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Accessories 2000mah Andida battery

So I've been using this battery for a good 3-4 days now, and it has been running out just as fast (if not faster) than the stock battery. Can someone tell me if I'm missing smoething? Will the battery life get longer after more days of using it?
 
mozman said:
Why do you say it is not as good as the Seidio battery? The Seidio battery has 16% more power than the stock battery, while the Andida has 30% more power.
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I think its beacuse the Seidio is a better made battery i mean does anyone really know who Andida is? In my experience the Andida battery was not better than the stock it didnt last as long as the stock.
 
No problems with the fit here... if you got the right battery it should fit.
The battery packaging had the following numbers on it.
In the green area - GB/T 18287 - 2000
on a sticker - T7373
Hope that's helpful.
 
redandblack1287 and TampaMike - thanks for your postings.

I take it back - it *DOES* fit in my Sprint CDMA HTC Hero.

When I tried last week sometime I must have been crazy. I recalled it not fitting in the back of the phone at all. After this tread, I tried it again, removed the tape (which I hadn't noticed) and it fit perfectly.

Thanks for the responses. I hate when I am the infamous "user error" that I always make reference to about other people :)
 
Man ive been using this battery for several weeks now, and it just plain sucks. it lasts less than stock battery! am i doing somethin wrong?
 
i though i'd follow up long term. i've been using it a couple months now. at first it seemed great, then it got worse. now that i've had it awhile and let it "settle" in i think it's better than stock. during heavy use, it's about equal, but there was a few times where in stand-by (no use at all) my phone would drop only 8% over the course of 24 hours, and 16% over double the time in stand-by, which astounded me. anyone else see this?
 
Contacted the seller first part of March with my issues regarding the battery performance, they sent a new on at no charge, which never arrived. Beginning of April contacted the seller again regarding not receiving the replacement, so they sent another on which I recieved yesterday.

So far the same issues I was having with the first one are happening to the second one. I went to bed last night about midnight with 75%, woke up at 6am with a dead battery. 6 hours of standby and it dropped 75%? wtf.....:eek:

Another thing I have noticed is that these batteries DO NOT ever change in internal temperature when checked through any app that shows battery info. But you can feel it getting physically warm on occasion. First one always stayed at 25 Celsius, the second one seems to stay at 24.7 Celsius. With the stock battery the temp would fluctuate depending on usage, ambient temperature, and charging state.

Now I am not bitching here, just stating observations, I fully realize that you get what you pay for.


bbv203 said:
A second look at Spare Parts, does show mail fairly high up on the list of Partial wake usage, which is odd because its only set to check once a day. Which it does not seem to do so anyway. Today seemed a little better, but I wasn't using my phone as much.



Edit: aside from the mail issue (i deleted the account cleared everything and rebooted), still seems to do the same thing, hits 50% and takes a nose dive like -1% less than every 90 seconds. I also wiped the battery history through recovery when it was installed.....
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lldsandsll said:
that's terrible. perhaps you got a bad battery. do you have a task manager? maybe something else is running in the background. is your phone getting real hot when it drains? if it is, then its software that is causing the phone to drain fast.

on a side note, my andida seems pretty decent. i was never astute enough to be able to comment on how much better it may or may not be, but if this is helpful, my phone drained only 10% while standing by for about 7 hours over night. is that normal, or is that better?
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Found this on XDA really helped with the battery life. Gone from about 18 hours to 31 plus with 23% to spare

Charge it to full. Boot in recovery. Select wipe, wipe battery stats. Use phone until it dies.

Recharge phone to full.
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I will try this.. because after a month with battery it started to not perform as new.

Went back to original yesterday

Sent from my HERO200 using Tapatalk
 
Interesting. I have the Seido 3500mAh, which isn't listed, but I imagine that one isn't exactly the same capacity advertised. While it would be great to get what you pay for, I still can't complain. My phone has been on for 48 hours, and I'm at 31%. My battery used to die after one day of use.
 
Testimonies on these non-OEM batteries are very subjective. The main issue is consistency. Only well controlled battery production results in a higher rate of accurate battery performance.

In my own experience, I bought a number of non-OEM batteries for a previous Motorola phone I owned, most of them duplicates. Here's what I've found:

1) Non-OEM batteries are hit-or-miss, on whether they out perform an OEM battery.
2) Non-OEM batteries have a much greater tendency to have erratic performance, and possibly damage your phone.
3) A non-OEM battery that performs well now can very likely change into a poor performer over time, even much sooner than the expected operating life.

I had one non-OEM battery that seemed to have about a 30% better performance than OEM. I used the phone normally with it and everything was fine, until about 4 months later when I noticed that the charge was lasting about as good as OEM. By the time the 6 month rolled around, the charge was lasting about 50% as long as OEM.

DarkMan, thank you for that link to the battery tests. It certainly sheds a lot of light on these non-OEM batteries.

From Battery Boss:
TP2 Andida, light use 4mos -- rated: 2000mAh -- witnessed: 1198mAh
^ of course, ~200-300mAh less performance over OEM for only $10 shipped isn't bad... but again, it may be on the slippery slope of poorer performance at this point, not to mention possible risks to the phone due to unanticipated leakage or nasty power spikes
 
Btw, check this out:

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Some guy named Doug bought one of these higher capacity Mugen batteries. He peeled off the wrapper and saw the imprint beneath, betraying the advertised mAh. Not sure if this is someone just trying to diss Mugen because of a bad experience, but it could be legit... especially in light of BatteryBoss's tests.
 
xevious said:
Btw, check this out:

mugenfullofshit_635.jpg


Some guy named Doug bought one of these higher capacity Mugen batteries. He peeled off the wrapper and saw the imprint beneath, betraying the advertised mAh. Not sure if this is someone just trying to diss Mugen because of a bad experience, but it could be legit... especially in light of BatteryBoss's tests.
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I think that's the rating for each cell. There's 2 cells in that package. But if my math does not betray me thats 600mAH short of adverstised.

In the high power flashlight world, where I also hang out, this batteries are very commonly mislabeled. even the high quality trusted ones. I use a 3.7volt (4.2 out of the charger) RCR123 battery type in my flashlights that has an advertised 750mah, but independent testing revealed an actual 500 something mah. This is for that actual trusted brand (AW) . So I'm not one bit surprised by this findings. Actually its pretty damn accurate, and I have seen far worse claims of capacity.

One thing never fails though YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR. I personally carry 2 spare cheapos for emergencies only, but I would never use this batteries on a regular basis. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED...

Here's some very nice reading on high powered batteries in my home forums:

Smoke and Fire, Hot Cells and Close Calls - The dangerous side of batteries - CandlePowerForums
 
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