Centro battery in palm pre

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The voltage is the same. I seriously doubt you are going to hurt your Pre using a Centro battery. I don't see people reporting their Pre is running hot to the touch in their pocket when using a Centro battery. At worse the Centro battery might not support some super low battery mode the Pre might be enabled to use and your battery might last a few minutes less than the Pre standard battery, but who gives a crap, you'll still need to charge every day.

[ott]

OK, so do NOT use Centro batteries in the Pre, their is a different chip set in the Pre batteries allowing them to work better with the Touchstone Chargers. Like most people are saying, the Centro batteries may work for now or temporarily, but it is not advised to use them in the Pre. How much money did you just spend on your phone and now your looking at possibly ruining it for some cheap worthless battery!? The Centro batteries have one of the highest failing rates for any battery I have ever seen! It's kind of ridiculous to be honest... Sooo, if you want to be smart, and do the right thing and save you a headache and possibly a large sum of money down the road, stick to the Pre batteries.

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Originally Posted by ott

OK, so do NOT use Centro batteries in the Pre, their is a different chip set in the Pre batteries allowing them to work better with the Touchstone Chargers. Like most people are saying, the Centro batteries may work for now or temporarily, but it is not advised to use them in the Pre. How much money did you just spend on your phone and now your looking at possibly ruining it for some cheap worthless battery!? The Centro batteries have one of the highest failing rates for any battery I have ever seen! It's kind of ridiculous to be honest... Sooo, if you want to be smart, and do the right thing and save you a headache and possibly a large sum of money down the road, stick to the Pre batteries.

You are ABSOLUTELY right about the failure rate on the centro battery. I've seen more of those just completely stop working that anything else I've ever seen with any other model

[DSIMKO]

Originally Posted by ajac

all rumors are untrue we been using 2 centro batteries for our pre and so far NO issues. Only isue we had was when we got them initially and the pre showed a question mark but once the batteries were charged we've had 0 problems. Goes to sleep lasts longer on those then the original battery so we happy.

I am a store Manager for Sprint and have gone through training on this device. I can promise you that at first it will not appear to damage your device, in the end it does fry out the Pre. I have seen it first hand and would reccommend to EVERYONE to just use the Pre battery. Also there is a program in the Pre that enables us to tell if a different battery has been used. If this is found to be the case it does void your warranty. It better to run the safe side.

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Please post a screenshot of this tool. I'm sure people would be interested.

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Originally Posted by DSIMKO

I am a store Manager for Sprint and have gone through training on this device. I can promise you that at first it will not appear to damage your device, in the end it does fry out the Pre. I have seen it first hand and would reccommend to EVERYONE to just use the Pre battery. Also there is a program in the Pre that enables us to tell if a different battery has been used. If this is found to be the case it does void your warranty. It better to run the safe side.

cheapasses everywhere just shed a tear...

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Now that I think about it, this tool seems pretty silly to me. Assuming they have the ability to detect your battery type and that using the centro battery would damage the Pre according to some sources, why the hell wouldn't they just detect the battery upon startup and tell you about the problem? Wouldn't that be a much more user-friendly design than designing a battery with the same form factor as an incompatible battery, then creating an app to "catch" the user doing something?

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A simple diagnostic will show system events including battery errors. Sprint can run diagnostic at any time on most pda's but with the new Palm Pre it is more advanced and does have inbeded troubleshooting/diagnostic tools that is not typically user accessible. But anyway I wouldn't take the risk of throwing in a cheap Centro battery knowing it would possibly mess up my phone or even void my warranty... that's just plain dumb!!!

[sanmanc]

Originally Posted by tx_dbs_tx

A simple diagnostic will show system events including battery errors. Sprint can run diagnostic at any time on most pda's but with the new Palm Pre it is more advanced and does have inbeded troubleshooting/diagnostic tools that is not typically user accessible. But anyway I wouldn't take the risk of throwing in a cheap Centro battery knowing it would possibly mess up my phone or even void my warranty... that's just plain dumb!!!

So does anyone know how to access these imbeded tools? Most of us are not typical users and I'm sure someone would have found them by now.

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Sounds like FUD to me. You have QPST and root on this phone with thousands of people digging around all the system files and nobody has heard about this mythical battery logging?

In addition, assuming the information provided is true, Palm could easily just detect the battery and give the user a prompt in that shiny notification area, but instead they design a battery with the same form factor (as an incompatible battery that will break your phone), yet they won't warn you about the problem in the most obvious way, but will try to detect this if you bring it in for service. This is the dumbest design I ever heard of.

This is more about the truth behind the new battery and what mechanism it is using that is different, if any. What people do with that information is up to them.