After receiving my Seidio multi-function battery charger and spare battery and doing a bit of testing, here is a little review/data for anyone interested.
The actual charger isn't too big. It comes in two pieces (the main charger and the charging plate to fit the HTC Thunderbolt battery). After charging multiple batteries consistently the charger doesn't feel warm in the least bit.
My main goal though was to see how the charge time was. Here is some data:
Battery when charging began: 63%
Time elapsed: 1h 55m
Battery after elapsed time: 95%
+1%/~every 3.6 minutes
Battery when charging began: 74%
Time elapsed: 1h 35m
Battery after elapsed time: 96%
+1%/~every 4.3 minutes
Battery when charging began: 76%
Time elapsed: 1h 35m
Battery after elapsed time: 94%
+1%/~every 5.3 minutes
With the stock charger I get +1%/~every 1.3 minutes.
So overall it takes a good bit of time for the charger to charge the battery, but due to its size and cheap price I'm going to hold on to it. I'd much rather charge two batteries overnight then go the following day with swapping them rather than using the HTC extended battery.
And here are some pictures:
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Did u have to force the battery in there? I bought one from amazon but my stock HTC battery won't fit in it.
By the way, big ups for the Eagles image
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No it went in just like it should.
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I purchased a 3500 mAh battery off of ebay and fully charged it with one of the ebay wall chargers as well. Once I saw that the charging light shut off and put it into my EVO, at start up, the EVO displays only 87% battery left. I used the battery all the way up until it died, and then using my EVO, i charged the battery until the light turned green, and the same thing happened, the battery life at start up was 87%. I'm running MikG 2.53 w the Aggressive Freedom kernel, if it matters. Everytime so far the battery dies in ~6 hours, which is almost half of what I'm getting from the stock battery and the ebay 2000mAh batteries I have. Any ideas on why i'm only seeing upto 87% charge?
Is it one of those $5.00 ebay batteries?
If it is, then it may be defective.
I had an eBay battery for my HTC Mogul, which would charge until 87%, then the light turned green. If I unplugged it and plugged it back, it would charge a few more minutes then turn green again. After a few days, it would charge until 88%. I continued this process until it charged to 101%. I stopped at that point with the plug and unplug. I never had an issue after that, and used the battery for two years after that before turning the Mogul over to a new owner, who also had no issues. (other than the normal this Mogul is SO SLOW issues.)
nyroshan said:
I purchased a 3500 mAh battery off of ebay and fully charged it with one of the ebay wall chargers as well. Once I saw that the charging light shut off and put it into my EVO, at start up, the EVO displays only 87% battery left. I used the battery all the way up until it died, and then using my EVO, i charged the battery until the light turned green, and the same thing happened, the battery life at start up was 87%. I'm running MikG 2.53 w the Aggressive Freedom kernel, if it matters. Everytime so far the battery dies in ~6 hours, which is almost half of what I'm getting from the stock battery and the ebay 2000mAh batteries I have. Any ideas on why i'm only seeing upto 87% charge?
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go to the market and find battery calibration, then charge ur phone and us the calibrate button
Seidio 3500 extended battery.
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nyroshan said:
I purchased a 3500 mAh battery off of ebay and fully charged it with one of the ebay wall chargers as well. Once I saw that the charging light shut off and put it into my EVO, at start up, the EVO displays only 87% battery left. I used the battery all the way up until it died, and then using my EVO, i charged the battery until the light turned green, and the same thing happened, the battery life at start up was 87%. I'm running MikG 2.53 w the Aggressive Freedom kernel, if it matters. Everytime so far the battery dies in ~6 hours, which is almost half of what I'm getting from the stock battery and the ebay 2000mAh batteries I have. Any ideas on why i'm only seeing upto 87% charge?
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Just curious what make your supposed 2000 mha
battery is and if it's any good. MY supposed 1900 chicitec is a 1550.
Got my rezound battery in a couple days ago and so far its not so good. Gave it a full charge out of the box and then bump charged it. Wiped battery stats and then ran it hard to drain it dead till the phone shut off. Recharged and bumped it again. It will hold at 100% for a good while during use but then drops drastically. Sitting doing nothing it dropped to 60% in about 2 hours. Then listening to music it went into around 20% in 45 minutes. Charged it overnight and today sitting doing nothing it was down to 30% in about 4 hours. Put it back on the charger now its only charging to 88% and stops. Am I doing something wrong here or is my battery a dud.
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after the charge to 88% I have used the crap out of my phone tonight and more over the last 4 hours. Surfing on WiFi, music, and running repeated benchmarks. The battery had sit for several hours off charge and dropped from 88 to 52% while sitting unused. Dropped from 52 to 35% over a few hours of music and 4g web browsing while driving my wife around shopping. After I got home and started using it stayed at 35% for over 2 hours of use and has dropped down from 35 to 28% in the last hour or so of continuous use. Seems like its holding a good charge, but just not reporting battery stats correctly.
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I have had the Rezound battery for several months and at first it was reporting the battery accurately, a longer usage time, and no complaints. I would go down to about 5% and then I would charge it.
The last few months have been erratic. The battery could show anywhere from 15% to 25% then just shut off completely. This has become very frustrating and unreliable once I get under 30. I downloaded a battery calibration app that has proven to be worthless.
I was on vacation last week and found out something interesting. If I charge the battery to 100% then take it off for about 5 minutes and reboot the phone it will show that it is charged to somewhere between 79% and 84%. I can let it charge again to 100% and get a full charge that time. I tried several times doing battery calibration and it seems to make no difference. I think the default stats file is limiting the charge to the stock battery capacity somehow. I know the stats file gets written on boot and I found a post on here somewhere about HTC releasing an update for their extended battery after its release due to it not charging completely. I wonder if the rezound battery and all other extended batteries that aren't the capacity of the two official ones could perform better if they had modified stats files. Without the reboot and additional charge I am averaging 16 hours roughly per charge. With the additional charge I have gotten over 30 hours on one charge and get at least 23 hours. Last full charge was 27 hours 38 min and still had 16% charge.
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Finally broke down and got one yesterday from Big Red. So far, on initial charge (off wall charger), I'm @ 38%, 15 hrs, moderate use. For me, it's an improvement over the stock battery. FWIW, once I popped in the rezound battery, I wiped battery stats in CMW....
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My rezound battery was doing great until the first weekend when I had to switch it with the stock thunderbolt one on the fly. Since then they seem to perform, at best, the same - but usually it seems like the rezound one lasts even shorter than the original.
I had a One X that took forever to charge, based on its battery consumption. I went back to an Iphone which charged quicker and didnt use as much battery when playing music. Can someone tell me if the Optimus G charges quick? How fast does it take (wall, and computer) - I charge my components while riding a bike, so the less pedaling, the better
I don't have an exact amount of time nailed down (never timed it or anything) but I find with the wall charger it does recharge it pretty fast.
On usb however its pretty slow.. probably more than 4 hours from drained I'd imagine with USB.
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I had a One X that took forever to charge, based on its battery consumption. I went back to an Iphone which charged quicker and didnt use as much battery when playing music. Can someone tell me if the Optimus G charges quick? How fast does it take (wall, and computer) - I charge my components while riding a bike, so the less pedaling, the better
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I use a 1200 mA current charger and it will take about 2 hours (or few minutes more) to charge from 5% to 100%.
It's fast enough for me.
About battery drain, I have to say it'a all about your usage habbit.
After a hard reset I powered on E975 and let it standby for 45 hours.
The battery drained from 80% to 69%.
NO SIM card inserted.
GPS and Android Beam(NFC) enabled (but not active).
BUT, when you use it with screen on, the battery drains quickly.
Hope it's helpful.
Is it okay to charge the phone when it is not fully out of battery? I usually charge my phone at about 40% and my battery life isn't that great.
yea
Yea its fine
It can actually can actually damage Li-Ion batteries to be fully discharged, especially for extended periods of time. It's also not good for them to be 100% charged for extended periods of time (overnight charges are a fact of life, and your battery will obviously survive). The ideal charge for them is somewhere between 40-80%. So what you're doing is actually good practice: recharge once battery gets below 40. Also, if you aren't going to have to be away from a charger all day long, it's best to unplug at around 80%.
New to smexyphones... I've been charging from 1% to 100%... it seems it only takes 2 hours~ to charge full for this big battery oO. This sound about norm? Using wall charger. How does yours compare?
The phone lasted around 19 hours before reaching 1% from 100%, this with quite a bit of active use!
It's the new quick charge tech by qualcomm, the G2 was the same way. Super ridiculous fast charging.
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