Help Aftermarket batteries

[markyboy81]

I was hoping to extend battery life on my s3 without extending the size of the phone. Found a 2300 ma battery on ebay for

 

[mrhomiec]

the 2300 mAh battery is the highest capacity i've found without requiring a new battery cover.

anything higher like the 3100 mAh and 4000 mAh ones are too thick.

 

[markyboy81]

I've seen some on ebay that are described as being 3200ma and can fit with the original cover. However I'm just wondering if there are any batteries out there that actually last longer than the original, as the 2300ma battery I bought probably lasts about 70%of the original.

 

[mrhomiec]

it's hit or miss. i've seen reviews of 2100 mAh and 2200 mAh batteries either performing better or worse.

my 2300 mAh battery lasts like an hour more.

 

[john_g]

There were long and frequent discussions about this when I had my HTC Desire HD. The bottom line was always this: whatever a cheap eBay battery promised, none of them ever delivered any significantly better capacity within the same package size as the OEM battery. And why would anyone think they could? Would any manufacturer be so short-sighted as to specify batteries that delivered less up-time than an eBay knock-off costing only pennies?

Personally, I am also concerned that batteries from unknown suppliers pose a risk to my phone - less so when in normal use (unless they overheat or fail dramatically) but, on charge, I think all bets are off.

 

[markyboy81]

This is a good point. I guess I thought that if they omitted nfc support they could use the space more effectively to be able to deliver higher capacity in the same size battery.
If only Samsung offered some kind of slightly higher capacity battery with fairly sleek cover.

 

[john_g]

This is a good point. I guess I thought that if they omitted nfc support they could use the space more effectively to be able to deliver higher capacity in the same size battery.
If only Samsung offered some kind of slightly higher capacity battery with fairly sleek cover.

I blame techno journalists. In the old days they lauded phones which were smaller than ever before, leading to tinier and tinier screens which soon limited the phone's ease of use. They'd never dare say something so simplistic now.

Then - I suspect because they'd got used to iPhings - a common observation used to be that earphone sockets should always be on the top of the phone. Now, guess what, with the iPhone5 they've decided that phone sockets at the bottom are better; just in time for other manufacturers to move their sockets to the top. Samsung - it should be at the bottom so the cable can't trail over the camera or screen. Google - it wouldn't hurt to define a preferred spacing between micro-USB and earphone socket so docks could be made more universal.

Most recently it's been a gold medal for the thinnest phone and, guess what? Despite Motorola showing how battery capacity could be doubled merely by increasing a phone's depth by 2mm, we are still trying to find ways to get a hard day's work out of our phones because the battle to win the journos headline has, literally, squeezed out decent sized batteries. I have just done a couple of days without my chunky Otterbox Commuter case on the phone and it left the phone feeling too thin, too slippery and too vulnerable... so why not a chunkier phone which doesn't need such an armour-plated case for drop protection?

I guess it only goes to show that plus