Centro battery in palm pre - Page 2

**ajac** · #11 (**permalink**) 07-06-2009, 02:06 AM

umm why would the battery damage it? Their the same battery just model numbers changed. Same connectors same voltage. Your all believing big business because you rather spend an extra 5 dollars for a battery that says its for the palm pre when all it is a re branded centro battery.

**sanmanc** · #12 (**permalink**) 07-06-2009, 09:53 AM

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Originally Posted by ajac

umm why would the battery damage it? Their the same battery just model numbers changed. Same connectors same voltage. Your all believing big business because you rather spend an extra 5 dollars for a battery that says its for the palm pre when all it is a re branded centro battery.

The battery will not damage the device because of voltage but rather it's inability, because the lack of an installed chip, to properly set the device to sleep mode. Thus shortening the overall life of the device.

**ScrapMaker** · #13 (**permalink**) 07-06-2009, 10:18 PM

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Originally Posted by sanmanc

The battery will not damage the device because of voltage but rather it's inability, because the lack of an installed chip, to properly set the device to sleep mode. Thus shortening the overall life of the device.

Yeah, I'm not buying that story... Probably what happened is that in a few isolated incidents, centro batteries caused issues in the Pre, so it became official policy to not support them.

Why would the battery itself have anything to do with whether or not the Pre can 'sleep?' That makes no sense. I don't think the phone hardware communicates to the battery at all... It's simply positive, negative, and another connection to test the battery voltage/etc, no serial communications.

The only 'smarts' in these batteries, as far as I know, is to regulate charging, to prevent exploding, and to increase battery life.

GREY.FOXX · #14 (**permalink**) 07-07-2009, 09:50 PM

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Originally Posted by ajac

umm why would the battery damage it? Their the same battery just model numbers changed. Same connectors same voltage. Your all believing big business because you rather spend an extra 5 dollars for a battery that says its for the palm pre when all it is a re branded centro battery.

Rather play the safe route and pay the extra $5. Sometimes being cheap causes you more money. Not saying anything will happen, but if something does happen, you may have to buy a whole new phone just because the battery.

**Success100** · #15 (**permalink**) 07-08-2009, 01:43 PM

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Originally Posted by GREY.FOXX

Rather play the safe route and pay the extra $5. Sometimes being cheap causes you more money. Not saying anything will happen, but if something does happen, you may have to buy a whole new phone just because the battery.

right. using the correct battery only makes sense.

**ajac** · #16 (**permalink**) 07-08-2009, 11:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Success100

right. using the correct battery only makes sense.

except the centro battery is the correct battery its exactly the same lol Only diffrence is one says one thing and the other says the other lol get a voltage checker out heck shows the the voltage the same their only getting you to spend extra money when you dont have to.

**thacounty** · #17 (**permalink**) 07-08-2009, 11:58 PM

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Originally Posted by sanmanc

The battery will not damage the device because of voltage but rather it's inability, because the lack of an installed chip, to properly set the device to sleep mode. Thus shortening the overall life of the device.

Worst thing you can do to an electronic is feed it too little power. I agree with this 100%.

also have a little conspiracy theorist in me and think that they may have made up the "Chip" thing to keep selling pre batteries instead of people getting knock off centro batts.

While I can't say which way I would go, if I had Centro batts in a pre I'd go ahead and make sure I had the insurance haha.

**Success100** · #18 (**permalink**) 07-09-2009, 10:54 AM

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Originally Posted by ajac

except the centro battery is the correct battery its exactly the same lol Only diffrence is one says one thing and the other says the other lol get a voltage checker out heck shows the the voltage the same their only getting you to spend extra money when you dont have to.

lol im not buying anything i work in a corporate store, but i see where everyone is coming from. but if i have a pre battery and centro battery right next to eachother im using the pre battery. cant argue that tho