Seidio 2600mAh extended battery

[bodean]

Some questions before I purchase.
Any estimates on how much more usage you get with this over stock battery?
Will my Body Glove cover on my Droid still work with the extended battery?
Is it worth buying an aftermarket battery?

 

[boostdscoob]

so, yeah, mine is definitely junk. got maybe 5 hours.. wont go past 4194 mV and was at 50% in 2 hours.. back to stock, hopefully seidio will replace it.

 

[searayman]

I dont seem to be having much luck with battery left with my extended battery it always say like 3 or 4 hours but i obviously get much more then that with my extended battery

 

[windstrings]

I dont seem to be having much luck with battery left with my extended battery it always say like 3 or 4 hours but i obviously get much more then that with my extended battery

Im not sure about mine yet.. I just got about 36 hours of use before it died.

I did notice that right before it died the mv reading got into the 3200's and was very unstable bouncing all over the place.

When it takes that long to drain, it will take a bit to thoroughly see how battery left will work.

I does seem more accurate than stock.. the only thing that bothers me is it too is not impervious to changing when you reboot.. I think until the firmware gets fixed the mv reading will be the biggest clue as erratic as that is.

 

[windstrings]

Some questions before I purchase.
Any estimates on how much more usage you get with this over stock battery?
Will my Body Glove cover on my Droid still work with the extended battery?
Is it worth buying an aftermarket battery?

You get close to double.

Dont know about body glove.

yes its worth it.... a factory battery his nothing special.... usually comes from the same manufacturers anyway.... Seidio has good specs and a good reputation.

 

[windstrings]

My battery just charged back up to full... "its still learning".. this time it estimates the full battery life to be 35 hours and 40 min!

Thats because it took so long for it do discharge last time as I used it pretty much like I normally do.... wifi and bluetooth was on continually.
GPS was only on occasionally.
Although my status says full, my mv reading is only 3901 so I'll prob just charge it all night "like usual"

Of course I"ve only had my battery several days, based on what I can tell at this point in time.... if you want extended run time...... there is no reason I can see to hesitate on purchasing this battery.

 

[darel60]

Hi.
Hey dude thanks for sharing this post.
Its really useful.

 

[xsonicc]

contemplating buying one of these extended battery, i read a few of the posts in this thread. so to be clear, getting the maximum charge out of your battery, you charge it for 8 hours once you get it, then let it go completely dead and recharge it fully? if someone could clear up the specifics of these or explain battery conditioning in more detail, i'd be grateful.

 

[windstrings]

contemplating buying one of these extended battery, i read a few of the posts in this thread. so to be clear, getting the maximum charge out of your battery, you charge it for 8 hours once you get it, then let it go completely dead and recharge it fully? if someone could clear up the specifics of these or explain battery conditioning in more detail, i'd be grateful.

There is no reason you ever need to let it go completely dead just for the batteries sake, but only if you are trying to test it.
Its actually better for the battery over a long period to extend life to "not" deplete it all the way.

The only reason some of us are doing that "temporarily" is because we are trialing an new app called "battery left" that watches and measures the use of the battery against time to make an accurate future estimation of how many more hours of battery life you have.
The app needs to see the battery in action from start to finish to get properly calibrated. From that point it gets pretty accurate and normal use works ok.

There is a firmware glitch in the Droid that causes it to miscalculate the correct battery percentage left with extended batteries.
Hopefully that will be corrected with the next firmware update of 2.1 scheduled soon to be released.

Some us have learned the millivolt readings and use that as a good gestimate too.

All in all, when you charge your battery, you can't really go by the percentage meter to tell you its at 100% because the battery continues to charge even though its reached a voltage that makes the meter think its fully charged.

We have determined you need to let it get to 4200mv before you can trust it.

But with the brand new extended battery, Seidio is recommending an 8 hour initial charge before you can expect full use.... in fact they say it takes several cycles to break the battery in before you can trust full capacity will be achieved.

Even straight out of the box with one charge, it totally beats the stock battery anyway.

I expect the need for a good soaking charge is to equalize all the cells as they may have settled over time sitting on the shelf and this gets the weaker cells even with the stronger cells.

The battery has protection built in to prevent overcharging anyway.

I basically charge it when I sleep and when I'm awake, its awake!

My last depletion took 36 hours with nominal use for me... for others that use more heavily that will be less.. and some maybe more.

 

[xsonicc]

contemplating buying one of these extended battery, i read a few of the posts in this thread. so to be clear, getting the maximum charge out of your battery, you charge it for 8 hours once you get it, then let it go completely dead and recharge it fully? if someone could clear up the specifics of these or explain battery conditioning in more detail, i'd be grateful.

There is no reason you ever need to let it go completely dead just for the batteries sake, but only if you are trying to test it.
Its actually better for the battery over a long period to extend life to "not" deplete it all the way.

The only reason some of us are doing that "temporarily" is because we are trialing an new app called "battery left" that watches and measures the use of the battery against time to make an accurate future estimation of how many more hours of battery life you have.
The app needs to see the battery in action from start to finish to get properly calibrated. From that point it gets pretty accurate and normal use works ok.

There is a firmware glitch in the Droid that causes it to miscalculate the correct battery percentage left with extended batteries.
Hopefully that will be corrected with the next firmware update of 2.1 scheduled soon to be released.

Some us have learned the millivolt readings and use that as a good gestimate too.

All in all, when you charge your battery, you can't really go by the percentage meter to tell you its at 100% because the battery continues to charge even though its reached a voltage that makes the meter think its fully charged.

We have determined you need to let it get to 4200mv before you can trust it.

But with the brand new extended battery, Seidio is recommending an 8 hour initial charge before you can expect full use.... in fact they say it takes several cycles to break the battery in before you can trust full capacity will be achieved.

Even straight out of the box with one charge, it totally beats the stock battery anyway.

I expect the need for a good soaking charge is to equalize all the cells as they may have settled over time sitting on the shelf and this gets the weaker cells even with the stronger cells.

The battery has protection built in to prevent overcharging anyway.

I basically charge it when I sleep and when I'm awake, its awake!

My last depletion took 36 hours with nominal use for me... for others that use more heavily that will be less.. and some maybe more.

thanks for the response, i use battery life too and what you said more or less is what i thought.

 

[windstrings]

Unless a better app comes out, I think for those who are patient may find battery left to be a good app.

I would just install it and forget it for a couple of weeks and then see the results.

I'm honestly not sure if you need to deplete the battery or not to get it calibrated... I think I'll ask the DEV on that one.

 

[searayman]

Unless a better app comes out, I think for those who are patient may find battery left to be a good app.

I would just install it and forget it for a couple of weeks and then see the results.

I'm honestly not sure if you need to deplete the battery or not to get it calibrated... I think I'll ask the DEV on that one.

battery left is to much more accurate for me with the extended battery but I talked to the dev and aparentley there will be an update for the widget soon. Hopefully this will help, but he didnt seem so sure cause he does not have an extended battery to test it with

 

[windstrings]

battery left is to much more accurate for me with the extended battery but I talked to the dev and apparenty there will be an update for the widget soon. Hopefully this will help, but he didnt seem so sure cause he does not have an extended battery to test it with

I wonder where he is at... it would be in Seidio's interest to let him borrow a battery for a while to fine tune the app as they both help each other's sales.

are you listening Seidio?

The only thing I would like added to be visible on the widget is the mv reading, it could be next to the word "accurate" on the larger widget.

I'm enjoying being able to see how many more hours of time I have left at a glance. Of course I have to realize that thats if I don't do anything crazy different than the norm that its already watched and calibrated on.

I notice after a good nights sleep and charging all night the percentage actually goes up a little as it didn't expect me to go that long without using so it in turn see's I have more juice than it thought I would have.

Another side note.... ATK actually slowed my droid, but I found "task manager" by "rhythm software" and it actually speeds things up. It autokills "everything" I tell it to when the screen lighting is off.... it only takes about 5 seconds and it also effectively ignores what you tell it.

Nice to not have to babysit it and keep turning on your phone killing things that resurrect which in turn kills battery life.
This app may actually extend battery time even more as well as allow things to run smoother.

I know many folks think Android doesn't need a task killer and I think in the lab that's prob true, but in the real world if you go for days without a reboot, things run and resurrect that you may only use once every several days!... pulling gps readings, or trying to get location stats, polling etc.

I haven't noticed apps taking longer to fire up because they aren't already running either, if anything they come up faster.... maybe because there is plenty of memory available?
All in all, I'm expecting more battery life, we'll see.

 

[iamloco724]

so ive read a fair amount of this thread..i see pros and cons as of now with this battery

so overall would those that have it recommend it and whats your average battery life from your knowledge

 

[windstrings]

so ive read a fair amount of this thread..i see pros and cons as of now with this battery

so overall would those that have it recommend it and whats your average battery life from your knowledge

so far, I'm getting between 31 and 36 hours.

I see no cons with the battery, only the Droid firmware to correctly show the percentage.... that would be an issue with any extended battery.... expect some of the same issue with the extended slim unless the next firmware update corrects it.