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Cameron Sino Extended Battery - Review

Thought I would write a quick review of the extended battery I just bought.
Background
I was rather unhappy with my original battery as were most people! It only lasted me a day and as my job requires me to be out and about a lot, plus to call people often, I thought something more robust would be better. My solution = The Cameron Sino 2600mAH Battery!
Initial Impressions
The battery is twice the size of stock. The battery cover did not close on my phone. Total size isnt too bad. It nearly doubles the phone thickness, but when I come onto the testing section later this is a worthwhile sacrifice.
Cover Fit
The cover didnt fit so I decided to buy a 32gb micro sd card (which works fine), and to super glue the cover on. I figured that using a scalpel I could remove the back (I tested and it works fine) if ever required. Hopefully I wont need to access it ever, or until I upgrade in 18 months and decide to sell it.
Performance
After charging to 100%, running down to 0% 3 times, I have now had the phone on for 5 days and it's current charge level is 10%. As you can see this is awesome. My settings:
Helix Launcher
Wifi On about an hour a day
Light phone calls (around 5 hours)
Light texting - 20 odd a day
3g Off
GPS off
I imagine in real life conditions 3 days moderate use would be obtainable.
Conclusion
Overall I am very very happy with this battery. It really brings this phone into the "worthwhile for daily use" category (it should have been here originally ofcourse). Hopefully will be able to use the standard UI rather than Helix when 2.1 comes out. Damn app power leaks.
Rating: 4/5 (Battery door a poor fit)
Edit: Forgot to mention at £16.99 delivered (amazon.co.uk), you can hardly go wrong!!!

Could you post a pic of your phone now please?

Unfortunately my only camera is my phone...... sorry. Maybe someone else can!?

Wow! I assume you like your phone carrier since it is difficult now to remove the sim card.

Well my carrier (Three) used to be terrible. However they appear to have upgraded their cell towers and I now have full signal most places that my friends dont! So yeah I like my carrier!

Why dont you buy the extra thick covers that are all over ebay so that you dont have to glue anything?
Edit: My bad they arent on ebay, but there is a thread in the accessories forum, I'm sure of it.

theres a couple of posts and reviews in a thread on here already and myself and several others paid just £12.99 free postage from ebay

Yeah I rarely buy off ebay - had a lot of problems with sellers before (might just be my luck ). I saw the other reviews, and just wanted to do my own hehe.

any chance to get a pic of your phone? how it looks with the glued cover?

If i ma not wrong, that battery comes with a cover for X10 right? Are u saying that that cover that they provide does not fit properly?

Mine fits properly. You just have to force the sides of the cover into place and thats it. Battery life is much better than the oem one and has a very noticeable difference.

ordered one from http://www.megacapacity.com/26985.html . Lets see how it goes

Just updating this thread for potential cameron sino battery buyers. I got the package 4 days ago. I removed my stock battery, popped this battery in, used the back cover that was provided by them. The phone became almost twice the depth thanx to the battery.
Then the issues started. Even though the green light used to come on when connected to the mains, the phone never used to start. Initially i thought the charge is low, so left it overnight, but then the next morning i saw tht I still had the same issue. After fidgeting with it for sometime, i noticed that there is a 1(or 0.5) mm gap between the battery and contacts because of which the x10 did not start. I used a thin plastic sheet(amost like a sheet of paper) to hold the battery up against the contact and it worked fine. Right now the problem is that if i shake the phone a bit vigorously, it gets disconnected because of the shorter battery.
But i want to see how the battery lasts so am using it for now. It all boils down to the time i have to wait till next charge. If it really gives around 70% more time (as claimed by many in other forums) i will use it despite the bulkiness and the smaller battery issues. Thanx for reading!!!

so this comes with a case as well for £12.99?

Khimera said:
Just updating this thread for potential cameron sino battery buyers. I got the package 4 days ago. I removed my stock battery, popped this battery in, used the back cover that was provided by them. The phone became almost twice the depth thanx to the battery.
Then the issues started. Even though the green light used to come on when connected to the mains, the phone never used to start. Initially i thought the charge is low, so left it overnight, but then the next morning i saw tht I still had the same issue. After fidgeting with it for sometime, i noticed that there is a 1(or 0.5) mm gap between the battery and contacts because of which the x10 did not start. I used a thin plastic sheet(amost like a sheet of paper) to hold the battery up against the contact and it worked fine. Right now the problem is that if i shake the phone a bit vigorously, it gets disconnected because of the shorter battery.
But i want to see how the battery lasts so am using it for now. It all boils down to the time i have to wait till next charge. If it really gives around 70% more time (as claimed by many in other forums) i will use it despite the bulkiness and the smaller battery issues. Thanx for reading!!!
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Thanks for this info! I was having the same issue with this battery. I thought I was having a driver issue for extended batteries but after reading your post, I confirmed that it wasnt the case. Fixed the problem but with a different approach.
What I did was I soldered a small amount of lead onto the contacts on the battery (careful enough not to short the contacts) so that it would give better contact on pins of the x10.. I know the process seems a little bit drastic but it works! I can't make the phone shutdown even when I shook the hell out of this phone.

peedee888 said:
Thanks for this info! I was having the same issue with this battery. I thought I was having a driver issue for extended batteries but after reading your post, I confirmed that it wasnt the case. Fixed the problem but with a different approach.
What I did was I soldered a small amount of lead onto the contacts on the battery (careful enough not to short the contacts) so that it would give better contact on pins of the x10.. I know the process seems a little bit drastic but it works! I can't make the phone shutdown even when I shook the hell out of this phone.
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Thanx man!!! I was doubting if only I had the issue. Your plan of soldering seems a permanent fix Will try that when i get time

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cameron-Sin...321O/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1302209543&sr=8-5
dont know if its just been discounted but its down to £14.99 (from £16.99 OP) on amazon uk.

rojdag said:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cameron-Sin...321O/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1302209543&sr=8-5
dont know if its just been discounted but its down to £14.99 (from £16.99 OP) on amazon uk.
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still expensive !!
to quote myself
kmaximax said:
theres a couple of posts and reviews in a thread on here already and myself and several others paid just £12.99 free postage from ebay
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kmaximax said:
still expensive !!
to quote myself
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not really, i stupidly bought a mugen 1800mah for 33usd! at least it fits properly though.

awsome!!!
5 DAYS!!!!!
awsome, I was planning to sell the phone because of the battery, unfourtionatly I live in sudan and there is no way to buy stuff online here!

Charging Circuit Blown?

Hi all,
My wife's 5x appears to be very dead. I haven't found any similar issues on this phone or any other so I thought I would share and also see if anyone has advice.
So her battery was low and so my 4 year old says "Let me help you with that Mom, I will go plug it in." A few moments later he says "Hey mom, it isn't working" as he shoves the end of the baby monitor wall wart in and out of the headphone jack. The wife plugs the phone into the correct charger but it doesn't seem to work. She used her phone for a little while longer before the battery died.
Best I can tell putting the 7.5 volts across the headphone jack blew up a circuit in the phone that also charges the battery. I messed with it awhile and the charging screen did come on one time briefly but I haven't seen it since. The USB port had been perfectly fine before.
I took the phone apart to take a look but it didn't tell me anything I didn't already know. It looks like a new motherboard would be needed to fix it and would probably cost more than the phone is worth.
So in summary the only thing that should be plugged into the headphone jack are headphones.
Any advice? Know a magic fix? We are both perfectly happy with our 5x's and had no plans to upgrade. She needs a Fi compatible phone so options are limited. The Moto x4 doesn't seem like much of an upgrade, new pixels are way too much phone and too much money, the old pixels are more than I want to spend for a used phone. I am thinking I will just pick up a used 5x from swappa as they are going cheap and I won't be out much, just worried about getting the BLOD, we have avoided that so far but it scares me more when getting a phone of unknown history. Would I be crazy to buy a used 5x knowing about the potential of the BLOD?
Thanks

shaunskie said:
Would I be crazy to buy a used 5x knowing about the potential of the BLOD?
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Not necessarily, LG has been fixing out-of-warranty 5X phones with the bootloop problem. I don't know if they'd extend that courtesy to the 2nd owner of a phone but you can probably find out more by searching the 5X forums for recent posts with "LG repair warranty" in the text.

Thanks,
It looks to be a little bit of a crap shoot if a secondhand warranty will be honored but I think might just do it anyway. At least it is a pretty small investment if it would fail and not be covered under warranty.
I think I will give it a shot on the current phone for the extended warranty also but expect to be quickly shoot down. It was bought through project Fi two years ago but what I've read seems to indicate only the BLOD is being covered by the extended warranty.
I wish there were more options for project fi phones on the budget end. Should I be considering the X4 or second hand 1st Gen pixel?

Reliable battery replacement?

Has anyone found a reliable battery replacement? I haven't been able to find an authentic Samsung T8220e battery.. and the third party ones I've tried won't put out enough current (if I turn the brightness up, the tablet immediately shuts off). All the listings I've found so far on Amazon are 3rd party junk batteries.

I just bought a used p600 with a piece of junk Marval Power battery that only charged to 60%. I replaced it with a used OEM battery (at the time, there was only one shop on eBay selling used batteries) and it's working fine. I haven't used any apps to measure battery health yet, but it seems to be performing pretty equally to the three other p600s I've had over the last few years. It's probably up to luck, too (based on the condition of the tablet that the used battery was pulled from).
Hope this helps!

I just ordered a battery from mister-phone on eBay, instead of the pos replacement battery I have been using for a week, I hope the new one is original as advertised

please let us know how the mister phone battery works out. i have to get another battery after actually having some good luck for a while on an ebay purchase. but one side is swollen again and the battery is all over the place. thanks

So far it seems to be the real deal, it have the same markings and shape on the frame as the original, I'm still testing it, and it's way better than the cheap one.

I bought this one on amazon, and it appears to be working. My stress test is to play a game on full screen brightness and it instantly dies with the other lousy batteries. So far, so good... but it's oos. I would recommend buying a battery on amzon though for the easy returns if it doesn't work. Also, a kit with a decent spudger. I bought this one on Amazon that has a pretty good metal one with a decent selection of mini drivers.

I ended up buying one. Battery seems to work well except I can't get it to charge passed 80 or so no matter how long I leave it plugged in for. Other than that it works well. Restarts don't do anything. Anyone e have any ideas to reset the stats or something. I am at a loss. Thanks.

Stock or custom rom?

It's been a while since you posted this, but I just recently had to replace the battery in my SM-P600 when the original battery started puffing up. The only symptom was that home button was jiggly and loose, and I thought that the housing for that button was broken or something, and was looking into replacing the parts associated with that button when I pressed on the casing on either side of the button and everything clicked back into place and the button worked properly. I then noticed the screen was slightly bulging int he middle and realized it was the battery expanding.
Anyway, the assortment still available on Amazon has pretty bad reviews, so I gambled on a new listing that didn't have any reviews except the seller has been around for a while and is reviewed very well. Received the battery, replaced it, it took a while to charge up, but it holds a charge well and stress tests (full brightness with a taxing game) fine as well. I'm happy with it. Keeps my tablet alive for a little while longer (even though I don't use it much anymore since I got my 15" Chromebook that converts into a tablet).
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07L67LJMK/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Incidentally, I also bought the same toolkit you mentioned and it's a really good one. I've used it disassemble four different devices now and it's worked well. Good toolkit for the price.

Battery dies suddenly - root cause?

Hi
I've got my hands on a nice HTC one m8 (16 GB) version. Unfortunately the phone has some kind of an issue. That's why the old owner bought a new phone and gave it to me.
The phone works flawlessly when connected to a charger. You can play games, run benchmarks etc.
As soon as the phone is disconnected from the charger it turns itself off under heavier load. Battery status is around 78% when this happens.
This happened under the latest stock ROM that was available.
Since then I unlocked the bootloader, installed TWRP and could reproduce the same issue with different Custom Roms (current official LineageOS builds, SlimRom, MoKee). Always the same issue.
On one occasion the device reset itself completely when it turned itself off. This would be an absolute no-go if I would like to use the device as a daily driver.
I checked the internet including all possible related threads here on XDA but could not find a solution.
The following recommendations did NOT work:
run self-test ( *#*#3424#*#*) in safe mode -> not possible anymore due to custom ROM
pressing Vol +/- and Power Button for 3 minutes
completely wipe everything (I already did this every time I installed a custom rom)
let the battery drain to 0% and then charge it to 100% and keep on charging for some hours with several restarts of the device
So my questions:
What's the root cause of this issue? Is this a general weakness of this device / model?
Why does the device not recognize the battery status correctly? With any other phone I had (Galaxy S2, Galaxy S3, OnePlus One) I never had the issue of the device turning itself unpredictably off.
Is it worth having the battery replaced? This would cost me about 100$ in local currency. I fear the problem only shifts from "78%" battery to a lower percentage and the device still unpredictably turning itself off. Also the device resetting itself is a bit of sword of Damocles.

I decided to buy a replacement battery from AliExpress:
Since I'm not yet allowed to post links: Search for "HTC One m8 battery".
The product I ordered was from the seller "QCKBST Global Store". The battery is reddisch / orange and includes a tool set in the preview-picture.
As stated in several fixing manuals / manuals for replacing the battery: It is a pain to do this with a HTC one m8!!!
With the proper tools it is feasable though. I also had the bad luck that all my internal wiring was covered in copper tape which made the replacement process not easier.
The replacement battery came with about 56% charge. I then charged it up to 100%. I can currently use the device playing games under heavy load (device gets very hot) down to 2-3% without any issues / sudden power off. Yay!
Pros:
Cheap
Works
Cons:
No battery temperature sensor. Most likely being a non-stock replacement battery
The tools delivered with the battery did not fit. It came with a Torx T4 instead of a T5. No help from the seller. Had to buy a tool set from another seller
I will very likely start using the device as a daily driver for the next few weeks and will post an update about the battery performance.

polaxis said:
I decided to buy a replacement battery from AliExpress:
Since I'm not yet allowed to post links: Search for "HTC One m8 battery".
The product I ordered was from the seller "QCKBST Global Store". The battery is reddisch / orange and includes a tool set in the preview-picture.
As stated in several fixing manuals / manuals for replacing the battery: It is a pain to do this with a HTC one m8!!!
With the proper tools it is feasable though. I also had the bad luck that all my internal wiring was covered in copper tape which made the replacement process not easier.
The replacement battery came with about 56% charge. I then charged it up to 100%. I can currently use the device playing games under heavy load (device gets very hot) down to 2-3% without any issues / sudden power off. Yay!
Pros:
Cheap
Works
Cons:
No battery temperature sensor. Most likely being a non-stock replacement battery
The tools delivered with the battery did not fit. It came with a Torx T4 instead of a T5. No help from the seller. Had to buy a tool set from another seller
I will very likely start using the device as a daily driver for the next few weeks and will post an update about the battery performance.
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I did this a few weeks ago. Replacing the battery was a piece of cake Tbh. Not difficult just time consuming.
No damage except some marks to the speaker grills, which I was prepared to sacrifice and replace anyway.
Battery works real well now. Took a few discharge cycles to get it working 100%
Now lasts all day and charges under 2 hours from 0 to 100 using a cheap quick charge 3.0 charger from Ebay and a premium cable(this makes a big difference).
Battery Temperature works fine.
Phone behaves like new again now its running Nougat.

Make the 3t great again.

Hello,
I use the one plus 3t now for a while as my daily driver, unfortunately with time goes wear on the device. The battery is in poor condition, the charging cable does very easily slip out of the charging port and some things in the navbar has burned into the OLED display (The display thingy is not as important as the rest, so I may keep it, if it is expensive to fix). Is it possible to fix it myself or do I have an expert to repair this stuff (I have never done something like this)? It is still a fast phone with more than enough ram, so I do not want to throw it away. How much would a repair cost for me? I am looking for services and vendors in Germany/central Europe.
Thank you in advance
WasteMatters

WasteMatters said:
Hello,
I use the one plus 3t now for a while as my daily driver, unfortunately with time goes wear on the device. The battery is in poor condition, the charging cable does very easily slip out of the charging port and some things in the navbar has burned into the OLED display (The display thingy is not as important as the rest, so I may keep it, if it is expensive to fix). Is it possible to fix it myself or do I have an expert to repair this stuff (I have never done something like this)? It is still a fast phone with more than enough ram, so I do not want to throw it away. How much would a repair cost for me? I am looking for services and vendors in Germany/central Europe.
Thank you in advance
WasteMatters
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For the charging cable slipping out, try cleaning the charging socket on the phone with a tooth pick or something pointy and hard. I cleaned it and a lot of jammed up dirt came out. Now my USB cable snaps into the socket again. For other things, good luck

Hello! I got my 3T last summer used from Swappa. It was advertised as "mint/like new" so I was disappointed to find how much wear there was on the device. The backside of the phone had some dot-like things. I suppose scratches from little rocks getting in through the case. The battery health was bad, had roughly 70% ish, don't remember. The cable was in bad shape and the charging port really loose and would loose connection.
So, I got a charging port off eBay. Maybe around $10. A new USB cable for $1 from China, but it's exactly as good as the original, and is fully functional to this day. I got a new housing/backside thing for $10 (China too). Exactly as the original, no issues whatsoever. I got a supposedly "extended" 3700mAh battery from china. That was a big fat lie. I got a refund. The battery in truth was 3000mAh. I'm still using it, I don't mind. Finding a good battery is either too much trouble or too expensive.
So, I installed things as they arrived. But it should take 30 minutes or so to do by yourself. The difficult or troublesome part is getting the phone open. But it's not impossible, and otherwise the phone is extremely easy to repair. But you must be careful.
I'm perfectly satisfied to this day with my refurbished-by-me 3T. Won't be upgrading anytime soon.

So i did it today.It was really not that hard, just the old battery was hard to remove. All in all a really easy repair. I saw some green marks from my dishwasher incident, but it seams that everything is working well. The battery is working, charging, as it should. With a new tempered glass protector on top it looks like new.

Which tempered glass did you get?