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People call it "Calibrating the battery" but really what its doing is taking android out of the equasion. Its allowing the battery to charge to its full capacity whilst android is not on. Then when Android is running, it shows the true 100% instead of what android thinks should be 100%. Your desire is calibrated to your old, smaller capacity battery.

Word of warning, don't do this on a regular basis. Although many do this regularly, its not healthy to continue doing this.
 
SUroot said:
People call it "Calibrating the battery" but really what its doing is taking android out of the equasion. Its allowing the battery to charge to its full capacity whilst android is not on. Then when Android is running, it shows the true 100% instead of what android thinks should be 100%. Your desire is calibrated to your old, smaller capacity battery.

Word of warning, don't do this on a regular basis. Although many do this regularly, its not healthy to continue doing this.
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OK - thanks.

Is that not healthy for the phone, or for the battery, or both?

Regards,
Tony
 
Battery mainly. Its fine to do it every now and again but repeated usage of this "trick" will take its toll. HTC used to recommend this trick but have ceased recommending it.
 
SUroot said:
Charge it to 100%, turn off and charge until green LED. Turn on and turn off after 2 minutes. Charge until green.

See if that makes any difference. Maybe the battery meter is not showing correct %
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Tried that - doesn't seem to make any significant difference to the behaviour of this battery I'm afraid. So my overall conclusion is that with this battery, while you do get a slight increase in overall capacity, the main advantage is the price.

Now looking at other potential solutions in the form of an alternative phone that has a better battery performance; the Nexus S looks to be a possibility.

Regards,
Tony
 
I have bought the same battery as Tony and cant seem to charge it up past 99% when the phone is on. When i charge it with the phone off the green light comes on to say its at full charge but once the phone is on it disolays 96% battery.
I have tried both ways of charging twice and discharged the battery once.
I have also wiped the battery stuff through clockwork.

Any ideas or is the battery duff
 
I bought one of these batteries, and returned it after a week,
the actual capacity of these things is about 750-800 mAh.
Not the 2400mAh as stated.
 
kerwin said:
I bought one of these batteries, and returned it after a week,
the actual capacity of these things is about 750-800 mAh.
Not the 2400mAh as stated.
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Maybe you have a duff example - mine is certainly higher capacity than that, but probably not a lot different from the original batteries.

Having said that, I have switched back to one of my original HTC batteries (I have 2 of them) and am getting much improved performance having installed Advanced Task Killer & adjusting its settings so that it auto-kills all non-essential tasks. Regularly ending the day with 50% charge level or greater now, which is much more acceptable. My only beef with the Desire now is the limited amount of memory - finding that I can't just load up apps indiscriminately without freeing up space by deleting ones that I don't use much. So maybe a Desire S is the way to go - basically the same phone but with more memory & a couple more bells & whistles.

Regards,
Tony
 
I decided to try one of the gold batterys also and got the same results as Tony. For recent testing I put the phone in ultra coservative mode,, all battery eating items shut down and just using as a phone and a simliar number of text messages for each.

The gold li-ion batt needed a charge every 2-3 days (max).

The 2600 li-po I started this thread with, 4 days (max).

The 2600 went back in to stay.

I have a dedicated hobby charger that will charge just about any pack on the market and will balance charge each cell. with the advertised mah on each pack, in theory you could fast charge the 2600 at around 2.6 amps as well as the 2450 gold (2.4 amps), although I wouldn't charge that high,,maybe 2 amps max on both to be safe. If the HTC charger only does 1.4 amps, then there is your explanation as to why the charge cycle takes so long sometimes. That is also HTC covering there butt on there 1400 OEM pack so you don't smoke the OEM batt.

The problem arises when you dont know which contact on the side of the battery does what. One end of the contacts is combined positive and the other is combined negative, the real unknown is the inbetween contacs connecting to what node connection wire on the hobby charger. I really don't want to bash my phone or batterys to find out the unknown connections, so we will plod along with the 1.4 amp HTC charge cord.
 
I was searching for a spare battery on Ebay.. my question is all batteries say Desire HD or Desire S .. can't seem to find just plain ol Desre... Will the HD or S work with the regular Desire? I am goin crazy tryin to figure this out.. thanks for your help.
 
Sorry can't help you on battery size.

Gonna update on the batts listed above. The gold Li-ion, bit the dust a few weeks ago. I had the li-poly battery in there for a long time and then had been switching back and fourth between the two. Charging one while using the other, and vice versa. Never took them to auto shutdown, but down to where they should have a charge to continue on.

Charged the gold battery up and put it in. Ran that down to a needed charge and then it would not charge up again after multiple trys. all contacts were good and usable. I believe a cell destabilized and failed.

I even tried again the other day just to see,,no dice.

However,,the 2600 Lithium polymer battery is still plugging along and I will run it till it croaks,,which hopefully is a lot longer.
 
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