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Hi with an anker battery do you have to take the battery out of the phone each time to charge it? I saw it came with a battery charger where you insert battery into charger.
Can it still be charged normally thru the phones micro usb port? I don't want to have to take my phone battery out at all once installed but was looking into 1900mah battery.
It can charge like the normal battery or you can use it the other way with the wall charger. I just leave mine in my phone and charge it that way. Keep in mind that the anker says 1900mah but you actually get 1740mah which you can get from the evo 3d battery and that one has a sensor unlike the anker one.
Link to the evo 3d battery. Just giving you options buddy
http://www.amazon.com/HTC-Original-Standard-Battery-Packaging/dp/B0058VZTO8
Pvt WhoOkid said:
It can charge like the normal battery or you can use it the other way with the wall charger. I just leave mine in my phone and charge it that way. Keep in mind that the anker says 1900mah but you actually get 1740mah which you can get from the evo 3d battery and that one has a sensor unlike the anker one.
Link to the evo 3d battery. Just giving you options buddy
http://www.amazon.com/HTC-Original-Standard-Battery-Packaging/dp/B0058VZTO8
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Sweet thanks for the info
I bought the anker battery and it sucked for me, stock battery gives me more battery lifetime.
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I brought an anker battery and althougg it works really well, giving me around 5 hours extra life it got really hot the one time i charged it through the phone.
Now i charge it through the wall charger supplied and its fine
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edgg51 said:
I bought the anker battery and it sucked for me, stock battery gives me more battery lifetime.
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jonyid said:
I brought an anker battery and althougg it works really well, giving me around 5 hours extra life it got really hot the one time i charged it through the phone.
Now i charge it through the wall charger supplied and its fine
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I have the Anker also, I'm at my seconde charging cycle now and can already say that battery life improved a lot! I'm almost 24h on battery now, 8 hours airplane mode but 16 hours WiFi/mobile data on, autosync enabled, moderate usage (screen on ~3 hours).
what should i say - still 43% juice remaining and still potential, cause you need about 5 cycles before you can really say what's going on.
Also it never got hot, did use micro-usb charging... So - Anker rulez
Do anker sells in single battery? Most offers comes with 2 battery and a charger
An example
Has anyone tried both the Anker and the Evo 3D battery and compared these two?
I have the Anker 1900mah battery but Battery monitor widget says the battery is only 1580mah???
realphoenikx said:
I have the Anker 1900mah battery but Battery monitor widget says the battery is only 1580mah???
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It's because it only reads what phone it is to get capacity not the battery itself.
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It's because it only reads what phone it is to get capacity not the battery itself.
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so it is. in my opinion the anker battery is much better than the original and i could charge it like the "normal" battery
Works very well with me.. I have it fire last 2 Weeks and it gives 25% extra time and doesn't get hot like stock one...
I charge it in my phone...
It's worth getting the two battery and charger combo. My battery life has dropped quite a bit after 3 months on the anker, but it's still better than stock by a landslide.
If you get either the anker or evo 3d battery you need a good kernel to pair it up for max performance. Don't expect to play games for 11hour straight and then complain about battery lasting only 5 hrs. I have the anker and i get at least 9 hrs of usage on heavy usage and 16 hrs on medium usage. I would at this point go with the evo 3d battery because it's directly from htc and hell it's cheap why not?!
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realphoenikx said:
I have the Anker 1900mah battery but Battery monitor widget says the battery is only 1580mah???
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Bat Monitor Widget defaults to 1580mah you can set it to any amount in settings. Its not a true refection of the battery capacity.
I just ordered mine but did not get the charger. Have you tried charging again to replicate the heating issue?
I guess i did something wrong with my anker.
battery monitor widget is only measuring about 1200 mAh. It measured 1540 on the stock. I'm on 6th cycle or so. For sure more than 5...
Any Idear?
Have you let it completely die out and then charged it? What's your usage like? If I play games on my phone nonstop then I'll get only 6hours but if i just text, answer a couple calls and Google search something I'll get 12-19 hours.
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Has anyone tried both the Anker and the Evo 3D battery and compared these two?
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I would like to know this also.
Do i let the phone shut off from the battery reaching 0%, then charge it to 100% and be on my merry way?
I've read multiple theories, but I think u should take it down out of the box, then shut off and charge to full...I remember ASUS recommending that to a media outlet when the Transformer 300 came out a few weeks ago...so that is what I am going to do when I get mine.
Thats exactly what I did, I let mine completely die and then charged to 100%.
Be careful with how you charge the phone, rather with how low you let it get.
Depending on how technical you want to get about it purposefully letting a battery drop to absolute zero can cause some odd chemical reactions that while not immediately evident can some times shorten battery life.
I would recommend taking it out of the box and using it until it is low but not dead. Maybe 10 or so percent and then either turn it off and charge it or leave it on and charge it just do not pull the plug on the charger until it is at 100%.
Valdeck said:
Be careful with how you charge the phone, rather with how low you let it get.
Depending on how technical you want to get about it purposefully letting a battery drop to absolute zero can cause some odd chemical reactions that while not immediately evident can some times shorten battery life.
I would recommend taking it out of the box and using it until it is low but not dead. Maybe 10 or so percent and then either turn it off and charge it or leave it on and charge it just do not pull the plug on the charger until it is at 100%.
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This.
Full battery cycles are not good for long term life of Li ion batteries.
Also, its unlikely, but occasionally happens where discharging the battery to shutoff will render the battery unable to take a charge. The safety circuit on the battery is supposed to prevent this, but its not failsafe. I've seen more than a few reports on previous HTC devices where this happened. And since the battery on the One X is not easily replaced, the result can be disastrous.
The battery meters on phones are not very accurate in the best of circumstances. No need to drain to shutoff, 10 or 20% is fine. No value added to draining to shutoff, and the consequences can be very bad.
Drain to 10% or even 20%, charge to full, repeat 2-3 times. This is done just to calibrate the battery meter on the phone. Its a misconception that you can somehow increase battery life by "conditioning" the battery. But modern Li ion batteries do not suffer from memory effects, and conditioning only works for older tech NiCad batteries.
I do the same thing for all of my phones.
1. Activate and mess the heck out of it until it dies completely.
2. Charge it up to 100%
3. Mess the heck out of it again until it dies completely.
4. Charge it up to 100%
5. Mess the heck out of it again until it dies completely.
6. Charge it up to 100%
Then use it normally
Mine came dead! it didnt even turn on. so I'm charging it now
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Mine came dead! it didnt even turn on. so I'm charging it now
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That stinks. It must have been on in the box like that other xda member on here claimed
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Mine came with 1% battery so I just turned it back off and now I'm charging it up, i think the led will turn green when it's ready
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How do you tell if the phone is charged to 100% while off?
While on, my battery percentage doesn't seem to go past 99%. Is that correct or is this last 1% just taking a very long time?
Update: NVM last 1% just took forever. LED does turn green when fully charged.
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The LED will turn green once it's 100%.
Don't worry about letting the phone die and charging it up to 100%.
These batteries don't have a "memory" like older phones
mehdi_s82 said:
Mine came dead! it didnt even turn on. so I'm charging it now
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Mine came dead too. Charged it to 100% and now been using it and so far have 36% on 3h 9m on battery.
Screen at 84%
Does the battery life get better? Because it seems to be draining rather quick. Even though I have screen brightness less than half.
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Thats exactly what I did, I let mine completely die and then charged to 100%.
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truciet said:
I do the same thing for all of my phones.
1. Activate and mess the heck out of it until it dies completely.
2. Charge it up to 100%
3. Mess the heck out of it again until it dies completely.
4. Charge it up to 100%
5. Mess the heck out of it again until it dies completely.
6. Charge it up to 100%
Then use it normally
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Don't worry about letting the phone die and charging it up to 100%.
These batteries don't have a "memory" like older phones
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@Maroon Mushroom, Correct these lithium batteries dont have memory effect, but over discharging them will shorten its life.
I dont want to sound like an expert, but discharging the battery until it dies is not recommended. It will affect battery life/performance.
A couple of good references here: http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/charging_lithium_ion_batteries
http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/discharge_methods
http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/how_to_charge_when_to_charge_table
Ya, we use Lithium Ion (Li-Ion) batteries now which dont have a memory. The older Lithium Polymer (Li-Pol) batteries did have a memory and needed a certain charge method to get the longes life cycle out of it.
Awesome, thanks everyone
I turned it off at 20% and wen't to go buy my MicroSIM (ugh...) cant wait to play with it tomorrow
Why would you buy it? Pretty sure they would give one to you for free
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bought it off Kijiji
It's offered by Rogers, but i'm on Telus
Hmm, i hate the idea of letting it die completely. But what i've always done is turned everything on and ran it through a low-powered usb source so it has a charge but the battery is still draining. So even if the battery runs dead it has power via USB plug [make sense?]. Usually having everything on [i do mean everything] and downloading a torrent so the internet is constantly under use. Then again i'm not sure how the One X will work out for this, but thats what i'm planning .
guys its lithium...u cant drain it to 0...even when android shuts down your at around 3.6volts. thats definetly not 0volts. no memory and android wont let you ruin your battery...so charge however whenever.
im qualified in lead acid. ni cad. nimh and lithium batteries. trust me..u cant hurt it unless you short it! !
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I just replaced the original battery that came with my phone in October 2010. The battery would drain 2% per minute while reading a book on the Kindle app. Actually any screen usage would do the same. It would also go down to 10% then shutoff then I would leave it alone for a few hours, reboot and the battery went to 50% with no charging. Then I would plug it in and it would go to 100% in a few minutes. Impossible. With very little use the battery would last 10 hours.
I put in a new HTC OEM battery that I bought of Amazon for like $6. It's been running for over a day with very heavy use and I am having trouble draining the battery to calibrate the phone. It's friggin AWESOME.
I think the old batteries are having some kind of problem or just getting old. It seemed like a heat problem where the longer the battery was used the faster it would drain and then stop completely. Then left alone it would show the correct charge.
Other people in various threads were having the same problem. Hopefully someone can figure something out.
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I just replaced the original battery that came with my phone in October 2010. The battery would drain 2% per minute while reading a book on the Kindle app. Actually any screen usage would do the same. It would also go down to 10% then shutoff then I would leave it alone for a few hours, reboot and the battery went to 50% with no charging. Then I would plug it in and it would go to 100% in a few minutes. Impossible. With very little use the battery would last 10 hours.
I put in a new HTC OEM battery that I bought of Amazon for like $6. It's been running for over a day with very heavy use and I am having trouble draining the battery to calibrate the phone. It's friggin AWESOME.
I think the old batteries are having some kind of problem or just getting old. It seemed like a heat problem where the longer the battery was used the faster it would drain and then stop completely. Then left alone it would show the correct charge.
Other people in various threads were having the same problem. Hopefully someone can figure something out.
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Do you have a link to the battery you ordered?
ziggy34 said:
Do you have a link to the battery you ordered?
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I ordered this one http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004QJB3E8/ref=pe_175190_21431760_M2C_SC_3p_dp_1. Not sure if it's the best or cheapest, it's just the one I chose.
succorso said:
I just replaced the original battery that came with my phone in October 2010. The battery would drain 2% per minute while reading a book on the Kindle app. Actually any screen usage would do the same. It would also go down to 10% then shutoff then I would leave it alone for a few hours, reboot and the battery went to 50% with no charging. Then I would plug it in and it would go to 100% in a few minutes. Impossible. With very little use the battery would last 10 hours.
I put in a new HTC OEM battery that I bought of Amazon for like $6. It's been running for over a day with very heavy use and I am having trouble draining the battery to calibrate the phone. It's friggin AWESOME.
I think the old batteries are having some kind of problem or just getting old. It seemed like a heat problem where the longer the battery was used the faster it would drain and then stop completely. Then left alone it would show the correct charge.
Other people in various threads were having the same problem. Hopefully someone can figure something out.
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It could be newer battery technology. I mean, the MT4G is nearly two years old at this point. Can you post a screenshot of your battery use? It seems that the standard for judging a battery is screen on time. How much are you getting? For $6 I would gladly invest in a new battery if we can get some numbers to back this up.
The batteries are just old. I bought a $6 battery and it's working great. Let's see how long it lasts
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It could be newer battery technology. I mean, the MT4G is nearly two years old at this point. Can you post a screenshot of your battery use? It seems that the standard for judging a battery is screen on time. How much are you getting? For $6 I would gladly invest in a new battery if we can get some numbers to back this up.
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I just started using the battery so I don't have real good stats yet. However, the charging is also taking a lot less time. My old battery took about 6 hours to charged from 5%. This should be done in about 2-3 hours.
nope - no issues on my OE battery here... last me for a day 1/2 with minimal activity (checking emails, fb). Guess i'm just lucky?
I have to agree, check your batteries. I just checked mine and it is turning oval like. Time for a new one
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nope - no issues on my OE battery here... last me for a day 1/2 with minimal activity (checking emails, fb). Guess i'm just lucky?
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may i also add that i've had my device for almost a year now using an OE batt and still going strong.
Lithium Ion batteries begin to degrade as soon as they're manufactured. They only have a few years shelf life. Poor charging habits will shorten them I already replaced mine months ago.
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I have to agree, check your batteries. I just checked mine and it is turning oval like. Time for a new one
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I see - i'm very critical of overcharging my phone. I have clocked mine the other day to see how fast it'll charge up from 30% to 90% and it took an hour and 15 mins almost... to me that's respectable.
I recommend buying the Anker battery for this phone. It really improved my battery life. Before I would only get 1.5-2 hours of screen on time before needing to charge my phone. http://www.amazon.com/Anker-1550mAh...d=1341178398&sr=8-1&keywords=anker+mytouch+4g
Got a new battery and life is better, much better
So I just got my galaxy s3. I haven't turned it on yet. But I heard that you were supposed to charge it fully and then let it die. Then charge it fully again and then start using it. That when. Doing this you will optimize your battery so it will charge faster, hold a charge faster, and just last longer.
Is this myth or fact? And if fact how do I do the steps so I get it right?
Thanks for the help and sorry for any mistakes it was typed on my phone that has aa small touchscreen.
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Yeah running it fully out of battery like that harms the life of the lithium ion cell
Always?
AshtonTS said:
Yeah running it fully out of battery like that harms the life of the lithium ion cell
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Now is this ALWAYS the case?
To clarify what I am asking I am saying does it always harm the life of the lithium ion cell by letting die fully? Like even after 6 or 8 or 12 months of owing the phone (or any device), not just one the first charge. This could be very useful for further reference...:good:
There are some things can help increase life of litium batteries. First, don't let it go down to 0% as mentioned, keep not lower than 50%. Once per month it is recommended to discharge battery to 0% and then charge it to 100% again for device callibration.
This is a good question. I always thought that by discharging and charging batteries at full cycles, you would make their total useful life last longer.
In fact, this happened to me with a notebook, which I used to play with and charging at the same time. In the end, the battery lasted for a few minutes and I had to sell it.
But in all: is this really true? I would also like to know if is truth or myth.
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This is a good question. I always thought that by discharging and charging batteries at full cycles, you would make their total useful life last longer.
In fact, this happened to me with a notebook, which I used to play with and charging at the same time. In the end, the battery lasted for a few minutes and I had to sell it.
But in all: is this really true? I would also like to know if is truth or myth.
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Yes yes!!
This happened too (as funny as it is) my grandma. She would ALWAYS have her little nnotebook plugged in and eventually it drained. I found out because one day I took it off the plug a d it died while I was on facebook after around 7 minutes.
So I bought a new battery and now she charfes iit and takes it off the plug to use it and twice a month she lets it die and it has worked
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1) don't keep live wallpapers
2) keep the brightness to the lowest possible
3) don't charge while playing games or even use the phone
4) don't use apps which run in the background and drain the batter
5) all the suggestions given in the above posts lol
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Don't let it die to zero.
When it warns you at 15% just charge it.
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Allanitomwesh said:
Don't let it die to zero.
When it warns you at 15% just charge it.
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Sir i just want to ask If we charge our battery even if its above 20% or if the battery icon is not yet colored red will it affect our battery life in the future? Or we should only charge our battery when it is below 20-15% ?
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Sir i just want to ask If we charge our battery even if its above 20% or if the battery icon is not yet colored red will it affect our battery life in the future? Or we should only charge our battery when it is below 20-15% ?
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Charge it anytime you want.
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snipesome said:
So I just got my galaxy s3. I haven't turned it on yet. But I heard that you were supposed to charge it fully and then let it die. Then charge it fully again and then start using it. That when. Doing this you will optimize your battery so it will charge faster, hold a charge faster, and just last longer.
Is this myth or fact? And if fact how do I do the steps so I get it right?
Thanks for the help and sorry for any mistakes it was typed on my phone that has aa small touchscreen.
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It is true if you have a phone like Nokia 3310 if you do not have a NiMH battery do not do that you will lose time also you do not need to "format" a Li-Ion battery
read about lazy-battery effect on Wikipedia
rooting you phone to underclock/undervolt should also help out battery life pretty significantly ^_^
Lithium ion cells do not suffer from the "memory" effect as older rechargeable batteries. You do not have to let the battery run all the way down then fully charge it again to get the best performance that way, that was for the older types of batteries (again so you wouldn't get that "memory" effect) matter of fact its rather harmful to the battery to run it all the way down.
Charge the battery as often as you want no matter at what level it is. If you are going to do some high power **** (play a game, watch a movie) then plug it if if you have a charger around. The longer the battery stays at a high level the better for it. Try not to let your battery run your phone at a low state (charge it asap). Its ok to leave it on the charger even after its fully charged. Your phone and charger are smart enough to know when to start/stop charging the battery. This will ensure a long life for your battery.
...as for your phone...simple rules...if you are not using it( DATA, WIFI, GPS, SYNC, BLUETOOTH) then turn it off. Screen is the biggest battery drainer...KEEP IT ON AUTO!...darker themes really help alot...make your screen go off at 30 sec. or less. Have fun with your new phone homie.
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Lithium ion cells do not suffer from the "memory" effect as older rechargeable batteries. You do not have to let the battery run all the way down then fully charge it again to get the best performance that way, that was for the older types of batteries (again so you wouldn't get that "memory" effect) matter of fact its rather harmful to the battery to run it all the way down.
Charge the battery as often as you want no matter at what level it is. If you are going to do some high power **** (play a game, watch a movie) then plug it if if you have a charger around. The longer the battery stays at a high level the better for it. Try not to let your battery run your phone at a low state (charge it asap). Its ok to leave it on the charger even after its fully charged. Your phone and charger are smart enough to know when to start/stop charging the battery. This will ensure a long life for your battery.
...as for your phone...simple rules...if you are not using it( DATA, WIFI, GPS, SYNC, BLUETOOTH) then turn it off. Screen is the biggest battery drainer...KEEP IT ON AUTO!...darker themes really help alot...make your screen go off at 30 sec. or less. Have fun with your new phone homie.
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This helps a lot than
ks. I think I am going to make a video on the stuff that has been shared on this thread. My YouTube is the same as my xda. Snipesome. I have 2600 subs and partnered. Is anyone more qualified who would like to mske it instead?
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I just got an Anker battery.
Do I need to do anything to adjust for it being a higher capacity battery? Like somehow tell the ROM (CM10) that it's got a bigger battery?
Or do I just put the new one in, boot the phone, and stop whining about it?
You can after you charged the Anker FULL (You can ckeck it in recovery) wipe battery stats.
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You can after you charged the Anker FULL (You can ckeck it in recovery) wipe battery stats.
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Cool. I just didn't want to put it in there and think it was charging all the way but only have it charging to the max capacity of the stock battery.
Does the phone adjust for having a higher capacity battery?
Or does it just stay at 100% until the remaining charge drops back to below the max of the stock battery?
No therfore there a thing called wipe battery stats.
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Skipjacks said:
Cool. I just didn't want to put it in there and think it was charging all the way but only have it charging to the max capacity of the stock battery.
Does the phone adjust for having a higher capacity battery?
Or does it just stay at 100% until the remaining charge drops back to below the max of the stock battery?
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I've always read that after three full cycles that's the calibration, the phone then recognises the higher battery capacity. I've found this to be true as I'm using a 3800mah battery. So after almost draining completely and charging completely your device should be fine and good and recognise the higher mah. If you feel it's off you can calibrate again. But calibrate using the drain and charge method. Hope this helps, best wishes
Holy profanity!
I can't believe what a difference a new battery makes.
Unplugged 12 hours ago, only made 1 phone call, but I'm still at 96% left on the Anker. And tha'ts after 1 2 hour charge after putting the battery in last night. I haven't even run it up and down through a few cycles yet to get it broken in.
It does seem to run a little warm though. If that normal?
Yes a little warmth is normal.
Skipjacks said:
Holy profanity!
I can't believe what a difference a new battery makes.
Unplugged 12 hours ago, only made 1 phone call, but I'm still at 96% left on the Anker. And tha'ts after 1 2 hour charge after putting the battery in last night. I haven't even run it up and down through a few cycles yet to get it broken in.
It does seem to run a little warm though. If that normal?
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I loved my anker battery, it did run a little hotter for the first several cycles.
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You can after you charged the Anker FULL (You can ckeck it in recovery) wipe battery stats.
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lgv2800 said:
No therfore there a thing called wipe battery stats.
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Hi,
WIPING BATTERY STATS ,IS A MYTH
Skipjacks said:
Cool. I just didn't want to put it in there and think it was charging all the way but only have it charging to the max capacity of the stock battery.
Does the phone adjust for having a higher capacity battery?
Or does it just stay at 100% until the remaining charge drops back to below the max of the stock battery?
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The phone does not need to adjust for anything, as charging is not software controlled but hardware controlled. Whatever capacity battery you insert in your phone, it will automatically stop charging when it reaches capacity - due to the electronic circuity built inside the battery.