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bad battery life

just bought a t-mobile dash used, phone was unmodded running the stock t-mobile rom. i flashed it to kavana 6.1 recently and i have been getting really bad battery life. like the phone wont even last throughout the whole day with basic usage, few phone calls and light texting. wifi just drains my battery in a matter of minutes. also my battery meter seems to be inconsistent like itll say i have 65% then when i reboot the phone it shows that i have 20% left. im running radio 4.1.13.51_.03.07.90

hey i had the same problem, and i went to a 2200mah battery. its a lot bigger than the original one and it comes with a new cover. if u dont mind the size u should check it out im lovin it. by the way try overclocking it if you havent done it yet.

wouldnt overclocking it drain more battery?

andyxle said:
just bought a t-mobile dash used, phone was unmodded running the stock t-mobile rom. i flashed it to kavana 6.1 recently and i have been getting really bad battery life. like the phone wont even last throughout the whole day with basic usage, few phone calls and light texting. wifi just drains my battery in a matter of minutes. also my battery meter seems to be inconsistent like itll say i have 65% then when i reboot the phone it shows that i have 20% left. im running radio 4.1.13.51_.03.07.90
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Remember the dash is a 3 years old phone, even if you get a new phone at this point the battery it's the same age...so imagne if you get a used phone. I will recommend you to buy a new battery, I had the same issue...but I bought a new battery and problems solved

So are the replacement batteries just as old as the phone? How do you know your not buying one that has sat on the shelf for 3 years. I'm asking because I am almost to the point to where I need a new one.

I had 2 discouraging experiences on buying battery for my wife's dash in ebay. The 2 batteries appeared brand new but could not hold the charge. After few phone calls and email synch both batteries just drained outreal quick dropping from 100% to 60% right away and bad thing was that the phone turned off by itself. So I decided to call T-Mobile and recommended me to buy at HTC Accessories 1-888-716-3594. The new attery from HTC is way better and no issues so far. Price $29.99 + shipping.

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So are the replacement batteries just as old as the phone? How do you know your not buying one that has sat on the shelf for 3 years. I'm asking because I am almost to the point to where I need a new one.
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I have bought 2 batteries and both have been ok ,. I bought 1050 mAh (the grey ones) "For CHTCS620OLIO1" made in china, I Know they are been sold in ebay pretty cheap (960 mAh) but I bought them in here http://www.batteryship.com/htmlos/h...tml?item=EXCA160&model=HTC+S620&adsrc=yo273-1 since you get a warranty for at least of 1 year and a little bit more long lasting battery. When I do refer 3 year old phone and battery is the actual original battery that comes with the excalibur.

my friend just got a used dash stock everything but he got a new battery and charger takes 5 hours to charge then dies in 2 hours any suggestions?

brokali said:
my friend just got a used dash stock everything but he got a new battery and charger takes 5 hours to charge then dies in 2 hours any suggestions?
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What was he doing in that 2 hours? Was he using wifi, texting, or talking expansively during that time?

Extended battery longevity practices

I ordered the HTC 2150mAh Li-Polymer extended battery and door from HTCpedia. What tips do you have to ensure that I get the most out of the battery? Is there a particular charging process you go through when you get a new battery? The battery was expensive and I want to make sure I take good care of it.

Why didn't you get it through verizon? They sell it for $59.99 compared to HTCpedia's $79.99

trombone dixie said:
I ordered the HTC 2150mAh Li-Polymer extended battery and door from HTCpedia. What tips do you have to ensure that I get the most out of the battery? Is there a particular charging process you go through when you get a new battery? The battery was expensive and I want to make sure I take good care of it.
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Fully charge, then use. It may take a few cycles before you see optimum battery performance but you don't need to "condition" the battery. Lithium ion batteries do not need to be fully discharged/recharged, in fact if this is done frequently it can hurt the battery.
You can do a google search if you want a more in-depth explanation.

trombone dixie said:
I ordered the HTC 2150mAh Li-Polymer extended battery and door from HTCpedia. What tips do you have to ensure that I get the most out of the battery? Is there a particular charging process you go through when you get a new battery? The battery was expensive and I want to make sure I take good care of it.
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Fully charge battery,then while the phone is still plugged in, power phone off - leaving it plugged in, then you'll notice the LED will turn red again. The phone will charge for about another half hour or so - this will give you a true full charge.
The OS on the phone will think it has a full charge, thus cutting it off before it is fully charged.

TPR300C said:
Why didn't you get it through verizon? They sell it for $59.99 compared to HTCpedia's $79.99
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I was told they weren't available through Verizon yet. HTCpedia has an awesome return policy, so I think I'll send it back and get it through Verizon. I could really use that extra cash.
Thanks for the tips on everything.

Anyone experiencing issues using the Htc 2150mAh extended battery? My live backgrounds freeze up and i don't get 3g service in areas i usually do.
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trombone dixie said:
Anyone experiencing issues using the Htc 2150mAh extended battery? My live backgrounds freeze up and i don't get 3g service in areas i usually do.
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I don't think that could have anything to do with the battery.

i thought that as well but i didn't start experiencing the issues until i hooked up the new battery.

TPR300C said:
Why didn't you get it through verizon? They sell it for $59.99 compared to HTCpedia's $79.99
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Just got mine from Verizon today and my company gets 25% off accessories, so it cost me $48 w/tax. I got free overnight shipping by using promo code: freeovernt
Still charging...

After only one full drain and recharge i've had over 21 hours of battery life. i've been using it like crazy for the last 3 hours to drain it again. I think i could easily get a day and half out of this bad boy. Well worth the added bulkiness i might add.
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do any of the new ROMs out give better battery life than stock?
(asking for a friend that didn't get an evo)

elingreen said:
do any of the new ROMs out give better battery life than stock?
(asking for a friend that didn't get an evo)
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I'm using my stock rom still (havent taken the rom plunge yet, mostly cause I have everything like i want it right now).
I flashed the hydra undervolt/overclock kernel (hydra_ocuv_ov2_n_v07_signed) and have setcpu set at min 128 and max around 800 (i change it to 1000 or so when i need the extra umph and not trying to save battery as much).
Also I have the Verizon 2150 mah extended battery.
Currently with medium usage (both using the internet, barcode scanner, playing a couple songs here and there, send a couple text messages, 1+ hours a day on the phone, playing with the phone on wifi a bit), im getting over 48 hours usage.
Last time on the charger was yesterday morning at 10:30am. Its almost 11 pm and im at 50% right now. I dont have gmail doing an email checks right now at all (i check it manually once in a while), and I only turn on 3g as needed.

Best battery upgrade

Hi,
I would like to know what is the best battery upgrade. Sometimes i need to use my phone for geocashing for more than two days and it is very boring trying to find time for waiting for charging. So I'm looking for best solution like extended battery or something like that. Size is not important for me, but i want something quality. Can you help me please ?
Thanks

Since size isnt a problem, id say.. get the Mugen 3200mah battery.
The quality is good and it has almost twice the capacity of the original.

Official samsung 2000 mah is pretty good. I get about 30% more usage on a full charge.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1649119

I bought a 9.99 3000mah battery from Ebay. Cut a hole in the back of my cover so it would fit. Anyway I'm getting over 36 hours between charge with moderate use. Atm I'm on 55% battery and I'm on 18 hours 16min. Data on. Sync on. half brightness
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thanks a lot for you ansvers

I run ICS with the samsung 2000Amh battery .. I get up to almost 3 days with 1 single charge and about 30% usage (calls and msg and whatsapp)
ICS alone is worth alot in getting the battery juice up..

I have just bought this 2600 mAh battery, has anyone had this, or one similar? any good or bad comment on it?
http://www.flagshipfones.co.uk/batt...sung-galaxy-s-ii-s2-2600mah-cs-smi9100hl.html

I'm always afraid of buying cheap batteries because I always hear they might explode...

well maybe not so radical about the exploision, everythink can explode, check out this anker battery thread, haha
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1514929
but what is true and so far my experience is that cheap batteries never performed the advertised capacity, i am talking about few dozens i have purchased...

i have only a suggestion: don't use batteries that gives you with the dock of sgs2

gunzo71 said:
I run ICS with the samsung 2000Amh battery .. I get up to almost 3 days with 1 single charge and about 30% usage (calls and msg and whatsapp)
ICS alone is worth alot in getting the battery juice up..
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I'm using Dragon ICS with Siyah kernel and I'm now on 32% with 28 hours normal use.
What seemed to help is enable and disable airplane mode 3 times in a row. Read that somewhere on XDA and I dont know why but I'm having a better batterylife since

asysa commanded
Custom Rom and kernel and your battery will last you the whole day, and use sreen brightness at 30%

will a 2000mah original samsung battery fit great with the original back case?

iftimeadrian88 said:
will a 2000mah original samsung battery fit great with the original back case?
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no Because is a little more big, the Kit comes with a New Back Case.

alexytlee said:
I'm always afraid of buying cheap batteries because I always hear they might explode...
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Try getting 2000 mah samsung extended battery. It maintains the sleek form factor.

i'm on the original samsung 2000 mah just to be sure

nice accesories for nice phone

i am ok with momax ex power, it come with your back case,
i don't have any bad comment.
thanks!

accesories details in box? how to check is they origional or not?
i recently bought galaxy sii but i have dout of accesories came wid phone .
i m wooried dat they are not originol ..
can anyone help me to check whether they are origional in quality?

Will a new original Samsung battery improve battery life after 2 years?

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.

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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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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Michael_P said:
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?

mputtr said:
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

Geo_Tech said:
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.

WarCow said:
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.

does someone use Zerolemon Battery?

If someone use zerolemon Battery for Note 2 can Tell us what you think about it? The phone is too thick? the cover is good?Does it feel good in the hand? Does this battery have bad effective on the galaxy note 2? Can this battery cause explosion of the note 2?
If somebody have some battery stats with screen time on pls make a screenshot and post it here.
Thank you

I use it and its great! Makes the phone a little heavy but its about the same size as an Otterbox case.
Good: About 3 days battery life.
Bad: No NFC (was almost a deal breaker for me) Will hurt if you want to throw it at someone.

NFC is an easy fix.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2820902

rajil.s said:
NFC is an easy fix.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2820902
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I had tried that and couldn't get it working.

Did you make sure that the nfc chip worked? There are some back covers/nfc chips being sold online which are fake and don't actually work.

Yes

Bluemgt06, despite the NFC all the rest is that good so? What´s the price?

Long battery, but extremely heavy.
Not worth it in my opinion.

So.. someone says is good and someone says it's not worth to buy.
So I came up with a new question, better buy zerolemon or better buy an external batterie like ANKER?

manuel1992 said:
So.. someone says is good and someone says it's not worth to buy.
So I came up with a new question, better buy zerolemon or better buy an external batterie like ANKER?
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Mate..ive recently bought ravpower extended battery. Its 6200mah and $20 on amazon. It comes with a back cover and I see it has nfc in it too. But am not too sure koz I dont use nfc. Ive posted pics in accesories section. Check it out! Till now am really satisfy. Only drawback is that it takes very long to charge..about 4h from 0 to 100. And also I feel the extended back cover makes it more handy. Feels nice in hand.
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I've been using the ZeroLemon battery for about 5 months now and i do not regret spending 60 dollars on a battery case. the 6 hour batter life that I used to get on this phone extended to 6 days. However, you do have to charge the phone for like 12 hours (someone on this forum got an ENTIRE WEEK of battery life by charging the case 12 hours more than whats recommended, thats a WHOPPING 24 HOURS of charging).

JKOchoa said:
I've been using the ZeroLemon battery for about 5 months now and i do not regret spending 60 dollars on a battery case. the 6 hour batter life that I used to get on this phone extended to 6 days. However, you do have to charge the phone for like 12 hours (someone on this forum got an ENTIRE WEEK of battery life by charging the case 12 hours more than whats recommended, thats a WHOPPING 24 HOURS of charging).
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How long did you charge it and what setup did you use with your phone?(ROM, Kernel, etc.)

brokenaxe said:
How long did you charge it and what setup did you use with your phone?(ROM, Kernel, etc.)
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I use the stock KitKat ROM with AGNi Kernel (latest version). Since my Sunday consists of grocery shopping and chores. I charge my phone for 12 hours without using the phone (checking notifications, playing games, Facebook, Snapchat, etc.)