Battery Theory

[toviaheli]

I use a high end min-usb cable in my car that is plugged into a Black & Decker AC/DC converter. The converter plugs into my lighter, is not much bigger than a typical cigarette lighter multi-extension for plugging in multiple devices. It also has a USB port, which I plug my high end USB-to-MiniUSB cable. Works great and I have no problem with charging or over heating.

When I first got the TP I tried using my old 6700 and 6800 car chargers. Having my TP plugged in all day, I would still end up with a dead phone! It wouldn't charge fast at all, especially if I did anything at all with the phone. I had the same problem charging my 6700's and 6800's with the car chargers.

I've also tried using my 6700 and 6800 wall chargers in my car. They work just fine.

I don't know what is wrong with the manufacturing of the car charges for 6700's and 6800's, but they are not good.

[tsbtx]

Regarding the phone "over-heating" issue...

I don't know how many of you have disassembled your handsets, but if you have you will have noticed the putty on the inside of the handset that resembles Silly Putty in look and consistency. A quick call to my HTC rep and I found out this is heat-transfer clay. It's supposed to draw the heat out of the handset and to the back of the handset where it transfers to your hand, or air. My handset has been what feels like "damn near ready to explode" before, but the core temperature on the phone remains in a decent range.

I took the clay out of my first handset and had *SERIOUS* issues with it not liking to function correctly in higher temperatures.

That's what this clay is for. If any would like I will find another handset to disassemble for demonstration (taking that clay out makes it damn near impossible to put it back in correctly, making it not function correctly).

[jringo718]

Damn, I wrote out my entire experience and lost it

Let me just make it quick, ive been using the HTC stock charger and an old Audivox SMT5600 charger which both read an Output of 5V=1A with an Input of 0.2A

I have a broken Q9C charger which I used for 4 days when I first got the TP but stopped using it because there was a loose connection. I never experienced any heating issues, till about a week in, by that time i was using the other chargers.

Well I charged to a full charge today using the Q9C charger and took it out of the charger at 9 PM. It is now 4:30 AM and I have 5% left. I surfed the internet for 4 hours, with lowest brightness and had BeeJive constantly on, and I just finished a 1.5 hour call.

Just now I feel only a slight warmness to the phone. Before after about 20-30 minutes of using the phone with Opera and BeeJive on, it would start burning up and after being on a call for 30 minutes, it would feel like your hand would melt.

The Q9C charger reads an Output of 5V=850mA with an Input of 0.15A

So basically I didn't have a problem with the battery burning up using the Q9C charger, but the battery life is still the same. I am running the new leaked diamond sprint radio, but battery has always been bad, on the stock radio, telus radio, and even this new radio with all the tweaks.