[Q] Testing battery - HTC One X

I want to know what mAh capacity my HOX can retain after fully charged. The full capacity is 1800 when new, but this eventually degrades after hundreds of charging cycles. What is the service code for this info? Or is there an app that can do this. On my laptop HP battery check gives me all the info I can ever need.

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Changing the Battery switch of Voltage ?

Ok i am using the p3300 as a covert tracker and have installed a large external LI-PO battery, not the LI-ION that is normally used in the phone.
Because the li-poly battery can be discharged to a lower voltage before it is considered low battery, than a li-ion battery, id like to be able to set the switch off voltage level to be lower, before the unit switches off. so that a can fully use the power in the battery. As it stands with the large battery (8800 Mah 4 2200 Mah cells in parallel) windows is shutting the unit down before the battery is discharged. I think this is around 3.6 volts , but the LI-Poly battery can be discharge to around 3v under load before its considered flat. and im only using around 60% of the batterys power like this.
Is there any way to change this in the registry, so that i can fully discharge the battery and get a longer life out of it. I'm sure i read something like this on here a year or so ago, but i cant find any info now.
Very interesting post. I'm not sure if you can modify that value in the registry but I'll try to dig on it and let you know if I find something.
I'm using a CECT W800 which is a clone of HTC P3300 and have a problem with the battery when using it as GPS on the car. To be more exact the battery gets depleted even with the charger on in about 2 hours or so. I thought about trying to replace the battery with a more powerful one (even if I would have to put it outside of it) but got stuck when I found out that it needs to be a compatible battery in terms of communication protocol. Do you know more about this? Can you please give me some details or hints?
Thanks.

[Q] Battery drain application

Hi!
I'm looking for an application, that quickly kills my battery if it's low, so I can do a full charge to improve battery life.
Something, that I launch, I put my phone on the desk, have a tea meanwhile, and it's drained! Something, that turns on wifi, do some downloading, browsing, video playing, or whatever, and does it automatically without supervision. Does such app exists?
I'll second this, it'd be nice to have an app do this for me and maybe even give us some interesting stats from it?
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why would you want an application to destroy your battery?
Adevem said:
why would you want an application to destroy your battery?
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Apparently if you do a full discharge the battery life will be longer.
Soniboy84 said:
Apparently if you do a full discharge the battery life will be longer.
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not really, you should avoid deep discharges...
Byr0x said:
not really, you should avoid deep discharges...
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+1 If you had been reading around...you would know Lithium Ion batteries are designed to 'maximize' their efficiency within about two weeks of 'top up' charging. Cycle-charging is generally considered a less efficient method of charging. You will need to 'TopUp charge' this means charging as much and as often as possible. If your battery is at 89% for instance and you find yourself near a socket, plug your adapter in and charge it up to 100%. After a few days of doing this you will notice an improvement in the life of your battery when you are not able to charge.
Actually,,,
It is not matter of running your battery down to 0%.
It is ok to run it down till phone does to power on itself.
As you know battery is a single cell Li-Ion @ 3.7v
when it is fully charged it's peak voltage is 4.2v
By the time battery mah is drained down (galaxy s has 1500mah)
battery voltage should be around 3.2~3.4v range. this will depend on condition of the battery.
Battery should never go below 3.2v personally, 3.4v is my cut off.
If your battery voltage goes below 3.2v... it's time for a new battery as this kind of voltage will damage your battery, either it will leak or puff (battery will actually get bloated.
Phone has a voltage cut off so it will not over charge over 4.2v but if it does, it will likely start to smoke and catch fire.
I am sure anyone who is into electric Radio control knows all about these batteries.
Oh btw,,, long time storage voltage should be 3.8v
You'll be asking how do I know what voltage my battery is... I personallly don't know of any apps but GPS Status actually shows the temperature & voltage of your battery.
Soniboy84 said:
I'm looking for an application, that quickly kills my battery if it's low, so I can do a full charge to improve battery life.
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First, take into consideration the comments above regarding deep discharge of your battery...but, to answer your question, there's an app in the market place called 'Battery Refresh' which attempts to drain your battery quicker.
Well if it's all true above than its a good sign, and thanks for the info! I'm not an expert but in the old times I remember batteries had to discharged completely, maybe even if it's just a few times. Now somebody can also tell me why my battery is discharging when it's plugged in the socket with original charger? All I do is using the internet, and has. nimbuzz and a live wallpaper on. :S
You could probably enable the GPS/BT/WIFI ( connected to a router ) and run the interactive mode on Neocore benchmark.. that should enable most of the hardware components on the phone and stress the GPU/CPU.. probably would see a 25% battery drain for every 35-40mins.
I don't know what has changed with the batteries but as far as I know...
it is good to discharge new batteries 3~4 times down until phone does not power on.
Like I have said... it's about the voltage of the battery, not whether battery has any juice left in it or not.
These batteries have a protective circuitry so that it will not charge over 4.2v,
also as for discharge it is usually down to 3v but usually with a charger/discharger units that can control mah/volts/amps. With typical usage from the phone, it'll likely be discharged down to about 3.2`3.4v. Which is very safe.
You can do whatever you feel but I personally do this to every batteries I have for phone and every batteries I use with my radio controled cars.
For my RC cars, I have about 6 batteries ranging from 1cell to 3cell LiPo packs.
Each cell is 3.7volts.
But you don't have to force discharge and hurry the process.
Just use the phone normally and let it run down to nothing... than recharge to full peak.
Than again, choice is yours.
I'm looking for the same kind of applications. It's very useful for recalibrating your battery. Wipe the battery history then do a full cycle.
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The old saying in RC Helicopters was that the difference between discharging 50% and 100% was the difference between getting 500 uses and 5 uses.
You should certainly avoid ever fully dischaging any lithium based battery.
Older nickel batteries (Ni-cd, Ni-MH) required full dischage cycles to get rid of memory the the metals pertained, lithium-ion and lithium-ion-polymer not only do not require this; but doing so will damage them.
And yes, the older ipods came with Nimh cells and they did reccomended full discharge cycles.
Im pretty sure the idea was to try not to let the voltage get below 3.5v/cell and never below 3.3. Dead flat is 3 or 2.85 which is when the battery simply cant produce any real current. The phone should have circuitry though to not let the voltage get above 4.25 or below ~3.5.. If the low battery warning comes on, set the brightness to dim, and stop any activities (unless its a phone call, its not THAT important but if youre playing games or watching a movie...) until yo can get to a charger.
By the way this being my first post (i meant to ages ago) Ill just mention that my galaxy S came with recovery mode and download mode Enabled, i got it just last month, Virgin network, Australia.
draining the battery fully was for the older battery types, new age batteries are not recommended to be drained fully
Thanks!
One more question:
I'm using my phone as a desktop replacement, because I don't have Internet at the moment. I'm using xda, dolphin browser and listening music. It's plugged into the mains and it's not charging. It says 49%, and stuck there. Is it possible I'm using too much battery?
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Ok, this will be my last reply.
Fully draining or not is not the issue.
In RC, most modern electronic speed controllers have a built-in battery cut-off which will cut off power once it reaches certain voltage. Because OVER-draining battery without cut off can damage/kill/ or make it unable to hold voltage.
Also, once the battery voltage reach certain point (still within safe range) you will notice the motor being powered slow down. This would also be a recommended time to stop.
Cellular phones have built in safe cut off aswell. As I have said I have measured my battery after being full drained, voltage was around 3.55v or so. Which is very normal considering voltage of the battery is 3.7v only with peak charged voltage of 4.2.
Now, Someone mentioned that fully draining your battery repeatedly will dramatically reduce battery life.
Reducing life of the battery has more to do with the amount of AMP used to charge the battery. Faster charging is usually reduce battery life dramatically.
And without hobby grade chargers, you won't be able to control this charge rate.
Slow charge is better but charging at 1C rating is the normal. But charging at 1C means regardless of batteries mah rating, battery can be charged in about 60 minutes. As we all know, our phone batteries doesn't charge from zero to full in 60minutes, right? just like most of the portable devices it takes nearly 3~4hours to fully recharge. Last 20% usually takes longer because Amp provided to charge slowly lowers. That is why.
For example, if Galaxy S battery is 1500mah, than 1C charge rate is @ 1.5amp.
If battery is 3000Mah, 1C is 3.0Amps and so on.
So like I have said over and over before, drain your battery away if you have to by choice or not. Just use it up, I will bet you your battery will last longer than you keep your phone.
U should avoid draining ur battery to 0% (witch is not possible with ur phone. When it shows 0% the charge of the battery is at 10-15%). Li-ion batteries dont have a memory effect, so it would be usless discharching it completely anyhow. Best for sgs battery is charging it before it goes under 50% that will improve the lifetime of ur battery (not how long it lasts before u have to charge but how long it lasts before u have to go and buy a new one)
How do i know? Simply cause i had to learn that a few weeks ago for the job im learning.
@xxgg: yes ur right, it wont really damage the battery if u runn it till thr phone shows its empty. But using an app to drain battery as quick as possible will, since the app forces the battery to give out more Ampere than its built to give out
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Does the official Sprint 2600mAh battery suffer from the "charging bug"

So most people are familiar with the seeming "bug" that if you slap in a huge extended battery (Seido 3600mAh one comes to mind) if you are charging via USB it would only charge up to the 50-60% mark
I'm seriously thinking about getting a sprint extended battery - but does this bigger battery suffer from the same "problem"
I know this one is Lithium Polymoer instead of Li Ion... does that change anything?
All I know is that I refuse to take my battery out every 24 or 36 hours to "wall charge" it directly.
Thanks in advance for you input!
J
Mine has been charging perfectly... have had it two days, and it's been great
thanks for the quick reply -- I'll try and pick one up here in the next few days. I'm sure I can take it back if the huge back or if i had any charging issues
would be nice to go 24 hours and not have to worry about the battery at all
I have loved it... i have been able to actually use my phone.... and i even had them credit me $20 for buying the battery
You could have posted in the thread in this section, just a few posts down. But to answer your question, I have not had any issues yet. I know it drops by 3-4% a little quick (30 minutes - 1 hour) but that is the only major drop I see.
accelerus said:
So most people are familiar with the seeming "bug" that if you slap in a huge extended battery (Seido 3600mAh one comes to mind) if you are charging via USB it would only charge up to the 50-60% mark
I'm seriously thinking about getting a sprint extended battery - but does this bigger battery suffer from the same "problem"
I know this one is Lithium Polymoer instead of Li Ion... does that change anything?
All I know is that I refuse to take my battery out every 24 or 36 hours to "wall charge" it directly.
Thanks in advance for you input!
J
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Li-Po is actually not going to change anything except that you can put more cells in the same size battery, therefore increasing the length between charges.
Most of the LI-Ion batteries used in phones are LI-po now adays anyways. The orignial evo batteries are. and most of the extended batteries are as well.
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Most of the LI-Ion batteries used in phones are LI-po now adays anyways. The orignial evo batteries are. and most of the extended batteries are as well.
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Actually, they haven't used Li-Ion batteries in most consumer electronics for several years but the name has become a generic descriptor for an entire family of cells which include LiPos.
The complete name for LiPo is lithium-ion polymer and they differ from lithium-ion cells in several ways including:
The electrolyte in a Li-Ion cell is a gel (liquid) while the electrolyte in a LiPo cell is a solid polymer.
The layers in a Li-Ion cell need to be tightly compressed so they're typically rolled and housed in a tight-fitting cylindrical case, but the layers in a LiPo cell don't require that compression which is why they can be manufactured in that handy flat form factor so easily.
The nominal working voltage of Li-Ion cells is 3.6V and it's 3.7V for LiPo cells.
LiPo cells have a higher energy density (capacity/weight) than Li-Ion cells.
LiPo cells can be charged and discharged at significantly higher rates than Li-Ion cells.
The bottom line is any small consumer electronics battery pack which is flat and square and is marked as 3.7V (or a multiple of that number for multi-cell series-wired packs) is a LiPo pack regardless of what it says on the pack or in the literature.
Pete
I have owned both batteries and I'm quite familiar with the bug OP is referring to. I can say unequivocally this battery has the same issues the 3500mah Seidio battery does. If you charge this battery, while the phone is on, to max and then unplug, you will watch your charge drop from full to in the 60s in the first hour or two. The drain then tapers off significantly at that point.
I haven't really had an opportunity to put this one through it's paces yet and it may stabilize over time. I'm thinking that this new one might provide the same amount of battery life as the Seidio 3500mah one due to this bug.
EDIT: See my post on the following page. The battery/system seems to have calibrated itself.
You mean to tell me that this battery was a waste of money for me? If so, let me know. It will go back tomorrow
Strange, I don't have this issue at all and I've had the battery for almost a week. It tends to drain quickly to 95% then level out.
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SpezXVII said:
Strange, I don't have this issue at all and I've had the battery for almost a week. It tends to drain quickly to 95% then level out.
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My second charge drained to about 60% just like the first. I just pulled it off the charger for the third time early this morning and I am not noticing the drain anymore. I'm thinking it must have calibrated itself.
I've been off the charger for 1 hour 50 mins and I still have 93% remaining!
This is much more like the stock battery. If it continues to act this way, this battery beats the Seidio one by a mile. It's been a couple months since I've used the EVO. Has something been changed in the CyanogenMod Supersonic kernel to support extended batteries?
Shouldn't it be draining slower than stock battery?
I ahve the Seidio battery and I have never seen the battery drop to 60 percent or anything else like what people are saying. I am on CM 6 RC1 but even with any of the other dozen ROMs I have never had an issue. If my battery dropped to 60 percent a short time after unplugging it I would have sent it back the same day.
I charged my battery from 5% to full last night via usb charge. I pulled it this morning at 7:00 and it dropped to 93% quick mainly because it was on the charger well after it had reached 100%. Since 7 am Its dropped as it should. Im currently at 71% 8 1/2 hours later. So I wouldnt say all of these batteries have the 3500 seidio issue. What rom is everyone whos having the issue running?
They may have fixed something in the kernel recently to avoid this. Look up the old threads about the 3500mah battery. The battery calibration issues were universal.
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looneylu said:
Shouldn't it be draining slower than stock battery?
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The EVO stops charging at 100% and will not charge until it drains back to about 90%. The phone will continue to show "full" until you pull the plug. It will then show the true charge level.
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The EVO stops charging at 100% and will not charge until it drains back to about 90%. The phone will continue to show "full" until you pull the plug. It will then show the true charge level.
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Thanks for clearing that up. I didn't read your previous post, I guess
So do you guys suggest to get this instead of the Seidio ?
Someone take a logcat dump and look at the battery parameters of charging/not charging and you'll know if they've fixed the issue or not.
The meter will self adjust to the 1500Mah based on voltage and you think you'll get a full charge but you won't. Slapping it into an external battery charger after "fully" charging it thru the evo will open your eyes to the issue.
Here's hoping, now there's a sprint official "OEM" class extended battery that they'll get HTC to compile in additional battery drivers other than just the 1500mah one it shipped with.
Sorry folks, if you can't charge it externally, you're not going to get the FULL capability of the battery. There are ways to tricking it into taking more. Charge it fully with phone on, unplug, power it off, charge some more, unplug power on, charge more, etc.
This will continue to add just a little bit more to help bring it up, but you'll never get it full unless you can charge externally or HTC adds devices.
You can pull the source code yourself and confirm this info. You can also confirm the issue still exists with an external charger.

[Q] Appropriate percentage to store a battery

i guys now i have 3 batteries of my DHD that i have been using, and i want to store 1 of them,
what is the appropriate percentage to store a battery that i`will not going to use temporarily?
100%full, 0%no charge, or like when u buy new battery normal comes with 60%
and i want to know as i already used all of them, if i store, it will not Die?
if you are going to store li-ion batteries, make sure that they are charged. doesn't matter how much, just ensure that you don't keep them in storage long enough that they fully discharge. having said that though, i wouldn't worry too much...li-ion batteries hold their charge for a good chunk of time in storage so you shouldn't have to worry about this as long as you give them a full charge.
you should avoid fully discharging li-ion batteries as much as possible.
ok man thanks for the advice,
Best regards
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you should avoid fully discharging li-ion batteries as much as possible.
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If this is the case then why do we need to caliberate the battery, doesnt that involve a full discharge? And wats ur views on battery caliberation
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it's recommended that you avoid full discharges even when calibrating (drain no lower than 5%). obviously, it's your choice as to whether fully discharge or not. it's just a decision between an exact/accurate calibration vs. longer battery life.
for batteries that don't go through the full discharge cycle, it is recommended that a calibration be performed once a month. if you are fully discharging the battery once a month, you are significantly decreasing the overall life of the battery.
of course, i'm no expert and have no empirical data to prove any of this but you can find some test/study results online. and we all know that online info is always accurate

[Q] \\ Charging the first time

i just got the phone yesterday (att) i charged the first time in 4hours , is that okay cause people told me that i needed to charge in +8 hours ,and now do i have to use the phone to die completely and charge it again or just need to low battery ? sr for my bad English
kevintran.98 said:
i just got the phone yesterday (att) i charged the first time in 4hours , is that okay cause people told me that i needed to charge in +8 hours ,and now do i have to use the phone to die completely and charge it again or just need to low battery ? sr for my bad English
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here is the answer for your question:
Lithium-Ion - Li-ion batteries are the newer type of battery that are found it most newer cell phones (most definitely most, if not all, smartphones use Li-ion and many "dumbphones" use them too now). Li-ion can be thought of as "smarter" than NiCad batteries; Li-ion batteries don't suffer from the "memory effect" and thus don't need to be conditioned like NiCad batteries.
Rather, to condition a new Li-ion battery, fully charge it; it should be allowed to charge for 7-8 hours on the first, initial charge. In other words, when you get your new cell phone - and it has a Li-ion battery - allow it to charge for 7-8 hours even if the cell phone claims to be fully charged. (It is preferable to use outlet charger vs car charger or USB charging via computer because of the voltage difference.) After that, there is no reconditioning necessary for Li-ion batteries since they don't suffer from the "memory effect". However, be sure to avoid fully draining/discharging the Li-ion battery as much as possible; every time a Li-ion battery is fully discharged, it loses battery power and life. (That doesn't mean your battery will die if it is ever fully discharged; it means it is best to avoid fully discharging when possible.) Try to recharge Li-ion batteries when they are at 15-25%. Similarly, avoid heat as much as possible and when (if) storing Li-ion batteries, store them not at full charge.
Update: The only time you should ever intentionally fully discharge a Li-ion battery is if your phone is not properly reading the battery. In other words, if you go from 100% -> 90% in ten minutes but go from 90% -> 80% in one hour with the same amount of usage, that means your phone is not reading the battery output evenly. If this is the case, then fully discharging your battery once and then recharging it can fix the issue of your phone not reading the battery properly. Take note, however, this full discharge/recharge won't increase your battery life -- it will only ensure your phone reads the battery properly.
People often confuse Li-ion and NiCad batteries and try to condition Li-ion batteries by charging/discharging them 4-6 times. Trying to condition a Li-ion battery like it is a NiCad battery (i.e. charging/discharging the Li-ion battery 4-6 times) hurts the Li-ion battery more than helps it. So, be sure to condition your new cell phone's battery, but be sure to condition it properly. Otherwise, you may be doing more harm than good. If you are not sure what type of battery you have, read the labels on the battery - they will always say whether the battery is Lithium-ion or Nickel-cadmium. Good luck and may we all have long lasting batteries.
p.s. i got my one x yesterday too and is most beatiful phone in the world

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