[Nexus S Accessories] marik1234:
I agree, this battery is awesome, it really does work even with heavy usage. Had to calibrate it though, took me like 3 cycles of letting it die and then fully charging. I unplugged my phone today at 8:51 AM and my battery is at 55% right now, was chatting a ton via messaging and AIM on my phone during the NFL and MLB games, browsing some boards on it during them, checking scores using the browser, and I've had AIM running all day. I was at work from 9 to 1 and I had AIM running the whole time then too which I've noticed on all my previous phones(N1 and MT4G) is a HUGE battery hog, probably the biggest I've encountered aside from playing games, and even the battery usage in the OS shows AIM at 70%. I was chatting using messaging and AIM while I was at work, not much but a good amount. Oh and I was on mobile data all day long(T-Mo), never used Wi-Fi even when I was in my house.

This battery is pretty awesome but I feel like it could be even better but I think it'll MORE than do because the amount of time/usage I spent on it today probably will exceed my longest day of school so I'm guaranteed to get home from school with probably at least 30% so I'm happy. On the old battery it was near dying when I was about to get home or near the way home, and I commute an hour and 20 mins every day to school in the city so that's why it matters so much to me...and I have an hour break sometimes in school so it matters then too. I mean I read on my breaks(my textbooks) but you need your phone to keep entertained and stay sane lol, can't read nonstop forever.

This battery is more than good for me, I feel like it'll last a whole day and usually you're never away from a charger in the course of a whole day so it shouldn't be a problem for any of us. If you are you must like in the middle of nowhere lol.

And about the grip and holding with the bulky battery cover, I agree that it makes the phone a lot easier to hold actually. They made the battery cover perfect with it's hump and all. The hump fits perfectly into your bottom 3 fingers with your thumb on the phone and your index finger goes right above the hump near the camera. The holding position is FANTASTIC and SO NATURAL and AWESOME, it's sweet. Feels like you can't even drop your phone cause of that and makes it super easy and nice to hold, feels great and comfortable holding it. It's so natural, A LOT better than the stock OEM battery cover which I would never use the phone with without a friggin case, it's a slipping nightmare without a case in that situation.

Overall, total frickin steal for only $30 after shipping. And it's on Amazon, it can't get any better! I'll post some more tests/runthroughs and trials on my school days too to get a better idea of it.

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Oh and I'm running Peter Alfonso or GPA 17 for the Nexus S. Didn't flash any other kernels though like Netarchy or Trinity, just using his ROM with whatever kernel it came with. Wonder if it would be different with Trinity as in better...it's probably too late to flash the kernel anyway right, I flashed GPA 17 like a week ago and have been using the phone, would the kernel interfere with the ROM or mess it up in any way after already putting a good amount of data in the phone? Or is it safe to flash a new kernel whenever and not necessary only when you've just flashed a clean new ROM?