I was wondering if charging the View/Flyer was like charging the HTC phones. You charge til the light turns green, shut it down. Charge until the light turns green, turn it on, charge until light turns green again?
There is no mention of that in the Flyer's user manual.
It just says charge it with the supplied cable and it's fully charged when the light turns solid green.
It sounds like you are maybe talking about calibrating the battery meter? I did the same as my HTC phones. Charge to full, drain to about 20%, repeat a couple times. Don't drain the battery until the device shuts down, its not good for the battery, and no real benefit gained.
I haven't heard of the sequence you mentioned.
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I was wondering if charging the View/Flyer was like charging the HTC phones. You charge til the light turns green, shut it down. Charge until the light turns green, turn it on, charge until light turns green again?
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No, such myth didn't exists for the Flyer and hopefully they also disappear for other HTC devices.
"Myth? But it works..."
Yes, also my days are lucky when I see a star in my morning coffee grounds
"But why is the percentage then better?"
Ah, the percentage is better. Yes but did you ever check if the device stays longer active? Surely not because then you know, that the accumulator didn't work better when you charge him in a special way. The only change is here cheating the battery statistic which is used to build the percentage. Therefor it stays longer on high values but didn't work any minute longer. Sorry.
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Li-polimer batteries ALWAYS need a good full initial (out of the box) charge, after that, they improve in discharge over the next 5 to 10 chargings. The battery does not have any charge memory degradation as old Ni-Cads used to have so totally forget the 'discharge-recharge' idea.
However, as posted by redpoint73, never let it get below 15% or life is drastically shortened.
Best policy is, whenever you possibly can, connect it to a HTC (9Volt) charger and keep it topped up.
If you treat you devices battery as a 'only when mobile' power source; then it will give you long life. Don't misuse or abuse it...
I have a charger at the side of my sofa, one in the car (for long work days) and one at the side of the bed for overnight. Done the same for all my HTC devices before, and never had to replace a battery (which BTW, you can do if need with this tab!)
Ok, all that said...Is there such a thing as over charge? If I left the charger plugged in over night, would it be wearing down the battery? So do I need to keep an eye on charging and unplug it as soon as it's full/green lit?
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Ok, all that said...Is there such a thing as over charge? If I left the charger plugged in over night, would it be wearing down the battery? So do I need to keep an eye on charging and unplug it as soon as it's full/green lit?
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You can leave it plugged in.
It's a fully regulated system, just like a laptop.
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Hi,
Got my 101 yesterday and i charged it directly on the power adapter.
I charged it like 17hours but no blinking led?
It all runs well and i think it is charged enough, anybody got the same issue?
Greets
My 70 will only blink if it is turned on while charging, otherwise it won't.
What do you mean, while it is charging or when it is done charging and turned on?
If i charge the 70 when it is turned off, it imediately turns itself on and stays on. When it has fully chrarged the led will flash. However if i put it on charge and it turns itself on, if i then turn it off and leave it charging the led never flashes when it is charged.
Modern Li-Ion battery charge regimes are complex. They will charge until full then turn off until the charge falls below a certain level, then start charging again. So if you happen to look at your device at they wrong time it might not show fully charged because it is part way through the wait cycle. This is done to prolong battery life - it stops the battery from being cooked. You can bump charge a li-on battery to get more juice it it, but that shortens battery life considerably.
Also, it is possible that your battery meter need calibrating. Every 30 days or so let your device run right down before re-charging - this should re-calibrate the meter.
Thanks
I did discover that he only blink when turned on, just what you guys telling here.
Thanks for the reactions
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Modern Li-Ion battery charge regimes are complex. They will charge until full then turn off until the charge falls below a certain level, then start charging again. So if you happen to look at your device at they wrong time it might not show fully charged because it is part way through the wait cycle. This is done to prolong battery life - it stops the battery from being cooked. You can bump charge a li-on battery to get more juice it it, but that shortens battery life considerably.
Also, it is possible that your battery meter need calibrating. Every 30 days or so let your device run right down before re-charging - this should re-calibrate the meter.
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Whats bump charge?
wimmetje said:
Hi,
It all runs well and i think it is charged enough, anybody got the same issue?
Greets
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Somewhat same issue, battery charge light NEVER blinked, had Archos 32 for 2 weeks on 2.0.71. The charge would never reach 100%, it would stay at 99% for hours, all day, just could not find that 100% mark and switch to status "charged". When I would wait at 99% for an hour or more, when unplugged, the meter would say 100% immediately after disconnecting it. Maybe it was cycling or doing something battery related, but I doubt it in light of upgrading to fw 2.1.2 and now it charges to 100% without an issue and the power led blinks. Looks like they fixed that bug, or at least it is fixed for me now.
Does anyone have trouble with the Archos 70 not charging at all? This has happened a few times now, I've put it on charge overnight and when I check in the morning the battery is at no charge.
I thought I would bring some info I highly pushed with the Thunderbolt and Evo 4G that applies here. IF YOU HAVE THE EXTENDED BATTERY, YOU WILL WANT TO DO THIS SO YOUR PHONE UTILIZES THE ENTIRE EXTENDED BATTERY. The phone comes with a smaller battery, so it's batterystats.bin file is set to see that battery. It may not charge your extended battery all the way as it will think it is done charging much sooner than it is. Not that you won't get longer battery life without doing this, but you can always get MOAR!
**Disclaimer**I am not responsible for anything you do to your phone, zombie apocalypse, or the fact your phone called your girl/guy at the wrong time**As always your mileage will vary, some phones work better than others**
This is a form of bump charging your phones. I used it today, and noticed beyond better battery life immediately. So let us get down to business.
[Step 1] You will need to plug the phone into your charger, and charge the phone until the Notification light turns green.
[Step 2] Unplug the charger, wait for the green light to go out, plug the charger back in and wait for the light to turn green again. Upon doing so, turn the phone off. You will need to have fast boot OFF.
[Step 3] Once the phone is off, wait for the light to turn green, and unplug your charger, wait for the green light to go out, and plug back in. Repeat this step for a total of 10 unplug, plug back ins. Don't panick if sometimes it takes much longer than other times to turn green. You are charging the battery past the "capacity" that batterystats.bin says the battery has, which we will come back to in a min. Power on your phone. If you do not, or cannot temp root skip step 4
[Step 4] If you are able to temp root, then you can make your battery even better. Using a root explorer, go to data/system/ and delete the file batterystats.bin and reboot your phone. DO NOT use any battery calibration apps from the market, and down the road when we get S-OFF Clockwork Mod to wipe the battery stats. There is a known issue with CWM where it doesn't work, and I have tested a few calibration apps that say they delete batterystats.bin, but the file is always there, with the same data in it after using the app. Only way I have seen that works is manually deleting it.
[Step 5] The Hardest part of all. Use your phone, do not plug the phone in once, until it hits the 15% mark and asks you to. Once you do plug it into charge, let it charge all the way back up. You are building the batterystats.bin file so it understands how much charge your battery can actually hold. FUTURE REFERENCE: you will need to do this everytime you factory reset the phone, everytime you flash a new rom, etc. I know we cannot do all this currently, but this guide will still provide usefulness down the road when we get S-OFF as you will want to calibrate the battery the same way.
****If there is anything you noticed i put in wrong, or questions let me know***HTC has supported this method, minus deleting batterystats on many of their phones, and yet again seems to work on the rezound as well.****
Or you could just download the free battery monitor widget by 3c and you will notice your green light turn on at "100%" but keep an eye on the mA being pushed into the phone. When the mA goes from a positive (green number) to a negative (red number) that's when you should unplug. You will notice that your rezound "thinks" its 100% about 10-25 min before it really is... Much easier than feeling tweeked out, plugging and unplugging multiple times. Just another option. Good post though for sure. As most would NOT benefit from the full extended potential the battery has to offer.
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Or you could just download the free battery monitor widget by 3c and you will notice your green light turn on at "100%" but keep an eye on the mA being pushed into the phone. When the mA goes from a positive (green number) to a negative (red number) that's when you should unplug. Much easier than feeling tweeked out, plugging and unplugging multiple times. Just another option. Good post though for sure. As most would NOT benefit from the full extended potential the battery has to offer.
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when the mA goes red though, is based off the batterstats.bin file. I was not even talking about when to unplug the phone. I am talking about allowing the android OS to see how battery it actually has to use. so you are talking about something different than I am.
**edit** wanted to add. Your phone hitting 100% may in all reality only be hitting say 95% for example, but your phone thinks it is 100% hence why you can turn your phone off when at 100% and it continues to charge.
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when the mA goes red though, is based off the batterstats.bin file. I was not even talking about when to unplug the phone. I am talking about allowing the android OS to see how battery it actually has to use. so you are talking about something different than I am.
**edit** wanted to add. Your phone hitting 100% may in all reality only be hitting say 95% for example, but your phone thinks it is 100% hence why you can turn your phone off when at 100% and it continues to charge.
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I'd be willing to agree we're both right
**edit** I did re-word my post before your response and my reply. Its funny how we're talking the same language, but bad timing. Lol
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I'd be willing to agree we're both right
**edit** I did re-word my post before your response and my reply. Its funny how we're talking the same language, but bad timing. Lol
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haha read it now. Was unaware that the rezound knew to keep charging. The Tbolt never did(atleast in the beginning as i stopped using it for awhile), and the Evo 4G never did either. I never thought to check this as HTC themselves never made mention of it charging past "100%" on its own.
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haha read it now. Was unaware that the rezound knew to keep charging. The Tbolt never did(atleast in the beginning as i stopped using it for awhile), and the Evo 4G never did either. I never thought to check this as HTC themselves never made mention of it charging past "100%" on its own.
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Stupid phones! Just give us a bad ass device that's unlocked, so we can do what we want already! The majority of people with these devices have no clue of their potential anyway. I work for vzw Btw and just deleted all my pics of the Samsung "Fixthis" over rated and cheap feeling like all other Sammy's IMO. I'm keeping my rezound no matter what. Even though Chingy hooked my Tbolt up with mad unreleased ish. I just switch my sim back n forth as needed
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I did the battery stats fix with my Inc a long time ago. When I popped on the Rezound extended battery I plugged in the charger and it took 4 hours to charge vs about 1 for the original. Now at the end of a full day I have about 70% left, so I'm pretty sure the Rezound is much better about figuring out battery stats then older HTC's. IMHO. I'd love to see some data to back me up though.
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[Step 2] Unplug the charger, wait for the green light to go out, plug the charger back in and wait for the light to turn green again. Upon doing so, turn the phone off. You will need to have fast boot OFF.
[Step 3] Once the phone is off, wait for the light to turn green, and unplug your charger, wait for the green light to go out, and plug back in. Repeat this step for a total of 10 unplug, plug back ins. Don't panick if sometimes it takes much longer than other times to turn green. You are charging the battery past the "capacity" that batterystats.bin says the battery has, which we will come back to in a min. Reboot your phone. If you do not, or cannot temp root skip step 4
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So, step 2 turn the phone off at the end. after step 3. u say to reboot?? so if the phone is already off.. u mean to turn it on. then turn it off? kinda doesnt make any sense. Unless by reboot, you mean to just simply turn the phone on. in which, u should probably word it "Power Up" not reboot.
so confused lol
Lithium batteries are charged by monitoring voltage first. The phone can monitor the mAh going in and out, but it really has no bearing on the charging. It does allow the phone to monitor the health of the battery by watching for capacity changes as it ages.
Bump charging gives a slight overcharge, this is why the battery lasts a little longer. Charging with the phone off is best for calibrating the battery stats and for battery life because the phone can actually fully charge the battery. It is not possible to fully charge the battery when the phone is powered on as the battery is in use.
Here is a link to a post I made about lithium type batteries and how they charge and the reasons for calibration. It should clear up some things about the batteries.
You can do a bit of a bump charge by charging the battery with the phone off, then when the LED turns green, pull the charger and let the battery settle a few minutes then plug it back in. The LED should not be green and it will charge at the fast constant voltage rate for a bit more. Let it charge about another hour then unplug, wait a few minutes and re-plug it in again. This can force in a few extra mAh.
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So, step 2 turn the phone off at the end. after step 3. u say to reboot?? so if the phone is already off.. u mean to turn it on. then turn it off? kinda doesnt make any sense. Unless by reboot, you mean to just simply turn the phone on. in which, u should probably word it "Power Up" not reboot.
so confused lol
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yeah I meant turn it on lol...sorry for the confusion. I will fix the OP
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Lithium batteries are charged by monitoring voltage first. The phone can monitor the mAh going in and out, but it really has no bearing on the charging. It does allow the phone to monitor the health of the battery by watching for capacity changes as it ages.
Bump charging gives a slight overcharge, this is why the battery lasts a little longer. Charging with the phone off is best for calibrating the battery stats and for battery life because the phone can actually fully charge the battery. It is not possible to fully charge the battery when the phone is powered on as the battery is in use.
Here is a link to a post I made about lithium type batteries and how they charge and the reasons for calibration. It should clear up some things about the batteries.
You can do a bit of a bump charge by charging the battery with the phone off, then when the LED turns green, pull the charger and let the battery settle a few minutes then plug it back in. The LED should not be green and it will charge at the fast constant voltage rate for a bit more. Let it charge about another hour then unplug, wait a few minutes and re-plug it in again. This can force in a few extra mAh.
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I'll be honest I haven't looked at exactly how much of a change it results on the Rezound, but on the Evo 4G for example, we got more than a "few" extra mAh. I am glad to see someone agree with me, to an extent. I will say the way I listed it is the way provided by HTC back when the Evo came out. What you said to do, we tried with the Evo 4G and it didn't work quite as well. Maybe that is why you say only a few mAh.
The one thing I have missed from my Evo 4G days are the trickle charge kernels. I know everyone thought they were bad, but no one ever had real proof of them damaging a phone, hell I used trickle charging kernels only for well over a month everyday and never had any issues. I would love to see those come to the Rezound.
I did every trick in the book to increase battery life in my Droid Charge (bump charge, deleting batterstats.bin etc etc etc) .
I stream audio all day at work from either iheart radio or sirius online & that absolutely KILLS battery life. My Charge would kill a 3500 extended battery before the end of a long work day.
Now, I am getting awesome battery life from the 2750 extended battery on the Rezound. I bought two of the 2750 batteries with the phone as they where only $29 each at the time with the extended back.
I did no tricks at all other than fully charge and let it run down to about 2% a couple times. I have been using this phone the exact same way as the Charge & I have yet to go to the second battery. I stream all day & its still running when I walk in the house at the end of a LONG work day.
~John
Good lord, am I the only one that doesn't look at their phone while it's charging? I prefer to be asleep and let it suck as much power as it can. I will try your method, but you might want to mention to use the stock charger, since it's been my experience that it's the only thing that actually charges the phone properly.
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Good lord, am I the only one that doesn't look at their phone while it's charging? I prefer to be asleep and let it suck as much power as it can. I will try your method, but you might want to mention to use the stock charger, since it's been my experience that it's the only thing that actually charges the phone properly.
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Well that is because the charger that comes with the phone is 1 amp, versus the charger say I bought to use in my car is about half an amp. Cause it was meant for older phones. same as using USB. USB will take forever to charge your phone.
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I did every trick in the book to increase battery life in my Droid Charge (bump charge, deleting batterstats.bin etc etc etc) .
I stream audio all day at work from either iheart radio or sirius online & that absolutely KILLS battery life. My Charge would kill a 3500 extended battery before the end of a long work day.
Now, I am getting awesome battery life from the 2750 extended battery on the Rezound. I bought two of the 2750 batteries with the phone as they where only $29 each at the time with the extended back.
I did no tricks at all other than fully charge and let it run down to about 2% a couple times. I have been using this phone the exact same way as the Charge & I have yet to go to the second battery. I stream all day & its still running when I walk in the house at the end of a LONG work day.
~John
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Are you on 4g or 3g? With my extended battery and a full charge my phone will be dead after 10 hrs with hardly any use
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Are you on 4g or 3g? With my extended battery and a full charge my phone will be dead after 10 hrs with hardly any use
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4g.
I'm totally amazed at the battery life I'm getting. The reason I bought two extended batteries was because I figured I needed them.
I have had a ton of phones and not one of them could stream audio for 10hours straight, I don't care what battery you used.
Today, I went to work at around 8 am. I streamed both iheart radio and Sirius radio online for almost the entire day. When I got home around 6 pm it was running on fumes, but it hadn't shut down yet.
If I didn't stream anything it would run for days I think.
~John
I don't understand why I'm getting so much battery life on this phone. It's exceeding expectations. Not that I'm complaining, but my experiences simply are not jiving with the results found by reviews like Engadget's. I have the official extended battery which is 2750MAh, but I had a 35**MAh one for my Droid X and it died faster under the same use. Considering I never lose LTE signal at home/work, and everything I do over it at work is using LTE, I just can't fathom how this MOTHER-F***ING BEAST of an amazing phone lasts like 20% longer on a 30% smaller battery over my Droid X. (I'm not going by the battery life indicator, but purposely letting it die so I know for certain.)
Also, yes, I understand they were using stock battery in the reviews; but I used that the first few days before going back and picking up an extended battery @ half off normal price.
I love this thing, and I love HTC for having a 1% battery indicator on the stock device.
Oh, by the way; should I really plug it in at 15% remaining? I thought you were supposed to let it die when training new battery life?
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I love this thing, and I love HTC for having a 1% battery indicator on the stock device.
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What/where is this 1% indicator?
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What/where is this 1% indicator?
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Add a battery indicator widget; it goes in 1% increments. I'd LOVE it if you could have it show on the actual indicator on the notification bar, but I haven't found a way to do that; but I keep a battery life indicator on my main home screen, and yeah, 1% increments for the win.
If this has been asked,and answered before, please delete. I am coming from a droid incredible, and with fast charge, it takes about an hour and a half. How fast doors the Rezound charge? Thanks...
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My battery monitor widget shows an average of 3h 55m for AC charge and 6h 15m for USB charge.
This is for 0-100%. On AC charge, it will go from 10-90% in a little more than an hour.
According to the AC charger itself 3 hours for standard 4 hours for extended. Those are estimates I am sure. And probably with the phone powered down.
Last time mine was totally used up it took about 2 hours.
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My battery monitor widget shows an average of 3h 55m for AC charge and 6h 15m for USB charge.
This is for 0-100%. On AC charge, it will go from 10-90% in a little more than an hour.
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yeah, it seems to trickle charge at the end. I'll look at the mah and it will be 40-50mah and I'm wondering if something is wrong...
Advice
I would say it in all caps, but that is obnoxious, so let's just make believe I did:
Always charge your phone with the power off.
Cannot stress this enough.
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yeah, it seems to trickle charge at the end. I'll look at the mah and it will be 40-50mah and I'm wondering if something is wrong...
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That's exactly what it does. It will charge at near 1A from 20-80% and then drop to about a 200mA charge.
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I would say it in all caps, but that is obnoxious, so let's just make believe I did:
Always charge your phone with the power off.
Cannot stress this enough.
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because we can live without our phones twice a day??? This just isn't possible for most people.
Not everyone has the luxury to just turn their phone off. I need mine on 24/7 for more reasons than not.
jdmba said:
I would say it in all caps, but that is obnoxious, so let's just make believe I did:
Always charge your phone with the power off.
Cannot stress this enough.
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jdmba said:
I would say it in all caps, but that is obnoxious, so let's just make believe I did:
Always charge your phone with the power off.
Cannot stress this enough.
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Care to explain what this accomplishes?
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Care to explain what this accomplishes?
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Nothing. It still trickle charges near peak voltage when the phone is off.
True on the trickle charge, but it's not fighting the drain of keeping the operating system, radio, and other processes going while it's charging. You get a much more complete charge when it's completely off. Also, after it shows the green light, and while still powered down, unplug, and plug in until it lights green again. Repeat a few times until the green light is almost immediate. You will then have reached the full capacity of the battery.
If you have to have your phone 24/7, invest in a couple of extended batteries, and have a standalone charger. The most you will ever be offline because of power is maybe 90 seconds while switching batteries.
One more thing, for those that don't know yet, before powering down, go to Menu, Settings, Power, and untick the fast boot option. That way you will be fully powered down while charging, not just in sleep mode.
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Also, after it shows the green light, and while still powered down, unplug, and plug in until it lights green again. Repeat a few times until the green light is almost immediate. You will then have reached the full capacity of the battery.
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and shortened the life of the battery quite a bit.
~John
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True on the trickle charge, but it's not fighting the drain of keeping the operating system, radio, and other processes going while it's charging. You get a much more complete charge when it's completely off. Also, after it shows the green light, and while still powered down, unplug, and plug in until it lights green again. Repeat a few times until the green light is almost immediate. You will then have reached the full capacity of the battery.
If you have to have your phone 24/7, invest in a couple of extended batteries, and have a standalone charger. The most you will ever be offline because of power is maybe 90 seconds while switching batteries.
One more thing, for those that don't know yet, before powering down, go to Menu, Settings, Power, and untick the fast boot option. That way you will be fully powered down while charging, not just in sleep mode.
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Nah, I get 12-16 hours out of a standard battery. Plus, I have a car charger and several AC chargers. My point was, I am not going to turn off my phone just to charge it. Not to mention, extended batteries are cumbersome.
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and shortened the life of the battery quite a bit.
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I always hear someone say this, but the funny thing is, that is no different then charging the battery in most stand alone chargers.
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I've had my Titan for nearly 5 months now. I am hoping Titan's battery isn't that crap as I think. However, since last 1 week what I've seen is my LED goes green to indicate that my phone is charged. It shows 100% in battery saver menu. However, if I restart my phone while it's plugged in the charger even after green LED, then after the reboot my battery is down to 89-91% mark. Either the battery calibration has gone wonky or the LED doesn't recognise the real battery levels.
It would really help if anyone who charges their phone during the coming week, could restart their phone while plugged in as soon as you see green LED and then see if anything changes in your battery stats?
I've noticed my phone does last an hour or two longer if I charge after this reboot till it's 100%. It could well be a placebo effect for me. But might help if others see the same too.
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I've had my Titan for nearly 5 months now. I am hoping Titan's battery isn't that crap as I think. However, since last 1 week what I've seen is my LED goes green to indicate that my phone is charged. It shows 100% in battery saver menu. However, if I restart my phone while it's plugged in the charger even after green LED, then after the reboot my battery is down to 89-91% mark. Either the battery calibration has gone wonky or the LED doesn't recognise the real battery levels.
It would really help if anyone who charges their phone during the coming week, could restart their phone while plugged in as soon as you see green LED and then see if anything changes in your battery stats?
I've noticed my phone does last an hour or two longer if I charge after this reboot till it's 100%. It could well be a placebo effect for me. But might help if others see the same too.
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The calibration is a little wacked. Here is my example - i charge it for 5 hours and it says 100%... but it only lasts about 7 hours and i can tell throughout the day that it drains faster. If i charge it for 8 i get closer to 13 with heavy web and game use. At 5 hours it turns green also ... but it seems as though it still charges more when left plugged in longer.
Some apps also like wp7 news clips off about 1 to 2 percent battery everytime i run them. (it brings in feeds from 20 different websites (estimate, i didn't count) so it's worth it but i check it a lot.
Could be wrong but as far as im aware that over charge protection. Your phone shouldnt really be charged 100%. 90-95% should be the sweet spot. Generally when i first noticed that i used to restart the phone and charge it to 100% but my battery life actually got less than just letting the phone decide when its enough
My titan has recently been getting more and more life from the battery; upwards of two days. I turned off wifi and I got 4 days 4 hours, died just some hours ago (I don't game much, but I do listen to music).
I've been getting into the habit of charging it when it gets below 5%, not every night like I used to. So it'll be 30% at night sometimes, and it'll last me another day with light/average usage (as opposed to my previous mindset where anything below 50% is a no go).
It might not work to leave till last 5% especially for someone like me who travels a lot. Don't you fear at times that your phone might faint when you really want to use it? As soon as my phone goes in battery saver mode I plug it in. Maybe that 90% limit as a reason. Over riding it helped me but if I did not over ride the following cycle then my battery performance seemed awful! Very strange working indeed.
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If I plan on using it AND I know I'm going out where there is potentially no USB to charge with, I bring my portable USB battey charger and/or one of my other phones. However, I don't mind not having a phone with me at all times, so if it dies, it dies. Still, I just got it to last 4 days, so if you don't watch videos or play games frequently, charging every three days is unheard of for a smartphone!
The battery's health relies on charging it properly, and I value keeping this up over having it charged when convenient for me. Battery saver kicks in at 20% I think, and with battery saver, you'll get almost another day with light usage, so charging when battery saver turns on is probably really hurting your battery.
I generally unplug my phone when I notice the LED turns green (even if I'm going to bed for the night I'll unplug it). I have never had such amazing battery life with any other phone, but I also have never taken such lengths to improve battery life either.
Why don't you pick up a brand new HTC Evo 3D battery off eBay or something and use that? Its a 1730mAh battery compared to Titans 1600mAh and works fine in the Titan.
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Deep discharging a Li-Ion is worse for it than frequent charging. Temperature also is very important and I haven't noticed the battery get hot when sitting on the charger after the light turns green.
im trying to calibrate my battery on my maxx. the lockscreen says charged but the battery percentage in my taskbar is stuck at 99%. ive seen it reach 100% last night but i haven't been able to get it to do that tonight. even at 99% on a charger i get no charging animation.
ive heard rumors this phone has issues like this or should i be worried? whats the proper way to calibrate it and get it too a 100% charge?
use it for a while, like get it under 90% then try again, but for actually attempting to "calibrate" run it damn near dead then charge it back up.
daniel644 said:
use it for a while, like get it under 90% then try again, but for actually attempting to "calibrate" run it damn near dead then charge it back up.
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i assume it's a built in safety feature.
fix-this! said:
i assume it's a built in safety feature.
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It's probably something in the charger, the ecomoto chargers have a sorta "kill switch" that will stop charging the battery once its reached capacity to prevent over charging. I first noticed it when I was using the charger to charge my Samsung Galaxy S wifi 4.0 player and like 5-10 minutes after it registered a full charge (turned off) it was like it wasn't plugged up (i hit the power button on my player which on its charger always caused the screen to light up showing how far charged it is, but on our ecomoto it was like it wasn't plugged to a charger anymore).