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Help Battery issues or battery meter?

gadgetmom88

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Sep 23, 2009
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Cincinnati, Ohio
I bought the Seidio 1750MaH battery. I fully charged it then bump charged it. With medium usage it went from 100% to 5% in less than 6 hours. When I plugged it in to charge, he battery meter read fully charged in less than 10 minutes. I left it plugged overnight while turned off, and the battery is depleting just as quickly with medium usage today. Any thoughts on how to tell if it's the battery or the meter that is faulty? I'm using the meter on mini info widget and the SwitchPro widget to monitor.

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I bought the Seidio 1750MaH battery. I fully charged it then bump charged it. With medium usage it went from 100% to 5% in less than 6 hours. When I plugged it in to charge, he battery meter read fully charged in less than 10 minutes. I left it plugged overnight while turned off, and the battery is depleting just as quickly with medium usage today. Any thoughts on how to tell if it's the battery or the meter that is faulty? I'm using the meter on mini info widget and the SwitchPro widget to monitor.

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Hi Mom. Definitely sounds like a faulty battery. I'd return it if I were you and get a more reliable brand with equal / better performance for much cheaper.

Ebay has one for $15 and Amazon for $25.

Amazon.com: HTC Standard 1500mAh Lithium Battery for HTC Snap S521, S522, T-Mobile Dash 3G and HTC Hero GSM version: Cell Phones & Service
 
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Hi Mom. Definitely sounds like a faulty battery. I'd return it if I were you and get a more reliable brand with equal / better performance for much cheaper.

Ebay has one for $15 and Amazon for $25.

Amazon.com: HTC Standard 1500mAh Lithium Battery for HTC Snap S521, S522, T-Mobile Dash 3G and HTC Hero GSM version: Cell Phones & Service

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Sounds like you got a lemon. More than likely it is not reporting its status properly to the phone.

I run a Seidio 1750 and while we could never compare our usage, I can easily run my battery all day and well into the next but just plug in every night by habit.

Again, our usage may be completely different, but think you just got a bad one.

Also on the recommendation of Jamor, I picked up one of the HTC 1500mAh from the link above as a backup.
 
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