Quick Question!
I recently purchased extra batteries. Do I need to wipe battery stats when swapping?
Live2Follow said:
Quick Question!
I recently purchased extra batteries. Do I need to wipe battery stats when swapping?
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I do not believe you need to. Just ensure you Power-Off the phone opposed to battery pulling and switch them!
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Quick question:
I recieved my new extended 3500 battery and want to start using it, my question is what state should I leave my old one in?
charged
totally drained
or just pull it and leave it the way it is
Any help will be much appreciated!
Adam1422 said:
Quick question:
I recieved my new extended 3500 battery and want to start using it, my question is what state should I leave my old one in?
charged
totally drained
or just pull it and leave it the way it is
Any help will be much appreciated!
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Won't really effect it either way. Just make sure you fully charge that 3500 and leave it plugged in for 2 more hours after its green then disconnect and wipe battery stats so you can get the most out of the new one.
Lithium ion batteries are best stored at around 40% capacity.
Thanks Fellas!
_MetalHead_ said:
Lithium ion batteries are best stored at around 40% capacity.
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Can you explain why? I would think leaving it fully charged would be best. You don't want to let a lith-ion completely drain, so perhaps the occasional charge up would be best (every 3 -6 months?)
gpz1100 said:
Can you explain why? I would think leaving it fully charged would be best. You don't want to let a lith-ion completely drain, so perhaps the occasional charge up would be best (every 3 -6 months?)
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No clue, I'm not a battery engineer. I googled it, 40% was the general consensus of the internet.
Hi,
I got a new aftermarket battery, same size but more power: is there anything I should do (delete battery stats, manually or through an app, etc...) to have it work properly?
thanks
thegios said:
Hi,
I got a new aftermarket battery, same size but more power: is there anything I should do (delete battery stats, manually or through an app, etc...) to have it work properly?
thanks
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i doubt its legit anyway..
Your good to go bud the Android system will take care of everything. Wiping battery stats is a thing of the past.
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thegios said:
Hi,
I got a new aftermarket battery, same size but more power: is there anything I should do (delete battery stats, manually or through an app, etc...) to have it work properly?
thanks
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Nothing special to do.
Problem is, if the battery is the same size, its probably the same (or even less) mAh capacity as stock, and just being sold as larger w/ a different label
martonikaj said:
Nothing special to do.
Problem is, if the battery is the same size, its probably the same (or even less) mAh capacity as stock, and just being sold as larger w/ a different label
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in theory battery is without NFC so the advertised 1900mAh should be real
is tehre a way to check the real mAh of a battery?
Battery Monitor Widget shows you the mAh of your battery,
By the way, Did you tray to dial the code *#*#4636#*#* on the phone, and then go to the option "battery info"?
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As with any battery I suggest charge and discharge FULLY two or three times to condition the battery. Don't top it off for the first bit. If its not genuine, I wouldn't hold my breath. Don't let it sit discharged in your phone lest it leak. My 2cents.
if its the same size as the oem its not 1900mah.
I have recently purchased the Verizon Samsung Extended Battery for both my phone and my wife's. It is supposed to have a capacity of 2100Mah.
However, using the app, Battery Monitor Widget, the app is reading the capacity of both batteries at 1750Mah on both my phone and my wife's phone.
Is this a fault of the app? Can it be possible that both batteries are bad?
If this is all the capacity I am going to get, I might as well go back to stock and get my money back. I just don't want to wait too long and be outside of the return policy from the Verizon store.
Thanks
Reset the battery stats.
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Hydera5 said:
Reset the battery stats.
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No.
Battery stats have NO effect on the percentage or MaH being read.
That being said, I haven't personally tested my extended via that app...or others.
But I generally get JUST A BIT more juice out of the extended.
I'd say it's worth it...especially if you're (obviously) wanting that extra juice...you can just swap mid-day if need be.
fit4ugolf said:
Is this a fault of the app?
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Yes, but it's still a good app.
perhaps you can use the program to compare both batteries directly.
player911 said:
perhaps you can use the program to compare both batteries directly.
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I will install the stock battery tonight when I get home, measure it, and report back.
fit4ugolf said:
I will install the stock battery tonight when I get home, measure it, and report back.
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So the stock battery showed up as 1750 as well. I then did some research using the app's help section. I found out you can do a calibration during charge that will determine the actual mah of the battery.
So I ran my battery down to 17%, then turned on the calibration and plugged my phone in. This morning when I looked at the app, it showed by extended battery actual mah as 2022 after the calibration test.
I read a little more, if I run it down to 1 or 2%, it will give a more accurate mah. Therefore, my test for tonight is to drain my battery then run the calibration overnight again.
I will report back my test results tomorrow.
Hi
I just got my gnex a few days ago.
I come from a vibrant and i had to be calibrating my battery all the time i flashed a new rom.
Do i need to calibrate when i flash a new rom in the gnex?
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http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/battery_calibration
http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/how_to_prolong_lithium_based_batteries
Thank you. All you need to do is charge fully. Does the same thing as any apps that "calibrate" you battery. Which is delete battery stats. Even then you can't truly calibrate it but condition the battery.
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Apps that "calibrate" the battery by deleting batterystats.bin are nothing more than snake oil, as that file has nothing at all to do with displayed battery level.
Any dev that told you to wipe battery stats when flashing a rom apparently did not have a clear understanding of this.
Yes battery stats wipe does nothing, on ALL android phones. Google has confirmed this.
Your question, no there is no way to calibrate the gnex battery. The type of fuel gauge it uses (max17040) has no calibration function at all.
Just to add the Google developer's post:
https://plus.google.com/105051985738280261832/posts/FV3LVtdVxPT
Lithium-ion/polymer batteries do not need to be calibrated.
Thanks for the info guys
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JaiaV said:
Just to add the Google developer's post:
https://plus.google.com/105051985738280261832/posts/FV3LVtdVxPT
Lithium-ion/polymer batteries do not need to be calibrated.
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That's not exactly true. Remember the nexus one fuel gauge chip had a calibrate mode inside the ds2784 chip which I learned how to activate. But that's such a rare case. Basically most phones have no calibrate function on the market today.
Hi all who stumble upon my question. I recently purchased a 2500mAh battery from ebay but I am having a few issues with my phone/power/charging. Firstly I did a battery stats wipe when the phone was on <1%. Now it always says the battery is on 100% until it dies, even when the phone is offline and the battery is dead it says it's at 100%. This also means that the battery won't charge to its full capacity I have tried wiping the battery stats again once it is charged but unfortunately it makes no difference. Is it because of the rom that i'm on? and i preferably don't want to do a data wipe. I am using the heaven droid rom http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1801634
Furthermore, i'm finding that i don't get much more usage out of this battery than with the original 1500mAh battery (before i was having this problem...) any tips?
Thanks for reading this, Aaron
Was it an official battery or cheap knock off, if it's the latter I'd bin it and buy an official one.
XperienceD said:
Was it an official battery or cheap knock off, if it's the latter I'd bin it and buy an official one.
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yeah it was a cheap one but it is bigger and heavier than a genuine ba750 so it seemed legit to me
aarondennis96 said:
yeah it was a cheap one but it is bigger and heavier than a genuine ba750 so it seemed legit to me
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It is, but the system is locked to 1500 only. After it dies reinsert battery and it would continue the left juice
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This is getting annoying now
ok i've kinda tried your suggestion and the battery has been lasting longer. But i flashed AOKP JB and i still have the same problem. Although the battery now says it's at 1%. I performed a data wipe etc. This is getting annoying now :'(
This thread may help out.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=23061168
if not contact op to see if any help available
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Try this : Download from play store "root browser", open it and go to /system and open file "build.prop" (as text) and edit line :
ro.semc.batt.capacity=1500 (the 1500 replace with your new capacity)!
Then save and close file, reboot phone.