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[Vibrant General] Decepticaons:
Here are 4 pics of todays usage, I used my phone a lot, if I let this sit over night you can add another 9 hrs easily making it 24 hrs +. This us only the second cycle. Tomorrow I'll let it go till it gets to 1% and post the screenshots. I should easily get 30 hours or more.
[Vibrant General] chw2006:
I can go an entire day on the 1800 mAH Anker battery. It's not completely calibrated just yet, but I was able to get 24 hours out of it yesterday without a charge.
[Vibrant General] kohakuslayer:
Alright I'm sold :) I think seller rose the price though I paid 18 dollars for the same battery.
[Vibrant General] anorris666:
Still on first cycle. After sitting overnight, my battery barely drained. Hopefully my deep sleep issue was a fluke/one-time thing....

I'm planning to also drain to ~5% before charging the next cycle. Does anyone ever use the battery discharge apps? Would they cause battery calibration to be unreliable?
[Vibrant General] fscussel:
heavy use? how much screen on?
[Vibrant General] anorris666:
Not heavy use, really. I sync 3 email accounts, FB, weather/news... Lots of music usage during drive-time. I have the screen on a pretty good bit, but I don't really make calls often at all. I'm fairly sure that the stats so far do not include a single phone call.

Still, it's a new battery and not calibrated yet. I don't expect miracles, but I do expect it will last ~20% longer than the stock battery. :)

For a $24 accessory, that's not too shabby, IMO.
[Vibrant General] fscussel:
since original is 1500mah and this one is 2300mah you should expect a 53% increase, not 20%.
[Vibrant General] anorris666:
I have the 1800mAh battery.
[Vibrant General] Decepticaons:
Still going......this is still the second cycle with HEAVY use!

Stock battery was getting me 15 hours with same usage. Looking like im gonna get over 100% increase from stock. Those of you who rarely use your phone could get 3-4 days. Keep checking back for more. If you need any stats let me know!
[Vibrant General] fscussel:
Anker? the same as me. but I'm gonna upgrade to that 2300mah. Huge increase.
[Vibrant General] anorris666:
Actually, no. I bought a Samsung branded one. The price difference was negligible. I might have bought the 2300mAh one if it was in stock anywhere besides eBay, but frankly I was only really concerned about getting through a long day's use on one charge.

Currently, my 1800mAh battery is at 20% after 1d 1hr. I'm happy enough so far that as long as it's charged when I leave the house in the AM that I'll be fine until later that night before bed instead of heading right to plug it in when I get home.
[Vibrant General] fscussel:
what's the problem with ebay?
[Vibrant General] anorris666:
Nothing is wrong with eBay. I just find it a bit odd when that's the *only* place to find things that pretty much any of a plethora of electronics supply retailers and wholesalers should have not only in stock but listed in a catalog.

If you bought one from eBay and it works to your expectations, good on you. I prefer to have a retailer to go back to if the battery turns out to be a fake or something. That's all.
[Vibrant General] Decepticaons:
Andida is a large corporation that backs their product. There are a lot of places to buy this battery online, but they are sold out or double the price. Search google for Andida Epic 4g 2300 mah slim :-)
[Vibrant General] 007shinobi:
I would like to buy one of those however, doesn't third party batteries degenerate really quickly?
[Vibrant General] anorris666:
I did search for those exact terms and found very little in the way of promising links. Look, I'm not bashing the battery or eBay or anything, I am only pointing out that as a consumer I am wary of purchase of any item that is in such great demand or short supply that I can't easily find one on the internet. When I search for say, "Nikon camera battery" I get a boatload of links to sponsored ads, Google shopping results, and a ton of other relative links. When I searched for the Andida battery, I found links to eBay, the XDA forum, and a few sites which match your search results but don't actually have your search results on their site or in their catalog.

In short, my level of consumer confidence in the product is based somewhat on its lack of availability. If/when a slim 2300mAh battery for the Epic 4G becomes ubiquitous enough to actually bring back results on site catalogs like batteriesplus.com or newegg or even Tiger Direct, then I'll buy one. Until then, as I have said, I'm glad it's working for you but I won't buy one until I have more information available about it.
[Vibrant General] king..kranium:
Pics r broken

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[Vibrant General] Decepticaons:
Everything I have read says they hold up pretty well, but only time will tell!
[Vibrant General] Decepticaons:
Thats a fair analysis, but you also have to keep in mind that the phones that require these batteries truly havent been out very long. Not to mention the technology required to get 2300mAh out of a battery that slim. Im certainly not bashing your opinion, I just believe in giving something a chance before I decide not to make a purchase. Although I can respect your decision because $20 can go a long way. With how much I use my phone I had to give it a shot lol. Take care! Have more pics coming in about 1/2 hour!
[Vibrant General] Decepticaons:
Check post #47, I think. I just looked and they are still there. Im about to post some screenies of todays usage as well so you can get a more detailed look.
[Vibrant General] shreddintyres:
whoops meant to post elsewhere
[Vibrant General] 007shinobi:
I'm interested to see what would happen if you kept the display on the whole time and just kept using data. Well, probably be just like 6 hours or something because I doubt any phone could live through a day with that lol
[Vibrant General] Decepticaons:
3Rd cycle
[Vibrant General] Decepticaons:
Might have to try that. I can do the stock battery then the Andida one and see what happens.
[Vibrant General] dardani89:
keeping your screen on for that long is probably not good for it. dont you think you could burn it?
[Vibrant General] fscussel:
Please do that test comparing both batteries, would be great. Zero risk for screen or cell phone.
[Vibrant General] Decepticaons:
Finally dead 41 hrs
[Vibrant General] Decepticaons:
Should be harmless, we shall see :-)
[Vibrant General] 007shinobi:
So next cycle is finally the 4th cycle? But it truly gives you sense of the sheer battery power to see the battery completely abused by the top abusers (Data and display). Looking forward to seeing this.
[Vibrant General] anorris666:
I'm glad I don't use my phone much... :)
[Vibrant General] 007shinobi:
I got my phone with 1800 mah battery to die in 3 hours and 40 minutes with full brightness on and display on the whole time (well I hit the screen off button for 1 sec than turned it back on right away). And, I continously downloaded stuff :O.
[Vibrant General] Decepticaons:
Ok so I turned GPS and wifi on, turned the brightness all the way up and didn't let the screen town off by turning Netflix on. Took over 8 hrs to kill the 2300mAh battery. Took just over 3 to kill the stock battery. I unfortunately don't have any screen shots as I was out all day yesterday. I'M sure woodrube will have all sorts of tests when he gets his battery tho. Don't take my word for it. Spend $20 and realize this shiznit is for real!
[Vibrant General] fscussel:
wow, incredible result. can you do the same test and take screenshots?
[Vibrant General] Decepticaons:
I'll certainly try. Have a busy week, but if I can't I will this coming weekend.
[Vibrant General] Woody:
You know I will. I don't have it yet but should be sometime this wek hopefully.

Right now though I am thrashing my stock 1500 with NBv12/11b5kernel. I mean I am using my battery tweaks and really ragging this thing out. Running media (music and video), letting my kids play a bunch of games, emails and texts/ turning ALL my syncs on and widgets, screen on and live wallpapers,... Really really heavy use for the weekend and I got +/-18h each day on Saturday and Sunday (I tend to stay up late and only sleep about 4 hrs a night- so that 14h is with no overnight).

Just doing this to have comparison data for when the new one comes is. Not that I use it like that every single day, but I also do not have it in deep sleep for 10+hours (and before you ask, yes it does go into DS-and my GPS works too-but keep that hush, hush until I can test more things.)

Once I get my new one, I'll let everyone know how it goes and if it is really a 2300 or a brilliant disguise.
[Vibrant General] 007shinobi:
Wow :O, next test try using the app called droidvpn and do that (ofc when you have the spare time). Using a vpn to secure the connection is another factor I tested when I got 3 hours and 40 minutes. If it still gets over 8 hours, I applaud the battery and will try to buy it :D. Although, I did use hspda, not sure if that changes anything.
[Vibrant General] Stevethegreat:
Apparently these batteries have been proved *way* too popular.

Look at ebay's price gouging: http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw...pic&_osacat=20357&_trksid=p3286.c0.m270.l1313

200 bucks for what it used to cost 20 a couple of days ago :eek:
[Vibrant General] rblancrt:
Please read back in this thread the price difference explanation is there
[Vibrant General] Stevethegreat:
I did read and it is no different than what I said. There is very little availability *because* those batteries have been proved quite popular (and thus -have- mostly sold out), no?
[Vibrant General] fscussel:
no. Read back.
[Vibrant General] Decepticaons:
The seller raised the price because she is out of stock and doesn't want to lose her listing by canceling it. So instead she raised the price to an amount nobody would pay. She will lower the price when they come in hopefully this week.
[Vibrant General] Woody:
Well mine came in the mail last night and guess what? It is slightly too big for the back cover to stay on and it won't connect. It is touching the prongs and if I push up on lower right corner (opposite side of prongs) it starts to boot up. When I let go, it shuts off. I have tried to put a small piece of paper in there to wedge it up, but then when I do that, it boots up but the back will not go on at all. I will keep working on it, but as of now, it is starting to look like a return. Sucks too bc I was looking forawrd to it.

Ideas?
[Vibrant General] fscussel:
Seller sending different models? How can it fit in one Vibrant and not in another?
[Vibrant General] rblancrt:
Battery doesn't fit

That's not good been waiting to get this battery
[Vibrant General] Decepticaons:
That's nuts, mine fits great, you saw the pics. Yours say D710 on it?
[Vibrant General] Woody:
It is identical to your pictures. It just doesn't fit and will not release the juice for some reason. Like it is 1-2mm too thick. The back won't close totally and i am not using a case. Even if it did close, I have no idea why it won't power on. I wedged a piece of paper in there last night and got a full charge on it, but that was pretty jeri-rigged. I have been messing with it all morning and am about to give up for the day.
[Vibrant General] fscussel:
hehehe all morning trying to make it work and no success?? it's really no fit one!
[Vibrant General] Woody:
Nope. I am not worried about it not fitting b/c I can always get a extended back for the phone. My issue is that even with the back off, i have the battery in the slot and it will not power on w/o some pressure put on it from the opposite corner of the prongs. So even it the back did fit, it still just doesn't power up w/o extra help.

Will wait and see what else Decepticaons might have to say but I am leaning on a return.
[Vibrant General] fscussel:
I did understand what the problem was, I just meant it was a hard try and no result.
[Vibrant General] Woody:
Ya. Sort of a bummer. Was really looking forward to testing it out. Wonder if my phone is thinner for some reason. I don't have GPS issues and the date on the bottom says 11-3, so that means it was "created" in March 2011. Maybe that is the problem. Who knows at this point.
[Vibrant General] Decepticaons:
I got my phone in June 2010. Makes me wonder if maybe they made a change to the injection mold. It's possible that these phones aren't made to exact tolerances and either the plastic under your battery is thicker, or my battery slot is a little deeper. I'm gonna try my battery in my wifes sgs4g Webb she gets home. The body is made from the same mold as ours. When I put my new battery in it was a little tougher than normal to get the back to click into place, but it didn't take much effort. Are your pins lining up exactly with the Cooper grooves in the battery? And not to rule out the simple stuff, but you took off the little plastic strip over the grooves right? And there are only 2 grooves? I'm not testing your intelligence, just want to rule out the simple stuff. Can you get the dimensions on the battery in mm along with the distance the grooves are from the closest corner? This will allow us to eliminate the battery specs, and then we know the phones are different. Hell, could be that my back is slightly deeper. I use the blue tinted one. Let me know!
[Vibrant General] rblancrt:
Date of manufacture

I got my phone on the 1st day available, and I'm pretty sure it was July 15, 2010?

I was waiting to get this battery but now not sure.

However, mine is dated 7.3.10 so maybe there is hope yet that it will work.

Thanks for the good ideas for maybe tracking this difference down.

---------- Post added at 11:04 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:59 PM ----------

Are you asking about the copper contacts, or perhaps something else, the indentions in the battery case?

Asking because my battery has 3 copper contacts.
[Vibrant General] Woody:
Ya what he said. Can't do any of that until I get home but I have 3 copper contacts. But so does your pics a few pages back. Ill see what I got for the other things and post later on tonight. Got some family stuff to do.
[Vibrant General] Decepticaons:
Totally meant 3 contacts lol I'm such a douche
[Vibrant General] rblancrt:
Answered too quickly?

Sorry, didn't mean to butt in with my answer.

Just that I have been excited to get this battery since "someone" bought the last one. Still hoping I can use it.
[Vibrant General] Decepticaons:
No worries friend this is a public forum and your comments are helpful. I say buy it. Your phone is the same batch as mine!
[Vibrant General] rblancrt:
Buy it?

I just took your advice but I'm kind of nervous about it. Well, if it doesn't work in my phone maybe it will work in my wife's, lol.
[Vibrant General] 007shinobi:
Hmm.. its so tempting to buy.. then I could just throw away my 1500 mah which performs the worst of the worst (had the phone for over a year and a half now). My final decision will probably be made once I see how well it does with the droidvpn app + what you did before, that is, if you can.
[Vibrant General] Decepticaons:
If it doesn't work for some reason (I'm confident it will add it is a first run like mine) I'll buy it off you for my wifes phone, tried my battery in her phone yesterday and it works flawlessly.
[Vibrant General] Decepticaons:
Should be able too on Sunday :-)
[Vibrant General] kohakuslayer:
Mine finally arrived today..fits like a glove. Will give it a full charge and see how it goes from there.
[Vibrant General] yoyoyayayoyo:
Thanks for the tips!!!

Thanks Decepticaons! I just received my Andida 2300 battery today. At first it doesn't work no matter how i pull out and plug it in again. But then after i checked the 3 strips copper grooves on the battery, they were slightly mis-lined up with the phone's. What i did was to rub and shave it down a tiny bit on the edge in order to make them line up properly. And now I'm a happy man!!! I hope this help anyone with the fitting problem.
[Vibrant General] Decepticaons:
Glad you guys like it!
[Vibrant General] Woody:
Can you elaborate a little bit more on this please? Was messing around with it this weekend and think that is the problem with mine. Need to make sure before I send it back but if I "shave" it down, then clearly it can't be returned.
[Vibrant General] yoyoyayayoyo:
It doesn't sound that bad, for shaving means only a little bit of pressure with a screw driver and i was good to go. The point the battery actually fits the phone well, only the 3 copper strips were about like 0.5mm missed, so maybe u can fit it in place adding some tissue paper to fill the gap, so it won't mess up the maintenance.
[Vibrant General] fscussel:
hoho I've noticed that in a previous post, based in a picture, that the copper wires were a little bit different between the 2 batteries. I'm glad that there's a way to solve it.
[Vibrant General] Decepticaons:
It's crazy that mine lined up without shaving
[Vibrant General] langecornu:
I noticed that the battery seem a tiny bit more thick, It is not causing problem closing the cover(With the original cover?)
[Vibrant General] kohakuslayer:
had to stick a piece of tissue inside to get the 3 pins aligned hah..

justa heads up, battery monitor widget reads this battery as 1500mAh.
[Vibrant General] fscussel:
i'm waiting for reviews on battery life
[Vibrant General] 007shinobi:
How did it go, Decepticaons? Also, although I didn't use my phone much (but I didn't use airplane mode and left wifi on while listening to music a couple of times, and play some games for a bit) I am at 9% with 2d 9h 37m on 1800 MaH genuine. Even though I didn't use it much, standby time was way more than my stock.
[Vibrant General] HaloMediaz:
Wiping battery stats does nothing.
[Vibrant General] Woody:
Mine is going back tomorrow. Even tried bending prongs over to get them to "connect" and nothing.
[Vibrant General] Decepticaons:
I didn't get to it, Wifey decided Sunday was our Valentines day. What exactly it's it you want me to do? Give me exact details so I can do the test the best I can.

Just an fyi, my buddy got this battery for his vibrant, with sync off, display completely dim, and wifi and GPS off he got 3 days, 2 hrs, 13 min. He had zero phone calls, text, or data usage (pulled Sim). Ill run any test you want, but I think as far as batteries that need no modification, or an extended cover go, this thing is unbeatable. Wooodrube appears to have gotten a bad battery, or the newer vibrants are not exactly the same tolerance as the first batch. Hope everyone what who bought one has my experience of good fitment and stats.
[Vibrant General] kohakuslayer:
Thought I'd give my input on the battery:

11 hours uptime with 73% remaining..little to moderate use.

I'm also using juice defender with no wifi/gps/bluetooth toggled on and screen on lowest brightness. Oh and I'm on bionix 1.3.1 no OC.

So far not very impressed, but it's still the first cycle so can't expect much.
[Vibrant General] cletusarrarr:
can somebody repost these , dead links :(
[Vibrant General] fscussel:
can you please post more info koha? I'm using the same bioniox as you. Perhaps some comparative with your older battery?
[Vibrant General] flapane:
I ordered from eBay one of those oem/fake/misterious 1800mah EB625152VA from HK for 4$, but it never got here.

So I bought the same one from a local dealer (it was just more expensive).

It fits well, and the phone seems to be a little heavier. I'm charging it for the first time... if it will last more than 14hours, it'll definitely be better than the stock one.
[Vibrant General] Decepticaons:
By my calculation you would get 80 if the stayed the same till it died. Obviously that's not going to happen, even if you got half of that that's almost 2 days on the first cycle. That's not impressive to you? Stock battery was giving me 1/5 what I'm getting now, I don't care who you are anything more than 24 hrs on a smart phone is phenomenal!
[Vibrant General] Rahhstah:
Yes, you don't link to the publicly viewable links - you link to the logged in users dropbox public folder, and they'd have to have the identical file name. You have to click on the file, then copy the Public Link. you can't right click & copy link as that's not the same location for Public WWW access. See the How to use the Public folder.txt in your public folder.

The links should look more like: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/45547720/22.jpg

not: https://dl-web.dropbox.com/get/Public/22.jpg?w=5df70a12
[Vibrant General] Decepticaons:
Pics were on page 5 :-)
[Vibrant General] cletusarrarr:
weirdly they show up now thanks , was 404 yesterday :)
[Vibrant General] kohakuslayer:
Got through the first cycle:

This is with wifi/gps/bluetooth/auto-sync off, no widgets, and lowest brightness settings.
[Vibrant General] fscussel:
doesn't looks good. I'm constantly getting 3 days (65+ hours) with my anker 1800 /bionix and low usage.
[Vibrant General] Decepticaons:
That's pretty good actually, I had about the same in my first cycle, by my 4th I was hitting over 48hrs with my syncs all on and brightness at 25%.
[Vibrant General] Decepticaons:
If anyone isn't satisfied with their 2300 ill buy it for my wifes sgs4g, she gets almost 4 days on my 2300 when I let her use it. That way I don't have to lend it to her anymore lol.
[Vibrant General] rblancrt:
Did your new battery have any charge?

Just received this battery today. So far it does nothing, absolutely nothing.

So I have a question for anyone who has this battery already.

Did it have any charge at all when you received it?

Since I have read various experiences here I am unsure if it is just not making contact at all with my phone, or if it is just completely dead.

When I plug the charger in it doesn't show any response at all.

Thanks,

rblancrt

Yes, I did remove the plastic from the contacts, lol
[Vibrant General] Woody:
That was my experience. I had to wedge a piece of paper in there to get it to charge, but the if I took it out the power would shut off.

Figured that my contacts were off. I checked to see if the plastic could be shaved off like someone suggested but it just didn't look like it would contact if I did that.

Mine went back yesterday. Had high hopes. Seems to work for some others though.
[Vibrant General] rblancrt:
No connection

It seems to me, as stated earlier in this thread (or perhaps another one) that the contacts on this battery are closer to the corner than on the original battery.

So far I have pushed and wiggled but haven't gotten any connection.
[Vibrant General] Decepticaons:
That's just crazy, mine is the only one that works right out of the box?
[Vibrant General] rblancrt:
Doesn't fit

Finally got it to connect, but with the battery hanging out of the right side of the phone. (looking at the back of phone with contacts on the left)

It seems the contacts are too close to the corner of the battery. If I move the battery over so that the contacts work the battery doesn't fit.

As for shaving it off somehow, I haven't tried that yet.
[Vibrant General] Sincitybronze:
Just got mine. Have the same issue.

ETA: Check that, just tried the "shaving" technique and now I can snap the cover back on and it's charging up just fine. Phone boots up and it looks like it's running OK.

By "shaving," I mean I just shoved a screwdriver into the (very) tiny space on the left side of the battery and the contacts somehow lined up and it began charging. I didn't have to actually shave down the battery (or use tissue). I just sort of crammed it into the right side of the phone and it's all good. I just love calling this "shaving" now. Cracks me up.

---------- Post added at 01:48 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:31 PM ----------

Mine also shows up as a 1500 mAh battery
[Vibrant General] fscussel:
could you please send some pictures of that shaving method?
[Vibrant General] Sincitybronze:
Pictures? I think my previous description tells the story:

By "shaving," I mean I just shoved a screwdriver into the (very) tiny space on the left side of the battery and the contacts somehow lined up and it began charging. I didn't have to actually shave down the battery (or use tissue). I just sort of crammed it into the right side of the phone and it's all good.