery problems.