Battery Life

[kilen]

Originally Posted by CountryDevil

If this is the case, then my theroy about bad batteries OR not fully compatible batteries might just be true.

Can you give us the number on your battery? That might help things along with getting replacements.

Sure...

old battery: DC0809209C5
S/N 100A189L008869
P/N 35H00111-12M

New battery: DC0809199C5
S/N 179A189K010438
P/N 35H00111-18M

I should also add that the old battery was doing pretty well, with tweaks and hacks found on this site, up until a couple weeks ago. There are a couple things that I was thinking killed my battery life. 1 - I ran the old battery way way down (thanks to Kinoma and Monty Python), the meter was reading like 2%, shut down and didn't even have enough power to reboot until I plugged it in for a couple minutes. 2 - Installed and uninstalled sensorlock. 3- installed htchome2.cab and even after uninstall it kept vibrating on hard key press (someone on here came up with a fix for that, but maybe some other registry changes were still there?).

When the old battery was doing well, I was going from 6am till 7pm and still had 60% battery with mild use (5-10 text messages, 20 minutes phone use, checking email 4-5 times, and internet maybe 10 minutes). When the old battery was doing poorly, it would be down to 40% after 4 hours off the charger with little or no use. The new battery, even though it's only been a week or so, is working like the old one when it was working well.

[kilen]

Originally Posted by noto220

ah because im running a custom ROM and it still hasn't fixed my battery issue should i just go to a sprint store get a replacement battery?

I'm running the stock ROM.

[CountryDevil]

Originally Posted by noto220

I dont understand why the battery would get better what does this mean the battery should atleast last 5+ hours. Without any other connections. I think its been 2 and 1/2 hours and its already like 50%

This has been discussed to death here already. Although Li-Ion and NIMH batteries are not subject to memory effects, they still need to be conditioned for peak performance. This is done by going through a few full charge/discharge cycles.

When I first got my Pro, the battery maybe lasted three hours before I had to chargen it. After about a weel or two of few full charge/discharge's, I can get through a full work day only charging it back up on the trip home. However, this may change a bit from day to day with extra usage or higher usage than normal.

[noto220]

Originally Posted by CountryDevil

This has been discussed to death here already. Although Li-Ion and NIMH batteries are not subject to memory effects, they still need to be conditioned for peak performance. This is done by going through a few full charge/discharge cycles.

When I first got my Pro, the battery maybe lasted three hours before I had to chargen it. After about a weel or two of few full charge/discharge's, I can get through a full work day only charging it back up on the trip home. However, this may change a bit from day to day with extra usage or higher usage than normal.

Ah well thanks for your help.

[CozBoogie]

Since there are numerous posts discussing this very topic...I'm gonna close this one down.

Thanks for your undestanding...

late,
Coz