guys this is my first tutorial...so please bear with me
my 2 yr old gene needed a battery change as it could give a backup of 15 mins only....and the new battery cost around INR 1000.....while going thru my junks i found a nokia cellphone which i used rarely and it had a new battery in it...an idea popped in my mind. the idea was to change the cell and replace it with the nokia cell...after inspecting both the batteries carefully...the body structure were almost identical in shape and size though the nokia cell was a little slimmer than gene's sanyo cell...the specs of gene battery "Sanyo Model:WIZA16" and the nokia battery "BL-5c" were
Sanyo Model WIZA16 :3.7VDC 1250mAH li-ion battery
BL-5c: 3.7VDC 1220mAH li-ion battery
the only thing which mattered was..I was short of 30mAh....i decided to give it a shot....
Step 1 : Dismantle the sanyo battery by removing the label covering it..then carefully removed the plastic shell covering...
Step 2 : You'll find a pcb attached to it on the side cell.Handle with care.
Step 3 : with the help of multi tester probe the terminals and find out which is +ive and -ive and mark it on da pcb.
Step 4 :You'll need some basic soldering skills to desolder the positive and the negative terminals of the cell from the pcb.after detaching the terminals as i found out the base of the cell is positive where as the other point is -negative. see the attached pics
Step 5 :do the same on nokia battery....we wont be needing the top(which includes the terminals) and bottom plastic shell
Step 6 :removed the cell from pcb...well the nokia cell has both the terminals on one side as compared to sanyo's cell (see the pics)
Step 7:after seperating both the cells from their respective pcbs....we're going to attach pcb of sanyo to the nokia cell
Step 8 :becareful wen soldering the terminals on the pcb....it should be soldered the same way as it was on the sanyo cell...or youll end up screwing the pcb.double check it again with muli tester.
Step 9 :With the help a wire...connect the negative terminal of the cell to the pcb
Step 10 :Now put the cell and pcb back in to the sanyo's plastic shell...and youre done.....put the newly refurbished battery into the gene....and let it charge for atleast 3 hrs.
for me this battery is working as a new one the backup time is great...i wonder if there would be any change in performance in this cell which has 1220mAH as compared to original cell which had 1250mAH.
hope you guys like my tutorial...its kinda short.....i know.
i'll upload more pics later....and sorry for blurry images....
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INDIA ROCKS!!!!!!!!
EDIT: THIS IS WHAT I CALL A TRUE JUGAD
vaibhav_batra_the_techguy said:
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INDIA ROCKS!!!!!!!!
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Thanxs mate
Jugaad Techonology !
need any technical help on gene just ping me !
Excellent Find buddy...
Thanks so much for sharing this info.
Nice things
Beware....
hey this series of battery has burst issues????BL-5C
doesnt matter ...great job by u .....
Nokia Sucks!!!But Nokia Battery ROCKZZZZZZZZ..
AWESOME DUDE..U R TRUELY KHATRON KA KHILADI
sorry 4 my bad english
THis is truely an awesome reverse engineering gem, in hardware Weldone boy (or Man) ! You deserve a bow! o-,-\ (this is me giving a bow, if you can recognize )
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THis is truely an awesome reverse engineering gem, in hardware Weldone boy (or Man) ! You deserve a bow! o-,-\ (this is me giving a bow, if you can recognize )
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thanxs !
anyways...i think nokia ngage battery is more suitable for this hack...BL-6C...its 1070mAH...but man this battery is giving great back up just as new!
and one thing more...its an advise to all gene users...avoid charging ur gene on USB...i've read it on da forum somewhere...it shortens battery life and because all batteries have a limited number of charge cycles.continously charging makes battery lose a lot of charge cycles,When battery cells finish the number of life-cycles, theyre no more useful....decreasing the total capacity of battery.So its better to charge on Ac adaptor once...than chargin it thru USB...even though its fully charged !
good job man!!
i m very happy because original batt of gene cost rs 1400 .
u have done great job! can u plz upload a video of this hack because i can't get how to disseminate old sanyo batt. i know if i did wrong all hack will waste because it can damage plastic shell and pcb also.
buddy can u tell any hack for lenovo laptop batt also??
deepv84 said:
good job man!!
i m very happy because original batt of gene cost rs 1400 .
u have done great job! can u plz upload a video of this hack because i can't get how to disseminate old sanyo batt. i know if i did wrong all hack will waste because it can damage plastic shell and pcb also.
buddy can u tell any hack for lenovo laptop batt also??
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hello
its quite easy....all u have to do is remove the sticker label of the battery....once u remove it....u'l find tape covering the plastic shell to the cell...remove that too..... after that remove the shell gently n carefully...and yeah its better to cut terminal plates from da cell by pliers....than to desolder caz the terminals are solder at the bottom side of the PCB....u can desolder it easily after.
i wish i cud upload da video....but im having really low speed...using mobile office from airtel right now...my airtel broadband failed...since last week
and about the laptop batteries....u can find amazing DIY (Do IT Yourself) stuffs on http://www.instructables.com regarding it but u'll need to find same type of cells !
njoy !
kooolchief said:
hello
its quite easy....all u have to do is remove the sticker label of the battery....once u remove it....u'l find tape covering the plastic shell to the cell...remove that too..... after that remove the shell gently n carefully...and yeah its better to cut terminal plates from da cell by pliers....than to desolder caz the terminals are solder at the bottom side of the PCB....u can desolder it easily after.
i wish i cud upload da video....but im having really low speed...using mobile office from airtel right now...my airtel broadband failed...since last week
and about the laptop batteries....u can find amazing DIY (Do IT Yourself) stuffs on http://www.instructables.com regarding it but u'll need to find same type of cells !
njoy !
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thanks! for reply
i got it!
and about laptop battery i have seen already on www.instructables.com
but there is a huge problem where to find these type of cells in india?
deepv84 said:
thanks! for reply
i got it!
and about laptop battery i have seen already on www.instructables.com
but there is a huge problem where to find these type of cells in india?
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im also searching for da cells for my dell laptop in pune....will let u know !
Bravo.............
This is a genius trick, more cheaper than buy an OEM battery.
I think all people in gene forum are from india, and only me that come from Indonesia. Should I move to India??
Good Job.
Nice work, I thing BL5c is a good battery .Also I will say sony erricsson battery is much better, I once have something like w550i , or 530i, it had excellent battery back up,
Could we not put a battery something like that? It seems like u like to play with soldering circuits like that, Even I like that way, I still remember many capacitors use to burst
Thanks buddy, I will wait for my sanyo bat to be useless .
he buddy
i didn't found bl-5c with 1230mAh
all BL-5c comes with only 850mAh
do u have any idea 1230 mah battery's phone model no.
BesFen said:
Bravo.............
This is a genius trick, more cheaper than buy an OEM battery.
I think all people in gene forum are from india, and only me that come from Indonesia. Should I move to India??
Good Job.
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yes buddy we are Indians ,i m very glad that u come to India,if u can't move to India ,u can enjoy your holidays in India with us.
we all say welcome to you.
u can pm me ur email id.
bl-5c battery with 1020mah
i like to say very much thanks to this idea, i already lost my amount Rs.1200 for buying htc p3400 battery in ebay, still i not get the item ( after waiting 55days). i plan to buy new one... before that i saw ur message it really worthful... very much thanks to ur idea!!!!!
i done ur instruction( today), i changed new nokia BL-5c battery to htc p3400 battery, it working fine... but i have doubt on that mah, when i buy new one with 1020 mah only but in ur message it specified 1230 mah,
whether it give any problem to gene
Regard
aravindan
dude, if this works then it would be great!!
aravindan said:
i like to say very much thanks to this idea, i already lost my amount Rs.1200 for buying htc p3400 battery in ebay, still i not get the item ( after waiting 55days). i plan to buy new one... before that i saw ur message it really worthful... very much thanks to ur idea!!!!!
i done ur instruction( today), i changed new nokia BL-5c battery to htc p3400 battery, it working fine... but i have doubt on that mah, when i buy new one with 1020 mah only but in ur message it specified 1230 mah,
whether it give any problem to gene
Regard
aravindan
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thanxs aravindan for pointing out....its 1220mah....corrected it.
nope its not giving me any problems so far....
@deepv84 : check this .
its 1020 mah only... when i buy new one from nokia care (BL-5c).
Related
Does anyone have an internal battery for the XDA 1 for sale?
Must hold a decent charge.
Alternatively an old dead battery will do as I only require the small circuit board mounted on the battery.
same here....i really need an internal battery too...its not available here in my country!!
same here....i really need an internal battery too...its not available here in my country!!
U poor bastard I Had to destroy one of my XDA's (I) cause the screen was ****ed If I still had the parts I would of Given them too ya Sorry.
I have an XDA1 with broken screen if needed name your price including shipping. Everything else works great.
I have a battery for xda 1, it was charged last about 6 weeks ago and held a good charge, its a pain in the ass, I would like to keep it as a spare but have no way of keeping it charged, unless somebody knows different.
I have an extra internal battery from a dead XDA.
Batterie and displays XDA
Just for the people out there who damaged their touchscreen/display, or have a bad battery, The site Proporta.com in the UK have a good service for repairing XDA's. I damaged my touchscreen, and they can repair it perfectly or put in an new battery for an reasonable price.
You buy a transport box, wich is send to you, you sent back in the special box your XDA and it comes back repaired. Look to the website under the ''PDA REPAIR" button for more info.
I hope this will help some of you guys.
QTEK 2020 POWER battery,the world record, I do it my self.can last more than a week in normal
it is 1200+2200*3=7800mah, SIX times MORE than the orginal battery, and the qtek2020 is wm5.0 frmo windows mobile 2003， I bought it three years ago
I found that this forum is for QTEK2020I, please help me to move the post to the "Himalaya & Andes" forum
Tell me do you walk around with that? if so do you walk leaning to one side? jeeeez must be like carrying a brick.
yes,I take it daily life. It's really much heavyer than the orginal battery,but being using for several days ,you will used to it,and you will fell how powerful when using gps(with buletooth),reding books,playing games it's. that's why I made it
Well I hate to tell you but I bought a 3600 Battery cost very little and I can go two / three days with out recharging if needed but soon as I connect to my car and the GPS its charged up and it doesn't weigh very much at all
yes,it's in city
but I make it for outdoor
LoL, amazing but for you security I think that you should not play with the batteries otherwise *BANG* likes LG one.
2 The Owl: Where did you buy 3600 battery an how much was it?
It was off of Ebay but I found their e-mail address it is [email protected]
and was £9.99 plus P & P which made it £15.98
Beware that the 3600mAh Battery comes from Hong Kong (which isn't a bad thing) but it does come with an extended back - and if you use them with a GPS, you will probably need to modify the holder to accommodate the extra depth of the battery.
But - the battery is really really good and worth having
I bought one of these mounts
http://www.blueunplugged.com/p.aspx?p=114876&#moreinfo
I also as has been previously stated bought one of these Batterys
http://www.digitalera.co.uk/products/XDA_Battery_for_O2_XDA_II_XDA_IIi_High_Capacity-759-44.html
Both work together with out ANY modifications
Forgot to say I do use it for the GPS and this is the uint
http://www.pdamods.com/proddetail.asp?prod=LPTTGPSREC
lol amazing modif on battery
can you show the schema it's very interesting job
Dear Friends and Rom Masters,
I am really happy to see that my himalaya can support Windows Mobile 6.5.X but i am suffering from a problem that is my battery. my device is now 5 years old and its battery is half dead. its life is reduced to 50% and i am seeing developments by you all and every day new kitchen and builds are released by sun dream, and aeroflyluby, i am happy to see nokser back.
Coming to the issue. i want to make my himalaya back to life again i want to have a new battery of himalaya, i searched it hard but i cant find any in Pakistan, can any1 help me getting it online or tell me any shop in Karachi, Pakistan because my device is running perfect but i have problem of battery only.
Thanking you all
No 1 here to help me? i need charging cradle and high capacity battery please any1?
you can not, buy a new battery on the web?
No
I havent done online shopping ever and i dont know any reliable good website for himalaya battery and desktop cradle and can ship me to Pakistan
Maybe buy on the ebay.com
the delivery, you must agree with the seller
\\.... Sorry, for my English
Try PDADEN
Contact them if they can deliver to your place.
I did purchase some items from them for my Himalaya.
You need to have credidtcard or paypal.
Try google search for other online store near you.
My Himalaya works perfectly, but sometimes it turn on the screen, and I turn off again and it's turn on again. It's really annoying because it's draw off my battery.
dante05 said:
My Himalaya works perfectly, but sometimes it turn on the screen, and I turn off again and it's turn on again. It's really annoying because it's draw off my battery.
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Try to turn off with the I/O button, Then twist the cover carefully.
In case the device switches on, it is a little bit dirt between cover an the digitizer/touchscreen. Sometimes it's just the twisted cover.
Try to clean carefully and lock al buttons except On-button.
Good luck
muckelmaus said:
Try to turn off with the I/O button, Then twist the cover carefully.
In case the device switches on, it is a little bit dirt between cover an the digitizer/touchscreen. Sometimes it's just the twisted cover.
Try to clean carefully and lock al buttons except On-button.
Good luck
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Thank you for helping, but the problem wasn't that. I put a MicroSD adapter in the slot without a microSD card. Stupid ah? I just want to protect from dust.
dante05 said:
Thank you for helping, but the problem wasn't that. I put a MicroSD adapter in the slot without a microSD card. Stupid ah? I just want to protect from dust.
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Cool, it protected you from long battery live, too!!!
I got question. Recived the tattoo, Im happy with it, but since checking/testing etc battery ends WAY to fast...
So what do u guys think about this battery?
h ttp://cgi.ebay.com/2000mAh-Battery-HTC-A3288-CLIC100-Tattoo-Free-Shipg_W0QQitemZ380222277672QQcmdZViewItemQQptZPDA_Accessories?hash=item5887038828
Could it be ok? Its kinda 2mAh instead of 1.1, but its not original, what could be its quality? ETC? Usefull to replace original with this one ? Want to use it instead of one inside not as backup battery...
there was a similar bettery for the touch diamond but it came with a new battery cover and made the phone twice its normal size!
I owuld be interested to read any reviews on this though
Hey
You should indeed look out with those High Capacity batteries. Most come with a thick cover, which you don't want, I presume .
I have also been following two batteries and I have even messaged some of the buyers.
First one I found: 1300mAh HIGH CAPACITY BATTERY FOR HTC TATTOO TOUCH2 UK:
h ttp://bit.ly/b4fs3E
I've already got two replies, both saying it is a bit better, but didn't make a world of difference.
Second battery: PDA BATTERY FOR HTC Diamond 2 Touch 2 Tattoo 1350mAh:
h ttp://bit.ly/bxpGvi
Just got one very positive reply. The buyer told me she only had to charge it daily, instead of three times a day. (Don't know how she manages to do that, perhaps with wi-fi 24/7 on or something ) But it sounds like a real improvement. I will probably buy the second one as well.
Dose anyone know where to get a replacement battery for the Gear 2 Neo ?
Thanks
I don't think you can replace the battery
alteam said:
I don't think you can replace the battery
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You can, it's not hard to open up and remove either. Just need some small torx bits.
As for where to get the battery, I've seen a few on ebay, but they aren't as cheap as you'd think. Around 40-70$.
it's a basic 3.6V 400mA battery with a small contact board. Here's one in europe:
hxxp://www.fonejoy.com/accessories-by-device/by-manufacturer/samsung/galaxy-gear-2-sm-r380/genuine-samsung-galaxy-gear-2-battery-eb-br380fbe.html (it's used)
Samsung doesn't give support to it's watch
uncron said:
Dose anyone know where to get a replacement battery for the Gear 2 Neo ?
Thanks
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It is very easy to replace the battery, the problem is to get one. Samsung is horrible about it's support to the watch.
daroota said:
You can, it's not hard to open up and remove either. Just need some small torx bits.
As for where to get the battery, I've seen a few on ebay, but they aren't as cheap as you'd think. Around 40-70$.
it's a basic 3.6V 400mA battery with a small contact board. Here's one in europe:
hxxp://www.fonejoy.com/accessories-by-device/by-manufacturer/samsung/galaxy-gear-2-sm-r380/genuine-samsung-galaxy-gear-2-battery-eb-br380fbe.html (it's used)
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THATS NUTS!!! I got my gear 2 neo for $80 (on wicked sale, of course) from office max in late november! darn near the same cost for the battery (on the high side of your estimate) is just weird!!
dont get me wrong, i believe you, its just highway robbery!!