I got a Naztech 3000 mAh "extended" battery, since my stock one lasts for around 14 hours on a single charge. I figured I may add an extra 6 hours or so, or use my phone a bit more during the day.
So, here's what happened.
Day one: 4 hours after I charged my "extended" battery, I was down to 15% charge. 1 hour later, it was at 1%. I hadn't used my phone AT ALL. Charged after 6 hours of (no) use.
Day 2: Pretty much the same.
Day 3: Ran Battery Repair and wiped battery stats. No change.
Day 4: Used my phone heavily, and noticed it stayed at 1% for a couple of hours.
Day 5: Noticed a pattern. The battery will drop to 1% within 3~4 hours of use, and will stay there for around 9 hours. Then it'll turn off.
So, the "extended" battery lasts for some 12 hours - tops. 3 hours after charging you won't know how much juice you have left, since it stays at 1% from that point on.
Bottom line: don't waste your money, the battery is crap.
I have the same issue but not with that battery, i've been trying to find a way to fix it, none of the battery voodoo has worked for me yet
after my phone shuts off because it thinks it's dead and i plug it in to charge, within 2 minutes i have about 20% or more charge in the battery, then after 15 minutes it's about 50% or more charge.
is that same thing happening to you ??
jodahall said:
I have the same issue but not with that battery, i've been trying to find a way to fix it, none of the battery voodoo has worked for me yet
after my phone shuts off because it thinks it's dead and i plug it in to charge, within 2 minutes i have about 20% or more charge in the battery, then after 15 minutes it's about 50% or more charge.
is that same thing happening to you ??
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Sort of, yes. It charges in half an hour, tops - if the phone is turned off. If I then turn it on, the phone shows 40% charge, or so - and tops 10 or 15 minutes later. Bizarre!
Happens to me also but only with the replacement battery i have.? It discharges fast and stays at 5% for a few hours. The OEM Battery 1880mah works fine about 1 and half day
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rapidmancy said:
Happens to me also but only with the replacement battery i have.? It discharges fast and stays at 5% for a few hours. The OEM Battery 1880mah works fine about 1 and half day
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I am having the same issue with my OEM Battery.Is there any solution for this or can we set the indicator to show the charge according voltage of battery bcoz i have noticed that charge time is good only indicator is not showing it accurately .My phone last full charge lasted more than 17hrs but it was on 5% in 2 to 3hrs of use.
Update: Today my charge was at 100% at 10.00 AM. With light usage, the phone died at around 5.30 PM.
My battery seems to report better percentages of juice left if I use Kholk's kernel, but I'm not sure exactly why. It doesn't go along very well with Faux's kernel, though.
...can't say much about the factory kernel. Haven't used it much myself.
fjhuerta said:
I got a Naztech 3000 mAh "extended" battery, since my stock one lasts for around 14 hours on a single charge. I figured I may add an extra 6 hours or so, or use my phone a bit more during the day.
So, here's what happened.
Day one: 4 hours after I charged my "extended" battery, I was down to 15% charge. 1 hour later, it was at 1%. I hadn't used my phone AT ALL. Charged after 6 hours of (no) use.
Day 2: Pretty much the same.
Day 3: Ran Battery Repair and wiped battery stats. No change.
Day 4: Used my phone heavily, and noticed it stayed at 1% for a couple of hours.
Day 5: Noticed a pattern. The battery will drop to 1% within 3~4 hours of use, and will stay there for around 9 hours. Then it'll turn off.
So, the "extended" battery lasts for some 12 hours - tops. 3 hours after charging you won't know how much juice you have left, since it stays at 1% from that point on.
Bottom line: don't waste your money, the battery is crap.
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Actually, the atrix doesn't support aftermarket batteries. Motorola says so, and Mugen says so. That battery is fine, you can use it on 1% for a while. And when it dies charging from 1-99% is accurate for my battery. But when you hit 100% all bets are off.
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fjhuerta said:
Update: Today my charge was at 100% at 10.00 AM. With light usage, the phone died at around 5.30 PM.
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Did you turn phone off to charge, and pull battery and after it boots to a ?. You should let it sit there for a while and try again.
Mugen has an extended battery for the Atrix:
http://www.mugen-power-batteries.co...-for-motorola-atrix-4g-with-battery-door.html
Of course, that one is $119, so it probably will work as intended...
Yesterday I got 6 hours out of my charge. I got fed up and swapped the battery for the stock one. $25 I'll never see again...
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I am getting the phone for christmas and was just wondering if I have my parents charge it the night before, will it last me all day? What is battery life like on the first charge?
You'll likely burn through it pretty fast on a first charge. Best I know, it's not optimal until about 3-4 cycles.
Mine was pretty horrendous at first and then again for the following couple of cycles after that. Now on 4.0.2 and a number of cycles in and I think the battery life is stellar when you consider the screen size. Pretty similar to my GSII so cannot complain.
My advice. .. take the charger.
Regards.
I got about an hour of continuous tinkering after a 10 minute charge. Had to plug it in after that.
The first charge will be the longest lasting charge you will ever have on this battery - depending on your usage.
LiIons degrade a wee tiny little bit with every subsequent charge.
Thanks, I can't wait to get it.
Valynor said:
The first charge will be the longest lasting charge you will ever have on this battery - depending on your usage.
LiIons degrade a wee tiny little bit with every subsequent charge.
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While this is true, I dont think its calibrated the first time.
I got my nexus yesterday and charged it up from 50 to full and it was literally at 0% 10 hours later, today is a different story, I've been able to get about 12 hours of use out of it and have about 35% battery left
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While this is true, I dont think its calibrated the first time.
I got my nexus yesterday and charged it up from 50 to full and it was literally at 0% 10 hours later, today is a different story, I've been able to get about 12 hours of use out of it and have about 35% battery left
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Calibration only affects the battery icon, if they use poor logic to calculate the charge. The system can read battery voltage precise to 0.001 volts and it's actually quite easy to gauge a LiIon cell: 4.200 V = full, 3.600 V = empty (without load on the battery)
My first charge only lasted about 5 hours, and that was because I was playing with the thing the whole damn time. ;-)
My first charge
This is what I got on my first full charge. Was on Wifi for most of the time. Bluetooth was on often in the beginning to transfer files.
Used GPS for like. Facebook sync was off. Gmail, Google+ on. No Reader, Google Photos, Docs sync.
I bought the extended battery and it both were about 40% charged. You'll want to burn it down completely till it powers off, then give it a full cycle.
You'll kill it just by setting it up, playing some games, playing with the OS, reading XDA Rooting guides, taking pictures etc.
Just kill it, then put it on the charger while you get a shower and dressed.
...then you'll probably kill it again by the end of the day cause you can't stop plating with it.
-Galaxy Nexus
-Asus Transformer
I charge it for about 3 and a half hours just before going to bed. So that's from 8:00 PM - 11:30 PM and take the charger out.
Anyways how long are we supposed to charge the Xperia Play for ?
I charge mine all night from about 10 pm to 6am nearly every night and have had the phone since launch day and never had any problems with the battery or charger but routhly once a month I let the battery completely die to 0% then fully recharge
Shaun27 said:
I charge mine all night from about 10 pm to 6am nearly every night and have had the phone since launch day and never had any problems with the battery or charger but routhly once a month I let the battery completely die to 0% then fully recharge
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Oh right. So its okay to leave the phone on charge overnight. I think i'll just do that then and every month just drain battery and recharge fully !
I actually don't plug my phone into the charger. I bought some after-market batteries that are the same as the stock battery. I used to have 2 spares, but one was faulty, so I'm down to my main battery and the spare. I leave a battery on the charger until I need it, then stick the other one in the charger. I'd say they stay on the charger for up to 24 hours.
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I actually don't plug my phone into the charger. I bought some after-market batteries that are the same as the stock battery. I used to have 2 spares, but one was faulty, so I'm down to my main battery and the spare. I leave a battery on the charger until I need it, then stick the other one in the charger. I'd say they stay on the charger for up to 24 hours.
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So you take each battery out of the Xperia Play and charge them ?
Yup. Once you take the battery out, wait about 30 seconds before putting it in so the battery usage gets wiped. Once you put the other battery in, boot up and you're good to go.
Depending on my usage, I usually just charge it over night, leaving it plugged in from when I go to bed, normally around midnight, to when I get up again at 7ish. I've never had any problems doing this, I am however a VERY high usage person, so a lot of the time I have to give it a top up in the middle of the day, before I go to work.
I usually charge up to 100% right before I go to bed and unplug it and reboot it. I've still got 99~100% in the morning.
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Depending on my usage, I usually just charge it over night, leaving it plugged in from when I go to bed, normally around midnight, to when I get up again at 7ish. I've never had any problems doing this, I am however a VERY high usage person, so a lot of the time I have to give it a top up in the middle of the day, before I go to work.
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When i'm just scrolling through menus when having the display on for about 2-3 mins 1% of battery goes. Is this normal and does this happen with yours ?
I charge mine for two hours only
Is it okay to charge the Xperia Play through a extension unit ?
I charge 1-2 times a day. Basically every night before bed I plug it in and it stays for about 6-7 hours, But the bad cell signal at work eats through my battery if I do a lot of texting or anything so by around 4 pm sometimes I plug in for an hour and top up (I'm usually around 25% at that point), or sometimes when I get home but know I'll be headed out I plug in for 1/2 hour or 45 min to get it up around 70-80% or so and I'm good till I get home, even if I play games and stuff or whatever else.
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I charge 1-2 times a day. Basically every night before bed I plug it in and it stays for about 6-7 hours, But the bad cell signal at work eats through my battery if I do a lot of texting or anything so by around 4 pm sometimes I plug in for an hour and top up (I'm usually around 25% at that point), or sometimes when I get home but know I'll be headed out I plug in for 1/2 hour or 45 min to get it up around 70-80% or so and I'm good till I get home, even if I play games and stuff or whatever else.
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Thanks for that. I think i'll have to do that from now on.
isn't it bad to charge the battery after it reaches one hundred percent?
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isn't it bad to charge the battery after it reaches one hundred percent?
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No because the phone stops charging. It only accepts charging at 99.99% or lower basically.
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I used to charge my play about 2hours if the batt completly discharged..sometime at the whole night.depend when it is fully discharge.
So is it better to charge it for longer?
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I charge mine for two hours only
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How long does it last for after that ?
Is there a preferred battery charging regimen for the One X battery?
That is, is it better to, say, always let it drop to 15% and then recharge to 100%, or can/should I charge whenever possible, or in smaller increments?
Also, are there disadvantages to using the phone while charging (as I tend to do quite a lot )?
Thanks!
i normally let mine down to about 10% then just charge it too 100%
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i normally let mine down to about 10% then just charge it too 100%
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Right, but do you know if this is actually the way to go with the Li-Po battery or are you, like me, just winging it?
When i first got my phone i let it run down till it asked for the charger, then left it on charge over night.
I did this for the first 3 or 4 times as i found this yields the longest battery life, since then i charge every 2 days regardless what percentage is left always over night though.
Going to leave it tonight & see if it will go till tomorrow night, its been off charge since 7am on Friday morning so far & is still on 46% a total of 39 hours so far.
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When i first got my phone i let it run down till it asked for the charger, then left it on charge over night.
I did this for the first 3 or 4 times as i found this yields the longest battery life, since then i charge every 2 days regardless what percentage is left always over night though.
Going to leave it tonight & see if it will go till tomorrow night, its been off charge since 7am on Friday morning so far & is still on 46% a total of 39 hours so far.
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You get two days on a charge? Are you a wizard? Although, having just got the phone (and possessing the patience of a 5 year old), I've done a lot of start-stop charging, which I suspect isn't optimal.
I'll try to refrain from trickle charging for a while, see how much difference it makes. Thanks.
Another battery charging thread? Just plug in the damn phone! It will take care of the rest.
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I have noticed that the battery does drain in strange amounts.
I have my wifi & gps on constantly, my phone went for 2 days 5 hours & i received a text at which point the phone was at 34% battery.
The phone was put back in stand by & the phone went totally flat in the next 4 hours, this i find strange as over night in stand by it only uses 1 - 2%.
There is obviously a bug in the way the phone reports its battery state, by my reasoning this must be some 10 - 15% lower than what it is reporting.
It does seem to have some difficulties reading the battery level correctly. I've noted a couple of times that it shows a significantly higher charge level (+5-7%) after a reboot. Which is hardly likely to recharge the battery. (Unless I got me one of those perpetuum mobile, in which case, yay!)
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.
Hi, I recently bought a Lenovo P2, and so far it seems to me to be a great device.
The battery is great and I usually go to sleep with a 65-70% of charge.
So I have a doubt: Should I charge the phone every night, even if the battery is half charged, or should I wait the battery to reach 25-30% and then charge it?
Also, Does the fast charge ruin the battery if often used?
Thanks
SlugUnchained said:
Hi, I recently bought a Lenovo P2, and so far it seems to me to be a great device.
The battery is great and I usually go to sleep with a 65-70% of charge.
So I have a doubt: Should I charge the phone every night, even if the battery is half charged, or should I wait the battery to reach 25-30% and then charge it?
Also, Does the fast charge ruin the battery if often used?
Thanks
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Wait for 25 to 30 percent and charge till 80 to 85 percent. It'll make your phone battery last really long!!!!
Why not till 100%?
Because these batteries are at their best between 20 and 80%. They don't like being run right down and charging them to 100% increases the wear on them.
So they will last longer by keeping them between 20 and 80%.
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Because these batteries are at their best between 20 and 80%. They don't like being run right down and charging them to 100% increases the wear on them.
So they will last longer by keeping them between 20 and 80%.
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So, those tricks I've read, about discharging till 15% and charging to 100% to calibrate battery, are useless?
Korax94 said:
So, those tricks I've read, about discharging till 15% and charging to 100% to calibrate battery, are useless?
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You read it wrong. To recalibrate the battery you must fully discharge ie. to 0% till the phone shuts down by itself, not to 15%. You can fully discharge once per month. To prolong the battery life span try to charge from 20 to 80%. I know charging up to 100% is nice, but all experts tell us that it's not good for the battery in a long run.
Even partially charging from 20 to 80% you still have ~8-10h SOT so all is fine, 2-3 days on a battery are possible.