i know there are a lot of batteries out there for our phone. here's what i'm looking for:
1. i'm running the stock battery, so one that's obviously higher mAh
2. it shouldnt be big like those extended ones. it should be the same size as the stock battery
3. price should be pretty cheap, under $10.
i'm guessing the gold slim 2450 mAh one would be the one i should get, correct?
also side question on batteries: batteries that are made for the sensation 4g can work for ours, correct?
and one more question: are there are silicone cases out there for the mytouch 4g slide?
thanks!
one more thing: if i want to use my stock battery as a backup, will it be an issue cuz of battery stats? as in, if i'm using my new battery, it gets down to 5% in the middle of the day cuz i use it a lot, i put in my backup (stock) battery, will it drain quickly or something because the phone got used to the new battery?
They are slightly more expensive than $10 but the Anker battery is a clearly superior battery. I've ran two for over a year and it has stood up to every thing I asked of it.
I just bought a Galaxy note 2. The aftermarket battery I bought was another pair of Ankers.
Nothing that fits the stock size profile is going to survive a 16hr heavy use beating.
Still sometimes quality is affordable.
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one more thing: if i want to use my stock battery as a backup, will it be an issue cuz of battery stats? as in, if i'm using my new battery, it gets down to 5% in the middle of the day cuz i use it a lot, i put in my backup (stock) battery, will it drain quickly or something because the phone got used to the new battery?
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No, battery stats are wiped every time the battery hits 100%. There was a post made by a Google engineer stating that "wiping" said stats to increase battery did nothing. I've NEVER and I mean never wiped battery stats because I simply do not believe in it "helps".
Now this is going to lead to the oh I wipe mine and man it helps me a ton......way to go for you and the placebo effect, it shows how easily the human mind can be manipulated
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No, battery stats are wiped every time the battery hits 100%. There was a post made by a Google engineer stating that "wiping" said stats to increase battery did nothing. I've NEVER and I mean never wiped battery stats because I simply do not believe in it "helps".
Now this is going to lead to the oh I wipe mine and man it helps me a ton......way to go for you and the placebo effect, it shows how easily the human mind can be manipulated
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i used to wipe every time i did a ROM flash, and then i stopped since people said it's not good (albeit i didn't understand them). now i know why!
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I'm interested in getting a spare battery for this phone, but I'm wondering if for some reason this would be bad for the phone? Like is swapping batteries some how messing up the calibration? Say I used the phone and killed 1 battery and then used other one the rest of the day and I did this every day. Would this impact anything negatively?
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I'm interested in getting a spare battery for this phone, but I'm wondering if for some reason this would be bad for the phone? Like is swapping batteries some how messing up the calibration? Say I used the phone and killed 1 battery and then used other one the rest of the day and I did this every day. Would this impact anything negatively?
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Definitely would throw off the calibration, but with the extra kick of a fresh charge you shouldn't feel it
How long have you had your phone? The first could of days the battery life was horrible, but once everything settled, the battery life doubled.
That being said, i found a battery and charger on ebay for 8.95. It's one of the cheap ones, but it's hard to go wrong on a 9 dollar battery.
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How long have you had your phone? The first could of days the battery life was horrible, but once everything settled, the battery life doubled.
That being said, i found a battery and charger on ebay for 8.95. It's one of the cheap ones, but it's hard to go wrong on a 9 dollar battery.
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Until it melts down in your battery compartment.
Hi All,
Well, I finally received my Andida 1800mAh battery in the mail this week. Charged it up and I'm on my second day of real world testing. It's midday over here and my phone has been off the charger since 8am although I have only used it to send a couple of messages, read a few emails and check my calendar today. I'm not using any SetCPU profiles (haven't even installed SetCPU) and I have 97% remaining.
Does anyone have any ideas on how to test this battery against the stock? I was just going to enable bluetooth, wifi, GPS and load a playlist of the first season of scrubs and see which one lasted the longest. I can't imagine either would last any more than a couple of hours.
Any better ideas would be appreciated, I'm keen to get to the bottom of this and see if there is any real world increase in capacity with this battery.
Krisbo
Im pretty sure this battery has no more mAh than the stock battery.
What do you mean by "mid day"?
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Im pretty sure this battery has no more mAh than the stock battery.
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Based on what? That's what I'm trying to determine here because although there has been a lot of waffle about batteries on this forum, I've yet to see many people who actually own the battery provide any conclusive results. At this stage I'm neither arguing for or against the battery, but testing it out.
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What do you mean by "mid day"?
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Mid-day means 12:00PM, as in the middle of the day
Charge them both to 100% and run the same movie completely on both. See where each battery stands after the movie finishes.
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Charge them both to 100% and run the same movie completely on both. See where each battery stands after the movie finishes.
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That would be a good test!
Been waiting for a good reliable review on this battery, let me know how it turns out for you...
Maybe then ill be assured to buy it I cus my inspire needs more jugo [juice]...
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I'm interested to hear the results of your test. Sounds like a perfect and objective way to tell which performs better....
I have this battery and just from my normal usage, it doesnt seem to be any different than the stock battery. I have not done any testing, just comparing where the batter is after a normal day to what my stock battery was after a normal day.
Make sure you go through a few cycles with the new battery before doing anything. Also wouldn't hurt to reset your battery stats after it's fully charged. It's hard to tell what a 'normal' days use is to compare one vs the other. The movie test seems to be a pretty valid test to me. Please post your results.
i just got my $109 shipment from netimes.com with 5 cases, blutooth headset, dock with a slot for a battery to charge, and 3 1600 mAh batteries and they were all about $7 but they last almost as long as the stock battery with normal use so their probably about 1200 mAh but with 4 it should get me through a couple of days with MIUI which i get amazing battery on
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I have this battery and just from my normal usage, it doesnt seem to be any different than the stock battery. I have not done any testing, just comparing where the batter is after a normal day to what my stock battery was after a normal day.
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That's what I'm doing now Will post results soon, stay tuned!
cordell507 said:
i just got my $109 shipment from netimes.com with 5 cases, blutooth headset, dock with a slot for a battery to charge, and 3 1600 mAh batteries and they were all about $7 but they last almost as long as the stock battery with normal use so their probably about 1200 mAh but with 4 it should get me through a couple of days with MIUI which i get amazing battery on
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It takes 4 to get you through a couple of days?
http://batteryboss.org/
People need to stop posting that website the batteries there are old and not updated to newest phones
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churro7 said:
People need to stop posting that website the batteries there are old and not updated to newest phones
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Not to be rude, but that website wasn't updated that long ago with phones/batteries that are still very relevant in today's market. Considering battery technology has not gone through any sort of major rework for years it's safe to say the results on that page are pretty accurate to those phones and most new phones coming out.
Also, it's no secret that the majority of these companies rate the batteries miserably higher than what they will actually test at. I'd also imagine it's safe to say that since the testing these companies haven't changed their whole business plan to represent accurate battery measurements.
Just my two cents. We all know the general result of these battery threads.
Still those batteries on that website dint represent anything other than the phones they are for. once they do inspire galaxy s the 4 g version etc then that thing can be reference d
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churro7 said:
Still those batteries on that website dint represent anything other than the phones they are for. once they do inspire galaxy s the 4 g version etc then that thing can be reference d
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Until a reputable company comes out with a batter you can pretty much count on it not being any higher capacity than stock. This is due to the size of the battery, unless it sticks out the side of the phone there is almost not a way to make the battery much higher capacity using the same technology.(cheaply) Do you have evidence to prove otherwise? I'm willing to bet you do not..
do you have evidence it cant?
The evidence is in the battery capacities available, not hard to show that.
that is no evidence.......ive seen aa batteries mAH ratings grow but no physical changes.
but that is beside the point until battery boss is updated with the newest phones batteries then it shouldnt be used as a guide like it was back then
So I tend to run low on battery since I'm a heavy user (games, texting, web browsing, all that fun stuff)
so I decided why not get a 3500mAh battery but the problem is I'm scared I'm going to drop it and everything gets ruined.
Right now I have a case so I was thinking why not get 2 more 1500mAh batteries (comes with a separate charger so I could charge them whenever) along with my stock battery and have at least one spare near me at all times. But I thought it might be a little tedious.
What do you guys think?
I grabbed the 2430mah battery. Lasts a little longer than stock. I got two of them so I could easily go like 3 days without a charge if both batteries were full.
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So I tend to run low on battery since I'm a heavy user (games, texting, web browsing, all that fun stuff)
so I decided why not get a 3500mAh battery but the problem is I'm scared I'm going to drop it and everything gets ruined.
Right now I have a case so I was thinking why not get 2 more 1500mAh batteries (comes with a separate charger so I could charge them whenever) along with my stock battery and have at least one spare near me at all times. But I thought it might be a little tedious.
What do you guys think?
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Just curious why you think you'll drop the 3500 any more than the phone with other batteries? I have the Mugen 4500 and I don't have any issues holding onto it lol.
It's really a matter of personal preference. I personally don't like carrying extra batteries with me. The extended life battery keeps me from worrying about my battery life even under my days of heaviest usage. The only issue I have with the Mugen (not sure if its the same with the 3500) is that photos come out funny if I use the flash. They have this haze because the flash reflects off the oversized battery cover. Photos without flash look just fine tho.
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Just curious why you think you'll drop the 3500 any more than the phone with other batteries? I have the Mugen 4500 and I don't have any issues holding onto it lol.
It's really a matter of personal preference. I personally don't like carrying extra batteries with me. The extended life battery keeps me from worrying about my battery life even under my days of heaviest usage. The only issue I have with the Mugen (not sure if its the same with the 3500) is that photos come out funny if I use the flash. They have this haze because the flash reflects off the oversized battery cover. Photos without flash look just fine tho.
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I have butterfingers and am one of those people that you see constantly dropping there phone and you have no idea how they're dropping their phone.
95% of the pictures I post on here are with the phone with the extended battery.
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I personally would also think it would be a bit tedious to carry around 2 extra batteries all the time. I got a 3500 myself, it lasts a really long time. Though they are a bit weird to get used to, since the device is used to the original 1500 it will show 100% life when the battery is charged to about half of the 3500. People also say that it needs to go through a few charge cycles to get the full effect.
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I personally would also think it would be a bit tedious to carry around 2 extra batteries all the time. I got a 3500 myself, it lasts a really long time. Though they are a bit weird to get used to, since the device is used to the original 1500 it will show 100% life when the battery is charged to about half of the 3500. People also say that it needs to go through a few charge cycles to get the full effect.
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Couldn't you just go into recovery mode and reset battery stats?
I have a stock battery, had my phone for about 3 months, my battery is actually pretty good.. by the end of the day ill have at least 40% left.
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Hi guys,
Recently my nexus battery life became awful. It was never good but it became really bad, like 15%/hour with low usage (some texting and short calls) but wifi+data on (however when i'm turning off wifi it barely change). If i'm using whatapp (for example) without turning off the screen, i can loose 1% every 1-2 minutes. I'm using completely stock 4.1.1 (i9020a if it matter).
I also made factory reset 2 weeks ago, didn't change anything.
I have this phone for a year now but the sticker on the back says that it was produces in march 2011 so the battery is 1.5 years old, probably around it's EOL.
I searched for new batteries, but most of the original batteries i found are 1440 mAh. Mine is 1500. Is this making a big difference? the battery life now is making the phone barely usable but i obviously won't buy a new battery if it won't make it any better...
Any advice about this issue?
Thanks!
yoavp10 said:
Hi guys,
Recently my nexus battery life became awful. It was never good but it became really bad, like 15%/hour with low usage (some texting and short calls) but wifi+data on (however when i'm turning off wifi it barely change). If i'm using whatapp (for example) without turning off the screen, i can loose 1% every 1-2 minutes. I'm using completely stock 4.1.1 (i9020a if it matter).
I also made factory reset 2 weeks ago, didn't change anything.
I have this phone for a year now but the sticker on the back says that it was produces in march 2011 so the battery is 1.5 years old, probably around it's EOL.
I searched for new batteries, but most of the original batteries i found are 1440 mAh. Mine is 1500. Is this making a big difference? the battery life now is making the phone barely usable but i obviously won't buy a new battery if it won't make it any better...
Any advice about this issue?
Thanks!
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1440mah won't change much compared to 1500mah. If you have a custom rom make sure to wipe everything from recovery, re-install your ROM and see how that goes. A lot of times bad battery can be explained by the user usage rather than by defective hardware.
Nevertheless, it's not impossible the battery is dying, so it's not a bad idea to buy a battery. Make sure you buy quality instead of china products, OEM will give you the best results.
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1440mah won't change much compared to 1500mah. If you have a custom rom make sure to wipe everything from recovery, re-install your ROM and see how that goes. A lot of times bad battery can be explained by the user usage rather than by defective hardware.
Nevertheless, it's not impossible the battery is dying, so it's not a bad idea to buy a battery. Make sure you buy quality instead of china products, OEM will give you the best results.
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Thx, as i said i'm completely stock and recently made a factory reset which is equal to wipe. the battery should be made by samsung, so it's not a china product (or is it? )
yoavp10 said:
Thx, as i said i'm completely stock and recently made a factory reset which is equal to wipe. the battery should be made by samsung, so it's not a china product (or is it? )
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No that's perfectly fine. As I said, you don't want crappy unknown brand battery. If it's too cheap too, it could be a copy.
Factory reset isn't equal to wipe though.
OK, thank you! I'll but a new battery and hope that this is the problem
Hey guys, I just wanted to check if my battery life is abnormal or not. During normal usage, it's a bit hard for me to compare because I'm tending to use this phone a lot more than my previous one (Xperia Z1 Compact) but overnight, it would tend to lose at least 7-8%. Last night, I decided to try disabling auto-sync, put it on Power Saving and see what would happen (as well as closed all my apps through the regular task manager) and it dropped a whopping from 45% to 31%! Don't know how that happened.
When I go into the Power menu, I can see that Android System used 13%, Android OS and Screen used 10% each, Google Play Services used 9% and a few other apps and services used 4% or less. I got my Note Edge in Australia and is currently using it in the U.K but it's an international variant (SM-N915G) and is compatible with my current carrier (O2). I'm running stock 5.0.1 rooted. Do you guys think it's normal?
Another question regarding the battery: I have never owned a smartphone before that allowed me to switch batteries so I was wondering, would something like this or this be trustworthy? They seem really cheap and the capacity is 4200mAh whereas the stock battery is only 3000mAh. From your experience buying replaceable batteries, is it safe to use something like this (not to mention, they says they're compatible with the N9150 but didn't mention the N915G)? Thanks a lot in advance!
A lot of folks have had similar issues with lollipop. Backup all your data and do and full reset. Seems to sort out the battery drain issues
Good luck
ZaJules said:
A lot of folks have had similar issues with lollipop. Backup all your data and do and full reset. Seems to sort out the battery drain issues
Good luck
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Thanks a lot. Just a quick noobie question, should I just backup with Titanium and then do a reset from inside the OS or should I do it through CWM (I already have a recent enough nand backup). Cheers!
I have had horrid battery life since lollipop upgrade. I want to go back to kit kat so bad. Primarily because of the battery and because notifications appear as overlays in some apps now instead of on the edge. The phone also is less responsive. I kick myself every day for upgrading.
Side note, are the batteries listed above supposed to actually fit inside the phone with no physical distortion?
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I have had horrid battery life since lollipop upgrade. I want to go back to kit kat so bad. Primarily because of the battery and because notifications appear as overlays in some apps now instead of on the edge. The phone also is less responsive. I kick myself every day for upgrading.
Side note, are the batteries listed above supposed to actually fit inside the phone with no physical distortion?
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I haven't had any major issues since upgrading to Lollipop, I was just hoping to squeeze a bit more out of the battery life. As for responsiveness, I'd say it's about the same, if not slightly better. You sound like you might also do with a factory reset. I just want to know if the factory reset option in the settings would do the job or if I should do it from the recovery.
As for the above batteries, I would imagine that they should fit perfectly since they were designed for the Note Edge but since I have had no experience with replaceable batteries, I would like to hear some confirmation.
I have mine on power saving mode and screen brightness on 43%. I get two full days usage so I only charge it once every two days.
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I have mine on power saving mode and screen brightness on 43%. I get two full days usage so I only charge it once every two days.
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In those 2 days, could you take a look and let me know how long your screen was on for?
I had a battery from the same manufacturer as your first link for a s2, it was apparently bigger in capacity, but drained faster than the stock battery and swelled after two weeks to the point that the rear cover wouldnt close fully.
Id steer clear if i was you.
Beetle84 said:
I had a battery from the same manufacturer as your first link for a s2, it was apparently bigger in capacity, but drained faster than the stock battery and swelled after two weeks to the point that the rear cover wouldnt close fully.
Id steer clear if i was you.
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Damn, I hope your phone is still okay! Thanks for the heads up!
Beetle84 said:
I had a battery from the same manufacturer as your first link for a s2, it was apparently bigger in capacity, but drained faster than the stock battery and swelled after two weeks to the point that the rear cover wouldnt close fully.
Id steer clear if i was you.
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Yeah, that was my concern. The only time I had a higher capacity battery fit snugly into a phone and work as intended was when I had my htc sensation. Anker made a higher mA battery that really worked. Everything now seems to be a sham. I will avoid it.
You can't fit more capacity of battery in the same size more than it's done by Samsung, otherwise they would do it. These are just fake numbers, I'm sure they're even less than the 3,000 made by Samsung.
As for the resetting your phone, settings option pretty much does the job.