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Extended battery is it all that?

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Jrife

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The battery is almost 2 times the size of the original battery the t-bolt comes with. Does the battery offer almost 2 times the battery life between charges than the stock battery?

I notice the stock battery gets awfully warm at times, does the extended big boy get as warm?


On 4G how much battery life do you get out of the extended vs stock battery?
 
On stock battery I was getting about 8-12 hours on a full charge

On the HTC 2750 battery, I am getting about 16-24 Hours on a full charge with the same usage and about 12-16 hours on very heavy usage (Playing games all day, youtube, streaming other video, etc...

Yes it still gets warm if it is working hard, all batteries do.

Worth the price and thickness for me.
 
I would be lost without the extended battery! I was getting almost 6 hours of heavy use from the stock (not even a full work day) and was charging it by 6pm to keep it from shutting off. Now, I have screen brightness of, email pushed to my device, bluetooth and wifi on and can play games without worrying about it dying on me (all things I couldn't do before with the stock battery). I use to worry about perserving that battery so I could make it home at night without a dead phone. Now? It's midnight (20 hours after wake up) before I even need to look at the charger.
 
I just bought an extended battery last week, should have done it weeks ago. I never have to think about usage anymore.
 
Jrife said:
The battery is almost 2 times the size of the original battery the t-bolt comes with. Does the battery offer almost 2 times the battery life between charges than the stock battery?

I notice the stock battery gets awfully warm at times, does the extended big boy get as warm?


On 4G how much battery life do you get out of the extended vs stock battery?
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I bought the Seidio 3200 battery and can go over 30 hrs of mild use with out a charge I have never run the battery dead in the same day no mater how much I use it 3G or 4g. It is bigger but fits in the hand very nice and thay have nice cases also. Thunderbolt
 
If you're in a solid 4G area and upload/download lots of data (photos, web browsing, Pandora music, etc.), I highly recommend the extended battery as it will allow you to use the phone in full without worrying about battery life as much. If you're not in a 4G coverage area, I'd skip it, stick to 3G with LTEOnOff, and manage battery life accordingly (still a good phone in this regard).
 
The 2750 really makes the Thunderbolt shine. Use it for whatever you want as much as you want for as long as you want. Don't have to worry about brightness, settings, disabling wifi/gps, or anything and the phone will easily last more than a day. You don't think about the battery at all with the 2750.
 
I'm in a 3G only area but I love my extendee battery! It looks fine, doesnt add too much weight and feels good. The extra battery life is well worth the money. I went 3 weeks with the Bolt before i decided on the extended battery.
 
I have the extended battery and i like it because I can use the phone as much as I like without a mandatory recharge during the day.

It does make the phone bulky, but really I can still carry it without issue. I usually use this battery though I can swap in the old one if I want to.

I hope we get more powerful batteries in smaller packages soon. All new phones are becoming more power hungry.
 
I bought the extended battery a couple of weeks ago and I have to say this was the best decision I made for this phone. I was concerned about the protrusion of the battery on the back but that turned out to be irrelevant. Yes, it looks like it might be an issue but it is not. Makes the phone easier to grab and hold and it certainly adds plenty of hours of usage (a whole day, pretty much) without need for recharge.
 
IMO, I returned my extended battery. I did this at the height of the "Were sold out" bs. I went and bough three cheapo batteries off ebay. They last the same as my oem battery, but I have three batteries in rotation. Sometimes I only use one and others I use all three. Depends on how bored I get. lol. For 12 bucks for three 1500 mah batteries and a standalone charger...its the way to go imo.
 
Got my extended battery day before yesterday. Charged it overnight. Took it off charge at 04:30 am headed for work. My office is 4G. My home is still in a 3G area. 5 phone calls during the day about 2 minutes each avg. Couple of hours of Iheart radio while I worked on a document. One you tube video. An hour or so of Barns and Nobel Nook app reading. Web surfing on and off all day. Put it back on charge at 8:53 pm. It was at 53%.

Wish I had gotten the extended battery the day I got the phone now.
 
I've had my extended battery for about a month and a half. It's well worth it to have to charge my phone once a day. I have a car charger but don't need it. Occasionally, my phone gets a little warm on the battery side. The only down fall is, the thunderbolt won't fit in the car dock with the extended battery, just the stock.
 
Whatstreet said:
This is a problem for me also.
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This was a concern of mine too. I have the car dock and love it! I only use the car dock when I'm traveling long distances though. So I decided just to keep the stock battey and cover in my center console. My car dock in always kept behind my seat. So when I need them, it's really a quick switch and setup.

I use navigation for geocaching locally too, so those short trips I just leave the extended battery in and have the phone on the seat.

It does take some extra time. But it's totally worth it. To me it's like when I cancelled Sirius radio recently to use Slacker and Pandora in my car instead. Sure, it's one extra step of plugging my phone into the AUX...but doing that saves me $14/month.

The slight inconvenience is a trade off for greatly improved battery life, imo.
 
Currently been unplugged for 14 hours and battery is at 60%. 5 hours was spent streaming Pandora plus another 1-2 hours of gneral usage.
 
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