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desktop cradle with extra battery slot anywhere??

Its a shame the aftermarket accessory people are so slow to release stuff for android phones..
has anyone been able to find a desktop cradle that charges the phone, and has an extra slot for a spare battery to charge?
Thanks so much!

I would love this too. I had an eris and took a seagate freeagent external hd desktop cradle and did a little work and made a desktop charger for the eris.
But eris used the mini usb...
Any kind of desktop cradle that is out there or I could hack apart with the same charging port?

these desktop cradles/charging stations used to be really common and all over the place, but, for the last couple of phones I have had, its been hard, if not impossible to find them..

wase4711 said:
Its a shame the aftermarket accessory people are so slow to release stuff for android phones..
has anyone been able to find a desktop cradle that charges the phone, and has an extra slot for a spare battery to charge?
Thanks so much!
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best buy listed that the EVO docking station for the desk and car wont be out till the end of July .

yeah, and that doesnt even have a spare battery compartment!
hopefully, some one else will come out with one soon, cause they could sell tons of them!

I know I want really bad. I have an extra battery from my TP2. I had a charging cradle with an extra battery slot. I gave it to the guy who bought my phone. I almost kept it just for the extra battery slot part of it but then I sold my phone so I gave it away.
wase4711 said:
yeah, and that doesnt even have a spare battery compartment!
hopefully, some one else will come out with one soon, cause they could sell tons of them!
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Seido has a charger that can charge one battery, then charge the battery in phone at same time. but its not a dock

I think I saw that a few days ago..problem is,the phone still lays on your desk, instead of sitting in a cradle, correct?
Does anyone know if someone makes one for an HTC hd2?
Isnt that the same size/config as the EVO?

Oh really! I saw where ebay had some batterty chargers that charge battery only but I wasn't sure how good they were. They plugged into the wall. But Seidio sounds good if it charges phone and extra battery together. So far I make sure my phone stays charged cause I really am hoping I don't ever have to change batteries. It's hard to get Seidio case off and it lifts up my screen protector a bit taking case off. I need a cradle that will charge phone with case on and have an extra battery slot that would be what I need. But Oh well. I have to get the car dock 1st.
enragedpaza said:
Seido has a charger that can charge one battery, then charge the battery in phone at same time. but its not a dock
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I am hoping for the same thing; desktop cradle to charge the phone, and, an extra slot to charge a spare battery...
Accessory manufacturers, where are you??????

wase4711 said:
I think I saw that a few days ago..problem is,the phone still lays on your desk, instead of sitting in a cradle, correct?
Does anyone know if someone makes one for an HTC hd2?
Isnt that the same size/config as the EVO?
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I havent seen said charger, but wouldnt the kickstand suffice to keep the device from 'laying on your desk'?

Well, yes, in a way it would, although I would prefer the neat, all in one piece look of a cradle/charger together..
Plus, since you cant get your home screen to rotate to landscape, the phone would always look **** eyed if it was on its kickstand all the time

wase4711 said:
Well, yes, in a way it would, although I would prefer the neat, all in one piece look of a cradle/charger together..
Plus, since you cant get your home screen to rotate to landscape, the phone would always look **** eyed if it was on its kickstand all the time
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Ahh, thats right. I forgot Sense is dumb like that. I have been using LauncherPro Beta since I got my Evo. Actually rooted it yesterday and completely got rid of sense. My Evo seems even faster, plus I can go landscape. I keep my Evo propped on its kickstand all day at work. LauncherPro, and Swype I dont even have to pick my phone up to reply to texts and emails. It's awesome. I know its not a solution to your problem, but if you dont need sense, i'd say check out LauncherPro.

I kinda like all the visual crap that sense has, but I bet I will be rooting shortly.
is there a froyo rom available for the EVO yet?
Even though I always JB'd my iphones, I am not sure there is a compelling reason for me to root my evo, especially if I cant put Froyo on it; aside from being able to use landscape everywhere, and the slight speed increase, are there any other strong reasons to root the EVO at this point?
thanks!

wase4711 said:
I kinda like all the visual crap that sense has, but I bet I will be rooting shortly.
is there a froyo rom available for the EVO yet?
Even though I always JB'd my iphones, I am not sure there is a compelling reason for me to root my evo, especially if I cant put Froyo on it; aside from being able to use landscape everywhere, and the slight speed increase, are there any other strong reasons to root the EVO at this point?
thanks!
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There is a Froyo port, but its in progress. Not everything works, but toast is working on it. If you dont know who toast is He basically wrote 2.1 for the Hero from scratch, and had a fully relased stable version before Sprint did... Here is the Froyo thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=693992
Btw though, you dont have to root to use LauncherPro, just go grab it from the market. My main reason for rooting was to get rid of all the social networking and sprint crap that was added in. I hate that there apps always just open and run in the background on there own. Just like on my Hero, I had never ever once even thought of opening Sprint Nav, why would I i have google maps, and the mother effer was ALWAYS running in the back until i rooted and deleted it. I dont have a facebook, nor do I tweet so I dont need any of that stuff. Just a non sense free ROM. Pun slightly intended. Also, once rooted you can look into Over/Underclocking as well as Undervolting (Faster phone that uses less battery? Yes!) Not sure how you feel about themes, but once rooted you can theme almost every aspect of your devices interface. Ummm, lets see what else... Oh, WiFi Tether is a free app that does the same thing as the HotSpot feature, but again... it's for free.
Im not in anyway saying you have to root, or even that you should. My buddy has an Evo, and he is content with it the way it came from Sprint. I on the other hand am not. Sprint doesnt know what i want out of a phone. They are close, but I prefer my phone to be mine, ya know? Especially since I wasnt due for an upgrade and had to lay down $500 on this mother effer!
Anywho, enough of my ramblings, I have to finish my homework. Send me a pm if you have anymore questions. Take care broseph.

yeah, I kill all the sprint crap and everything else with ATK; I dont tweet much or FB either, so I just turn off their auto update crap and it doesnt bother me
It would be nice to have landscape all the time though, and I assume with launcher you can get that..I read about overclocking this thing, but, until I see that it actually works for a month or 2, I dont want to frick things up by messing with clock speed and such. This phone is so new, I dont think we really know what this hardware is all about yet.
500 is a tuff nut to swallow; i got mine at bb for 199 less all the points I turned in, so it was easy peasy for measy!
tanks for the info, bro; I'm sure we will be chatting in the future!

Man someone needs to hurry up and get on this, need a cardle ASAP, Half tempted to take my old hero cardle apart and Take a spare charger i have and with a little bit of modification make my very own.

Found one at www.seidioonline.com/product-p/crjhev4-bkc.htm called the innodock jr desktop cardle cheap too!! Not sure of the quality

only problem with that one is that it doesn't charge a spare battery..only does the phone

charging cradle for htc evo
You can get the charging cradle for charging extra battery for HTC EVO on ebay now. Search evo charging cradle.

External Battery Charger

I don't know if there was already a thread about this, but I searched and didn't find anything.
So my USB port on my cappy is busted, so I had to buy this. I just got it today, but was disappointed to find out that it only charges the battery included (which I believe is a fascinate battery), and I can't use the other 2 batteries I have. The fascinate battery works fine, but I'd rather have 2 batteries to use for a backup. Could someone explain to me why it doesn't charge my cappy/i9000 batteries or any solution?
Edit: Also, nobody else seems to have this problem from reading the reviews.

Well the first thing that comes to mind for me is, are you sure the usb on your phone is busted? Maybe the problem is your original battery has stopped taking a charge. You said busted but I don't know if you mean physically as in you can no longer stick your wire in it, or just when you plug it in the battery does not get charged.
Busted isn't a concise enough description of the problem for me to be able to give a better answer.

I use the oem spare battery charger/stand and i love it.. Might want to try that if you dont get a repair or warranty done
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fianor said:
Well the first thing that comes to mind for me is, are you sure the usb on your phone is busted? Maybe the problem is your original battery has stopped taking a charge. You said busted but I don't know if you mean physically as in you can no longer stick your wire in it, or just when you plug it in the battery does not get charged.
Busted isn't a concise enough description of the problem for me to be able to give a better answer.
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Lol sorry, my usb port will not charge or sync at all. I also JUST ordered another battery, so unless my old battery stopped charging right when my usb port broke, and the new one I got was broken, I don't think it's a problem with the batteries. I just don't know why it would charge the fascinate battery and not my 2 cappy batteries.
xhozt said:
I use the oem spare battery charger/stand and i love it.. Might want to try that if you dont get a repair or warranty done
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But that is what I'm using? I'm waiting for connexion2005 to offer the repair, unless someone else wants to point me to another reliable repair service.

Thnikk said:
Lol sorry, my usb port will not charge or sync at all. I also JUST ordered another battery, so unless my old battery stopped charging right when my usb port broke, and the new one I got was broken, I don't think it's a problem with the batteries. I just don't know why it would charge the fascinate battery and not my 2 cappy batteries.
But that is what I'm using? I'm waiting for connexion2005 to offer the repair, unless someone else wants to point me to another reliable repair service.
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I just found myself in the same position as of two days ago (damned questionable design for the way the cappy's USB port is set and secured). Did you ever find out if there was a reason why you couldn't charge the batteries that originally came with the phone?
FYI: My timing for the 1 year warranty was awful in that it expired 19 days ago. As for insurance repair/replacement, I wasn't looking at replacing my cappy for approximately $125. So, after looking at doing a Walmart/Target deal, and then finding out they are still charging for tax, when it came down to costs I went with the external charger and replacement battery option after a lot of reading on the web, amazon, and then eventually to the posts on this topic....

LMSarmiento said:
I just found myself in the same position as of two days ago (damned questionable design for the way the cappy's USB port is set and secured). Did you ever find out if there was a reason why you couldn't charge the batteries that originally came with the phone?
FYI: My timing for the 1 year warranty was awful in that it expired 19 days ago. As for insurance repair/replacement, I wasn't looking at replacing my cappy for approximately $125. So, after looking at doing a Walmart/Target deal, and then finding out they are still charging for tax, when it came down to costs I went with the external charger and replacement battery option after a lot of reading on the web, amazon, and then eventually to the posts on this topic....
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Nah, I'm still using the one battery. Sort of a hassle (I can't use my phone as an alarm since I charge it overnight) but I guess I'm happy that I can at least use the phone. I'm still waiting for someone to offer a cheap repair though. It sucks not being able to put anything on my internal sd and having to use the ota miui updates, but it's better than nothing.
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Thnikk said:
Nah, I'm still using the one battery. Sort of a hassle (I can't use my phone as an alarm since I charge it overnight) but I guess I'm happy that I can at least use the phone. I'm still waiting for someone to offer a cheap repair though. It sucks not being able to put anything on my internal sd and having to use the ota miui updates, but it's better than nothing.
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Wifi Explorer from the market is great for transferring files to and from the phone using a wifi network since USB is not an option for you.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.dooblou.WiFiFileExplorer&feature=search_result

IIRC the Fascinated battery won't charge in a Captivate and vice versa. They have different part numbers. I'm not sure of the techincal details but it has something to do with the different currents the two phones charge at.

beast534 said:
Wifi Explorer from the market is great for transferring files to and from the phone using a wifi network since USB is not an option for you.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.dooblou.WiFiFileExplorer&feature=search_result
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I've been using dropbox for a while, but I really need a USB connection since I want to continue work on my theme and it requires so much trial and error.
linway said:
IIRC the Fascinated battery won't charge in a Captivate and vice versa. They have different part numbers. I'm not sure of the techincal details but it has something to do with the different currents the two phones charge at.
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Well that's a bit irritating. I guess then shouldn't have been advertising it as a charger for all phones, then.

I could probably do the repair work if pointed to the correct part necessary to replace the broken USB port. I fear one of these days my Captivate will suffer the same fate.
My qualifications: I do a lot of fine SMD/SMT reworking by hand. Mainly video game consoles and other consumer electronic goods. I have reputation/feedback on other forums as well as eBay if desired.

Thnikk said:
I don't know if there was already a thread about this, but I searched and didn't find anything.
So my USB port on my cappy is busted, so I had to buy this. I just got it today, but was disappointed to find out that it only charges the battery included (which I believe is a fascinate battery), and I can't use the other 2 batteries I have. The fascinate battery works fine, but I'd rather have 2 batteries to use for a backup. Could someone explain to me why it doesn't charge my cappy/i9000 batteries or any solution?
Edit: Also, nobody else seems to have this problem from reading the reviews.
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You are not alone, ordered mine (the charger only)
And it won't charge any of my batteries (2 OEMs and 1 that comes with the phone)
Now it sits there as a glorified dock.

APE992 said:
I could probably do the repair work if pointed to the correct part necessary to replace the broken USB port. I fear one of these days my Captivate will suffer the same fate.
My qualifications: I do a lot of fine SMD/SMT reworking by hand. Mainly video game consoles and other consumer electronic goods. I have reputation/feedback on other forums as well as eBay if desired.
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You could try asking connexion2005, I think he said he was getting the part at some point. Thanks for offering, people like you make me enjoy xda
41LY45 said:
You are not alone, ordered mine (the charger only)
And it won't charge any of my batteries (2 OEMs and 1 that comes with the phone)
Now it sits there as a glorified dock.
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We should write some nasty reviews since nobody else did D:<

Thnikk said:
We should write some nasty reviews since nobody else did D:<
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Well, isn't there anything in Amazon against false advertising? ;D
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[Q] Will The Door Fit?

Thursday i bought a 3800mAh extended battery from ebay with sprint in the title and also on the battery itself from the pictures i saw. I looked in the description and it also said verizon in it and was a tad confused as to will it fit. For $15 i figured i might as well try it out and see but it gets here monday. I just wanted to know if anyone knows if it will fit on my sprint galaxy nexus properly? or maybe i will have to make some alterations as long as it works? link for it is: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=370639867086

Cant say for sure but the teeth that hold it in place are supposedly in different places.

I read that one or two may be out of place but all of them?

NexusS4gFreak said:
I read that one or two may be out of place but all of them?
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Even one or two would ruin how it's seated on the phone.
The guys in the accessories section probably have a better idea of it.

063_XOBX said:
Even one or two would ruin how it's seated on the phone.
The guys in the accessories section probably have a better idea of it.
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Well the battery came today and had 53 percent left on it. Currently im doing the initial first full drain and so far im already very very impressed! I can already see an increase in battery life. The door fits perfectly on both of the batteries(I ordered two of em) with no problems what so ever. Great so far. No problems with it snapping on at all

Okay im slightly confused, should i drain the battery first or charge it fully overnight?

Third Party Battery Charging

I bought a couple of cheap Chinese replacement batteries for my Xperia Play just to see if they were any good. So far, they seem to be lasting a lot longer than the original battery, but I've noticed I cannot charge them using the phone (it seems I have to use the standalone charger that came with the batteries). Is there any way I can convince the phone to charge these batteries, or is there some kind of hardware lockout for third party batteries that I won't be able to get around?

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I bought a couple of cheap Chinese replacement batteries for my Xperia Play just to see if they were any good. So far, they seem to be lasting a lot longer than the original battery, but I've noticed I cannot charge them using the phone (it seems I have to use the standalone charger that came with the batteries). Is there any way I can convince the phone to charge these batteries, or is there some kind of hardware lockout for third party batteries that I won't be able to get around?
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It's probably not a hardware lockout, just that the batteries are cheap. It comes with it's limitations, I presume.

ridder215215 said:
It's probably not a hardware lockout, just that the batteries are cheap. It comes with it's limitations, I presume.
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The thing is, if there wasn't a lockout, I would assume the phone would at least be trying to charge them. It doesn't even show the charging icon when I plug it in. It just sits there running off USB power without providing any charging voltage to the battery. It may very well be that since the batteries are cheap, the manufacturer didn't bother to put a correct ID chip in or something, though. I'm just wondering if there's something I can change in the phone's settings or in some configuration file, or if it's something I can't do anything about at all. I did change the capacity in build.prop to match what's on the label for the batteries, if that might have affected the charging capabilities in some way.

Okay, the second battery of the two did show the charging icon when I plugged the USB cable into the phone. Interesting. Of course, it was already fully charged when I booted the phone with the USB cable attached, so maybe that had something to do with it. I'll have to see if the behavior is the same once it's been run down a little.

You get what you paid for. Sounds more truerer than ever. No pun intended.

chery2k said:
You get what you paid for. Sounds more truerer than ever. No pun intended.
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No need to lecture me, I knew I was probably headed for some issues. Just feeling optimistic, haha.
What's awesome is that they really do last a lot longer than the stock battery. Phone's been on for almost 5 hours now, I've been tethering over WiFi for at least two hours, and the battery is just over half depleted. My stock battery would be blinking the 10% warning after this amount of tethering.

Okay, weirdness. The second battery charges in the phone without any problem (I let it run all the way down this time, then plugged in the USB connection). I wonder if it has anything to do with the way the label on the first battery bunched up when I inserted it? Maybe that was causing one of the contacts to not make a solid connection or something. I'll have to try it out again later.

chery2k said:
You get what you paid for. Sounds more truerer than ever. No pun intended.
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I'm sorry, I just re-read this, and I'm genuinely confused by your statement regarding puns. I'll accept it as true, but I'm not sure which part of the preceding statement could be taken for a pun. I mean there's 'more truerer', which is kind of a funny way to word things, but it doesn't call the word 'pun' to my mind, haha.

Alright, well, I tried it again with the label un-bunched, and I guess battery #1 is just defective. Battery #2 still charges happily. I'll e-mail the seller and ask if they're willing to send me another battery or give me a partial refund (although a partial refund out of $22 wouldn't be that much, haha).
EDIT: Alright, I sent the seller a message, and they're just going to send me a replacement battery. I don't even have to send back the defective one! I just hope the new battery works like the 'good' one of the two I got in this set, and not like the 'bad' one. If anyone's curious, these are the MPJ brand batteries available on eBay. At the price they sell for, and with the willingness of the seller to correct a situation like the one I got into, they're probably worth the risk.
I only wish I could say whether the batteries are better than a brand new stock battery. The battery I got with my phone was sealed and unused, but for some reason it was a year older than the phone itself, so it might have already been suffering from diminished capacity due to age. The MPJ batteries definitely last a lot longer than my phone's battery when I first got the phone back in January, though.

Yet another battery topic...

Been reading some of the other topics here trying to learn which is the best choice for an extended battery for the T989. I've seen praise going out to Anker and EC Technologies, an extended battery for the Galaxy Nexus, someone having decent luck with a battery with Chinese printing on it, etc.
So let's make this simple...
1. Is there a definitive list of which batteries have consistently shown better performance over others and have shown to do at or above the expected return compared to the stock battery?
2. Are there any particular companies/brands/etc to avoid at all costs? As in, so bad that even manufacturers of other below-par extended batteries can honestly brag about not being THAT bad.
3. From what I've read and learned, most non stock batteries don't support NFC. Are there any reliable extended batteries that do? Are there alternatives to keep NFC available even if the battery doesn't support it? I have a feeling the answer is no to the last one, but I could be wrong.
Not really battery related, but charging related...
1. I've come across a dual purpose charger with the Sprint name on it (via ebay). It plugs into a car but you can unfold prongs on it so it can be plugged into the wall. On the end (away from car adapter), there are two USB ports (one open, the other you can uncover when needed). Are those any good? Main interest here is the dual USB option as well as being able to use in a car or in a house.
2. I guess more importantly would be, are the accessories seen on ebay generally reliable (Buy It Now auctions, reputable sellers of course)? A lot of the car plugs I've seen look like I wouldn't have much to grab to pull on when needing to unplug it and that worries me. Also concerned about the quality/safety/reliability of the products and thus the question. If they are all pretty much "all the same" just different looks and such, but otherwise all safe, then that's great.
3. From #1.. Are there any reliable/reputable car/wall chargers that provide more than two USB ports? Like the idea of it being a single car/wall charging unit, but if it's two pieces (with more than two USB ports each), that works too.
Ever since getting and starting to use the T989... Wow, I wonder what I'm doing to cause it to need to be charged 20 times/day. (Not literally.)
For the record, I had made the slight boo-boo of getting a pair of the cheapo 'extended' batteries before reading up on them. Not too bad though, doesn't hurt to have spares. I saw a reference to recalibrating a battery, but when going into recovery mode, didn't see an option referred to for resetting the stats. Are there any decent guides for proper care of a battery? Best practices when first getting it, when to charge it, not charge it, etc.
Thanks for any help provided. Now off to enjoy my phone some more. Haven't talked much on it yet but hey, only had it about three weeks.

for your answer for number 3 there is an app called super beam if my memory serves me right and has a blue kind of wifi signal and should serve as a good NFC "alternative"

mycars12 said:
for your answer for number 3 there is an app called super beam if my memory serves me right and has a blue kind of wifi signal and should serve as a good NFC "alternative"
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By alternative, do you mean it's not NFC but serves the same purpose? I'll definitely check it out, as I can see the usefulness of NFC. Still would like to know if NFC itself can be accomplished when using a battery that doesn't support it. Actually, more of, wanting to understand it just enough to know if it's possible and how (if so) or why (if not). I hope that makes sense.
I had tried bump but that was a bit of a disappointment. Will try looking for 'super beam' and see if I can find it. Thanks.
Edit: Found it.
SuperBeam (com.majedev.superbeam), without a space in the name. Looks promising, will try it out.

.Wolfie said:
2. Are there any particular companies/brands/etc to avoid at all costs? As in, so bad that even manufacturers of other below-par extended batteries can honestly brag about not being THAT bad.
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Basically if its not a well known, reputable brand name (samsung) they have no reason to be truthful about mah
Most of the no brand batteries are equal or lower mah than stock.
If samsung could fit more mah in a battery of that size, why would they not?
For charger testing use this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1801608
Higher numbers = faster charging
The max the phone will pull from a good charger is around 800ma, usb ports on pc's are limited to 500, which equals slow charging
:edit: not sure if this deal is still going, but alot of people (myself included) got free galaxy nexus extended batteries here
http://slickdeals.net/f/5055866-FREE-Sprint-Galaxy-Nexus-extended-battery?
It is a little fat for closing the back fully

BenKranged said:
Basically if its not a well known, reputable brand name (samsung) they have no reason to be truthful about mah
Most of the no brand batteries are equal or lower mah than stock.
If samsung could fit more mah in a battery of that size, why would they not?
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Profits come to mind. Could be that they intended to sell an extended battery but in the end never did (did they?) or wanted to leave room for improvements as a selling point in the future. I'm sure you know companies will do that sort of thing to stay in business.
When I asked about ones to avoid, I meant if there are any particular ones that are the bottom of the barrel, even among 'generic' batteries. Perhaps identified by the label itself even if it doesn't have an actual name on it. Would still love to hear feedback in regards to the more popular batteries, as I don't want to order a pair from Anker and then come across a group praising some other brand (for example) and of course, vice versa.
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:edit: not sure if this deal is still going, but alot of people (myself included) got free galaxy nexus extended batteries here
http://slickdeals.net/f/5055866-FREE-Sprint-Galaxy-Nexus-extended-battery?
It is a little fat for closing the back fully
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So aside from the back not closing 100% (or can it with some effort?) it works in the S2?
Edit: Found answer in Galaxy nexus battery, apparently it does. Ordering one as I update this post (shipping is $6.50, not a bad deal for battery and cover).

I modified my battery, with a file. The result is a less buldging door
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=40550113&postcount=180
Oh and the cover is only for the Gnex, you have to use your stock t989 battery cover
In terms of 3rd party batteries, anker is supposed to be one of the better ones.
Search the forum for anker broke to get an idea if the "best" third party is any good

BenKranged said:
I modified my battery, with a file. The result is a less buldging door
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=40550113&postcount=180
Oh and the cover is only for the Gnex, you have to use your stock t989 battery cover
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Yeah I figured as much, still not a bad deal. I could probably sell the back on eBay, so that someone else ends up with it. Might not matter too much with the bulging door, as I'm using one of those 'Heavy Duty Rugged' cases. The one I got on eBay is item # 620107891193. Not really into the idea of doing anything to a battery, for fear of causing it to leak or something else which causes problems.
BenKranged said:
In terms of 3rd party batteries, anker is supposed to be one of the better ones.
Search the forum for anker broke to get an idea if the "best" third party is any good
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Will do. Still need to check out that app you mentioned in the previous post.
When I first looked at the deal link you provided, the date alone had me thinking, "Oh yeah, this is likely long gone..." but decided that I had nothing to lose by checking it out. As you probably guessed by my last post, it's still good. Many thanks for that.