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PowerMax- gimme some more battery, please.

Madly in love with my phone(don't tell my wife), but good God- battery sucks something fierce(yes, I know, I'm not the first to make this observation )
I get it, and I had the same rebuttals at first, but this sucker IS a lifesaver. I'm ok with shutting down data,wifi, etc when I don't need it, and this thing is perfect and EASY to use.
One button widget click and I get a couple extra hours
It's got a few different levels/settings, "MAX" shuts down almost everything, but still allowing calls and texts to come through(useful if I'm at a gig, etc). There's also a standard and a low setting.
Good gracious, my extended battery can't get here soon enough.

havent used that one but i use green saver free, turns off the 3g/4g radio when screen is off plus you can custom the tweak it does unlike jiucedefender which only works on aosp roms, this works on sense. today with stock battery, decent usage, 50 or so txts, bout an hour on the phone, little web and some gametime. 40 percent as of posting. meanwhile i took my phone off the charger at 930am est. also just recieved my mugen 1650 slim extended. will see how that works in the coming days.

you should look into the 2750 battery...the things a champ.

MYxdaUSERNAME said:
you should look into the 2750 battery...the things a champ.
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so ive heard

MYxdaUSERNAME said:
you should look into the 2750 battery...the things a champ.
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I'd pay a bit more money than what they're charging for that thing.......if it weren't so ugly.
I don't need it standard size, but if they could make it a little smaller, and with a more aesthetically pleasing replacement case, I might consider.
I've got the 1650 on it's way, I'll take what little I can without changing the phone's physical profile.

Dlnp22 said:
I'd pay a bit more money than what they're charging for that thing.......if it weren't so ugly.
I don't need it standard size, but if they could make it a little smaller, and with a more aesthetically pleasing replacement case, I might consider.
I've got the 1650 on it's way, I'll take what little I can without changing the phone's physical profile.
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The extended is well worth it, even if it does make the phone bulkier. To be honest, I kind of like it that way, it fits easier in my hand. I use it nonstop at school for almost 8 straight hours (emulators, games, internet, texting) and it's still green by the time i get home. I only charge it at night.

Ok, FOOT IN MY MOUTH. No sooner do I make the judgement call on the extended battery, then I run into someone who has it. First person I ever run into with another Thunderbolt, to boot.
I was wrong, it is NOT as obnoxious as all the pics make it look. It didn't look bad at all.
HOWEVER, I still won't pull the trigger, because that momma jomma won't fit in my verizon windowmount(specific for the phone).
Hopefully, at some point, they'll make one specifically for the extended battery, otherwise.........

I wonder if they even need the extra space to make the battery bigger. They probably just add bulk so people don't ***** about them making that the standard battery instead of giving you half the battery trash.

TNS201 said:
I wonder if they even need the extra space to make the battery bigger. They probably just add bulk so people don't ***** about them making that the standard battery instead of giving you half the battery trash.
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Wouldn't be surprised. In the least.

Really Disappointed...

I was very excited about the N5 for months. I'm still using a GNex, so I was looking forward to the upgrade. I was actually on the Play Store today within minutes of the phone going on sale, ready to buy the 32bg model. But before I dropped $400, I wanted to check one thing - is the battery user replaceable. It's not, and I didn't buy the phone.
Now before you say just get an external battery, let me explain. I travel very frequently, flying at least 6x per year or more. Thus, my needs are a little different than most. I currently have a 4000mah battery for the GNex that can get me through a 12 hour day of heavy internet, game, and screen usage. I also carry a spare just in case (although I've only needed it once - it was there). The external battery just doesn't provide the portability I need.
So now I'm left with one of these choices:
1. Get a TMo or Google S4 (so I can use CM) - around $450 used
2. Get a G2 Korean Edition (sdcard and removable battery) - $800 new
3. Wait for the S5
Right now, I'm heavily leaning towards option 3. It will do many things better than the N5 for maybe $250 more. I still love the GNex, and I have no overwhelming need to upgrade now. Still though, I had high hopes for the N5. Why did Google have to go with LG instead of Samsung...

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Why were you on the Play Store? It was obvious Nexus will not have the removable battery and probably never will. Look elsewhere.

All I can say is, Google (or anyone, while we're at it) can never please everyone in this world.
Maybe the device is not for you. It's $349, it's cheap and it gets the jobs done for most of those who loves the Nexus series.

Wait until some DIY videos coming on YouTube to teach you how to replace battery for N5
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus

Maybe you need a tablet with a large battery instead of a phone for extended gaming lol.
3,000mAh on 16 GB was just a rumour squashed after FCC filings were released and Nexus 4 didn't have a removable battery.. so likelihoods of this having one were slim :|

cipsaz said:
Why were you on the Play Store? It was obvious Nexus will not have the removable battery and probably never will. Look elsewhere.
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Actually, from the pics, it looked like the back was removable. It doesn't resemble the N4 at all.
Lancez said:
Wait until some DIY videos coming on YouTube to teach you how to replace battery for N5
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I doubt I'll be able to swap in an airport terminal.
ranadylt said:
All I can say is, Google (or anyone, while we're at it) can never please everyone in this world.
Maybe the device is not for you. It's $349, it's cheap and it gets the jobs done for most of those who loves the Nexus series.
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I 100% agree. The N5 is a steal at $350/$400. Unfortunately, it doesn't meet my needs.

Maybe a power pack? I don't have it but I heard some people are using power pack on N4
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Lancez said:
Maybe a power pack? I don't have it but I heard some people are using power pack on N4
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Kind of kills the portability, at least for me. I just want the ability to put an extended battery in the phone and not worry about carrying two things at once.

SO get a G2 with a 3000+ battery. Kitkat will be out sooon for it. Actually Im very happy with the G2!!

mx597turbo said:
Kind of kills the portability, at least for me. I just want the ability to put an extended battery in the phone and not worry about carrying two things at once.
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May be a case with attached battery.. Or else wait. Now many companies doesn't provide replaceable battery except for Samsung.
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mx597turbo said:
Kind of kills the portability, at least for me. I just want the ability to put an extended battery in the phone and not worry about carrying two things at once.
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Don't be in a hurry..wait for some battery/screen time reports here. If you can go a whole day with power to spare, who cares if the battery is fixed? The combination in this unit may surprise you. If you're already convinced you need a replaceable cell, obviously not the phone for you. And that's fine, too.

jmill75 said:
SO get a G2 with a 3000+ battery. Kitkat will be out sooon for it. Actually Im very happy with the G2!!
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For an extra $150, I could get the Korean version - removable battery and microSD support. But $800 is ALOT to drop on a phone. Regular G2 without removable battery is no better than an N5 to me, except it costs about $200 more.

I have the same issue, just like you I own a GNex still, how I fixed my problem is owning an additional spare battery and keep it in my wallet.
Unfortunately Google has gone in the direction of non-removable batteries since the N4 and the same with this new device, I had to look else where for extra power. since I can kill both of my batteries 2 x 1750 mAh within 6 hours if I was really bored lol.
As of now, I picked up a 11,600 mAh power bank. yes it's bulky and and an additional thing to carry but it came with a 2 Amp supply usb plug. and I charge quickly with that socket. it cuts my charge time down near 40%. so when I'm low I throw it on that and within 20 minutes I get 30% easily. just put down your phone for a coffee break, it won't kill you

wideasleep1 said:
Don't be in a hurry..wait for some battery/screen time reports here. If you can go a whole day with power to spare, who cares if the battery is fixed? The combination in this unit may surprise you. If you're already convinced you need a replaceable cell, obviously not the phone for you. And that's fine, too.
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Trust me, delays at the airport will kill a 2300mah battery. And some don't have any outlets available to recharge.

I have a morphie battery pack on my gs3. The phone fits in it like a case. Maybe that would suit your needs.
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mx597turbo said:
it doesn't meet my needs.
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this thread is full of win win win

In this day and age, the need for a removable battery is becoming a bit unnecessary IMO. For $50 or less you can easily find a separate rechargeable battery to carry with you that can provide anywhere from 6000mAh to 10000mAh battery and not just one device-specific battery would; it would use a traditional USB port so you can use it for other devices as well, and allow for the ability to power/recharge something like the Nexus 5 for days on end or multiple recharges over several days time to extend your usage.
I'd love to have a Nexus 5, really, but I won't bother and the primary reason is (again) no expandable storage. I appreciate that everyone at Google believes in "the cloud" and I really hate that phrase, it's client-server and has been for 50+ years now, just calling it "the cloud" means nothing to me in the long run.
But I prefer local storage, even though I have 18,000+ songs sitting on my Google Play account I still have a few thousand of them on the microSD card in my LG Optimus G for local playback, and I'm not really interested in having everything in "the cloud" anyway.
Not having a removable battery in the Nexus 5 isn't even a consideration for me anymore, hasn't been for a long time because I have a nice little 4-AA battery charger I use with 4 high capacity (2600mAh) AA rechargeables - the other benefit is that even if those were to die on me at some point I can always get AA batteries most anywhere.
Just my $.02 I suppose...
mx597turbo said:
Still though, I had high hopes for the N5. Why did Google have to go with LG instead of Samsung...
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Because Samsung is moving away from making devices for anyone but themselves, and according to recent reports, they're actually working towards a custom version of Android for their own specific devices - they may even end up creating an entirely new OS for their own devices and just move away from Android completely, aka Tizen which is still being developed.

mx597turbo said:
Trust me, delays at the airport will kill a 2300mah battery. And some don't have any outlets available to recharge.
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Then you need to carry a power bank. I mean, if you're going to carry another cell around anyway to swap, why not carry one that truly buys you days of power, only double or triple a regular cell's thickness, and not need to take off a cover?

A word on parts

As most of you may have noticed, with the OP3 going out of production and the arrival of the 3T, one thing has remained strikingly similar. And that sometimes could lead to upgrades on users' current phones that are the OnePlus 3.
Just like HTC with the One X and the One X+, the bigger battery from the X+ yielded much greater performance in the battery department and surprisingly in the heat department too. The battery from the OP3T (disassembly and analysis is awaited) could potentially be used in our phone for greater (than usual) battery performance.
The structure of the housing looks to be the same, and the way the OP3 is built, the housings are merely just shells to wrap around the internals, nothing major (like the iPhone) so the Gun Metal casing could potentially be transferred over to the OP3.
This is all just based on speculation however. Time will tell when eventually iFixit or someone else performs a teardown.

My thoughts
Wouldn't say no to a bigger battery but time will tell

Same thought here as well,
I've been doing iphone parts repair n replacement for years,,
And what ive been doing quite often recently was placing an iphone 6+ battery to iphone 6s+,
The benefit is, the older model has slightly bigger battery, thus giving better battery life,
Hopefully OP using same connector for both OP3 & OP3T and hopefully the voltage spec didn't altered much. So that the tinkering one can see what can be achieved

Also wouldn't say no to a bigger battery but it's a moot point at this time since OP won't be selling it independently. Was just talking to Jeff on live chat and he said that they have no plans on selling any phone parts. Also, it's incompatible.

PlayPetepp said:
Also wouldn't say no to a bigger battery but it's a moot point at this time since OP won't be selling it independently. Was just talking to Jeff on live chat and he said that they have no plans on selling any phone parts. Also, it's incompatible.
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That's a real bummer. However I'm sure part resellers (like some of them do) will be buying phones to take them apart and then resell parts.
Someone in the Reddit AMA recently noted that the battery does fit - OnePlus agreed more or less that it's merely just a more dense cell. Which is great news!

Where did you get that info? If it's compatible that would be huge. Only thing from that phone I would like is that battery! :fingers-crossed:

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Where did you get that info? If it's compatible that would be huge. Only thing from that phone I would like is that battery! :fingers-crossed:
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A user on Reddit stated that the battery does indeed fit and OnePlus (Carl or Pete) said that the battery is the same with more dense cells to increase capacity while maintaining the size

humzaahmed155 said:
A user on Reddit stated that the battery does indeed fit and OnePlus (Carl or Pete) said that the battery is the same with more dense cells to increase capacity while maintaining the size
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In this case size doesn't matter. It's still incompatible with OP3. Aaron mentioned it. Screenshot attached.

PlayPetepp said:
In this case size doesn't matter. It's still incompatible with OP3. Aaron mentioned it. Screenshot attached.
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I wouldn't blindly trust that statement. The battery most likely works if it fits. Of course it's also possible that the battery management system (BMS) would notice that the battery doesn't match preprogrammed values and that would render the battery incompatible but I doubt that. I would guess though that the the extra capacity would be wasted. I don't know where the BMS is implemented but it would need to be changed as well to get the new battery fully charged to its higher voltage. The old BMS would stop charging sooner and the capacity would be the same as in OP3.

Guess we'll have to wait for the teardown to be sure or maybe some brave soul to try it out for us.

Also a quote from reddit
I think it will work just fine because the phone charges until a certain voltage is reached. So the nominal Wh of the OP3T battery in OP3 will be 12.92Wh instead of 13.09Wh (that the battery of OP3T is capable of). Now, the OP3 has 11.4Wh so it will be an improvement.
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Also a quote from reddit
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I DMed Zach from JRE and we discussed other scenarios. I did tell him that the battery charges until the battery controller chip knows the battery reaches maximum charge. Looks like the battery definitely works! This is great news. And it shouldn't void warranty either, I took a look inside and there's only one warranty sticker which doesn't get pierced after changing the battery. I guess you could keep the old one safe incase anything happens.
Now to wait for batteries to surface

That's great news indeed. I'm now only concerned about the lowest safe voltage that the new battery can reach. If it's the same as the old one then there's nothing wrong with just swapping it but otherwise it could discharge to the point of not being able to be charged again. That's without software tweaks ofcourse. Could you also ask this question too? That would probably alleviate any potential dangers of it being swapped before anyone builds software to support it.

[Battery Mod][Lens Mod] Upgrading original One Plus 3

Well according to this video it seems that the metal body (which contains the sapphire lens) and the 3400 mAh battery are compatible with the original one plus 3. However we need a software tweak to change the battery capacity as seen by the system.
Anyone with any source to buy either the battery or the lens can list it here ( I shall edit the main post to include the links)
I know that one plus has officially 'not condoned' the swapping of batteries. However as a person who praises their business decision but doesn't like their defocus on products I say my moto is also #NeverSettle. I want to see what my current phone can do with these upgrades.
The battery mod doesn't seem dangerous if someone literally hard swapped it without any software tweak but I'm pretty sure a developer can make a tweak for software ? if not please explain why.. It will help us DIY people understand better
The new body is up for grabs anyway if someone can list the sources. Yes it might not be available now but just like OPO and OPO2 parts we maybe able to upgrade in the future

I hope if some major dev has both fones he can come up with this. That would be huge!

Exactly. I don't want to bother devs a lot as they are already facing so much difficulty but I think anyone with a one plus 3T source should be able to port it maybe.That 400maH seems less but for light to medium users it's actually quite an upgrade.
I'll try to post on 3T forums to see if anyone can get it done.
I'm also currently looking for that back metal body. That sapphire lens is better than what Apple provides and DAMN that solved a lot of problems
The selfie camera is also another step but then again that will push the devs too much. Who knows maybe except for the processor we might just replicate the 3T.

watch this video

Um that's the one that I have posted in my original post. Jerry rig everything one right?
Well just goes to say that one plus has made the batteries similar enough to allow it to be used in OP3 Hardware wise.
waiting for any developer to provide any insight.
meanwhile eBay hunt for the rest of us.

jdorth said:
Um that's the one that I have posted in my original post. Jerry rig everything one right?
Well just goes to say that one plus has made the batteries similar enough to allow it to be used in OP3 Hardware wise.
waiting for any developer to provide any insight.
meanwhile eBay hunt for the rest of us.
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Sorry I didn't watched the video mentioned in OP. ?
Yea it's software related so may b a dev can fix this

Seems like my next mod for the OP3
Also, unless the 3400mAh battery has a bigger voltage, I think it could be used without problem on the OP3, even without changing anything, and take advantage of the bigger capacity.

Note 8 Upgrade battery?

Hey Guys,
Im thinking about to take the battery out of my Oukitel k10 and put it in the note 8.
There are serval problems
1. I could not find any 3d models of the Backcover to edit it for my needs and print it in an 3d printer.
2. What is the best way to connect the new battery to the System? thru the qi charging circuit or just stick it to the inbuild one?

Why would you even try to do this?
Is the size exactly the same? Or are you trying to get the Note 7 effect with your Note 8?

ole22143 said:
Hey Guys,
Im thinking about to take the battery out of my Oukitel k10 and put it in the note 8.
There are serval problems
1. I could not find any 3d models of the Backcover to edit it for my needs and print it in an 3d printer.
2. What is the best way to connect the new battery to the System? thru the qi charging circuit or just stick it to the inbuild one?
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That sounds like a fire waiting to happen.

OnnoJ said:
Why would you even try to do this?
Is the size exactly the same? Or are you trying to get the Note 7 effect with your Note 8?
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the battery is way bigger but the size should fit on the back of the phone. My plan is to build an new Backcover to fit the bigger battery. And i dont see the note 7 problem :laugh: .
the final resault should look like this
https://www.rakuten.de/produkt/vhbw...192|cid:65774|agid:657743857414|crid:19223984

Using a battery not even designed for the phone is a very bad idea, and most likely will result in a catastrophic failure (aka, fire). Unless the battery you want to use is specifically designed for the Note 8 (for example, if ZeroLemon makes one for the Note 8), don't even attempt something like this.
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The battery has circuitry designed to feed very important data, this hardware must match the design parameters Which I doubt will be the same within the battery you want to adapt, the arrangement you are devising may work, but most surely for a very little while

Why not just get a battery case for $25? Lol

These batteries are not designed to be taken out and replaced for a reason.

This is extremely dangerous.. in any way I do not condone this as its a fire hazard among other bad things
Buy a note battery
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