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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 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.
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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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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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jpitch2415 said:
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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Hey guys Thanks for stopping by, I've seen many posts like this which I really didn't want to post but I ran out of options... Im. Currently running on gingervolt 1.3/ blitzkrieg+ 2.6.35.7, I hope you guys have all the info you need. I leave it running over night and when I leave for work in the morning at noon its already powered off because no more battery... Please let me know if there's something I can do to make it last longer... I'm not the type of person that uses the phone all day.. Thank you
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Should be in General not Development, And why don't you just shut the phone off until you go to work?
You can try: Setting the CPU lower with an apk like CPU master, CPU set, ROM toolbox, ect.... Turn down the brightness of your screen. .. Uninstall some of the apk that are always running in the background... Turn off LED message alert. Stop using apks like advanced task killer (unless you custom set it up to not kill system vital apk.) Turn off 4g unless in an area that has strong 4g sig. Recalibrate your battery after a full charge. Install GingerVolt 2.0. Buy extended battery (still $25 @ vzw website)
There are many different things you can do to get more battery life out of your phone... Look in the GingerVolt forum and check out where others have done. But get a custom to bringing your charger everywhere you go.
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Turning off background data saves a good bit too. And unless im gaming or seriously multitasking i keep cpu speeds @ 245 & 1200
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Turn off 4g. I didn't use my phone at all but to check battery status every few hours and it lasted 1 day 16 hours.
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For those that helped me out with some tips I greatly appreciate your suggestions... I will go ahead and do some tweaking and see if that helps. Once again thanks guys
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Not just turn off 4G but turn off data and wifi. These 2 radios are constantly working. The more time with them off the longer the battery will last.
mtmichaelson said:
Turn off 4g. I didn't use my phone at all but to check battery status every few hours and it lasted 1 day 16 hours.
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I hope with all the wonderful work you do for us that you get to enjoy it more than that...
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My own experience and take is that daily battery life depends on good cell signal. I live at the fringe between three cell sites. My signal is typically two bars or less. At work I have a similar situation, but shielded by building opposite the cell side.
I always stay plugged in because my battery is always being used otherwise. My guess is that people who report much greater battery life are lucky enough to be in areas with good signal strength.
As an example, this morning I got up 1.5 hours ago, took the phone off the wall charger, rebooted it and used it a bit during my morning prep. I left home an hour ago with the phone plugged in to the car charger for 20 minutes (which charges at the lower USB rate). I have been at work for 40 minutes off charger since and now have 90% left on my EXTENDED battery.
At home reception is 3G most of the time. Work 4G.
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yeah I agree, turning off 4G is not an acceptable solution....
GV2.0 unmodified with a cpu tool worked fine for me but I have gotten accustomed to having chargers with me wherever I go (home, office, car)
We are hearing battery life is much improved on ZV8, so maybe that will help too with the next GV release....
dbeauch said:
yeah I agree, turning off 4G is not an acceptable solution....
GV2.0 unmodified with a cpu tool worked fine for me but I have gotten accustomed to having chargers with me wherever I go (home, office, car)
We are hearing battery life is much improved on ZV8, so maybe that will help too with the next GV release....
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V8 battery life for me is now crap. I have gone from about 3% per hour usage to 7 to 10% usage and that is with almost no usage of the phone. This is sucking. I am about to roll back to v7 if this does not improve.
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V8 battery life for me is now crap. I have gone from about 3% per hour usage to 7 to 10% usage and that is with almost no usage of the phone. This is sucking. I am about to roll back to v7 if this does not improve.
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Not sure how your phone is different. Maybe you need a new battery or possibly a new phone. Forgot my phone at home during work today. I'm at 86% after 9.5 hours.
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I've got the same problem he has except it got worse after I went to Gingervolt 2.0. From what I've read on here it seems that not wiping date may have something to do with that so once he gets the new update incorporated into Gingervolt I'll be doing a complete wipe and trying from there.
DOWN WITH BING
Bait-Fish said:
My own experience and take is that daily battery life depends on good cell signal. I live at the fringe between three cell sites. My signal is typically two bars or less. At work I have a similar situation, but shielded by building opposite the cell side.
I always stay plugged in because my battery is always being used otherwise. My guess is that people who report much greater battery life are lucky enough to be in areas with good signal strength.
As an example, this morning I got up 1.5 hours ago, took the phone off the wall charger, rebooted it and used it a bit during my morning prep. I left home an hour ago with the phone plugged in to the car charger for 20 minutes (which charges at the lower USB rate). I have been at work for 40 minutes off charger since and now have 90% left on my EXTENDED battery.
At home reception is 3G most of the time. Work 4G.
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Sounds like you're killing the battery by always staying plugged in. I go about 11-14 hours a day on 3G (no 4G in my area) with stock battery with moderate use
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Gel Pen6 said:
Sounds like you're killing the battery by always staying plugged in. I go about 11-14 hours a day on 3G (no 4G in my area) with stock battery with moderate use
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+1 to that, my standard battery made it 16 hours today, and I live between two mountains where service is spotty and my phone continuously switches between 3g and 4g
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Killing a battery by keeping it topped off or cycling it. Which is the greater evil? This type of battery has a number of discharge life cycles. So, stressing by keeping the voltage at max or consume those life cycles? I don't know, but I certainly want to have it most available, and keeping it charged works for me. Some people don't let their fuel tanks go less than 1/2.
In the end, I have way more battery, extended and spares, to care if keeping it charged up is hurting the battery because I only have it until the next upgrade in a year.
Ideally, I would prefer to change the charge scheme so it wouldn't run the charge voltage so high maybe to 95%, to protect the battery further. But, in my time frame, doesn't matter.
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I run JuiceDefender Ultimate and it helps quite a bit. I'm using it in aggressive mode on Gingervolt 1.3 ROM, and ran it with stock before that.
I personally don't think hes killed the battery.
I have two because they gave me a special on docking station that came with an extra battery when I bought the phone. Anyway I sleep during the day because I work night shift. If my battery is almost dead I pop a new one in before bed otherwise its at about 97 percent after I got home from work. When I wake up 5-8 hours later I've lost almost 50 percent. Sometimes more from either battery.
I check the batter usage stats and Android System is up at about %97 percent...
I have all notifications turned off except Gmail and theres no WiFi or anything.
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When I wake up 5-8 hours later I've lost almost 50 percent. Sometimes more from either battery.
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I'm loosing abt 20% over that same time period letting JuiceDefender manage things.
I'm wondering how the battery is for everyone. Yesterday when I finished updating then started using it, it seemed that it was dying faster than usual. Right i think its a bit like normal. How is everyone else battery going?
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Battery life great here 10+ hours easy with moderate use.
After 25 mind of use it just dropped 1% for me 100% to 99%. I'm only browsing buy with lte so I should drain a bit more.
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not seeing much difference, but only been running ICS for a day.
Well I just checked again and its at 95% only been 5 mins
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My battery has been great, did the update yesterday around 2:00 and the phone had 20% at about 10:30. Before I usually hit 20% at 7:00, and this is with moderate use.
If only there was a way to turn off LTE and FauxG... Our battery would be a lot better.
this is so weird my battery dies so fast from just being on fb or web browse for about 5 mins and itll go down 2 to 5% and i have flash to on demand
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If only there was a way to turn off LTE and FauxG... Our battery would be a lot better.
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I believe 4g is automatically turned off if not in an area with it, so the actual turning off of 4g probably wouldn't help much.
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Like the title said. How often do you charge your Nexus 4 each day. Pleas take into consideration that you let your N4 run at least under 30% before charging. If you can go on without recharging your battery for more than one day please post the numbers of days.
I charge once a day. I get 12-16 hours of battery life from what I consider an average day attached are screenshots from yesterdays battery life
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Once, when I go to bed - the same as I did my SGS2.
3 times, but I just got it 2 days ago. It might be that new phone usage spike. Still, I have serious doubts that it will go to less than 2 charges per day
Cactus42 said:
Once, when I go to bed - the same as I did my SGS2.
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+1
n7'd from my n7
only at night so far
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Cactus42 said:
Once, when I go to bed - the same as I did my SGS2.
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Cactus42 said:
Once, when I go to bed - the same as I did my SGS2.
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Same - same as I have every phone in my Sig.
I chose less than 1 because so far I have not gone to bed with it at less than 30%.
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Same - same as I have every phone in my Sig.
I chose less than 1 because so far I have not gone to bed with it at less than 30%.
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Yep, same. I've even had 40 hours out of it once, but only because I was in meetings for 2 days and the screen was off for 8 hours at a time. that was fully charged to completely dead.
Really happy with the battery life so far, I was being conservative on my last phone with battery however now I've got this I don't really think about it so much.
Charge when I go to bed.
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I got my Nexus on Tuesday night and I'm only just charging it for the first time now.
I'm only a light user though.
Once - Over night
Last's all day wifi on 8hrs - BT 1hr - texting & a few calls
Depends. When I'm at home I charge once per day, but when in at work it just sits on my desk charging. I normally use the phone more at work then I do at home, so it's hard for me to tell if I could really get through a whole day work my normal usage. I have done about 12-14 hours or so with a couple hours of screen time and still had 15% left. To me, the battery has been about 25 percent better than the gnex.
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I still love my Nexus 4 and it performs well still but the battery life is now beyond dire, charging it 3 times a day.
Is it worth paying a firm to replace the battery? My thoughts are that I can just put that money towards an inevitable replacement in the near future.
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I just replaced the battery in my N4. It was simple, requiring only a small torx driver and a small Phillips, plus a pry tool. The battery was cheap on Amazon and says it is an LG battery.
The old battery would no longer charge at all.
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I still get 4h of SoT, and 10-12 hours battery time - so I am still quite happy with my N4. Unfortunately the camera really sucks (even more now) so I will replace the beloved N4 soon.
spiceweasel_aut said:
I still get 4h of SoT, and 10-12 hours battery time - so I am still quite happy with my N4. Unfortunately the camera really sucks (even more now) so I will replace the beloved N4 soon.
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Yeah, I am having intermittent camera issues, a lot of photos come out black even in good light.
It's another excuse to upgrade I guess, has been a great phone though.
I think I should try the battery swap thing, mine just cannot get more than an hour and a half of SOT no matter what combination of ROM, Kernel and Android version I try, and using it during my daily commute means I arrive at my workplace at already 60% even if I'm on extremely low screen brightness. Greenify doesn't help either because it's the actual screen on what kills it, as long as the screen is off the battery drain is negligible.
Worst part is that every single battery out there is a fake, just with a very high-quality copied sticker on it. AFAIK the only way to get a new original battery is through LG and for a price you'd be better just getting a new Moto E 3rd gen for a little bit more and call it a day.
trent999 said:
I just replaced the battery in my N4. It was simple, requiring only a small torx driver and a small Phillips, plus a pry tool. The battery was cheap on Amazon and says it is an LG battery.
The old battery would no longer charge at all.
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I have decided to give it a go, what sort of screen time is your replacement battery giving you, was the battery from an Amazon Marketplace seller?
almost all day pluged on computer lol
I have got a swollen battery.My note is 1 year old.It gets switched off immediately after the logo appears but somtimes works okay.I am on an asop rom.Is it the battery or the rom?
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jayOverkill said:
I have got a swollen battery.My note is 1 year old.It gets switched off immediately after the logo appears but somtimes works okay.I am on an asop rom.Is it the battery or the rom?
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This is the most common thing now. I have seen that the stock batteries are not lasting more than a year.
Just go ahead and buy a new battery. It surely is not the ROM
Is it gona blast or something? Lol coz I really need to use that phone untill new battery comes
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Same thing happened with me 2 months back. U need a battery change. I changed my battey and my phone is ok.
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Buy A new battery & everything will become normal
The same has happened with me. My Note is 13 Months old.
I was playing game AVP Evolution till late night. And in the morning battery died, I charged it to full 100% but as soon as i boot up with in 4 second the phone again switched off , No battery low warning nothing. It is really strange but the fact is that the Samsung battery are just die completely all of a sudden, unlike other phones battery which dies gradually as it looses power and all that ........
I ordered a new battery & everything is fine now.
My old battery is unable to boot my phone even for 5 sec.
I am running my note on the swollen battery for about 8 hours now xP.Sometimes it switch off as soon as I turn it on but rest of the time it runs just fine.Anyways I ordered a new battery.
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jayOverkill said:
Is it gona blast or something? Lol coz I really need to use that phone untill new battery comes
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likeliness of it "blasting"... not very likely.. possibility of it "blasting".. it is possible..
batteries just go bad... a battery is only solid for around 500 charges then they just start losing their charge faster. i mean we are using small computers so this is just going to happen more and more. different reasons could cause this.... use of phone (it is what its designed to do..lol), a "cell" could just go bad causing the swelling, the circuitry in the battery fails causing the swelling, your charger goes bad and takes the battery with it (i had a cat bite thru a cable and it ground out..next day the battery showed signs of swelling and within a week you couldnt snap the battery cover on)... etc....
use is up to the user and their needs... there is a danger of the battery shorting the phone out totally and it never working again too. its not something that happens often but it is a solid possibility, so basically use good judgement...
it's usually caused by over charged (u don't unplug the charger when it reach 100%).
I've been using my Note more than a year and my battery still flat as it is new.
razgard said:
it's usually caused by over charged (u don't unplug the charger when it reach 100%).
I've been using my Note more than a year and my battery still flat as it is new.
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i beg to differ... the batteries have smart circuitry to protect against this. overcharging has not been a problem for years... i personally have left one of my notes on charge for days... it always stays on charge for 5-6 hrs past it being 100% and it still is a strong battery.. also just because a battery is flat doesnt mean its good... the swelling just makes the fact it is going bad more obvious...
I agree with kawgirl
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