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Extended Battery?

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Pattie

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Hello,
I just bought my son the Commando, he's had it since Monday. I am thinking of getting the extended battery because he isn't even getting a full day out of the current battery. I installed Juice Defender basic yesterday, and today after charging all night the battery is yellow at 9pm, and he charged it for a half hour during the day. Screen on auto brightness, wifi and gps disabled. It's his first smartphone so I'm sure he is using it a lot right now, but he needs to get more than a few hours of battery life. I don't want him to get stuck out somewhere with no phone to call us. (I'm an Android user, I have an Inc2 after an Eris, so I am familiar with how it works.)

When he got the phone he used it prior to charging it up, which I heard was a big no-no, but I thought that wan't actually true.

Anyway, does anyone recommend the extended battery, and if so, where's the best place to get it?

Thanks.
 
Powerful control widget from the market. Turn off data when not in use. I will gladly trade instant email notification for a couple of days of battery life. YMMV
 
Using it before charging is a wife's tale that needs to be stopped.

First of all these phones, basically all phones now days, use a Lithium Ion battery pack. They don't suffer all the problems that NiCd or NiMH batteries have.

Every new phone i have ever bought i powered on and ran the battery down before its first charge. The batteries have outlasted the phone's contract period of two years each time. So i can't say it hurts the battery any.

Do you need to drain the battery before charging? No...

With Lithium batteries you can top them off whenever you want without harm. I have Lithium flashlight batteries that i treat the same way, i get 4-5 years out of each set of cells. Considering heavy use, thats pretty good in my book!
 
So I had to wait till Christmas morning to open the battery. So I had a fully charged new 1800mah battery yesterday morning, she did darn good with heavy video use. I did charge it mid-day since the charger was next to me. Usually with heavy video use the battery hits the yellow mark quick. With this new battery it did take a while to hit it.

To me it is worth it.
 
I don't know about 5 times, but it is generally a good idea at least the first time and once again a month or two later so the phone can adjust it's cut off voltages to best suit the battery.
 
john58ford said:
I don't know about 5 times, but it is generally a good idea at least the first time and once again a month or two later so the phone can adjust it's cut off voltages to best suit the battery.
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john - I *really* appreciate your full-length battery saving suggestions. Currently waiting for my Casio to arrive in the mail, and couldn't find any appreciable extended battery except the 1800mAh.

Your post made me realize I could easily extend my standby/talk time by tweaking the heck out of it when it gets here!!
 
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