Seidio 2600mAh extended battery

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Have had the Seidio 2600mAh battery for a few days now running under the latest release of Battery Left. I'm starting to grasp the 'calibration' procedure for the Battery Left widget. However, I don't recall reading anywhere about the actual Droid device syncing with the true capacity of the battery.

The Droid will religiously warn me to charge it up when it believes it has reached 15% remaining, yet I'm still at around 3800 mV with several more hours to go.

Anyone have input into this? It's a bit annoying having that red led keep blinking because it thinks that battery is about to die. :wacko:

Thanks all!

 

[solar]

Have had the Seidio 2600mAh battery for a few days now running under the latest release of Battery Left. I'm starting to grasp the 'calibration' procedure for the Battery Left widget. However, I don't recall reading anywhere about the actual Droid device syncing with the true capacity of the battery.

The Droid will religiously warn me to charge it up when it believes it has reached 15% remaining, yet I'm still at around 3800 mV with several more hours to go.

Anyone have input into this? It's a bit annoying having that red led keep blinking because it thinks that battery is about to die. :wacko:

Thanks all!

It is indeed discussed at some length in this very thread. The Droid's firmware does not recognize the extra capacity and will continue to warn you that its almost depleted when it isn't. It will sit a 5% all day and blink red. a reboot will reset it for a while, but it will happen again. If you're rooted there are apps to disable to LED.

 

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It is indeed discussed at some length in this very thread. The Droid's firmware does not recognize the extra capacity and will continue to warn you that its almost depleted when it isn't. It will sit a 5% all day and blink red. a reboot will reset it for a while, but it will happen again. If you're rooted there are apps to disable to LED.

Well, as far as sitting at 5%, I did read this at length in this thread, however I must have missed the work around for the LED hack.

Will look into that,

Thanks!

 

[solar]

It is indeed discussed at some length in this very thread. The Droid's firmware does not recognize the extra capacity and will continue to warn you that its almost depleted when it isn't. It will sit a 5% all day and blink red. a reboot will reset it for a while, but it will happen again. If you're rooted there are apps to disable to LED.

Well, as far as sitting at 5%, I did read this at length in this thread, however I must have missed the work around for the LED hack.

Will look into that,

Thanks!

Yeah, I don't have the links handy, because I've never rooted, but the name of the app in question is in this thead somewhere. There are good threads to tell you how to root. I think there is even a sub forum just for rooting.

 

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Got my Droid rooted within an hour of getting it home (main reason I went w/ an android platform, really), that's the easy part...

Just searched the market for LED apps and there doesn't seem to be anything but toys to make your lights go blinky...

Will search around and see what some forum devs have come up with..

 

[solar]

xYeah, I can't even find the reference to it! I don't remember where I saw it. Maybe you should post a new thead?

 

[Ninjak]

Seidio up to 2800mAh!

By dumb luck, I popped onto Seidio's site tonight to finally order the 2600mAh battery only to find that they've now increased it to a 2800mAh version. Excellent!

 

[MiXoLoGiSt]

By dumb luck, I popped onto Seidio's site tonight to finally order the 2600mAh battery only to find that they've now increased it to a 2800mAh version. Excellent!

That's cool. I'm personally waiting for the Slim one because the big one is ugly and adds tons of bulk. It turns it into the Hunchback Droid. :icon_eek:

 

[windstrings]

By dumb luck, I popped onto Seidio's site tonight to finally order the 2600mAh battery only to find that they've now increased it to a 2800mAh version. Excellent!

I wouldn't be surprised if its the same battery... my 2600mah seems to get double what my stock did..... they may have realized it was mislabeled after more testing.
Or else realized they were being toooo honest and could fudge a little... don't know which!

 

[solar]

By dumb luck, I popped onto Seidio's site tonight to finally order the 2600mAh battery only to find that they've now increased it to a 2800mAh version. Excellent!

interesting. I wonder what the story with that is.

 

[solar]

By dumb luck, I popped onto Seidio's site tonight to finally order the 2600mAh battery only to find that they've now increased it to a 2800mAh version. Excellent!

interesting. I wonder what the story with that is.

 

[windstrings]

Humm.. after the 2.1 update the system percentage seems much more accurate.... my phone hit 15% today and I ignored it because I knew I had tons of time left.... "I was wrong", my phone died a few hours later....... humm

This is a whole new twist.

Anyone else noticing any changes with the extended battery since the 2.1 update?

 

[BPB]

Humm.. after the 2.1 update the system percentage seems much more accurate.... my phone hit 15% today and I ignored it because I knew I had tons of time left.... "I was wrong", my phone died a few hours later....... humm

This is a whole new twist.

Anyone else noticing any changes with the extended battery since the 2.1 update?

It's about the same here so far. I did order the 2800mAh battery from Seidio to compare with the "2600 mAh" battery. It may be the same battery but the temptation of more power was too much. I need all the power i can get!

 

[scube]

Humm.. after the 2.1 update the system percentage seems much more accurate.... my phone hit 15% today and I ignored it because I knew I had tons of time left.... "I was wrong", my phone died a few hours later....... humm

This is a whole new twist.

Anyone else noticing any changes with the extended battery since the 2.1 update?

Are you running the OTA 2.1? My OTA's are blocked...

 

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mine seems the same after 2.1 as far as the stock battery level goes and I can't really let it die from every charge, causee it almost always falls at a random time I would need my phone. so I just charge every night no matter what it says. it makes it a wwholle day still without worry. so I'm happy.


only thing I've noticed is my max charge voltage is slowly getting lower all the time. it never gets over 4135mv now. no idea what's up with that.

but I'm on a rooted 2.1, over clocked to 1gig, wifi tether that I use some thruout the day and it still makes the day.