Seidio 2600mAh extended battery

[bhall238]

If anyone has an Incredible.. here is an interesting link to give more battery life...

I'm trying it.
http://www.droidforums.net/forum/droid-incredible-tech-issues/42342-battery-life-doubled.html

I'm just curious, do you have an incredible? Your info says you have a moto Droid. We don't have that as a selectable item, I know you said it was for the incredible but again I guess I was confused.

I will go back to charging my phone everynight but can feel secure in knowing it will be almost impossible to drain this battery in a 24 hour period.

 

[windstrings]

Your right... I need to change my sig... just got the Inc the day it came out..... but a fan of Seidio batteries for sure.. I plan on getting the 3500mah when it comes available.

I may sell my Moto.. battery and all if anyone is interested.
I can't see holding it for a rainy day as the value will only drop over time.

 

[DF Smod]

I will go back to charging my phone everynight but can feel secure in knowing it will be almost impossible to drain this battery in a 24 hour period.

I also plan to charge my Droid every night after I break the 2800mAh in. I couldn't deal with potentially being left without power in the middle of the next day. I also like knowing I have enough power to make it thru a full day, before sometimes I could'nt make it till 2:00 without being on 20%


Sent from my Droid thru Time and Space

 

[PhoneZilla]

Super Size Me and Exotic Skin

I found this thread several weeks before I bought my Moto Droid in March
while searching for an extended battery in case I did buy a Droid.
My wife bought one in November but I was content with my Casio G' zone Type V with an extended battery. I didn't think I 'd get one of these fancy gadgets.
The Casio was a nice hefty phone for my size 3XL hands. I used it for over 3 years.

I was hoping I could wait til another manufacturer came out with a cheaper extended battery but after the first week I knew I'd need one soon.
The $58 price was very hard to get over but I wanted the long life AND the bigger phone.

The reviews on this forum and Amazon have been very helpful. I read the reviews BEFORE I bought both the phone and extended battery.
I've had the extended battery since April 22 and monitored one cycle.
Yesterday the phone shut off after 72 hours and 10-20 minutes. That's the kind of performance I was hoping to get. I didn't monitor where the power
went for those 3 days but I had what I consider light use of internet, phone, and a little gaming.
I learned within the first charge that the only reliable source to know when the battery is charged or drained is the battery voltage from Battery Left.
Without the reviews I wouldn't have known how to effectively monitor the battery.
The Battery Voltage from Battery Left works best for me. I don't use the apps info to determine if it's accurate or not.
Both the phone and Battery Left have difficulty knowing what's accurately charged or drained so I stick with battery voltage only. Those mV numbers are accurate.

The battery reached the 3 day mark so I decided to fully drain it with phone use when it was hanging at 3500mV. I knew between 3200-3300mV it would power off.

When I plugged the phone into the charger it rebooted itself 5-6 times like some others had happen to theirs. It also had some interesting readouts.
Battery Left said the battery was charged 100% and FULL at 2800-2900mV. Pretty crazy.
After the last "self" reboot I was looking at those numbers and they jumped from 2900mV to 3100mV+ and the battery percentage jumped 100% to 5% and said charging instead of full.
Under 3100mV Battery Left gave a very inaccurate reading when it started to charge.
My guess is that when using the phone it'll drain the battery below 3000mV when it powers off versus
when the phone is sitting idle or not doing anything that drains a lot of voltage it may power off with 3200mV battery remaining. Just a guess.
An analogy would be a race car(phone being used) and Geo Metro(phone idle) racing toward a finish line.
The finish line is in the same place for both cars but one is going much faster and will go further past the finish line before it can stop(powers off) and have less track at the end of the road(mV). Again just a theory.

I only use the stock wall charger and a car charger from ebay. Both work perfect so I have no need to purchase one from Seidio.


The Seidio case is just as ugly as the phone without a case. And nobody has a better looking option yet.
So I customized the Body Glove case I used before I got the extended battery. Like I wrote in my Amazon review, a Dremel, fiberglass, stingray leather skin and lots of work can work wonders.
Now the phone is nice and heavy AND looks good. And it's perfect for my hands.

 

[maxoc]

bought the battery when i first bought my droid, and have not put research into the life. i have noticed the 5% restart misread fix, and its a *****. i wish i could get an actual read, im now starting the battery left method, and will keep inputting into thread.as of past ive had the battery for a few months, with standard 1 day off charger until nightly charge(with random nights off charge, where battery reset gave a proper read and lived till i could get to charger)now given ive never done a proper battery drain/charge, i have 0 data, as ive never let the phone die(its a rather uh... essential lifeline for my line of business) as well as running task managers, apn managers, and running minimal settings all the time.obviously, there are quite a few people with this battery that want a proper app.would you guys be interested in throwing togethter to make a bounty thread for a proper battery read fix, or a proper app to read the battery?
also, sorry for the block of text. my proxy for school does that sometimes, and i wasnt going to type that block of text through tapatalk, will reformat when i get home with the proper spacing

 

[DF Smod]

Gave up on Battery Left and rely on the MV readings, plus I charge every night. I did start a thread a few days ago on rewriting the Droid framework to read the extended battery correctly, it has alot of views and no comments. I started the thread in hopes someone with some experience in writing framework would see it and lend a hand. I found some interesting files within the framework-res.apk like battery_charge_fill.xml and power_profile.xml there has got to be a fix just need the right people to address the problem


Sent from my Droid thru Time and Space

 

[maxoc]

5/14 10 am 4216mv charge
steady 80 60% all day according to droidbattery.
5/14 1159pm 40% charge
5/15 138 pm 40% charge time left 1007 full battery life:39:47

huh... running it till its dead tonight.

 

[maxoc]

damn... made it to 56 hrs 40 mins.52% was taken by google maps.

 

[dr01dm0dd3r]

finally a trustable brand

 

[bhall238]

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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That's what I noticed. I had it accurate but then rebooted and messed it all up. I'm assuming he is working on an update, haven't heard from him in a while.
An upgrade to battery left wouldn't fix the LED issue though and that's almost more of a headache to me to be honest. It is almost useless now since for the majority of the time my phone is on its red because the phone thinks its about to die.

 

[windstrings]

An upgrade to battery left wouldn't fix the LED issue though and that's almost more of a headache to me to be honest. It is almost useless now since for the majority of the time my phone is on its red because the phone thinks its about to die.

Remember that headache is a short lived thing just to get bettery left calibrated.... most folks never get into that zone anyway.

but if you do, just think of it as being in overtime..... I use the Mv reading as my true gauge anyway.... the blinking light alone "when working right" gives you no clue as to when its really going to die.....
too bad they didn't implement a slower and slower blink factor as the mv reading drops... that would be cool!

 

[aaf709]

damn... made it to 56 hrs 40 mins.52% was taken by google maps.

Lucky you. The best I've gotten is 43 hours.

 

[windstrings]

PM me if anyone wants my 2600mah extended with unopened case for Motodroid.

I'm using the HTC incredible now.. patiently awaiting their 3500mah to be released!

 

[droidwolf]

can anyone help me how to read the mV to determine battery life?

 

[bhall238]

You need the battery left app from the market. It's free and the best thing out there so far to work with the extended battery (that I know of). It allows you to set what is reported to you, estimated time left for one and the remaining milli volts which is really the best way to tell how much life you have left. It's a widget; I have it on one of my screens all the time.