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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.
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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.