Seidio 2600mAh extended battery

[masterxchief]

It will stop if you manually restart the phone, that is if you really do have more than 5% battery left or 15%. Whatever makes the red light turn on.

 

[windstrings]

So will it restart soon after that or just keep flashing the red without restarting and for it to stop u have to manually restart?

No, the phone blinks at less than 15% and will go down to 5% and stay there for hours... even under heavy use....

Just watch the mv reading.. when it gets to about 3500mv you have a hour or so depending on use.

It will make it to about 3250mv or so before it actually dies and become very unstable in the mv readings... but it drops fast after 3600mv and really fast after 3500mv.

 

[iamloco724]

If motorla doesnt fix this is there a way for a dev to do something about it cause i can see how this can get old quickly

 

[windstrings]

If motorla doesnt fix this is there a way for a dev to do something about it cause i can see how this can get old quickly

Seems it would be simply providing someone can pinpoint the actual problem.
If its in firmware, hopefully we won't have to worry about it when 2.1 comes out.

 

[ham609732]

has anyone found some kind of solution to the blinking led problem? I liked how I could tell what was going on with my phone through the led

that is other than restarting the phone

 

[nerdbox08]

If motorla doesnt fix this is there a way for a dev to do something about it cause i can see how this can get old quickly

I don't think you could get an app to override system settings like this unless you were running a custom ROM.

Okay, why I came here in the first place:

A live chat option showed up when I went to their website so I clicked yes and asked about the slim version. 'Rachel' told me they are scheduled to release the slim version in March but she isn't sure of the specs on it.

That seems odd, but w/e. So hopefully she/he/it is right and the slim version does actually hit the market next month. And hopefully 2.1 fixes the battery indicator problem.

 

[searayman]

Does anyone know that has a rooted droid if running these commands in a terminal emulator will fix the battery meter for us that have the 2600mah battery? the commands are:

su
rm /data/system/batterystats.bin

the theory is that running this command once fully charged will remove the file the phone uses to know where the battery is on life. once you run it when you are fully charged, you are supposed to reboot the phone so the file is remade? I'm guessing. and this is supposed to change the phones understanding of our new batteries. Can anyone give any input on this? Do you think it will work?

I am giving this a try now, will let you all know if it works, so standbye

 

[iamloco724]

Does anyone know that has a rooted droid if running these commands in a terminal emulator will fix the battery meter for us that have the 2600mah battery? the commands are:

su
rm /data/system/batterystats.bin

the theory is that running this command once fully charged will remove the file the phone uses to know where the battery is on life. once you run it when you are fully charged, you are supposed to reboot the phone so the file is remade? I'm guessing. and this is supposed to change the phones understanding of our new batteries. Can anyone give any input on this? Do you think it will work?

I am giving this a try now, will let you all know if it works, so standbye

any word on this yet?

 

[searayman]

Does anyone know that has a rooted droid if running these commands in a terminal emulator will fix the battery meter for us that have the 2600mah battery? the commands are:

su
rm /data/system/batterystats.bin

the theory is that running this command once fully charged will remove the file the phone uses to know where the battery is on life. once you run it when you are fully charged, you are supposed to reboot the phone so the file is remade? I'm guessing. and this is supposed to change the phones understanding of our new batteries. Can anyone give any input on this? Do you think it will work?

I am giving this a try now, will let you all know if it works, so standbye

any word on this yet?

Yesterday I removed the file then ran my battery to dead, and did a full charge 8+ hours after. I am curentley using it and will report back. I was speakign to one of the sholes mods about this and he said it should take a few days to calibrate and re-write the baterystats.bin file so i will keep you all posted.

 

[windstrings]

Excellent!... I hope that works!..... its possibly similiar to the way the app battery left works except that with the droid it already "calibrated" with the standard battery..... you may just be on to something!

Meanwhile, here is a nice post from the battery left page is anyone is trying to use this app as I am.

What is accuracy %
The widget stores the duration between recorded battery changes - ie it stores the time it takes to go from 100% to 90%, and from 90% to 80% etc etc. To reach the theoretical 100% accuracy, the widget needs to store 5 readings for every level change. If you're seeing low accuracy percentage, it's probably because you rarely let your phone run down lower than 70% or so. Note that the app needs an uninterrupted time between levels - ie if it's on 80%, then you charge it just for a few seconds, it will not log the 80% - 70% duration as the charge time inbetween would make that reading invalid.
The ideal phone usage for accuracy is to charge your phone completely full, then let it run down til it's completely flat. Charge til full again, and repeat. If you don't let your phone run down, or rarely charge it up full, or, connect and disconnect from charger or USB sync constantly throughout the day the widget will struggle to get accurate readings.
I'll probably remove this reading at some point as it's misleading and confusing.

 

[Invader DJ]

Wow, really hopes that works since I rooted my Droid and I'm running the Beautiful Beast ROM. I just got my battery in the mail, so tonight I will be doing the first full charge. I have high hopes.

 

[solorca]

I am giving this a try now, will let you all know if it works, so standbye

any word on this yet?

Yesterday I removed the file then ran my battery to dead, and did a full charge 8+ hours after. I am curentley using it and will report back. I was speakign to one of the sholes mods about this and he said it should take a few days to calibrate and re-write the baterystats.bin file so i will keep you all posted.

This would be awesome if it works. Please keep us posted!!!

 

[eaglesnestwine]

There's a photo of the "bulge pack" at this link. seidioonline.com
Nothing's free (size) unless the battery tech changes (then the price would be higher)

 

[searayman]

any word on this yet?

Yesterday I removed the file then ran my battery to dead, and did a full charge 8+ hours after. I am curentley using it and will report back. I was speakign to one of the sholes mods about this and he said it should take a few days to calibrate and re-write the baterystats.bin file so i will keep you all posted.

This would be awesome if it works. Please keep us posted!!!

ok so far it has not helped....i was told by someone who works with the sholes team that it could take a few days, but at the moment my hopes are not very high...but i will keep you posted

 

[teddyearp]

Well, teddyearp again runs through quickly a thread, he reads the OP then brushes through the rest and then he posts, lol.

I tried this battery (and the siedio 'OEM' replacement) when it (they) were first released and by that time I had already bought an extra OEM batt and a battery only charger from VZW/Moto. I was NOT impressed whatsoever. Why? Because after all the 'hype' about siedio batteries I expected that they should charge just fine in my battery only charger. They did NOT. Neither one. At that point, the 'oem replacement' went back to the bag. I fully charged the 2600 in the phone, since it wouldn't charge in my charger (but I already had a bad taste in my mouth, IYKWIM), and then used it with the big bulge cover. It discharged pretty quickly, at least as fast as the two OEM's, i.e. I was not impressed, though the fact I couldn't put one of these in my batt only charger and charge it already had me put off.

Now, when I read a bit about you guys having to 'modify' files and such on your phone to get the best life out of one of these, I just have to ask myself, WTF are you smoking? Do what I did and return these promptly (actually I returned mine probably b4 this thread was started). Then and only then will someone come out with a true extended battery that we can all brag and be proud of.

good luck