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[Q] Are these batteries any good?

Well, i was browsing stuff on ebay, and came across these batteries very cheap (0.11 cents plus 9 bucks shipping) and i wanted to know if they were any good or if they would blow up my phone.

I bought these for the hell of it. still waiting to receive them

Me too, and there was just 1 minute left before the bid ended XP

I got 2. Maybe it was something software wise but my battery indicater was all over the map. It once said I had 52% left and then after a reboot it said 74% they work great as a backup but I wasn't too happy using them as my primary batteries. The stock one registered fine before and after. I even tried clearing the battery stats and tried again with the same results.

bckrupps said:
I got 2. Maybe it was something software wise but my battery indicater was all over the map. It once said I had 52% left and then after a reboot it said 74% they work great as a backup but I wasn't too happy using them as my primary batteries. The stock one registered fine before and after. I even tried clearing the battery stats and tried again with the same results.
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will check whenever i recieve them, this does not sound too good. is this much of a problem?

Hello, I'm new here and was looking around and saw this thread. I have these batteries and charger. They are as good as the stock battery and the charger works good. I also got two of the 3500mah with a charger and back cover for $22.99. I'm getting over 44hrs uptime with them. I am currently at 68% with 22 hrs uptime and 4.5 hrs awake time. They've gotten better after three charges. It's nice to go a whole day without worrying about juice.
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locoman56 said:
Hello, I'm new here and was looking around and saw this thread. I have these batteries and charger. They are as good as the stock battery and the charger works good. I also got two of the 3500mah with a charger and back cover for $22.99. I'm getting over 44hrs uptime with them. I am currently at 68% with 22 hrs uptime and 4.5 hrs awake time. They've gotten better after three charges. It's nice to go a whole day without worrying about juice.
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Can you post screenshots?
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Screen shots, I don't know how. You have to be rooted to do that don't you?
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Screen shots, I don't know how. You have to be rooted to do that don't you?
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Yes, and also, if you have the android sdk on your computer, you can look in the tools folder for an program that monitors your phone. I do not recap the name of the program, but a quick google search should help you
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I bought this package the first week I got my phone it's well worth it, as I'm a heavy user and use 2 or 3 a day. they last about 80-90% of the stock battery (in my experience).

TheWizKid95 said:
Yes, and also, if you have the android sdk on your computer, you can look in the tools folder for an program that monitors your phone. I do not recap the name of the program, but a quick google search should help you
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Well i figured it out. I got a screen shot but how do I upload the pic from my pc to here. When I click the icon to add a pic it asks for a URL for the pic. Do I have to upload it to a web site first?

I think I got it. I had 54% battery left and the battery is a 3500mah from Hong Kong.

well, i finally got them, they are 1500 mah, and they are about a millimeter thicker than the oem 1300 batts, its a bit harder to put the back on, and i dont notice any wierd battery notification icons. i will be on the road tomorrow, so i can record watever i get, and post it here

Am I in trouble? :s

My phone is refusing to charge, I have no clue what got into it. I had to fiddle and press extremely tightly and I figured I'd take it to AT&T today as this happened last night.
Well I woke up this morning and it was dead, it does not want to receive any charge at all. I did back up my contacts and texts, but I don't see the folders I had Dropboxed last night.
I have a rooted and ROMed phone, will this matter to AT&T? I just need them fix the port. I want to go back to stock but it's completely dead now.

I'd suggest to just give them a call so they send you a new one. If you manage to power it on or boost it on, then do so but bringing it to AT&T could be a problem. The custom ROM itself isn't so bad but rooting voids your waranty.
If you call their technician, they'll tell you to try a couple things and if it doesn't work, they usually send you a new one as long as you are under waranty.

Two things to try:
1. Plug it in to a rear USB port on your pc.
2. Try another micro usb cable.
You probably already tried these 2 steps and if you have I apoligize for not offering much assistance.

I have yes, I have 3 different cables and it's the same. I've tried other ports, I tried the wall charger. I had some luck last night in my car as I kept it tight inside the middle console, but nothing this morning.
I guess I'll call instead then. If they send me one I can at least charge the battery and fix it, ship it back? Thank you!
EDIT: I'm SOL
The AT&T Chat support woman directed me to a specific location where they will check if it's my battery or the phone. If I could just get one charge on it I could fix it!

Why not buy a battery and charger. Or use a buds phone battery?
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I'm not sure I know anyone else with a Captivate...but I'll have to look into the battery charger. Thanks for the suggestion.

This happened to me with a replacement captivate. I got it rooted and rom'd and then the port went dead. So I had to charge with my first one, and then wirelessly transfer the files to flash back. I had taken it to the warranty center, and it was running a custom stock rom, with super user and all that but they didn't notice
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Fyi. If you didn't know. The batterbattery n a vibrant would work too.
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Did you try and pull the battery out and re-seat it after about 10 minutes of not being in the phone?
Also if you call them you will want to make sure when you send the phone back, that you un root it. A friend just got a bill for his referbed captivate and it wasn't cheap!

I had this same thing happen to me (useing a rooted stock rom). Thankfully I had a second battery to use for a while. After a while I decided to try the dead battery, it took a few hours for the battery symbol to show and another 16 hours to get to a full charge. Try that... it might just be that the battery is just so dead it takes a while. Also if that is the case make sure get rid of the batterystats.bin file and you should be good to go. Worse comes to worse if you go to the at&t mobile device center just have them give you a new battery and it should be fine... good luck
Let me know how it goes
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What's up with the battery?

How aam I loosing so much battery life? I tried different kernals, roms, and modems but nothing is fixing g this battery drain. Serendipity was the best for me but then when I came back from apex it killed my battery just as bad as apex did. Now I'm on cm7 and same thing is happening. What's going on? It's bull****.
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I just lost 7% in 10 minutes.
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I just lost 7% in 10 minutes.
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You might just need a new battery man. Im OC'd to 1440 and im still getting a good 12 hours with heavy use.

I've been finding that it takes me 3 or 4 full cycles for me to get my battery life back after switching kernels or roms. Out has been the same with my wife.
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Make sure you are killing your apps and run less widgets. Like said before it takes a few days for your battery to work properly, you can also look in to recalibrating your battery as well.

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Make sure you are killing your apps and run less widgets. Like said before it takes a few days for your battery to work properly, you can also look in to recalibrating your battery as well.
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Alright. Thanks for the other replys too. Ill see that
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you may also want to try doing a master clear if you haven't done that in between switching ROMs. sometimes that will help with random battery drain.

If your really that worried find an AT&T device support center and tell them you would like a new battery because you do not believe this one is holding a charge like it should. I've done that and gotten a couple new ones no problem. Or you could try calling 611 and have one sent to you. Of course dont say anything about your rom switching.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1143594
Give that a try. I dunno if it's true or not as I never realized that the different charging speeds has an effect on battery life.

alexige said:
If your really that worried find an AT&T device support center and tell them you would like a new battery because you do not believe this one is holding a charge like it should. I've done that and gotten a couple new ones no problem. Or you could try calling 611 and have one sent to you. Of course dont say anything about your rom switching.
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I would, but I left my phone in my pocket one day when I ran. The heat from my body caused the liquid indicator red. and I know what they are gonna say cause att is a bunch of aholes. And I'm gonna try that different charging thing. I also ordered new batteries off eBay. I kinda wish I double checked them cause they aren't OEM. Has anyone ever tried a battery that isn't OEM?
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I would, but I left my phone in my pocket one day when I ran. The heat from my body caused the liquid indicator red. and I know what they are gonna say cause att is a bunch of aholes. And I'm gonna try that different charging thing. I also ordered new batteries off eBay. I kinda wish I double checked them cause they aren't OEM. Has anyone ever tried a battery that isn't OEM?
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When I've asked for a battery they've never even asked to look at my phone. Just call 611 and ask for a new one through there.
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Did you try Cognition rom ? 10 hours of standby only loosing 6% battery. Its based on Samsung captivate rom , i always have bad battery with other rom ports like CM and global galaxy s.

Did you happen to read Altered water damage indicators?
Interesting read!

Apply chlorine to the water alert... it will make it white again
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goob1284 said:
I would, but I left my phone in my pocket one day when I ran. The heat from my body caused the liquid indicator red. and I know what they are gonna say cause att is a bunch of aholes. And I'm gonna try that different charging thing. I also ordered new batteries off eBay. I kinda wish I double checked them cause they aren't OEM. Has anyone ever tried a battery that isn't OEM?
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Look in the accessories section on the Captivate forum...

goob1284 said:
How aam I loosing so much battery life? I tried different kernals, roms, and modems but nothing is fixing g this battery drain. Serendipity was the best for me but then when I came back from apex it killed my battery just as bad as apex did. Now I'm on cm7 and same thing is happening. What's going on? It's bull****.
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Try continuum's 6.1. Its a jvq base 2.4. Sence I switched to them I've had no battery bug. It also uses the talon kernel that's designed for just that rom. Its a great combo.

I had a bad week with Continuum, though I think it was the I9000 bootloaders or just a bad flash. When i say bad poor battery life (8 hours with network and wifi off and most of the time on standby) and general lagg all around.

When you're switching ROMs and kernels, you're supposed to re-calibrate your battery.
Try this method here. If you're on a 2.3.3 ROM, it probably won't let you clear your battery stats file, so you can download the "Battery Calibration" app from the market.

goob1284 said:
I would, but I left my phone in my pocket one day when I ran. The heat from my body caused the liquid indicator red. and I know what they are gonna say cause att is a bunch of aholes. And I'm gonna try that different charging thing. I also ordered new batteries off eBay. I kinda wish I double checked them cause they aren't OEM. Has anyone ever tried a battery that isn't OEM?
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IMHO, I would NOT use a NON-OEM battery. Stick with OEM and make sure to fully discharge your battery ALL THE WAY DOWN TO 0%. I have consistently had battery issues... poor life, not charging up to 100% or if it does charge to 100% once I unplug the charger it would immediately drop to 98% or 96% - all due to constantly charging the battery. I also read on these forums that when changing roms to wipe your cache & battery stats via CWM. Also, turning off background sync and stopping your email and apps from constantly syncing all day REALLY makes a difference in battery life too along with obviously not using 300 widgets at once, etc. Even the old 'recalibration' technique suggested on every Android forum didn't really work for me either. I recently bought myself another new OEM Samsung battery and fully discharged it by running it all the way down to 0% and that has greatly improved my overall battery life.

jferg5 said:
I've been finding that it takes me 3 or 4 full cycles for me to get my battery life back after switching kernels or roms. Out has been the same with my wife.
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Same for me. I'm on my fourth after flashing cm7 nightly 48. I've been charging to full before each flash, and that helps a bit.
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GPS settings for bionic (UNL3ASH3D)

Look, every day or so I dig through the Unl3ash3d threads praying to find some magical fix to my battery drain issue.
I've tried to convince myself its just the 1% messing with my mind but I can't keep living a lie. My battery drained this morning 10% in under an hour with me not even touching it (screen off).
My engineering mind goes into troubleshooting mode. Seems like some are having battery problems and some are not.
What has everyone chosen during set up for the location settings? I think it gives the options, google, verizon, our stand alone.
Could this be the culprit?
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And before anyone asks, yes I calibrated battery. Did it manually the first two times without any improvement then I even used the silly app in the market that does it for you.

GPS is never actually using power unless an app is using it (and you'll see the location icon in the notification bar). I would turn off any apps that use GPS in the background, but I wouldn't worry about it otherwise.
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That's what I thought. I just disabled "push" for my exchange server... Trying anything at this point.
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Have you looked at this thread? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1287944

I was having the battery drain issues, but they seemed to get fixed after I re calibrated , and let it fully die before I charged it.
I have mine in a custom batter profile. the radio is set to turn off after 15 minute of no activity.
5h, 5m on batter at 86% right now.
Sent out couple texts, couple apps updated like weather, made a few short voice calls.
Screen brightness is all the way down.
I remember I used to use the "ondemand" scaling setting for the cpu, that seemed to help with power, if its that big of a concern (you will have to deal with potential random restarts tho).
Maybe try re wiping and re flashing? Or start eliminating apps?

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Have you looked at this thread? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1287944
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I had read some of it. Just got all caught up. Thanks.
I am using the stock launcher so I'm not sure about those processes described.
I would respond over there but for some reason (maybe because I'm new here our the system thinks I'm a bot) I can't reply in that thread.
I'm wondering if it's beautiful widgets that it's the culprit. That's one the the guy over there mentioned that I also have. I'm gonna in UN,install
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cutoonie said:
I had read some of it. Just got all caught up. Thanks.
I am using the stock launcher so I'm not sure about those processes described.
I would respond over there but for some reason (maybe because I'm new here our the system thinks I'm a bot) I can't reply in that thread.
I'm wondering if it's beautiful widgets that it's the culprit. That's one the the guy over there mentioned that I also have. I'm gonna in UN,install
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Let us know if you notice an improvement after uninstalling that. Although I am not running Beautiful Widgets I also am having that 1%battMOD mess with my mind.

Did not help. I'm at a loss. There's nothing suspicious in my battery stats.
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It may be a bad battery. With the millions they produce, theres bound to be a few that go bad. Do you have a spare you could try?
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It may be a bad battery. With the millions they produce, theres bound to be a few that go bad. Do you have a spare you could
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Yeah, I like the thinness, so instead of extended battery, I have extra standard batteries I carry.
I'm going through two or two and a half batteries in a day though.
:/
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My stock battery ran down by about 10 hrs for me and my use and I have BW installed too. I bought the extended and now i'm still at 70% at 10PM when I plug it in for the night. Everything else is default settings. I check 2 emails accounts, twitter, facebook, talk, skype and voice constanly. I guess I'm one of the lucky ones. Good luck.
But I hate the camera, it sucks.

You do realize that once your battery hits full charge the phone stops charging and starts feedinding off the battery until you unplug the phone and reconnect it. So one you active your phone in the morning it was probably charged a good 6 hours before that point and during that time it was draining the battery so you get thaf sudden drop first thing. I dont think most people realize thjs.
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They design the charging system like this on purpose. If the phone kept recharging every time the battery dropped a couple percent it would kill the battery very fast. Batteries have a limited amount of charging cycles before they are no goodeverytime you go into a charging phase that subtracts a cycle.so if it did this 30 times a night you can see the problem. I would not worry about that ten percent and instead track the last 90 percent and see how much lief that gives you. I will bet its on par with most others.
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Extended batteries

I was going through amazon and was checking out this battery, does anyone own it? I'm kinda hesitated with no reviews or feedback but it looks amazing
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I'm Testing Them Now
I got two 1800 mAh batteries and a wall charger from Amazon. I have deep cycled one of the batteries so far, but I need to run some more cycles. Also, I need to put the original battery back in and time it to see how much more, if any, I am getting from the replacement batteries. I will try to report back in a few days with better data.
As for the charger, it can charge the battery directly, outside of the phone. And it has a USB port for charging the battery in the phone. So if you swap out a dead battery, it can be charging while you are using the spare battery in the phone. The charger is small and can easily be carried in a bag or briefcase.

Awesome. For 17 bucks I'll try it out.

I got the SaFPWR Fusion 2 case with the 1800 MhA battery. It works great, I run off of the case's battery all day, and sometimes it runs out and switches to my phone's battery around 10 at nite. Lasts me all day, even using Pandora, internet, e-mail, textes, etc.
Pretty pricey, but it's a case and extra battery, so I just looked at it like if I got and paid for both.
Plus, it has a year warranty, so I can just go in and get a new one before the year is up.
Case makes the phone a bit heavey, but I don't mind, feels like it gives it a more solid feel.

I've ordered the two 1800 mah batteries plus this so i should be set for the life of the phone which is till the edge comes out, this stock battery is pathetic, the amaze has a 1820 mah and its not even lte
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I would go with one of these 1700mAh or 3400mAh from Mugen.

1800 mAh batteries not any better, for me anyway
brucegil said:
I got two 1800 mAh batteries and a wall charger from Amazon. I have deep cycled one of the batteries so far, but I need to run some more cycles. Also, I need to put the original battery back in and time it to see how much more, if any, I am getting from the replacement batteries. I will try to report back in a few days with better data.
As for the charger, it can charge the battery directly, outside of the phone. And it has a USB port for charging the battery in the phone. So if you swap out a dead battery, it can be charging while you are using the spare battery in the phone. The charger is small and can easily be carried in a bag or briefcase.
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After running one of the 1800 mAh batteries through 4 full discharge/cycles, I got 20-40 hours per cycle. (Note, my usage pattern is probably less than most folks.) However, after running the 1650 mAh battery that came with the phone through 5 full sycles, I got about 48 hours each time, except for one where I got 24 hours with much heavier (for me) use.
So, I think I can say that the 1800 mAh batteries don't really provide significantly more power. They are the same size as the 1650 mAh battery.
The main benefit is simply having a spare battery in an emergency. Also, the charger can charge the battery while out of the phone.
PS: At night, I will put the phone in Airplane mode. It uses little power while I am sleeping, extending the battery time.

:>;
Requires too many permissions. What's with "access to power" all about anyway. Besides that I looked closer and see that it does not include either a screw driver or adhesive. Are they insane?
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This item does not include screwdriver or adhesive. If you want the screwdriver, you need to buy this item:url-link
Joking aside I sweated buying a cheap 3400 battery for my EVO and it was the smartest thing I've done. Worked(s) great. I will give my new Vivid a month to break in but likely buy this one and risk the $16

I don't get why you would need a screw driver I put the battery in today and the cover slid on just like the regular cover does
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I don't get why you would need a screw driver I put the battery in today and the cover slid on just like the regular cover does
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How thick does it really make the device? Can you post a picture of a side view pretty please.

This is my stats so far, I'll work on getting a pic up , so far this battery is very good for $16
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This is my stats so far, I'll work on getting a pic up , so far this battery is very good for $16
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Thanks, I'm anxious to see how thick it makes the phone. Obviously increasing battery life though by the look of your screenshot.
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I found a flaw!!! The clips where it goes into the back are very thin so you have to be careful when removing , otherwise great battery
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How's the battery life been so far? Still getting more than a day??!
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Well I ran it is but I stopped using it when I broke the snaps in the cover so I am waiting on a replacement cover to use it again
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I signed up because of this thread. Its great to find others that have tried this. I have posted some of this on other sites..
I bought the 3600mAh from ebay for about 13 bucks. Popped it in and it was at 75%. I used Battery dr. app to see what usage time are compared to stock. Even at 75% it should have been more then what the stock batt had.... but it didnt.
Anyway, I thought it was a cheap chinese battery and just left it in the phone and charged it over night. I thought it was a wash and didnt thinking about it till later that day.. After it was charged the wife used it a little and hours passed. When I picked up the phone it was still showing 100% so I re-charged it just in case and ran it through a test.
Turned wifi on
Bluetooh on
sound at max
ran a long netflix move 2H:30min+
then did it again
and again.. haha
Anyway I didnt finish the 3rd time around, but it looks like I can get with all that **** on about 7 1/2 hours of netflex. Hell without wifi and bluetooth that might be over 8-9 hours..
I have not tested the stock one, but I dont think it will last that long. Which leaves me to think for some reason the Battery dr. app or something is not really forecasting the right amount of talk/video time. Also I ran Nav for over an hour the phone was warm and Battery Dr. showed the same temp all the time. maybe there is another app to try.. or maybe there is something in the battery that gives the phone info..

Well I'm still averaging around 27 hours so for $15 I think this is the best battery I've owned
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I just dont know why any of the aops doesnt show the difference..
I just tried "one touch battery saver" and that shows the same talk time, surfing time as the stock battery..

You might need to reset stats from fully charged ?
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