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Bad Seidio battery?

Hey guys
Well I got my 3200mah seidio battery yesterday. Charged it up overnight for around 10 hours. The phone was off all night, the light was green this morning.
I turned it on while still connected to power and the device said 100% charge and I thought ok sweet now ill test how long it can go!!
once I disconnected it from the power the screen went blank.. so I pressed the power button to turn the screen back on.. however the device was off and came up with the X screen this appeared for around 1 second then off again and on again for 1 second then off again it did this a couple of times before giving up...
Tested the battery in my wifes nexus and its the same
Is there anything I can do? or its a DOA?
I live in Australia and purchased the battery off ebay (brand new in box) so fear that its going to be hard to do a return.

It looks like it might be a bad battery. If you plug in your phone to the charger with this battery installed do you still get that blank screen?
If the battery is bad im sure Seido will replace it...they are a very reputable company.
But why put that hunchback battery on your sleek phone.. Seido has a nice 1600mah that fits perfectly with your N1... you get a little bit more power but dont comprimise the look.
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BGW

Bigworm37 said:
It looks like it might be a bad battery. If you plug in your phone to the charger with this battery installed do you still get that blank screen?
But why put that hunchback battery on your sleek phone.. Seido has a nice 1600mah that fits perfectly with your N1... you get a little bit more power but dont comprimise the look.
My too bits
BGW
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If I plug my phone back into the charger the light is orange again.
After an hour it returned to green I turned the phone on to test it but kept it on power and it reported 100%.
I powered the phone off disconnected it
Tried turning it on again, this time it got to the desktop but battery status indicated it was critical and the phone would shut down...
The original charge covered the 2-3 hours of charge on the green light that seidio's website recommends
Now its been on charge again for an hour and is orange still...
total charge time on the wall charger is around 12 hours now.. im pretty sure its dead...
As for why I want a chunky battery I need it for while im at work.. and I actually am liking the increased depth in my hands fits them much better.

I bought the 2800mAh battery when it came out. When I plugged it in, it did some weird stuff. Took few charges/discharges to settle. I'm not saying yours isn't a dead battery, but I had similar weird stuff happen to me.

[Q] Question on Battery charging and temps

Hi i bought a used sensation of ebay from a reputable seller and it arrived the other day. The two main problems i've been having is also the battery taking long to charge and the heating issue.
Firstly im not sure if the heating issue occurs on stock rom as i was not on it very long but on any custom JB rom the Bottom part of the phone gets very hot very quickly. I used a battery monitor and it tells me its the battery temp that's going up but when i pop out the back cover it seems to be coming from right at the bottom under where the micro sd card is. However i think i have kind of solved this by flashing the Inspiration 1.01 ICS 4.04 rom with bricked Kernel. Now the phone only reaches a max of abut 40.5 degrees and the heat is spread around the whole back case rather than one spot.
Secondly the battery seems to be the big problem here. The phone didnt come with a charger but it did come with a USB cable to charge with. The problem is when i plug it into charge it takes long time to charge up. I used a battery monitoring app and the results are quite weird. When i plug it into charge it starts of drawing about 300ma of charge but after a while especially when it gets to around 30% battery the amount of power the battery is absorbing is around 70ma some times even as low as 40.
I have tried this with a Motorola charger as-well which is from a Motorola defy mini which had a higher Mah battery and the same thing happens.
Bearing in mind its a used phone the battery is probably quite old shall i try my luck with a new official replacement HTC battery or shall i try a new HTC Charger first?
Quick Update:
i took out the battery and then put it back in again and turned on the device and now the phone is reporting 65% when it was only at 47% before i turned it off. Secondly onthe battery contacts there seems to be a darker colour of gold where the pins actually meet which looks like a burnt contact but im not too sure.

I highly suggest you buy an Anker battery instead of HTC official one. If you've been loading battery with USB cable from another device (PC for example); it will load slowly!
About the battery percentage problem; I think this is a known problem on HTC Devices. It should show pretty accurately after a little while after restart.
I myself have the original battery, and I have the darker marks there too. Don't worry about those.. Because all you need is the Anker 1900mAh.

Thanks for your suggestion i have done a bit of research on the anker battery and it definitely seems like a must have not only for the better battery life but it apparently runs alot cooler than the stock battery aswell. Only £21 for a pack of 2 and a travel charger on amazon aswell!
Also shall i get a HTC charger or should i be fine with the Anker travel charger?

Anushan said:
Thanks for your suggestion i have done a bit of research on the anker battery and it definitely seems like a must have not only for the better battery life but it apparently runs alot cooler than the stock battery aswell. Only £21 for a pack of 2 and a travel charger on amazon aswell!
Also shall i get a HTC charger or should i be fine with the Anker travel charger?
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I don't know, but I am pretty sure both chargers will be just fine.

Awesome ordered one now should be here in a few days! Thanks for your help

[Q] Does hot swapping batteries kill their life over time?

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.

How to charge the phone without harming the battery

Hello XDA,
I've bought s8 recently and I have a question about how should I charge the phone. Before s8 I had z3 and one m7 and I was charging them arbitrary like %45 to %75 etc. Their battery died pretty easyly and closing once it hits under %20 - %25. So I thought I was doing it wrong but when I searched the internet I saw that charging phone arbitrary give no harm at all. Is it true? How should I charge my phone?

You should plug it in and charge it when needed. Either using the original charger and cable that shipped with the phone, or a high quality replacement. Alternately, you can use a wireless charging pad to charge it.

Turning off fast charging may also extend the life of your battery. (It will obviously mean it will take longer to charge the battery).
Extra note:
You don't need to do anything extra, modern devices are well suited to be charged whenever you feel like it.

Plug it in when it needs charging, unplug it when it's done and/or you need to leave. You don't need to overthink it and monitor the finer details. It's a phone.

You are over thinking this. Just like a lot of people who obsess about battery e-peen. I got the S8 to save myself. I was in that rabbit hole, I went from enjoying smartphones to worrying about why my phone cannot perform as well as the ohers.
You plug it when it needs a charge. You take it off when it's done. It's a battery, it's gonna suffer wear and tear whether or not you baby it. It's gonna run its course and you will probably buy a new phone even before that happens.
My phones have a 2 year life cycle and Ben then they are still great as hand me downs to the family who don't care to buy their own.
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Only charge between 20-80%
Don't quick charge
Don't wireless charge
Angle the phone at a 45 degree angle when charging, this will allow the new electrons to slide naturally to the bottom of the battery so it fills up properly
Submerge the phone in cold water to keep the temperature of the phone cool while charging
With these 5 simple steps your phones battery will last 1% longer!

peachpuff said:
Only charge between 20-80%
Don't quick charge
Don't wireless charge
Angle the phone at a 45 degree angle when charging, this will allow the new electrons to slide naturally to the bottom of the battery so it fills up properly
Submerge the phone in cold water to keep the temperature of the phone cool while charging
With these 5 simple steps your phones battery will last 1% longer!
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Or not at all lol.

Review – Elebase 5,000 mAh battery case for the Samsung Galaxy Note 9

YouTube Video Review:
1st Impressions
I use my Samsung Galaxy Note 9 for work, play, and family. I'm told that I am a power user, especially since I'm lucky if I can get more than 10-14 hours out of the battery before I have to charge it. Even With my Note 8, I was lucky to get 8-10 hours. While the Note 9 has a 4,000 mAh battery (the main reason I got this phone), I still need to carry an external battery pack and USB cable if I am out and about and taking pictures and video. I wanted another option and found this battery case. Having the battery built into the case so I don't have to carry an extra battery pack and USB cable makes this worth it. The blue color looks great, and the case fits my phone like a glove. The texture on the back is just smooth enough to feel nice without making me feel like the phone will slip out of my hand. The buttons still work as designed (in some cases interfere with this) and the case still works excellent when removing or inserting the S-Pen. I especially like that with the case on, if I plug the case it, the case and phone are both charging.
Battery
Now for the battery part. I noticed when I turn on the battery pack, my phone says fast charging, but then after a few minutes says cable charging, which makes sense as this is only a 1.5A charging output spec. To test the case, I unplugged my phone at 6 am on Sep 8th and used it as normal all day without ever charging it. By 8 pm, my phone was down to 25%. Most of the time my phone would be dead at this point, but I guess that I did not use it as much since I was off work and getting fewer emails. I powered on the case (which I fully charged beforehand) and set my phone down. I did not touch my phone at all while it was charging from the case. Not wanting to leave it charging overnight as the battery was getting rather warm, I turned off the battery case at 9:30 pm, my phone was at 55%, but I also noticed the battery pack was already down to 2 LED lights (50%?!?!); based on that, I should have only used about 1,500-2,000 mAh of juice. Even if the battery case was down to 50% (2,500 mAh), that should be enough to fully charge my phone when I get up, so I powered the phone off.
When I got up at 4 am, my phone was still at 55% and the battery pack at 50%, so I turned the battery pack back on. Unfortunately, the battery pack only charged my phone to 82% before the battery pack died. While I do not have the ability to test the mAh capacity, based on the math above, it does not seem to be a 5,000 mAh battery as that should have been enough juice to fully charge my phone and have a tiny bit left over; not run out at 82%. I have read online that you need to duty-cycle the battery in the case; let it die fully and then fully charge it so it can calibrate to a full charge.
After fully charging the case (after letting it fully die), I am pleased to report that this will fully charge a dead Note 9, so it is at least 4,000 mAh.
I left my Note 9 off the charger all day yesterday and last night; at 7:01 am, I got the "Battery at 15%" warning, so I turned on Power Saving Mode with background data turned off, and the screen to only 25% brightness. I shut off GPS, Wifi, and Bluetooth and then put the phone into the case and turned it on. Around 9:45am-ish, my phone buzzed and was at 100% with 1 LED left on the case. I estimate this is about 3,000-3,300 mAh worth of juice. By noon, I was back down to 75%, turned on the case and it too me back to 95% before the case died. Based on that, this is close to a 5,000 mAh case if my math is correct. The full duty-cycle was needed and made a large difference in the charge available for my phone.
Things to be aware of:
The battery may not be a true 5,000 mAh, but it's still worth the price and convenience.
If you have small hands, the fingerprint scanner will be hard to use.
There is no data pass-through, but that is advertised.
The phone may say it's fast charging, but I doubt it.
This thing is thick, like 3/4" thick, but not too thick.
Pros:
Great fit
Does not add that much weight
Build quality feels solid
Color is beautiful
Does not interfere with the holes or S-Pen
Charges quickly
Charges phone and case at the same time
Buttons work great, better than others cases I've used
Raised edge and top and bottom, so the screen does not touch table when placed face down
Cons:
Does not seem to be a true 5,000 mAh battery
Thickness (about 3/4" thick), not really a con as this should be expected
No data pass-through
May be difficult to use the fingerprint scanner for smaller hands
Conclusion: I like this, and it is very worth it. I highly recommended this for the Samsung Galaxy Note 9.
Link: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07G3F959L

There will be some loss charging from a battery but if it is rated 5000 I think you should get full charge from it.

@rbiter said:
There will be some loss charging from a battery but if it is rated 5000 I think you should get full charge from it.
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That was one point I thought about but was not sure. After a few discharges and charges of the case, it will fully charge the phone with a tiny bit of juice life over.