Accessories 1600 mAh battery

Are you consistently getting longer battery life?? How much longer?

Your results appear to imply that the phone lasts three times longer, which is impossible. At best, we'll see 1600/1230 = 30% longer life - that's it. Sigh... we need a more objective test plan than I-changed-a-bunch-of-settings-and-swapped-the-battery-and-now-it-lasts-way-longer... I'm going to guess that real battery-life tests to show no better than 20% tops - about 5 hrs more life, assuming the capacity claims are true, and that's a big assumption.

5 more hours would be great, if it worked. That's a substantial increase if out in the wild with no way to charge. Of course, you'd probably be without signal as well, which negates the additional power

Havokid said:

I bought this 1600 mAh battery on eBay with a battery slot charger for $25 shipped from Cali. Very noticeable boost in battery life. Charged it for 4 hours before putting it in the phone as instructed. The rest is as follows:

Off the charger with 100% (Thursday 3pm)
Current time of this post with 54% (Friday 3am)

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Huh?

You went through 50% of the battery in 12 hours with a couple calls and texts and you think you'll last 24 more hours?

You never did post the link to where u got it... nothing listed as 1600 mah in the US on ebay.

I'm not doubting that there are batteries marked as 1600 ma-hr, but how long they actually last is a different story.

First, I posted this elsewhere but I wanted to put it in this thread, also.
Mods, sorry if I've caused a prob with a double post.
OK-Here's my experience with one of those "Chinese" eBay batteries.
Even though I felt my battery life was OK, I wanted to improve it. So, I got one of those 1500mah $24.87 charger/battery combos.
Everything looked fine and I charged it up per instructions. And the phone fired up without probs.
BUT...installation bothered me. The battery length and width were the same, but the thickness was larger. It was a VERY tight fit, way beyond snug, and required some effort to get it to seat properly.
To say the least, that bothered me quite a bit. Then I thought that if that thing got hot and swelled up, Heaven forbid melted, I'd never get it out and goodby phone.
So I decided to take it out.
Now, to get a stock battery out, the instructions say to shake it and then grab an edge and remove (which worked no sweat taking the original out).
But with this thing, there was no way that shaking it was going to make it budge.
I had to CAREFULLY use the point of a pocket knife to get it started and had to use the point until it was at least 75% out before I could get it out with my fingers.
Scaed to death I was gonna mess up the case, but I took my time and finally got it out.
SO..as you can guess, my recommendation is DON'T get one of these. DON'T take a chance. BEWARE!!.
The original battery is back in and if I get a different one, I'm gonna go through Seido.

my plan is to maybe get a OEM htc battery as a backup. although as is now with the one battery I'm lasting the whole day (only when i turn my phone off at night but if i forget to do that then im recharging by 4pm)

bella92108 said:

There is nothing listed as 1600 mah in the US on ebay.

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Yes, there is, I just got mine from this US Seller (Brooklyn, NY) yesterday-

1600mAh Standard Replacement battery for HTC Desire HD - eBay (item 270665597794 end time Mar-17-11 13:14:29 PDT)

It fits perfectly, and has the same dimensions and thickness as the stock HTC Battery. I can't yet report on it's performance as I have only had it for a day, but even if it only does a little better I'm not out a lot, $4.95, and I have a spare battery regardless.

I just one from China. It works fine so far. Just wish I knew how to verify if it is actually a 1600. Don't know if it will last longer yet. First day with it in.

I got two of these today. Arrived from china. HOWEVER, I took my Inspire back last week . . . .

they DO say 1600mAh.

I bought a kit with 2 batteries, charger, screen protectors, gel sleeve, etc.

ANYONE WANT TO BUY THE BATTERIES ? ? ? and the charger??? I have no use for them at this point.

PM me if you're interested in the batteries.

I have an Optimus now.

kimtyson said:

I just one from China. It works fine so far. Just wish I knew how to verify if it is actually a 1600. Don't know if it will last longer yet. First day with it in.

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In another thread I saw that you can use a terminal emulator app or ADB shell (root is not required), enter the command:

Bzow said:

In another thread I saw that you can use a terminal emulator app or ADB shell (root is not required), enter the command:

Code:

cat /sys/class/power_supply/battery/batt_attr_text

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Doesn't work, I've run it on 3 batteries and every time it reports back 1230mah exactly, so something is programmed into the OS to deliver that result every time.

Tries 2 of the 1600 and 1500 mAh batteries, 1 of the Seideo 1300 mAh, and the stock battery and got the same on each, so clearly not accurate.

Hmm. That's a shame. Thanks for verifying.

bella92108 said:

Doesn't work, I've run it on 3 batteries and every time it reports back 1230mah exactly, so something is programmed into the OS to deliver that result every time.

Tries 2 of the 1600 and 1500 mAh batteries, 1 of the Seideo 1300 mAh, and the stock battery and got the same on each, so clearly not accurate.

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What makes you convinced that its the command that's "lying" and not the label on the battery?

Kopsis said:

What makes you convinced that its the command that's "lying" and not the label on the battery?

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Huh? My point was the label on the battery is what's lying. Clearly the battery from China isn't 1600mAh