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I wonder how many of those people that returned the batteries charged them nightly to see if the battery life improved after a few weeks?

I can confirm that my Centro batteries and also my Treo 800w battery life improved after several weeks. I didn't try to see how many days I could get out of it, I simply put it on the charger each night.

With the Treo 800w, when I first got it, I would pull it off the charger about 06:00am and by the time I got home at 05:00pm it was something like 20% left or so. Now when I get home it's anywhere from 60 to 80% charged. Same amount of usage.

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The thrust of my commentary was that I don;t see a rip off of Sprint to ask for a second battery in a store, since in my local store they had in fact had a lot of returns of entire 800 handsets because of the battery, and they are the ones who offered the spares. That seems a much bigger cost than batteries which likely cost Sprint $10 for NIB, or in the case of used Centro batteries probably have a value of $5.

As to your usage and remaining battery I can only state I envy you! I don't see how many days I can get out of a charge, I count the hours.

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My point was that nightly charging greatly improves battery life, at least that's been my experience. How many people didn't give it a few weeks of nightly charging and immediately returned the phone after a few days due to the poor battery life?

People want their batteries to last several days but I don't see the logic in NOT charging your battery at night while you are sleeping. If I can get one full day of battery life, that's good enough for me because I simply recharge at night.

What I've also done in the past is buy a desktop charger with a slot to charge an extra battery and then just swap out batteries each morning.

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i went to the sprint store and the lady gave me 3 free batteries :)

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3? awesome. I got an extra one myself after reading this thread and seeing how such poor battery life my phone has. I also got a seido hump battery pack hoping it makes a huge difference.

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Probably 3 that previous customers had returned because of poor performance. :)

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well i have the siedio hump battery and it is friggen amazing.
i have had it for about a month now and i dont know how i lived without it.
it gets a plus in my book

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Speaking of batter life I had a strange experience yesterday with my 800w. Pulled it off the wall charger around 7:30 in the morning and went to work. About 10:00 I pull it out to check email and noticed how warm it was, battery level was down to 55%. Press and hold the OK button and close all running apps and pull the battery to do a soft reset. An hour later I check it and it's warm again and battery down to 30%, by 5 it was dead. WTF is going on, so when I get home I throw it on the charger and by 11pm it's fully charged. Pull it off and leave it over night and this morning it's at 65%.