needed a battery for my TMO GS5 and was tired of getting junk off ebay so my buddy sent me link to this battery and im so happy he did. battery arrived on time and packaging was good and i discharged battery to 2% and recharged it to 100% without putting a load on it using a cradle charger then i was able to test it against my stock samsung OEM battery and i was surprised to see better stats by about 6% longer life. sure the tests are not 100% accurate but my use was done in a extra GS5 i own so the testing was very close and for only $16.99 its worth it even without the better stats. if your looking for a OEM (stock) replacement battery this is for you or if your just looking for a extra battery to keep in pocket ect. this is perfect.
http://www.ravpower.com/samsung-galaxy-s5-battery.html
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I thought this might help some one awesome 5000mah battery just use some velcro and have extra power without an outlet possibly for 4 days.
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Used the phone for 10 hours running GPS and taking some photos and the battery died. Not the 4 days of power that I hoped for. Unless you use it conservatively. After the battery died I still had fully charged cell battery which lasted me a little over 3 hours running gps.
damn!
nice find
So my question is wil the life of battery get shorten if always after work my phone is plugged in charge ?wich i always do 5-6 days since i bougth the phone and just wonder wat u guys think ??LI-on battery
Plug it in!
The battery in the Galaxy S is modern technology and has a 1500mAh lithium ion battery by default. You should be able to charge it as you see fit. Once a month I let my iPhone (which has the same technology) drain itself completely but I've been told this is not necessary. I just switched to the Galaxy S Captivate and love it. Of course if you have a battery issue you can always do what most can't if they own an iPhone. Buy another one and replace it yourself.
With the galaxy S fascinate it will charge to 100% and if it remains on the charger it will not continue to charge until the battery reaches 95% then it will charge back to 100%. So you are perfectly fine to leave it plugged in.
good day.
Top-up charging is better for lithium batteries.
Constant deep charging (always letting the battery run low then charging up) will reduce the effectivness of the battery, shortening it's life.
I just bought a 1900mAh battery off ebay, and it came from china, so Im unsure if it's really 1900mAh, because my 1520mAh weighs more...
How can I check if it really is 1900mAh?
I think that the only way to do that is to fully charge the battery then drain it fully while measuring the current and see if it would last for 2hrs if the current is 950mA. Thats the way I did a few battery checks while I was studying (telecommunications). But everything is done out of the phone, exept the charging. Hope it gave you an idea how it is done.
I want to buy a powerbank but my friend said that after few months of usage it will badly affect my battery life. I want to know if it is true or false.
Thanks for all replies
Can anybody help me?
It really depends on your charging habits. Batteries die more and more every full charge cycle. Its usually a better idea to invest in an extended battery which often times is cheaper without the hassle. If you recharge twice a day and charge normally once. Theoretically, your battery will degrade 66% faster then one charge a day. But rarely will you be charging 3 times a day. Expect a number closer to 25%-35%. So if the average battery's optimal life takes a year to degrade, expect yours optimal life to be roughly 9 months. Of course at 9 months, your battery doesnt just stop working. Over each charge and month, your losing more and more charge capacity to the point where its inconveninet because your recharging so much. My battery is almost a year old and ive already ordered a new one due to the crap battery life. To tell if you need a new battery, try to spin it on a flat surface. A battery that can hold a charge wont spin since its flat. A battery with lumps and round points will because it cant hold a charge. So i would recommend a SLIM extended battery, they dont require an extended case backing(makes your phone a boulder.) Hope i was helpful!
When I first got my Galaxy S3 (Verizon) the OEM battery lasted at least a good 9 or 10 hours, usually plenty to last the day. But I wanted more than that so I got a pack of 2x QCell 2300mAh batteries for cheap on amazon, with one of the wall chargers that you pop the battery into. That was July of last year and I promptly lost one of the batts at school, so in May of this year I got another pack of 2 batts, this time EZOPower, 2100mAh.
Both brands worked pretty well while I had them and I would generally just start the day taking my GS3 off the charger and putting the extra battery in my pocket, and at ~8pm or so I'd switch them out and have more than enough for the rest of the day, and some for the next day if I didn't make it home for some reason that night.
But recently that time to switch has been creeping down earlier and earlier, and lately I've noticed I wake up to the battery icon showing the circle but no percentage (just switched from AOSP to Pacrom, dunno if that makes a difference) and when I take it off it's about 95%. When I switch batts, which is now at about 2 or 3pm if I wake up at 10, the second one (coming off the cheap battery-only wall charger) is at 75% or thereabouts and each lasts less than 5 hours.
Attached are my stats from the other day. I keep all my radios on all day usually but lately I've been having to selectively put it on airplane mode whenever I can afford to, if I want to have enough juice to last through the evening. This sucks. I know batteries die over time but I've literally had these ones for a few months and they're terrible already. Is it because of my hot swapping habits? Does that drive down the battery life over time, or is it something to do with how android pegs the amount of juice left on each battery? Is there a way to wipe the battery stats, or would that even help? There used to be an option for it in CWM but I looked today and I suppose it's gone. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong but I've never had battery life this bad on any phone.
tl;dr bought a pair of non-OEM batteries with a wall charger, been hot-swapping them for more power throughout the day, but in just a few months their life is approaching nil. What am I doing wrong?
Bump. Anyone knowledgeable on this? I'm pretty sure it could apply to just about any phone and I know plenty of other people do the same thing I do with these battery pairs on Amazon so this would be useful for progeny.
Do you leave them in the charger until you need them? Usually, the longer a battery charges while it's fully charged, the more the total charge will diminish. So, the longer you keep it charging more than it needs to, the faster the battery dies out. Also, when you get a new rechargeable battery, or even a new phone or tablet with a rechargeable battery in it, the first thing you should do is use it till it's drained. Don't immediately plug it in to the charger. Keep in mind, though, that no matter what you do your batteries will diminish. Cheaply made batteries will diminish faster than higher quality ones, so that may attribute to how fast your batteries are dieing.
I could be wrong, though.
I actually do keep it on the charger long after it's charged. And I have heard that before - but don't most chargers have a built in feature that cuts off the current once the battery is fully charged?
Anyway I'm not sure that's the sole reason for the batteries being so ****ty. Although idk, I also could be wrong, lol.