I bought a extra dock charger with a 1800mAh replacement battery like a month ago. This is the charger: http://www.ebay.com/itm/1800mAh-Bat...ccessories&hash=item2ebd83b41f#ht_1917wt_1396
So when the battery is charging it has a violet light and when the battery is fully charged it turns into a blue one. The PROBLEM is that now, the light is always blue, and the batteries dont charge at all. I dont know if the charger is already broken or it is a way to fix it. Please if someone who knows something about this help me, thanks!
You bought fake dock charger.
My dock is red color when charging and green color when full battery.
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tuto3324 said:
I bought a extra dock charger with a 1800mAh replacement battery like a month ago. This is the charger: http://www.ebay.com/itm/1800mAh-Bat...ccessories&hash=item2ebd83b41f#ht_1917wt_1396
So when the battery is charging it has a violet light and when the battery is fully charged it turns into a blue one. The PROBLEM is that now, the light is always blue, and the batteries dont charge at all. I dont know if the charger is already broken or it is a way to fix it. Please if someone who knows something about this help me, thanks!
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I had one do that and it was the cheap plastic weld inside that holds the little metal clips that contact the battery in place.
When the battery was placed in the charger the metal clips wouldn't actually contact the battery and so the light would always stay blue. (once charged it will stay blue until another low battery is placed in it) I took it apart, added a drop of super glue, and it continues to work to this day.
I think it is already broken, i opened it and tried several things to fix but nothing seems to work. Buying another is my only option i think
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do you need a battery to turn on a wallaby? i have one and dont want to buy both a battery and a charger to see if it even works.
Well it doesnt run on solar power so i am pretty confident that you would need a battery but if the battery is dead you will need a charger to obviously, charge it. A charger costs £5 in the uk so i cant see it costing you much to try
You misunderstood. I have neither a battery or a charger. i want to know if you can power it on with just a charger. or do i need both the battery and charger just to get it ON?
it works without a battery.
cerjam said:
You misunderstood. I have neither a battery or a charger. i want to know if you can power it on with just a charger. or do i need both the battery and charger just to get it ON?
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The battery in the wallaby is inside the case, so if you have no battery who took it out and why? But as the previous post states you can use the wallaby without a battery.
it came dissassembled, missing the battery and antenna. and it looks like someones done some wiring in it, but the screen isnt broken from what i can tell. so if its tits up, anyone who needs a screen or parts i probably got em.
Hi ya
I've been looking at the external battery chargers and additional batteries on eBay and as they aren't official batteries wondered what your experiences (if any) you had with them.
Or what else do you use to keep your phone going through the day when you cant charge it?
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I bought one of the external chargers from ebay that came with an unofficial battery about 5 months ago. The charger itself is fantastic. I found the battery was a little too small for the phone though and didn't always connect properly so the phone would just switch off sometimes. Solved this by putting a strip of electrical tape on the end which filled the gap and keeps it connected.
I was also lucky enough (in a way) to have had to get a replacement phone because I had a problem with the USB port on the phone. When I sent the original one back I kept the battery so I have two official ones. I keep one fully charged and with me all the time.
The other problem I've found with the unofficial battery I got was that it seems to lose charge from 15% straight to 0% and just switches off. So personally I would recommend getting a charger and a second official battery.
Thanks for the tip on the battery, mine has to go back for a broken usb..
Ditto on the ebay batteries, too small, random shutdowns especially when watching video although the wall charger did come in handy with the broken usb. I would also suggest a oem battery.
Just gonna review some of the accessories I have used and what i think about 'em
First up is the 3500mAH extended battery by HHI
This battery came in at a cost of $9.99 with free Shipping! It showed up with an 80% charge which is in the acceptable range of where they like to sit. The battery performs just as one would expect it too. I am currently running MeanRom, and can easily get 16-20 hours of use with some really heavy gaming. However I recently went on a vacation and wanted to run the battery through a couple different variations of "discharging". So with the phone in Airplane mode(no radios connected) and very little use i easily can get a week out of the phone without charging. Again this is without any radios on, not connecting to anything.The stock battery cant touch these numbers. i would be lucky to get a full day out of the stock battery with no gaming and normal use.I didn't do a sticker pull to run the numbers. So I'm taking HHI's word on the 3500mAH being just that.
To conclude on this battery the $10 investment turned out to be a good choice, although it might not be a seidio or something it does more than i expected it to do. I will continue to use this battery till I get rid of the phone. The battery can be found here.
To continue on the batteries,
I also bought some of the Galilio "2000mAH" batteries, I got 3 of them with a wall charger for $13.99 on ebay, as reviewed by many others.
This is my experience with them. So they showed up in the mail and upon opening them i discovered one of the batteries look like it got dropped or skipped accross the cement, im not sure what happened, but who is gonna put a messed up battery in their phone.. So i really only got 2 batteries. I brought it up to the seller he offered me $3.00 back, it wasn't worth my time even dealing with that any further at this point. Anyways the batteries Are nice little backup batteries i take with me on trips.They make for easy backup batteries. The batteries have been suspected to be somewhere along the lines of 1000-1200mAH. I would have to agree, even with no testing with any type of tool, besides my phone. They last a most couple of hours. The wall charger that came with them actually surprised me. Everyone was reporting that it may overcharge your stock battery, which can cause some issues. This charger(as pictured below) will charge the Galilio batteries to 100% with no problems. I put my stock HTC battery into the wall charger and with repeated attempts the charger will not charge the battery past 85% even when i left it on the wall charger for 2 days. I do believe that the stock HtC charger that came with the phone gives the batteries a "better" charge, but the wall charger seems to not charge the batteries past a safe range as everyone seems to be reporting as a possible issue. My issue is it doesn't charge it well enough.
I've attached some pictures of the battery results and of the batteries.
Reserved for more... case reviews coming up next
i got the 3500 mAh from HHI. great battery, even better price.
Yea that battery is awesome!
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Going to try this battery out. Thanks for the review.
The 85% is charge limit is what a cheap charger do,
The "charger" that come with the phone is simply a power supply, the charging circuit is actually "built in" to the phone. You can connect the OEM HTC charger/power supply into one of those cheap aftermarket dock that charge a 2nd battery and it will never charge the battery past 85% either.
To make it short and sweet
There's 2 stage of Li-ion charging
1) charge to 4.2v at constant current which is 85% when it first reach/near 4.2v
2) saturation charge, once the battery reach 4.2v, continue charging but at gradually reducing current until it reach about 3% of default charge current
Cheap charger have a simple/cheap circuit and cannot do stage 2 charging, where the charging circuit built into each phone would do stage 2 charging
http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/charging_lithium_ion_batteries
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The 85% is charge limit is what a cheap charger do,
The "charger" that come with the phone is simply a power supply, the charging circuit is actually "built in" to the phone. You can connect the OEM HTC charger/power supply into one of those cheap aftermarket dock that charge a 2nd battery and it will never charge the battery past 85% either.
To make it short and sweet
There's 2 stage of Li-ion charging
1) charge to 4.2v at constant current which is 85% when it first reach/near 4.2v
2) saturation charge, once the battery reach 4.2v, continue charging but at gradually reducing current until it reach about 3% of default charge current
Cheap charger have a simple/cheap circuit and cannot do stage 2 charging, where the charging circuit built into each phone would do stage 2 charging
http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/charging_lithium_ion_batteries
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im just saying its not gonna over charge your battery like everyone warns you about all over the place lol
Makis709 said:
Going to try this battery out. Thanks for the review.
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Awesome!!! its well worth it!!
The stock battery in my EVO 3D is looking pretty bad. I was wondering why it had such poor battery life lately.... until I noticed the battery is bulging so much it barely fits back in the phone, and almost pushes the back cover off.
Since I always wanted to increase it's running time anyway, I bought that 1960mAh extended battery from Mugen off Amazon. Pretty damn expensive, but reviews everywhere say they are a very good brand. (Plus the others were like $5-10, which I REALLY don't trust).
Anyway, the new battery finally arrived yesterday. Glad I made it before my phone went thermonuclear, I pop it in and...... nothing. Phone won't turn on. Figuring the battery has almost no charge since its new I leave my phone in the charger overnight..... still nothing. There is a very very VERY faint red light that blinks when the battery is in and I try to turn it on (Didn't even notice until I took a very close look all over my phone), but other than that, no response at all from my phone. I get the same reaction with the faint blinking red light if I have no battery in the phone and plug it in the charger.
I used a multimeter and the new battery reads at around 3.97 Volts (the stock one reads at around 4.00 or 4.02 volts on a partial charge). Even though it says 3.7Volts on the label.
Don't tell me I got a bad battery? I really don't want to have to run on this damaged battery for another week. Are there any retail stores that carry these? I only found Sears but they charge $85 instead of $45 for the same battery.
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The stock battery in my EVO 3D is looking pretty bad. I was wondering why it had such poor battery life lately.... until I noticed the battery is bulging so much it barely fits back in the phone, and almost pushes the back cover off.
Since I always wanted to increase it's running time anyway, I bought that 1960mAh extended battery from Mugen off Amazon. Pretty damn expensive, but reviews everywhere say they are a very good brand. (Plus the others were like $5-10, which I REALLY don't trust).
Anyway, the new battery finally arrived yesterday. Glad I made it before my phone went thermonuclear, I pop it in and...... nothing. Phone won't turn on. Figuring the battery has almost no charge since its new I leave my phone in the charger overnight..... still nothing. There is a very very VERY faint red light that blinks when the battery is in and I try to turn it on (Didn't even notice until I took a very close look all over my phone), but other than that, no response at all from my phone. I get the same reaction with the faint blinking red light if I have no battery in the phone and plug it in the charger.
I used a multimeter and the new battery reads at around 3.97 Volts (the stock one reads at around 4.00 or 4.02 volts on a partial charge). Even though it says 3.7Volts on the label.
Don't tell me I got a bad battery? I really don't want to have to run on this damaged battery for another week. Are there any retail stores that carry these? I only found Sears but they charge $85 instead of $45 for the same battery.
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Probably have a bad battery. You can go to a sprint store. They have. Thats where I got mine for like $40
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Hi. My dock battery is not charging nor giving power. I see power level.
I suppose controller went into sleep mode after overheatnig. Does anyone know pinout?
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I have the same problem with the battery in my dock. I bought a damaged dock off eBay and swapped the battery, so my dock is working again (I wasn't sure if the problem was battery or dock).
I have taken the faulty battery apart, but was not able to find the problem with it. I'm sure that the cells are OK, it's just the battery circuitry that's faulty. Each time I try the dock with the faulty battery, the % drops slightly; I wonder what will happen when it reaches 0%.