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My experience with the seidio has been this. It's overpriced for what you get and its underpowered. For a battery that supposedly has roughly 35% more capacity, you'll be lucky to get another 30-35 minutes more usage than the stock battery.

I hope you are a chick, considering your icon, but if not- don't ask, don't tell ;)

I agree the price is high, in relation to the extra mah you may possibly get. That said, I would expect a 34% bigger battery for 34% more mah. Same tech in the batteries.

If the battery truly is 1750, it should provide around 34-35% extra run time.
 
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I saw a post yesterday somewhere about a product that you put on the battery cover, that protects the back of the phone; it was yellow,and made the phone look like a "Ferrarri"..They have all sorts of colors/styles, "Carbon Fiber" was a nice one too, but I cant for the life of me remember the brand or website..does anyone know what I am talking about?

thanks so much!

EDIT:

I found them..check this out!
YouTube - GRFXP.com Moto Droid Coverlay Installation!
 
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None of these results mean anything if you just post stats and don't actually tell us what you do.

While stats are much more meaningful "usual day" comments do have meaning. For me the stock battery I was either having to spot charge it during that day or I'm red (<15%) by the time I get home from work (12-13 hrs). With the 1750 I can go all day, use my phone more freely and it will just hit yellow (whatever % that is) right before bed-time.

So is $50 a bit pricey? yes without a doubt. For those that got it at $33 that's a reasonable price. For me personally was the $50 worth it? Absolutely, I can live with charging it daily but having to charge it twice a day was unacceptable. Granted the micro USB cable to charge it at work was only $5.99 so charging it twice a day was cheaper.
 
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An hour and a half? Yikes I will be returning mine if that's the case when it comes and I test it.

I would maybe pay 10 dollars for 1.5 hours of extra battery life.

When you are only getting 5 hours, or just a bit more, that extra 90 minutes isn't too bad. The fact that the phone can't be used in all it's smartphone glory for much more than 5 hours on a charge is a bit sad, though.



Is there a caseback version for the 3500mAh battery yet? Because if I were you guys, I'd jump on that and consider modifying a replacement caseback. The 3500mAh battery kicks butt in my Eris, and I'm working on my caseback now because the Seidio version is too loose.


While I do think that 3500mAh would be awesome, I just can't see adding that much heft and size to my phone. The 2150 looks like it is going to be my best bet. I don't mind just a little bit of extra girth, but that 3500 just looks hideous.
 
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While stats are much more meaningful "usual day" comments do have meaning. For me the stock battery I was either having to spot charge it during that day or I'm red (<15%) by the time I get home from work (12-13 hrs). With the 1750 I can go all day, use my phone more freely and it will just hit yellow (whatever % that is) right before bed-time.

So is $50 a bit pricey? yes without a doubt. For those that got it at $33 that's a reasonable price. For me personally was the $50 worth it? Absolutely, I can live with charging it daily but having to charge it twice a day was unacceptable. Granted the micro USB cable to charge it at work was only $5.99 so charging it twice a day was cheaper.


Good to hear! $50 is a lot. But the way I think about it - you aren't just extending your battery life, but also have a backup. The only problem with this is that I've read you should not ever keep a battery fully charged - 50% is optimal storage. So I feel like I have a 50% backup battery because I can't leave it stored charged (catch 22) =/

Anyways, I'm on my first charge and I'll let everyone know how it's going after a 2-3 burn cycles.

What is a burn cycle? It's my personal battery killer: push every app available to push, turn on gps weather update, pandora playing in background, autosync/3g on, all while playing robodefense.
 
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Hello and we are sorry for your experience. We have tested numerous pieces of batteries ourselves and did not find any issue with fitment. Maybe sounds like you have a dud? Please PM us your order information and we will be more than happy to see if we can help you out! :)

Regards,

Once again, good customer support, way to go Seidio!
 
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I am close to 40% jump (imagine that) vs. stock on day 2 with my Seido (no b.s. tricks involved).

Light use (5-10 calls, 25-30 emails, hour of surfing etc) and I am close to 12 hrs on a charge (11:42 est. for today)

If the battery stretches it's legs a bit and I can get a legit 12 hrs during normal (25-30 calls, 100 emails) use I will be happy (atleast until the software updates start coming.)

On the 4.7 OS, my bb would barely make it to dinner on the Seido, by the time 5.0 hit I never even looked for my spare. Here's hoping for similar results.
 
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Hmmm. I've been using the Seido for over a week and have been through 5-6 full charge cycles (including charging while phone is on, turning off, and finishing charge).

Took phone off charger today at 7:30 am. It's been 4 hours and I'm down to 67% with minimal use.

Cell Standby: 25%

Android System: 23%

Phone Idle: 20%

Wi-Fi: 11%

Voice Calls: 10%

Display: 7%

Dialer: 4%

Not sure if this is good or not. I can easily get through the day, but am down to 25-30% by the time I go to bed so I usually charge overnight.
 
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The Seidio charger is great and it can be used as an external charger powered by an outlet or laptop. Also acts as a USB charger for the phone..

Seidio - Your Single Source for Premium Smartphone Accessories

It is also "future proof" in that they make adapter kits for it for other and new phones..

I have an external charger and it is great -- mind you it's not seidio's but they are all the same IMHO. The batteries get COMPLETELY charged as a result (I have both stock 1300 mAh and extended seidio 1750 mAh).

It's a shame that the Incredible has a problem with charging to full 100% while the battery is in the phone itself :(

Then, it's hard to get the cover off to put the battery in! If the battery door were easy to get on and off, I'd consider this a non-issue, but as it stands you have to either:

A) Do charging trick by turning off phone, charging, then unplug replug about 4-5 times so green light stays on

or

B) Charge with Desktop/Wall charger unit and then re-install battery every day.

That kind of sucks if you ask me ... :mad:

Guess we'll have to live with it for now,
-Elo
 
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I have an external charger and it is great -- mind you it's not seidio's but they are all the same IMHO. The batteries get COMPLETELY charged as a result (I have both stock 1300 mAh and extended seidio 1750 mAh).

It's a shame that the Incredible has a problem with charging to full 100% while the battery is in the phone itself :(

Then, it's hard to get the cover off to put the battery in! If the battery door were easy to get on and off, I'd consider this a non-issue, but as it stands you have to either:

A) Do charging trick by turning off phone, charging, then unplug replug about 4-5 times so green light stays on

or

B) Charge with Desktop/Wall charger unit and then re-install battery every day.

That kind of sucks if you ask me ... :mad:

Guess we'll have to live with it for now,
-Elo
Why do you have to turn the phone off? Just unplug, wait 30 seconds, plug back in. Works fine for me.
 
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I also have the 1750mah battery and have seen a noticeable improvement in the battery life. I must agree with most users that there is no gap on my back cover either...

Perhaps there is something wrong with yours Ryobi? I can't find the picture you have of the gap, but i'd like to know what part of the phone you have it on because I just examined my edges and they all look flush as with the OEM battery.

Here's a link to the post with the picture of my Inc with the seidio installed and the gap in the back cover.
http://androidforums.com/htc-incred...-1500mah-htc-droid-incredible.html#post713029
 
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