Around 8 months or so ago I bought this cheapo "YIBOYUAN" batteries off ebay. Since then I almost never used my original battery.
It comes with wall charger and 2x batteries. So I swap them once a week or so.
Anyway, lets cut to the chase;
They have always performed as good as my stock battery. Actually I tried my stock battery last week and it gave me the same battery life. 38 hours vs 42 hours to be exact. (wifi on all the time, 15 minutes of calls, 30 minutes of gps navigation, 30 minutes of web browsing, 4 widgets, 15-30 minutes of facebook, twitter, football results etc.. apps)
So, if you want cheap batteries that (almost) does what it says on the tin, yiboyuan is the way to go.
( I'm not Chinese by any means )
calyxim said:
Around 8 months or so ago I bought this cheapo "YIBOYUAN" batteries off ebay. Since then I almost never used my original battery.
It comes with wall charger and 2x batteries. So I swap them once a week or so.
Anyway, lets cut to the chase;
They have always performed as good as my stock battery. Actually I tried my stock battery last week and it gave me the same battery life. 38 hours vs 42 hours to be exact. (wifi on all the time, 15 minutes of calls, 30 minutes of gps navigation, 30 minutes of web browsing, 4 widgets, 15-30 minutes of facebook, twitter, football results etc.. apps)
So, if you want cheap batteries that (almost) does what it says on the tin, yiboyuan is the way to go.
( I'm not Chinese by any means )
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I bought batteries off eBay for my nexus s and they were a bit loose
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yiboyuan ,,,:laugh: just heard that name...
calyxim said:
Around 8 months or so ago I bought this cheapo "YIBOYUAN" batteries off ebay. Since then I almost never used my original battery.
It comes with wall charger and 2x batteries. So I swap them once a week or so.
Anyway, lets cut to the chase;
They have always performed as good as my stock battery. Actually I tried my stock battery last week and it gave me the same battery life. 38 hours vs 42 hours to be exact. (wifi on all the time, 15 minutes of calls, 30 minutes of gps navigation, 30 minutes of web browsing, 4 widgets, 15-30 minutes of facebook, twitter, football results etc.. apps)
So, if you want cheap batteries that (almost) does what it says on the tin, yiboyuan is the way to go.
( I'm not Chinese by any means )
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My friend sold me his phone and with it the same package as you: 2 yiboyuan batteries and a charger. He told me to charge these batteries only with the charger because charging them in the phone might overheat it. Is it false? Did you have any issues? I never used these batteries before but now my stock battery is getting worst every day. From what you say these are very good batteries so I will certainly use them
Thanks
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philfontaine said:
My friend sold me his phone and with it the same package as you: 2 yiboyuan batteries and a charger. He told me to charge these batteries only with the charger because charging them in the phone might overheat it. Is it false? Did you have any issues? I never used these batteries before but now my stock battery is getting worst every day. From what you say these are very good batteries so I will certainly use them
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well guys if you want my opinion on that as i know some about batteries ..If the battery after market you are talking about is Li-po there is no way to overheat in your mobile except if it is Ni mi . they have to be li- po .Then you have no prob to charge into your mobile ..If the real milampers are a little more or less there is something called calibration and you can use it .You wait until the phone shows 100% charged and not the green light as sometimes lights on at 91 % on some roms!!If we are talking about NI-mi its a different technology and needs !!!! its own charge .And last to speak about LIpo batteries that all mobles use these seasons they carry in a chip that cut the charge voltage of the battery when they are fully charged and then the phone shows 100%..! In the case when this chip is damaged then the battery wont stop charging and the results are overheat and the battery gets (pregnant) !!Then the battery needs to be replaced !! If you read on your battery" LI po "then you can charge into your mobile. If it shows NI mi then use only its own wall charger !!
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calyxim said:
Around 8 months or so ago I bought this cheapo "YIBOYUAN" batteries off ebay. Since then I almost never used my original battery.
It comes with wall charger and 2x batteries. So I swap them once a week or so.
Anyway, lets cut to the chase;
They have always performed as good as my stock battery. Actually I tried my stock battery last week and it gave me the same battery life. 38 hours vs 42 hours to be exact. (wifi on all the time, 15 minutes of calls, 30 minutes of gps navigation, 30 minutes of web browsing, 4 widgets, 15-30 minutes of facebook, twitter, football results etc.. apps)
So, if you want cheap batteries that (almost) does what it says on the tin, yiboyuan is the way to go.
( I'm not Chinese by any means )
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Sorry LI-ion its almost the same tech :good:as LI po
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Just got one of these in the mail off ebay for 7.88. anyone else have one? For 8 bucks it was worth a try.
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I saw these on ebay a few days ago and was wondering about them. I'm anxious to hear your opinions on it.
I just got mine today. First charge with the phone off turned green in like 30 minutes? Went down 20% pretty fast, like an hour. So I popped it on the charger again with the phone on this time. Again relatively fast charge to full. I am now at 60% after 4hrs44mins. Not so good. I'll have to get a few more charges to get it to full capacity I think. My stock battery sucked at first too. Haha, we bought from the same guy! I also have a freebie used TP2 battery from my sprint store. I haven't used it much but so far its not as good as my stock but good for backup. Still waiting on my battery charger from that same seller. Lol. I'll let you know how it goes with this new "1800mah" battery. The first days are never too good.
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got 12 hrs on it yesterday moderate use and still had 60% left. ran it down last night too just to calibrate it.
I bought a two pack of 1500 mah batteries with the USB charger for the desk for I think $12 ish. The batteries are pretty decent. I cant tell a difference between the OEM battery and either of the china batteries. But again, this was the 1500mah batteries sold by a different guy from china. I've got some ebay money, maybe I'll buy this 1800mah and test it and get results up here...
Here the link to the batteries I bought : http://cgi.ebay.com/2X-1500mah-Batt...ewItem&pt=PDA_Accessories&hash=item335df8101f
I got 2 (red ones) with a usb/wall charger for like $20 for my wife and I. I get through the day no problem, my wife doesn't use hers as much and still has 30 percent at the end of the day. we made sure to run them completely dry first, then charged them overnight in the battery charger that came with them. I know people have opinions about the "memory" and will tell me its not necessary to drain and charge, and that's fine. i'm just sharing what has always worked for me. at the end of every day i put the stock battery back in and put the 1800 in the wall charger and get better results then when I just plug the phone in.
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how are yall getting like 12 hrs... with 60% left? im getting no where near that...
I have really good coverage here. Ive got all my bars in my house. Im going to give the battery a good week till i can really comment on it. It seems just as good as the stock so far. Once it gets thru some charge cycles the battery will perform better. New batteries need to be broke in.
Yeah, I don't get really good coverage here. I've always had battery issues. But this EVO has been the longest lasting so far. I had the 6700, mogul, touch pro. My stock battery can go about 20hrs with moderate usage. I'll keep you guys posted.
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Just an update. On my 2nd day of using the 1800. I got a little over 17 hrs before it went red. I got my battery charger from the same guy today and am currently giving the 1800 a test charge. Will let you know how it goes. I still a solid 20hrs of use from my stock battery.
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Honestly I can't tell any difference from the stock battery. Seems to perform just fine.
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Yeah, I got 22 hours yesterday. So, looking like about the same as my stock. Tried charging the stock battery with the Chinese charger and it seems about the same. All is good I guess.
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My 1800 batteries are working great, 2 weeks in.
Im running my battery cycler/ charger on this battery now trying to discharge it to 3v and charge it up and see how man mah i put back into the battery. Ive got a R/ C hobby battery charger that will do this with all types of batteries. Just making the connection is the hard part.
Ill test out the capacity of my extended 2700mah pack when im done with this one.
Well, looks like this battery kinda under performs. I charged the battery up to 1754mah 4.2v. After sitting on the bench for 10 mins i check the voltage and it had dropped to 4.056v. I then installed into my phone and im all ready down to 88%. Oh well.
I need a longer lasting battery. The stock only lasts me 6 hours.
Price doesn't matter.
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Mugan Battery.....3200000A for $99
SamVib said:
I need a longer lasting battery. The stock only lasts me 6 hours.
Price doesn't matter.
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Is your phone Rooted? LagFix ? How many widgets do you have? What are you doing on your phone that only makes it last 6 hours? Talk time ? Internet time? Can you not plug it into the wall. Currently most of the batteries on Ebay are fakes so you wont get any better life out of them.
Also had you conducted a search you would have found a few posts already about this.
[BATTERY] NEW 2800mah extended battery out!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=758670&highlight=battery
extended battery yet?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=755637&highlight=battery
Amzer® 3500 mAh Battery Backup Solar Charger
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=734323&highlight=battery
Most of the time i am nicer however next time please do a small search.
Due to the phone still being new we dont have a legit extended battery out.
6 hours is way too less. With Twitter, GVoice, FB, Weather, 4 other widgets running, constant checking of twitter and FB, every few hours I check all my feeds through feedR, surf on the net, use Tapatalk, and I manage to get through the day, around 12 hours or so before my battery reaches 10%. Even then, for $49 I got a spare battery + wall charger from T-Mo. That way I easily get 25 hours or so, good enough for a trip etc.
So, my OG Droid was acting up and my upgrade wasn't due until late july so I decided to purchase a Droid X.
While, I don't have the phone yet, and it is used I was debating whether or not a second battery is necessary as I will have a car charger from my original droid. But, at the same time I have had a second battery with most of my phones for years. But, then again I will most likely be replacing this phone by Sept/Oct the absolute latest.
You might be able to get by on just one battery. It seems the DroidX has one of the best battery lives for Android phones. If you do buy another battery, I would suggest the extended battery. It adds only 1mm to the back of the phone and it gave me around 4-5 hours more battery life than the standard battery. Then you can always have the standard battery on backup if you need some extra juice at the end of the day.
thanks for the tip
On Rubix Focused I can get 24 hours of battery life with heavy use! I have been thinking of getting an extended battery though. It would just be convenient
I have an extended battery and carry the standard battery that came with the DX in my car just in case i ever need to swap..no biggie, convenient.
Hey, I used the BH6X from Motorola and gave me superb life. I got more that 20 hrs (using juice defender) from it. Im now reviewing the 3800mAh that I got off eBay on the X2 forums, you're welcomed to come by since this battery is for both x's. I didnt want to start a whole new thread here in the X forums.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=17751410#post17751410
it really depends how heavily your using your phone and what for
I have 2 Motorola BH5X Standard 1500mAh Batteries I keep on me for backup at all times, which, ever since my sister-in-laws wedding and a trip to disneyland has become the standard for me.
Turns out taking a butt load of pictures and helping my wife manage the people at a wedding required a total of 3 batteries for my phone
Meanwhile, taking a lots of pix at Disneyland with no readily available outlets for my external charger also made 3 batteries the perfect number, especially after recording those late night light shows.
On a regular day though I can stretch out a single battery if I have an outlet for charging nearby or 2 batteries without a charger.
and yeah, I don't restrict data either so that does a number on my charge.
I get around 30 hours on the standard battery but I work from home, doesn't get two hours of streaming use on the way to and from work anymore. When I was driving two hours I would charge it every afternoon on the way home depending on the previous nights use. I also picked up a xoom so I use the phone a lot less now.
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kafreeman said:
I get around 30 hours on the standard battery
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I am LUCKY to get 7 hours... I had to get a 2nd battery!
I ended up buying a second battery from Amazon for like 5 dollars and a cheap charger for the battery. Anytime I know I'm going to be out for awhile I take the extra battery. It has saved me a bunch of times.
If you're playing games or streaming movies a lot then I would def get one. With moderate use, I get at least 12 hours on mine
I would advice to replace a factory battery with an extended battery.
This one for instance is 3600mAh Extended Battery by Mugen, at least twice the capacity compared to factory battery. Reliable brand as well.
http://www.mugen-power-batteries.co...y-for-motorola-droid-x-with-battery-door.html
I would recommend one if you use your x constantly more than 4 hours in a single use.
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I, like many of you, have been looking for ways to extend the battery life on the galaxy nexus. The particular route I have taken was to purchase some after market batteries off eBay. The intention was to purchase extra batteries and always have 1-2 fully charged ready to use when I'm out or when I'm planning to use the hotspot function extensively.
I hope by sharing my experience it helps at least some of you in choosing the right option. I will be updating this thread over the next week or so.
So here we go.
Capacity: 1900mAh
Brand: Unbranded
eBay item title: 2X 1900mAh Battery + Home Charger for Google Samsung Galaxy Nexus Prime I9250
Cost: $10 for 2 batteries and 1 charger
I have no relation to the seller, and to avoid any reasonable doubt, I'm not including any links to the item. You are free to buy or not from any sellers online.
The batteries came nicely packaged. The batteries fit perfectly into my i9250, standard cover, no modifications needed.
The charger is the slow type (i.e. overnight charger), and I had to leave the batteries in it for 5+ hours to reach full charge. This is a plus (to me) since slow charging is more gentle on batteries, but it does mean that you will probably want two chargers so the batteries can be charged in parallel if you are a heavy user.
Batteries didn't heat up noticeably during the charge.
After charging completed, I placed it in the phone and it showed 100% charge for 30+ minutes.
I have had it in the phone for four hours and with fairly heavy usage it's now down to 86%. For some reason my stock battery never seem to do this well, I would have been down to ~70% by now normally.
Update 1: I have used the batteries in a normal work day and here are the findings.
Aftermarket Battery 1: uptime 14 hours from 100% to 14%
Aftermarket Battery 2: uptime 10.5 hours from 100% to 16%
All in all I'm pretty happy with the results given the price and the fact that screen time was >5 hours in both cases, and that the OEM batteries performed similarly.
Update 2:
OEM battery: uptime 13.9 hours from 100% to 13%
So I guess that's it for now. These aftermarket batteries do seem to perform similarity to the OEM stock battery (sans NFC). I'd definitely recommend them, as personally I prefer carrying an extra battery over purchasing an extended one since it does add bulk and heft, and doesn't really double the run time unless you go for the 3500mAh category which is even bigger.
Feel free to ask me any questions, I will try my best to answer them here.
Great review, thanks.
This review was the decider for me whether or not I wait for the 2012 phones to come out, or get the galaxy nexus early - GN won hands down. I am about to order the same batteries from China; they're a lot cheaper than what my service provider has to offer!
They are indeed a good deal. Just one thing that I want to re-emphasize - NFC is not supported with these batteries.
I'm fine with this as Google Wallet is not available in Canada, but it is something you may want to consider.
I just got this charger and battery kit. USB charging on the charger is a nice addition. I'm testing these batteries now, but plan on only using them in an emergency, so it's a great deal.
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I'm interested in seeing reviews for this:
http://www.dealextreme.com/p/replacement-3-7v-2000mah-battery-for-samsung-nexus-i9250-127588?item=1
Anyone have this battery?
To the op: how many times did you cycle the batteries to get those numbers? I've cycled each of the two twice and I'm getting terrible life... 2h screen time and 5h total use. My oem battery gets at least double that
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EP2008,
After I received the batteries I just charged it using the supplied charger until the light turned blue. I didn't power cycle the battery or do anything special.
Let me re-run the tests again and see how they compare now.
5 hours total run time does seem very short.
I was running AOKP before and running LiquidSmooth + Franco kernel now, but I guess as long as we use the Samsung OEM battery as control it shouldn't matter.
Will report back in a few days.
ignign0kt, no I don't have this battery, but I'd be interested in a review as well.
I have purchased these same type of batteries for my vibrant and they were great. About same runtime as stock battery and I would carry 2 or 3 around with me at all times. They seemed to work a little better after a few full charge cycles. Only thing is they do not last as long as the OEM battery as far as the number of recharges. That being said I got around 9 months of daily charges out of them and by that time they start to get a little beat up and worn from hanging out in my pocket all that time any way. So I think its well worth it.... $10 every 6 months to a year I think is better than $80 for a 3500mAh battery to me. I never keep a phone more than 2 years so I might have $30 tied up in batteries over that time. And having 3 batteries to swap out I can easily make it over 24 hours away from an outlet.
I will be buying these soon for my GN. I just got it last friday so still breaking in the oem battery and will see how many "spares" I will need to buy for it in the next couple weeks.
So I cycled the batteries a few times and they are better, but still not close to three performance I get from the stock battery. I'm not to bothered by i though as these are really only for an emergency and would be rarely needed.
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I'm interested in seeing reviews for this:
Replacement 3.7V 2000mAh Battery for Samsung Nexus i9250
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Anyone have this battery?
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Hmmmm.... VERY interesting. Thanks for the link. I just ordered two, one for me and one for my wife.
I bought the 3800mah battery from eBay for less than $12. Don't really notice any difference at the end of the day. Extended have 12% and stock Samsung had 13% at 9pm. Unplugg at 8am
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I've own the SGS3 almost since launch day. Soon it will be 2 years old.
I'm getting 3 hours SOT and 24 hours total.
I'm thinking of buying a new original 2100 battery to see if it improves battery life. Would it?
Anyone has tried this?
Thanks.
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I've own the SGS3 almost since launch day. Soon it will be 2 years old.
I'm getting 3 hours SOT and 24 hours total.
I'm thinking of buying a new original 2100 battery to see if it improves battery life. Would it?
Anyone has tried this?
Thanks.
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I haven't tried it yet since I'm hopefully getting a new phone soon but I do believe it would help, maybe an extra hour SOT because I know my battery was amazing back 2 years ago and now I get the same times you do if not worse.
After a year on mine I was only getting 1700mah, So now I get a new Anker 2200mah battery every 6 months because they are just as good as original but do last longer.
Theoretically yes! battery life should improve, as you will be having a new battery.
My battery is just over a year old and i get around a 1d12h worth of battery time and roughly 3.5 to 4 hours SOT.
I recently bought a Pisen 2100mah battery off the internet and for the same SOT i got more usage. maybe 1d 20h nearing the 2d use.
n.b; wifi is always on. i use 3G for like 30 mins during a day
from what I've heard, newer generations of batteries, like ones that ship with SGS3, should not be drained to 0% with phone shutting down. it was advised to charge at low percents like 1% to 5% while phone is still on
Sensamic said:
I've own the SGS3 almost since launch day. Soon it will be 2 years old.
I'm getting 3 hours SOT and 24 hours total.
I'm thinking of buying a new original 2100 battery to see if it improves battery life. Would it?
Anyone has tried this?
Thanks.
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Of course it would and if you dont have problem with size and weight i recomend you to get samsung's 3000mhA battery. Why not getting a bigger battery
It depends how old the battery is though. All Li-ion batteries degrade over time, even if they aren't used. So if you get a 2 year old battery, that has been sitting on a shelf somewhere, it won't help as much as you'd hoped. Depending on the temperature and charge level it was stored at, it could have lost a lot of its capacity.
So the trick is to get a newly manufactured battery, which isn't so easy since most sellers don't write this information.
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After a year on mine I was only getting 1700mah, So now I get a new Anker 2200mah battery every 6 months because they are just as good as original but do last longer.
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i've been trying to find an app that measures the actual battery capacity.. i havne't found one yet... what do you use?
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i've been trying to find an app that measures the actual battery capacity.. i havne't found one yet... what do you use?
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try Battery Calibration by Nema, it is on play store
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Of course it would and if you dont have problem with size and weight i recomend you to get samsung's 3000mhA battery. Why not getting a bigger battery
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Since a bigger battery means the battery is thicker,the original back cover wouldn't fit,then you need to use a specific cover which would make your phone heavier.
Right now I am in this trouble,I got a Onite 4500mAh extended battery with a blue cover,hopefully it's a great product, shipping as listed and battery performs exactly as listed,I just don't like the cover,it made my phone looked heavier.I was wondering maybe I should choose a power bank and put back my OEM one on.
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It depends how old the battery is though. All Li-ion batteries degrade over time, even if they aren't used. So if you get a 2 year old battery, that has been sitting on a shelf somewhere, it won't help as much as you'd hoped. Depending on the temperature and charge level it was stored at, it could have lost a lot of its capacity.
So the trick is to get a newly manufactured battery, which isn't so easy since most sellers don't write this information.
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This is true. You also need to account for your usage. If you do a lot of activity that heats your battery up (games, navigation, etc.) Then even a shelf stored battery will help since heat is another Li-ion killer.
My S3 was 2 years old in May of this year. I have been having issues with the battery and charging. My USB charging port has the classic loose connection issue as does the headphone jack. I see the fix and YouTube videos to repair but have not yet done that. I last week got my new OEM Samsung battery and the external charging kit. I just upgraded to Kitkat 4.4.2 NDA8 despite being eligible for a new phone discount from Sprint. My S3 is a 32gb unit and I will not buy a S5 with only 16gb, no way no how.
The new battery is performing very well. It is so close on updating to 4.4.2 that I can not be certain that there were not issues with my rooted 4.1.2 build after so many months. For sure the new battery is lasting longer. I think it was worth the $42.03 spent on the charger and battery as my USB port is in question and I can always swap batteries and charge with the external charger.
My S3 has a new lease on life and I can wait for new tech before upgrading. xda developers forum - root - and the desire for liberty is a powerful combination.
why not try using wireless charging? the qi reciever + charger should not cost you mote than 35 bucks. and you can still use your current battery, battery cover, & nfc, unlike powermat.
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A 2 year battery will definitely be worn-out. Depending on the charging cycle count, could be only a 20%,but maybe a 50 or 70%.
I bought a Zerolemon 7000mAh battery few months a go, I'm usually getting 4-5 days on normal usage, and 11-13h of screen on.
Best bought I have ever made.