Hi everyone, I will be assembling a battery discharger/capacity tester to give definitive results on which batteries have greater capacities. I just have one heavily used original Samsung battery and a cheap generic replacement battery that was used for about 20 cycles that I can test. If anyone is interested in sending batteries they want tested for actual mAh I would be more than glad to do so.
Anker 3200mAh replacement battery
I'd recommend reviewing the Anker 3200mAh note 3 battery. I decided to get a replacement for my 1.5+ year old stock battery and this was the one that was getting the best ratings for the least money. At first I was disappointed, as it didn't seem like there was much if any improvement over the old stock battery. However, after a few weeks I was noticing significant improvement. I decided to try consciously squeeze the longest life I could out of it during my 24 hour shift. I was shocked with the results.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=3326605&stc=1&d=1432330766
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I'm running 4.4.2, rooted, with various battery saving modules in xposed including greenify, wakelock terminator and some features in wanam. I haven't really done much else. I leave 4G, wifi, gps and bluetooth on all the time because I'm too lazy to switch them on/off, brightness is on auto, but I also have screen filter for night time. I have multiple adblockers in place, dunno if that has any effect. I changed most options to display black background if possible. I feel like I use my device fairly heavily. Tethered for a few hours, watched several hours of HD video, torrented a large file from a friend, dozens of texts, a terrible 20 minute phone call, my screen timeout is set at 5 minutes... so yeah. I'm quite impressed with this battery, would recommend to anyone looking to replace their old battery. It's not quite as good as the battery life when I first bought it but it was a virgin device back then with a whole lot less going on and I have a feeling it would stack up well with the official sammy battery.
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Any other suggestions for alternative batteries? I'm waiting for my used N9005 to be delivered and I'm looking for a couple of spare batteries and a charger. In the past I used Anker's S3 replacements but had 3 of them die on me in the space of a couple of months traveling around India so I was interested to see if you guys had heard of any alternatives?
dukeoftarzana said:
I'd recommend reviewing the Anker 3200mAh note 3 battery. I decided to get a replacement for my 1.5+ year old stock battery and this was the one that was getting the best ratings for the least money. At first I was disappointed, as it didn't seem like there was much if any improvement over the old stock battery. However, after a few weeks I was noticing significant improvement. I decided to try consciously squeeze the longest life I could out of it during my 24 hour shift. I was shocked with the results.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=3326605&stc=1&d=1432330766
http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=3326606&stc=1&d=1432330766
I'm running 4.4.2, rooted, with various battery saving modules in xposed including greenify, wakelock terminator and some features in wanam. I haven't really done much else. I leave 4G, wifi, gps and bluetooth on all the time because I'm too lazy to switch them on/off, brightness is on auto, but I also have screen filter for night time. I have multiple adblockers in place, dunno if that has any effect. I changed most options to display black background if possible. I feel like I use my device fairly heavily. Tethered for a few hours, watched several hours of HD video, torrented a large file from a friend, dozens of texts, a terrible 20 minute phone call, my screen timeout is set at 5 minutes... so yeah. I'm quite impressed with this battery, would recommend to anyone looking to replace their old battery. It's not quite as good as the battery life when I first bought it but it was a virgin device back then with a whole lot less going on and I have a feeling it would stack up well with the official sammy battery.
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Don't suppose you mind telling me how you rooted it please?
Just got one. It's on xxugng1 4.4.2
Thanks
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Don't suppose you mind telling me how you rooted it please?
Just got one. It's on xxugng1 4.4.2
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I did it with towel root, but had some problems with a superuser app, I eventually got supersu to work but I don't remember exactly how, sorry. I'm on vvrucnc4.
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I'm fairly disappointed in this battery and will start gathering benchmark metrics,asking others to do the same for more data points and what does and doesnt work to increase.
Currently I have disabled sense ui and reduced widgets down to hardly anything, just a search and taskiller. I seem to get around 10 hours with moderate usage (occasional short call, several texts and quick searches, etc) letting android download background data and check google accounts email, contacts and calendar (this really is the power of the phone, cloud syncing pim). Weather, stocks and other "widgetable" apps are refreshed only on demand.
It's worse than I thought. I went less than 6 hours today with only one quick call (<1 minute) a few youtube clips and 2 texts. I noticed the phone was pretty warm in my pocket compared to my HTC touch (it actually felt cold sometimes if left on the desk) and a few times I noticed that there would be no radio "bars" but most of the time I had 3-4 out of 5 bars (I never have recetpion problems where I am) leading me to believe that something goofy is going on with the radio. I am going to reset since my testing is over today!!
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It's worse than I thought. I went less than 6 hours today with only one quick call (<1 minute) a few youtube clips and 2 texts. I noticed the phone was pretty warm in my pocket compared to my HTC touch (it actually felt cold sometimes if left on the desk) and a few times I noticed that there would be no radio "bars" but most of the time I had 3-4 out of 5 bars (I never have recetpion problems where I am) leading me to believe that something goofy is going on with the radio. I am going to reset since my testing is over today!!
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Whit what tool did you test it?
It's still to early to tell but I'm seeing decent battery life. Better than my pre but not great. Certainly acceptable considering I'm playing with it all the time since its new.
i also am seeing bad battery life.. i had court yesterday, and had it OFF most of the day.. and it was dead last night, i turned it on after court.
anyone notice this:
the website has extra batteries
http://nextelonline.nextel.com/NASA...oryID=BSH5110&topPageNumber=0&subPageNumber=0
they say 1340mAh. mine says 1500mAh
do you guys think thats a mistake?
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I just looked at battery usage in Spare Parts at various parts of the day and input this manually to minitab. No special app or anything.
slackwaresupport said:
anyone notice this:
the website has extra batteries
http://nextelonline.nextel.com/NASA...oryID=BSH5110&topPageNumber=0&subPageNumber=0
they say 1340mAh. mine says 1500mAh
do you guys think thats a mistake?
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I read that the European version has a small battery, but because it is GSM is supposed to have as good or better battery life than the CDMA version.
The GSM Hero has a 1350mAh battery, and battery life is reportedly slightly better than the Sprint Hero even with its more capacious battery. As you correctly surmise, this is due to the Sprint being a CDMA network.
Why Sprint would want to sell a lower capacity battery though, I've no idea!
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Dave
my battery didn't last a full day either
I am into my 3rd day of usage (on single charge) on my week old hero.
Running on 2G network, turning off all data connectivity, manual reduce screen brightness, minimum vibrate and sound notifications for typing and applications
I have a Sprint Hero and the battery is at half strength not too long after lunch. But since I've only had the phone 3 days, I probably am playing with it more than usual. I'm guessing Seido will come out with an extended life, same size battery. They did with my Touch and it was great! It was very handy having a spare battery when I was out for a long period of time, away from anywhere to charge the phone.
Im also into my 3rd day of usage, and been off the charger all day today... had a couple calls, couple texts, bout 3hrs worth of browsing/facebook/twitter... down to about 60% as we speak so i know its a vast improvement from my tp... hell, 2 hrs of anything on that phone and it would be below 50 percent before the day even really started lol...
There are a number of things you can do to help improve battery life.
1 ) Turn off Wifi autodiscovery. You can always turn it on again if you are at a spot where you know you have a good wifi connection and plan on using it. My Hero was constantly telling me about wifi hotspots that I was driving past. I've found a number of widgets that will turn wifi on with one push.
2 ) Set Twitter, Facebook, and or email to check for updates less often than stock. I don't remember exactly what mine was set to at the beginning, but one of the first things I did was set Twitter to every four hours and Facebook to every two hours.
3 ) GPS is also a battery eater. Turn it off unless you need it.
4 ) Whenever you get a new phone, you ( well, I do, I'm just assuming that you do, too. ) use the heck out of it, playing with settings, seeing what all the programs do, downloading apps and games. Battery life should pick up as the newness wears off.
If you guys want a little more juice, Seidio just came out with a 1750mAh battery that fits in your device's existing battery space and doesn't require a replacement door.
http://www.seidioonline.com/product-p/basi17htp2.htm
Problem is, whats the point of having a phone designed to have al lthese features if you can't use them as the battery just dies.
My T-Mobile G2 / Hero dies so quick it's annoying.
Yes I've been doing lots of stuff with it this week but to have to turn of 3G to save battery is a laugh. My old Sony phone uses 3G etc and it can last a good two days without charge.
I've kept my 3G on but have kept all the updates to minimum amounts or to be done manually.
Background data also turned off most of the time but again, if it's required, then we shouldn't have to turn off.
It's about time batteries were developed or the companies actually provide longer life ones.
All the testers reviewes keep going on about how great the battery life is doing all these things and stuff, what batteries have they been given to use compared to the rest of us I wonder?
Searched to see if this was already asked but didn't it.
Are the batteries in the Vibrant, Fascinate and Captivate identical. I need to get a spare battery today (if possible) and although the specs indicate it is the same exxact battery, I figure I'd better check with more knowledgable people.
Still trying to work out how to get a full day (8 hours) out of a charge (my only major complaint about the Vibrant - it is a great phone).
Thanks!
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Searched to see if this was already asked but didn't it.
Are the batteries in the Vibrant, Fascinate and Captivate identical. I need to get a spare battery today (if possible) and although the specs indicate it is the same exxact battery, I figure I'd better check with more knowledgable people.
Still trying to work out how to get a full day (8 hours) out of a charge (my only major complaint about the Vibrant - it is a great phone).
Thanks!
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I know they are between the fascinate and the vibrant. My wife has a fascinate and we switch batteries all the time when mine is low.
Unfortunately I can't seem to find one at any retail stores. Tried a compnay owned AT&T and T-Mobile store (they had next to nothing as far as accessories) and Best Buy and Radio Shack.. Nada.. Guess I have to wait for the one I ordered from Amazon.. Really need one for Monday. Oh well.
Maybe I can conserve battery life by not using it :-(
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Still trying to work out how to get a full day (8 hours) out of a charge (my only major complaint about the Vibrant - it is a great phone).
Thanks!
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This may be a bit extreme, but I've had much better battery life after switching to this custom ROM...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=782027
There are other tips as well, such as having your email check every 30 minutes instead of using "push" email, etc.
This is my first Android phone and I'm not comfortable (yet) with updating the ROM.
Without push e-mail, I may as well go back to my BlackBerry. I am already giving up Office Communicator and I can't give up push e-mail.
Unfortunately this reminds me of the early days of the iPhoney; battery life was dreadful there. Difference is, I like the Vibrant. And it has a replaceable battery.
Downloaded and installed JuiceDefender and purchased UltimateJuice. See how they work. Seems like a lot of work (between that and shutting off WiFi and BT and then remembering to turn them on). So it goes.
So far, battery life has been a disappointment.
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This may be a bit extreme, but I've had much better battery life after switching to this custom ROM...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=782027
There are other tips as well, such as having your email check every 30 minutes instead of using "push" email, etc.
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I've always read that push was significantly BETTER for your battery than checking email at a fixed interval.
This is now depressing... Battery was 100% charged; 90 minutes later it is 70% charged. No phone calls. Very few e-mails (and I get a ton during the week). Two text messages. 10 minutes of web browsing...
So now I am uninstalling apps that I wanted like FaceBook and Twitter to see if I can find the major drain. And I won't be able to so I'll have to go back to my old phone. Very depressing. I checked with someone else in my group. Same thing.
How do people who need push e-mail and IM deal with this? I am 100% positive it will get better in the future, but I can't wait
Check ebay. I got two batteries and a battery charger for around fifteen bucks. Works great....also try calibrating your battery meter by letting the phone completely drain then completely charge it. Doing that a few times every now and then defin helps my battery meter
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I ordered a spare battery but it won't be here by Monday. I won't be anywhere near a power outlet Monday and can't have this thing die at 11AM...
Extended battery
I bought an extended battery from mugenbattery.com. It's for the Galaxy S i9000, but since both that phone and the Vibrant are practically identical inside and out, it fit perfectly. After unplugging my phone for about 8 hours, after light use (bluetooth on for about 30 mins and a few email checks), my battery was down to about 92%. With the stock battery it was down to the upper 70's. Also all the gel cases and leather cases for the i9000 will fit the vibrant (i have one of each). Mind you, the phone with the extended battery will feel heavier and will be about twice as thick, but I don't care. I got juice now for pandora and angry birds all day baby
I've had my Flyer a few months now and in the last few days the battery seems to be draining very quickly. I charged it full again last night and this morning it was at 88%.
I've turned everything off so just the bare bones of the device are alive and i'm using Juice Defender, and still no joy. It's only started doing this in the last few days so i presume the battery is on the way out very quickly.
I've let it drain to 10% and charged it, and it's made no difference.
I'm not going to mess about with settings and more waiting to see what it does etc...., I really just want to get a new battery and be done with.
Where can i buy a new battery? I've had a look on fleabay and no joy.
Any suggestions where to get one, part no. etc...?
Many thanks in advance
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I've had my Flyer a few months now and in the last few days the battery seems to be draining very quickly. I charged it full again last night and this morning it was at 88%.
I've turned everything off so just the bare bones of the device are alive and i'm using Juice Defender, and still no joy. It's only started doing this in the last few days so i presume the battery is on the way out very quickly.
I've let it drain to 10% and charged it, and it's made no difference.
I'm not going to mess about with settings and more waiting to see what it does etc...., I really just want to get a new battery and be done with.
Where can i buy a new battery? I've had a look on fleabay and no joy.
Any suggestions where to get one, part no. etc...?
Many thanks in advance
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happened with me also....10% battery drained overnight...
what app is using most of ur battery?
sometimes push service in some free market apps drains a lot of battery and it keeps running even when app is closed... check running processes... well i uninstalled that app with push service and all became normal
Thanks for that but i've had a look through and it would seem that there isn't anything happening over night that i'm not expecting or that is being very hard on the battery.
I'm pretty confident the battery is the culprit here. Sourcing a new battery however is proving to be a problem. Somebody somewhere must be selling them.
I've just been on to HTC in the UK, they have a service centre not very far away from me and they won't sell me a battery or even give me a part no. for the battery.
Come on, somebody must know where to get one.
I think i might have found somewhere in China...
Battery - BG41200
3.7v - 4000mAh
If the prices were cheap enough how many of you would be interested in buying a battery for your Flyer.
Perhaps do a group buy?
i thought flyers battery is not user replaceable?
It's very replaceable and easy to do.
Here......
http://www.techrepublic.com/photos/cracking-open-the-htc-flyer/6256123
I'm going to have to look at getting a new battery sooner or later. It's getting to the point hat the battery is always running low by the time I get home in the evening or even running out. With pretty much the same use it used to be good for a day and a half easily. Flyer was purchase may or june 2011 so it really needs to last another 16 months or so.
Well......I ask again. If anyone knows of where to buy an internal Flyer battery please post a linky.
I posted this thread earlier today
"I just wanted to know what people are getting out of their batteries. I unplug mine around 7:30 am when i leave for work. When I get to work i turn on my wifi (rooted thunderbolt) and leave that on all day. I have the setting to turn wifi off (flyer) when screen is off. When I get home around 5:30 i switch to my home network and by 8-10 my battery is pretty much gone. Is this normal battery life or are there any tricks I'm not aware of that will help with battery. My wife has an Ipad 1 and she seems to get days of use out of it before she needs to charge it.
Also, I don't watch movies or video at work... most of my use is surfing, twitter and email."
I'm trying to figure out if what is normal battery life and If mine came with a bad battery. If so Yes I would be interested in getting a new one.
The Ipad battery has much longer life and is a much bigger capacity battery. The new HTC Jetstream also has a much bigger capacity battery as well. I think HTC have learned lessons on how much battery power these flyers use, but unfortunately have used Flyer owners as guinea pigs, rather like the first Apple iPhone but that had terrible battery issues as well although they've gotten better over time.
When my Flyer was brand new the battery lasted for ages and i couldn't understand what people were on about the battery not lasting for very long. So up until a few weeks ago my battery was doing fine and then almost within a day or two the battery started to run down quickly and has been doing so ever since. I've since loaded/unloaded new ROMS and done all the usual procedures for deleting the battery stats etc..., and still no joy.
I think the problem is with the battery not being man enough for the job at 4000mAh, and the drain is such that the battery is being worked hard since September last year (in my case) to a point where it is now progressively failing. I'm not so sure either that it's all that good in terms of quality.
Most of that time it has been charging from one source or another. If my Flyer isn't in the car or in the house it's not often being used battery only unlike most other people probably use the battery only a lot, so i can't understand why the battery is failing when it's not even that old.
This is a big issue with the Flyer and for what the device cost i would have expected a lot better. I think the Flyer in itself is a fantastic piece of kit that i will no doubt keep for a very long time as i did my XDA IIi but i never had problems buying another battery for my IIi. HTC will not sell me a battery, they insist i send the device to them and they will swap it but will cost about £50-£60 for the pleasure. I flatly refuse to pay that!!
What is required is a bigger capacity battery (6000-8000mAh) in the same packaging as the current battery however, i think for now i would happily settle for another of the same battery if i could just get hold of one.
So far it's proving an impossible task!!
Just to add: Once you've made sure there aren't apps being opened at startup that don't need to be opened until you're ready to use them, also make sure wifi/bluetooth, mobile data is all off when not required, and all the usual tweakes to make sure animations are off, screen is on the lowest brightness etc..., then there is not a lot more you can do. I don't know how much use something like Juice Defender will be as that only makes sure your data connections are off at night and other times you specify. I've tried it and it didn't help at all so i don't know what else to suggest apart from turning the radio part of the phone off completely at night if it isn't on charge.
If i leave my phone off charge all night, having fully charged first, i wake up in the morning and it's down to around 86-88% battery.
Hey guys, I've been looking into this extended battery for my Alpha since I barely get 9 hours use from my phone (mostly listening to music through Soundcloud for about 4 hours and a ton of browsing reddit/various forums about 2 hours a day). Lots of people told me to go for a larger phone with a larger battery capacity but I don't like holding bricks in my pocket so I went for the Galaxy Alpha and mostly happy with the performance minus the battery life.
Looking into it, I've found the extended battery kit on Expansys (Cant link since this is like my first post here)
So far that's the only place in the UK that I could find that sells the kit, and would like to know if anyone else has seen it elsewhere. I've never ordered from Expansys before, usually stick to Amazon when I can so just want to confirm they are reputable before I order.
Also want to know if anyone has had first hand experience with the kit itself, how much extra juice does this deliver, and how much longer does it take to charge up? Already read through the "official" numbers, and it seems like it will be good. I remember doing the same for my Galaxy S2 before I bought this phone and that goes for about 15 hours for a day now (gave it to my sister).
Thanks in advance for any answers!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-alpha/general/news-alpha-owners-bigger-battery-t2929165
http://www.ebay.com.my/itm/Official...597?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item51ca98e495
I didn't really think that the battery life was terrible but I ordered one of those extended battery thing for more grip.
Now, the phone is still very sizeable, and actually it is now the perfect size for me.
The slight thickness it gains increased the phone's presence in my hand greatly.
About the battery life with the kit, I used to get about 12 hours with the original battery and now, I get about 1.5 Days or so with ~4 hours of SoT. It varies greatly if I just surf the net, listen to music, vs. I play games, etc...
So in general, I can go about 2 days without charging and that is GREAT IMO. (S5 that I used for a bit had similar battery life I would say..)
I say get one when you can, as you really do'nt know when they are going to run out of the stock.
will the extended battery work with wireless charging back cover ?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-Wireless-Charging-Cover-Galaxy-White/dp/B00MWNDPH8
I have recently bought a new battery from amazon to replace my two year old battery which I was barely getting 2 hours of screen on time with, in general it was awful.
I would just like to gauge peoples opinions on whether they feel this battery is genuine or not or to see whether people have had any similar experiences with buying batteries on amazon. The amazon store seems to have a fairly good reputation. At first I thought it may have been an Akku Polarcell as it does say Akku on the battery packaging but I am skeptical.
I am currently testing it at the moment but it only seems to be slightly better than the original.
Further testing and research has bought me to install the following app. The app gives you the capacity of the battery on the main page - the battery appears to be 3000mah capacity which is the same as the oem battery.
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As long as the battery is the original as the LG one. I had almost the same problem with my battery then bought the exact same battery and its been working fine so far.
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As long as the battery is the original as the LG one. I had almost the same problem with my battery then bought the exact same battery and its been working fine so far.
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Yes it appears that I am getting same battery life as the original battery, I can't seem to break 2.5 hours of screen on time and thats on a good day. Tried all sorts, think it might be time to jump ships and get a new phone.
Are you running on Android M or still on Lollipop and in that screen-on time what do you usually do, chats, videos, or games?
I bought a new battery too orginal. There is not different between thr ols battery. Why??
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Are you running on Android M or still on Lollipop and in that screen-on time what do you usually do, chats, videos, or games?
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Latest Fulmics 5.2 with Xceed kenrel.
Literally limited to whatsapp and browsing internet, nothing to strenuous. Have a tasker profile running to turn off my phone cell when connecting to works wifi, as I get no signal. Have limited the worst of the wakelocks and alarms with Amplify and battery is a bit better but not in the realms of 3.5+ hours yet.
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Latest Fulmics 5.2 with Xceed kenrel.
Literally limited to whatsapp and browsing internet, nothing to strenuous. Have a tasker profile running to turn off my phone cell when connecting to works wifi, as I get no signal. Have limited the worst of the wakelocks and alarms with Amplify and battery is a bit better but not in the realms of 3.5+ hours yet.
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Maybe try to check under battery usage what's draining your battery. I got mine a week ago from one of these local shops, the exact same one as the original G3 and I get at least 8+ hours on a full charge for what you said you do. I suppose Amazone batteries aren't that reputable after all.