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Mugen Power 1800mAh review

My Mugen 1800mAh battery is still running fine fellas. I have several email accounts and am a bit of a power user, so I charge daily, but it will usually go something like 30+ hours before it's drained. I know the original battery could do any better and was probably a fair bit worse, so I'm still satisfied with it. If anyone still on the fence about this battery, I don't think you have anything to worry about.
 
Update: Order on April 16 2010, product received yesterday, April 26 2010. Only 10 days, pretty fast shipping from Hong Kong.
 
Thanks for all the info everyone! I just ordered it for myself moments ago. I anticipate having by next weekend (5/21/10). My question is, does not doing the recommended initial 12 hour charge, drain, charge, drain, charge, really decrease the batteries overall performance or life?

Thanks
 
I'd like to see an update from people who've had their Mugen Power 1800 mAh extended batteries for a few months now. It's one thing to report back after initial use or a few charging cycles.....something else to report back several months later.

For those who have had this battery for an extended period of time....is it still performing? Up to, above, or below standards/expectations? And what, on average, kind of difference do you notice in comparison to the stock OEM battery?

Thanks
 
Battery Boss didn't look too kindly upon the Mugen. It was found the performance was about 200mAh below OEM, after 4 months of use.

As someone else stated, HTC wants the best battery performance they can get, for the size. How could some Chinese company manage to come up with a better chemistry than an established company like HTC, one that will fit inside the same form factor? They must be cutting corners. Either there will be inconsistencies in quality, due to the cut corners on manufacturing, or the chemistry devised will introduce other problems, such as irregular current flow and shorter battery life.
 
Well I have had my Mugen 1800 for about four months now and I'm a heavy user of my phone. I have to say it works good but I am in the red zone in 10 hours of internet use. It wasn't that cheap that it should be considered a cheap battery but now I carry two batteries. The original and the Mugen. I charge it every day and even from the stock battery I was getting about 9 hours our of it. So the performance is a little better and I think two batteries is the way to go if you have to go for a longer period of time. By the way, I have everything shut down that I can. Although my email checks every 15 minutes, weather updates hourly, gps is off, wifi off, no Google sync at all and this is how it's working out for me. One gentlemen in the forums made a realistic statement saying that the battery life is directly related to the use it gets. Well I have my Hero out all the time and play/working with it. So I am satisfied with battery life. I also discovered that once it goes into the orange range I have about 30 minutes before it goes into the red and I have run it till it quits and there is about another 20 or so minutes in the red zone before it goes off. So Mugen is reliable and when you consider that it is keeping this phone on all the time and working that's pretty impressive to me......... Probably a lot of us came from regular cell phones where we would charge them every third day or so and they never went below 50%. But there is no comparison to how I use the Hero..........

Lisa............... ;)
 
I have had the Mugen 1800mAh battery for about five months now... and it had been working perfectly and recently I have noticed that it seems that it doesn't hold a charge as it use to. Example: I have a full charge at 5am... I have some light use (texts and internet) and by 10:30am the battery is close to 40%. I have my email set to be checked once daily just like google. I emailed Mugen and was asked to send battery back for replacement. Don't know if anyone else is experiencing these problems.
 
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