Help Switching between two different capacity batteries?

[Evanp16]

Hey all.
So basically, I got a zerolemon case with an extended battery about a month ago. I'm already getting bored and a bit annoyed with the size. If I choose to take the extended battery out and put the stock battery in, is there anything special I have to do to let the phone know that this battery is smaller? And if I decide to put the ZeroLemon battery back in after using the small battery for a while, will I have to recalibrate it and go through the full charging and discharging cycles? Or will my phone know the difference between the batteries? Will it be harmful to switch back and forth like that? Thanks.

 

[meyerweb]

I don't think you need to do anything special. The percent remaining may be a little bit off for the first cycle or two, and you can probably correct that faste by letting the new battery get down to 10% or so once, then recharging fully. But the battery indicator works off of changing voltage from the battery as it discharges, so the phone won't "think" you still have the zerolemon in there and drain the smaller battery too far.

 

[scary alien]

Yeah, I agree with myerweb that you really don't have to do anything special...

I used to swap the batteries (stock-standard / extended) on my Galaxy Nexus all the time without doing anything (no resetting battery stats, no special draining / charging, etc.--just normal use).

Assuming that the replacement battery has all of the proper circuitry (many cheaper, non-stock, knockoff batteries don't) Android should recognize when the battery stops charging and will see/notice/interpret that as 100% full and should re-calibrate on it's own.

 

[Evanp16]

Awesome, thanks a lot!