Seidio 2600mAh extended battery

^^^

You're going to have to do that from 5 to 6 times to break the battery in.
 
Ok. Here's my lil contribution to the Seidio Battery saga. I brought the latest, the 2800 from their online store for the Motorola Droid. The battery cover has to be very flush, pressed down with a lil pressure to ensure it goes over battery.

It does add some weight, u can tell. But...it does make holding the phone better in certain situations. Think of it like a step stool for the palm of your hand for the Moto Droid to sit on. It actually made playing HomeBattle 3D better on the finger/hands. Fingers can rest on the battery.

My current setup:

CyanogenMOD 5.0.6 and UD10. (CyangenMOD was on my phone before I went back to 2.0.1)
P3Droid's 1GHz Low Volt Kernel running at 600Mhz max, 250Mhz min
SetCPU with only these profiles: (everything ondemand)
Charging at 600/250
Sleep/Standby at 500/250
Failsafe at 500/250 when battery get over 46 degrees C
Advanced 62500, 70, 0, 70
Everything is on Set on Boot
(talk to cereal killer about the profiles, I'm basically using what he uses and he has more experience with this)

If yall can think of anything else about my current setup I left out let me know. This is gonna be drawn out for yall to try to see my usage for the past 2 days.

Using Battery Graph to check, starting at 8:42 pm Tue, I put the Seidio 2800 in. I backed up my current ROM and RSD Lite flashed back to 2.0.1 to see something about the new mysterious 2.1 update thats 69MB. When I went back to 2.0.1, the update auto downloaded the 69MB file. I couldnt installl the OTA cuz SP Recovery blocked it. So I booted back into 2.0.1, the 69MB file auto downloaded again, but this time I downloaded it with my PC, moved it to the sdcard and renamed it update.zip, and rebooted back into recovery. I had to manually install the update.zip this way.

I updated to mystery 2.1; rebooted to bootloader, flashed the SP Recovery on my phone, installed UD10. Everything booted up fine. I didnt really touch my phone after that. I set the alarm for 5 and 5:30 am and went to bed around 1:00 am Wed. I missed both alarms, dont know how long they rang, woke up at 7:30 am. Dont use the phone at all before leaving. Left the house at around 8:30-9:00. In the car on the way to work, I get on Youtube to look at 'The Best Cry Ever' (if u havent seen it, its not funny, but its too damn funny; especially the T-Pain/autotune remix....I'm srry.) I did that for about 10-15 min.

Took phone to work, have to set it on silent cuz of job rules. My job is in a bad reception area. I get 1x at my desk. Throught the day, an 8 hour work day, I tried to make a few calls, all calls I had to wait a few seconds til the phone grabbed a good enuff signal, all went thru. I missed one call cuz phone is on silent. I tried to connect to the Market, it connected halfway. I checked it here n there to see how much battery was left, all from my desk.

End of the day, I start playing HomeRun Battle 3D Arcade Mode outside the building. I get better reception outside, 3G, the works. HR Battle about 1/2 an hour, (no online play) I get on Tapatalk for about an 1/2 an hour, browse regular web for about half n hour.

Now I'm home, not using the phone anymore. As of right now, using Battery Left, the phone has been running for 1 day 33min, 5% left, voltage is 3735mV, temp. is 29 degress C. Looking at Battery Graph:

I installed the battery at 8:42 pm Tue; 100% battery.
From 8:42 pm to 9:52 pm no change; at 9:58 it drops down to 90%.
From 9:58 pm to 12:53 am Wed no change; at 12:58 am it drops to 80%.
From 12:58 am to 5:02 am no change; at 5:07 am drops to 70%
From 5:07 am to 7:18 am no change; at 7:23 am drops to 60%
From 7:23 am to 9:17 am no change; at 9:23 am drops to 50%
From 9:23 am to 10:22 am no change; at 10:28 am drops to 40%
From 10:28 am to 10:48 am no change; at 10:52 am drops to 30%
From 10:52 am to 11:48 am no change, at 11:53 am drops to 20%
From11:53 am to 1:47 pm no change; at 1:53 pm drops to 15%
From 1:53 pm to 1:58 pm no change; at 2:03pm drops to 10%
From 2:03 pm to 2:13 pm no change, at 2:18 pm drops to 5%

Now...

From 2:18 pm Wed to 12:26 am Thur....no change...LOL!!! Still at 5% ....I worked 9: 30 am -5 pm. If you look back at the first half of my post where I said what I did during the day, apply that to the Battery Graph info I posted. For Battery Left: System % is at 5%, Estimated % at 1% as of right now.

This is my first day using the battery. I havent even did the run down/recharge cycles yet. At this rate I dont know when I will ....I wanna just let it run out with regular usage. Seeing as I'm running a Low Volt kernel and using SetCPU to underclock when on sleep/standby I'm not gonna worry about trying to get the most accurate Battery Left setup right away.

And remember, I'm rooted, running a custom ROM with a Low Volt kernel. Those that dont know the Low Volts supposed to save on battery life, using the profiles with SetCPU help even more.

One question I have and I'm kinda lazy to look back at this thread: is Battery Graph accurate? I know when I install it, it can pick up usage from before I installed it.
 
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tparker76 said:
I could'nt imagine killing off this 2800mAh completely, it is a monster,and the contour of the extended battery is perfect

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Well, I have the 2600mAh one, and it is easy for me to kill it off. I've already had one of these replaced beause the first one was about the same if not worse then my stock batt. This one lasts longer, but if I use it moderatly, it may kick off before the end of the night. I give it the full treatment of 10+ hrs to charge. Its last a bit onger then the stock, so I kept it.
 
Battery Left thinks you just took your phone off of the charger if you restart it in the middle of the day, messing up all prior calibration : (

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so what's the deal W/Seidio 2800 battery?

Those RUNNING the 2600 or 2800.....
Is it a significantly large increase in time/use between the 2600/2800 and stock? I have been watching and while I see a lot of discussion re Battery Left, I have only seen a couple of posts where people are talking about a large jump in use/talk/standby hours.

How is your experience with this factor? To drop $130 on a battery, case, cover and charger is a bit hefty, if in the end there is not a lot of noticeable difference.

Jus' sayin'
fish

Oh yeah.... I think it's important to ask for a metering program that gives real data as to time left, and I'm not trying to disregard that. I hope someone can finally put together an app that will give REAL time left, and all such data re this battery.
 
tparker76 said:
Ok. Here's my lil contribution
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This is far from a "lil contribution"

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LOL! Hey, what can I say.

snap, I just installed the 2800 battery. My use is what I would use it for on a daily basis. GPS would be once in a blue moon, WiFi too. HR Battle 3D has my full attention right now. Browsing the web, using Tapatalk, browsing the Market. For my setup and use, its a gigantic difference....Doing that on the stock battery, the phone would be dead by 5 pm or a few hours before 5.

Latest stats: from 2:18 pm yesterday to 11:40 am today, still at 5% in Battery Graph;
Estimated % still at 1%; System % still at 5% in Battery Left;
Voltage is 3517mV; Temp is 30 degrees C in Battery Left;
1 day 11 hrs since unplugged.

The only time I came even close to the 'time unplugged' numbers, it was the weekend and for 2 days the phone was idle. I was using BB 0.9 or UD 9.8, cant remember the kernel, I just know it was 800Mhz. I was also using SetCPU.

And this is the first charge and use; I havent broke it in yet. But I just remembered....I also didnt use RadioTime or play mp3's yet. Those 2 thing I also do on a daily basis. I will mix those 2 things in when this beast finally dies.
 
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jroc said:
Ok. Here's my lil contribution to the Seidio Battery saga.

From 2:18 pm Wed to 12:26 am Thur....no change...LOL!!! Still at 5% ....I worked 9: 30 am -5 pm. If you look back at the first half of my post where I said what I did during the day, apply that to the Battery Graph info I posted. For Battery Left: System % is at 5%, Estimated % at 1% as of right now.

This is my first day using the battery. I havent even did the run down/recharge cycles yet. At this rate I dont know when I will ....I wanna just let it run out with regular usage. Seeing as I'm running a Low Volt kernel and using SetCPU to underclock when on sleep/standby I'm not gonna worry about trying to get the most accurate Battery Left setup right away.

And remember, I'm rooted, running a custom ROM with a Low Volt kernel. Those that dont know the Low Volts supposed to save on battery life, using the profiles with SetCPU help even more.

One question I have and I'm kinda lazy to look back at this thread: is Battery Graph accurate? I know when I install it, it can pick up usage from before I installed it.
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The extended batteries seem to hang at 5% for a long time. The best (and first) time with my 2600ma is 36 hours, but the subsequent charges haven't had that repeated. Currently it's 32 and I haven't charged it yet.

I used to have Battery Graph, but I changed to Battery Snap which gives a lot of information in addition to a graph.

snappingfish said:
Those RUNNING the 2600 or 2800.....
Is it a significantly large increase in time/use between the 2600/2800 and stock? I have been watching and while I see a lot of discussion re Battery Left, I have only seen a couple of posts where people are talking about a large jump in use/talk/standby hours.

How is your experience with this factor? To drop $130 on a battery, case, cover and charger is a bit hefty, if in the end there is not a lot of noticeable difference.

Jus' sayin'
fish

Oh yeah.... I think it's important to ask for a metering program that gives real data as to time left, and I'm not trying to disregard that. I hope someone can finally put together an app that will give REAL time left, and all such data re this battery.
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Windstrings has gotten 54 hours on the 2600 (which I have).

My main thought was to be able to run movies, etc without a worry about it dying during the day. The worse I had (on the stock battery) was down to 20% from 7am to 11pm. My old routine would be to come home and stick it on the multimedia dock for a couple of hours and then turn the phone off for the night. With the extended battery I can see having to leave it on the multimedia dock (the one designed for the extended battery) all night or use the multi-charger.

Another idea was to be able to visit a friend over the weekend without having to carry the charger. 36 hours would be from 9am Saturday to 9pm Sunday, which would be nice.

As for Battery Left, I'll go back to my "putting in a larger gas tank but leaving the old sending unit" analogy. You should set the widget to show Voltage. Think of it this way; your old fuel gauge used to read "Full-3/4-1/2-1/4-Empty." With a Voltage reading (instead of % or "Time Remaining") it's now showing gallons. With that you'd look and see 3500mV (or 1 gallon) so you know you'd better fill up.

UPDATE: It died after 42 hours and the voltage reading was 3411mV. Each full discharge and recharge seems to kick it up a bit more. I've put it on the multi-charger. I recommend it to anyone who has more than one battery. That way you can still use your phone and have the backup ready.
 
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Well I have posted about 1/2 dozen times in this forum and I have been somewhat frustrated with my Seidio 2600mah battery and Battery Left widget, until today. I had been recalibrating the BL widget to try and get a good a reading. I have not taken my phone off of the charger, but when the widget finally read "accurate", I was at the gym this morning and ran my phone for 1hr with my bluetotth headphones and the percentage left was unchanged. Now, I am charging my phone and it took a few hours to get to 100%, which from history, I know is not accurate, but for the 1st time, the widget reset itself and went to 30% and the phone is charging the battery again and I have a lightning bolt on the stock widget. In the past it would just continue charging with out and widget indications. Let see how the phone last after this charge. The only thing I changed waqs yesterday I switched live wall papers from the BBoy one on Jrummy's rom to stock grassy field. BTW, I am rooted and I am running at 1gz. I'll keep everyone posted about how long the phone last. Typically, I have maxed out at 24 hours, never going beyond that.
 
aaf709 said:
jroc said:
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This is my first day using the battery. I havent even did the run down/recharge cycles yet. At this rate I dont know when I will ....I wanna just let it run out with regular usage. Seeing as I'm running a Low Volt kernel and using SetCPU to underclock when on sleep/standby I'm not gonna worry about trying to get the most accurate Battery Left setup right away.

One question I have and I'm kinda lazy to look back at this thread: is Battery Graph accurate? I know when I install it, it can pick up usage from before I installed it.
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snappingfish said:
Those RUNNING the 2600 or 2800.....
Is it a significantly large increase in time/use between the 2600/2800 and stock? I
Oh yeah.... I think it's important to ask for a metering program that gives real data as to time left, and I'm not trying to disregard that. I hope someone can finally put together an app that will give REAL time left, and all such data re this battery.
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UPDATE: It died after 42 hours and the voltage reading was 3411mV. Each full discharge and recharge seems to kick it up a bit more. I've put it on the multi-charger. I recommend it to anyone who has more than one battery. That way you can still use your phone and have the backup ready.
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BaTtery graph is not accurate, it will tell you are at 5% for many hours.
My feeling about this whole thing is that the extended battery is definitely worth it, but until the metering is really figured out, I won't be happy. I thought I finally had battery left accurate. It was telling me I had about 10 hours left when it died.
My phone usage is not consistant that's for sure.
 
bhall238 said:
It was telling me I had about 10 hours left when it died.
My phone usage is not consistant that's for sure.
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I think if he can figure out how to link it to MV readings it will fix that.

I"m sure that complicates the algorithms.

Would be nice if it ran two parallel algorithms... one "as now" against time, and the other against MV readings.
The mv reading would take priority when the time reading breached normal use by a certain amount of preset parameters.
 
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