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[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Accessories] beestee:
Mine came in tonight. Weight by feel seems the same. Weight listed on package is 55 grams. Charging now in anker external charger.

Currently using battery monitor widget pro to estimate mAh of OEM Samsung. Should be through first full cycle sometime tomorrow. May be Monday before I get the first cycle estimate on the gold battery.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Accessories] mfractal:
Your opinion is highly valuable, thank you for it! You've opened our eyes!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Accessories] ebhsimon:
LOL it goes 9%->24% then rises from there.

That is definitely not right. I suspect this is happening because the capacity is not the same as the stock battery so it corresponds weirdly with the battery stats. Have you charged the battery overnight (8 hours) and then cleared battery stats?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Accessories] PurpleMelbourne:
When batteries are out of charge, they actually do have some charge left. BUT when you keep draining a battery in this state it reduces the capacity (and life) of the battery.

Samsung are not shipping the best batteries money can buy. They are shipping pretty good, for high profit.

You can get more power into the same weight but they will be more difficult to make. So real world is they would be as expensive as OEM.

Cheap high capacity is possible by the battery shutting itself off at a lower charge than a "play it safe" OEM.

So the cheap stuff can have more charge but maybe only for a few months. Probably still woryhwhile for $15 :-)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Accessories] paris.gr:
Hi again. Is there any way to reset the battery stats in stock Rom?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Accessories] LemonPowerForce:
Wasn't that whole battery stats thing debunked by a Google employee?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Accessories] Sobakel:
Enter recovery, go into advanced, wipe battery stats
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Accessories] krazman325:
Had the same problem on my Dell Streak 5 when I upgraded to a Mugen 1800mAH battery. The threads at that time concluded that it wasn't the battery at fault, but the built in battery stats app wasn't capable of reporting anything other than the stock battery scale. The more the devs messed with the kernel and rom, the more inaccurate it became.

Mugen is considered by many to be of equal or higher quality than OEM. The Mugen for the Dell Streak 5 was the same size and weight as stock (stock 1530mAH vs Mugen 1800mAH)

AGREED! victorlht88 you have convinced me to email the seller and have my new Gold 3250mAH battery delivery stopped in mid shipment. Thank you for sparing me the embarrassment of spending $13.69 on something as foolish as an extra battery. I am eternally grateful!!!:D
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Accessories] Sobakel:
Hasn't anyone gotten the battery yet to confirm or bust this?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Accessories] xovox:
i got one today and the quality build seems very good

weight exactly like stock samsung.

1 hour onscreen for first 20% with surf.

will give impressions after full charge.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Accessories] milsabords:
Lifetime comparison

Draining a Li-Ion battery to 0 is a sure way to damage it, and reduce its lifetime. If people did that with their stock batteries, comparing them with brand new ones should yield unreliable results.

About battery stats, I've read from technical people that they are reset when the phone is unplugged, and that battery calibration programs are useless.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Accessories] Kimodroid:
My 3250 mAh battery stats.

I recently received my 3250mAh battery from the same eBay seller as mentioned by OP and will share my battery statistics here.

I can also post them in a new thread if preferred.

The first time I powered up my Note with the new 3250mAh battery in, it was at 65%.

I charged it to 100%, then ran the battery down till it was at 20% by normal daily use during 1 full day.

Recharged to 100%. Then I disconnected the charger and it took 2 full days of normal usage till it was at 15%.

Recharged again to 100%. Today I used it a little bit more than average and it is now at 42% when posting this reply after another full day of use.

I will post more screen shots as the days go by.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Accessories] Sobakel:
Which one was that? Who did you order from?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Accessories] ssss69:
How many screen usage? This is the important thing
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Accessories] Kimodroid:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/290677438392?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649

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IMO screen usage isn't really a very accurate way of representing how long the battery lasts. If you just keep the phone awake (read screen on), it will use little power. But when you play games with complex 3d graphics for hours or you continuously watch fullHD movies on your phone or through AllShare, you get a totally different "screen usage" time.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Accessories] ssss69:
Telling uso your screen ti me is better tan telling us that your battery has last for you forma 2 days in normal use, saying that its thw same that saying nothing
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Accessories] dekky18:
Of course it uses less power if the screen is just on, but who normally put screen on and do nothing with phone. When your screen is on u usually are browsing, typing something, watching movies or playing games. That is why the screen on measurement is important, because we can see how much usage of the phone has been.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Accessories] xovox:
hi

after first full charge battery work great

internet surf during 3h30 onscreen and battery left 45%.

very happy with it.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Accessories] VTEChump:
Here are my results after first full charge (24h40m total time, 4h56m display time). Better than stock battery, but not quite as good as my Anker results.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=24084920&postcount=16
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Accessories] Bond@007:
If Battery Monitor Widget Pro says 3250 mAh then we are sure that's really a 3250 mAh and not fake or bad copy from Japan ?

This battery interest me but no risk for our Galaxy Note (Fire ...) ?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Accessories] xovox:
well after 18h on battery for first full charge and 4% left.

6h5mn onscreens !!! with much(5h) surf(wifi+little 3g),games,videos

great for the money.

over 10h of used with 2 batterys now.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Accessories] jackfei2:
Thank you for all the fact posts, I just ordered my battery and yes I'm aware of the Risks involved.

I talk to manufacturer plants in China daily, the protection circuits within your battery is dirt cheap and as much as I believe they tend to cut corners I doubt this will be one of them.

I am curious on how much of the real capacity this thing has, but if it last longer than a stock battery I'm not going to argue with it. If one should feel unease about anything with this battery it's how little out of those 10 bucks actually went to the workers who assembled them.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Accessories] THFourteen:
my gut feel having used this battery for a few days is that it is a very good alternative spare battery. It charges fine, there are no obvious heat issues, and it fits the slot very well.

however, i am not 100% certain that it is much better than the stock. However i can confirm it is definitely not worse.

Which is fine for me, £9.97 for a spare battery, and i wanted a spare battery anyway! It already came in useful on Saturday when i spent all afternoon streaming football at my parents, and had to swap batteries for the journey home.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Accessories] beestee:
Results from Battery Monitor Widget Pro after 150% cycle on OEM and Gold with a wipe batt stats in between:

I have about half of the parts in for the battery tester that I am building so I might have it done this week to compare results, but initial results are looking good so far IMO.

I tried to stay up last night to run the gold battery down to 1% but the thing just would not quit. I got 10 years into cafe nippon, into the second box in cut the rope, the second world in angry birds space, started up a few games with randoms in draw something all between testing the two batteries. Last night my brother in law played with it for about two hours and it was still at nearly 70%.

EDIT: Bought from seller voguestage88 on ebay for those interested.

Bring some results to back this up or let the issue rest. Maybe quality control becomes more difficult when aiming for this capacity in this form factor, or maybe Samsung just got a much better bid from whoever is making the OEM battery, who knows and who cares?

Just because OEM is a certain capacity does not mean that it is the maximum potential for the form factor. I work on my own vehicles and build my own computers and I know for certain that you can get the same or better quality parts than familiar name brand for less money, so why is it so difficult to believe that the same could be true for mobile phone batteries? If Samsung is hiring out a third party to produce the OEM battery, then it makes sense that there is a bit of a markup as opposed to getting a battery direct from a supplier.

When you are talking about 2 million plus notes that have been sent to retailers now, that extra $2-4 per battery would add up to an additional $4-8 million cut out of samsung's profits...and I am pretty sure most of us would agree that the OEM battery is pretty great so they didn't come off as ripping us off even though a better battery might be available.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Accessories] mfractal:
I bought from that same seller. Still waiting on it to arrive. Glad you hear a confirmation for that seller.

Sent from my CM9 powered Galaxy Note
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Accessories] psun786:
Personally, I am more interested how this battery perform against Anker rather than stock. We have enough testimony proving it last longer than OEM. But does it out perform Anker?

There is no proprietary technology regarding lithium battery manufacturing and Samsung license their OEM to independent Chinese factory so I don't think the "know how" is the issue here. But rather how much further will these third party factory willing go at the cost of safety?

All batteries including OEM have failure risk that can damage your handset. There are few instances where iphone battery exploded. Since most of us bought this phone without warranty, we should pay extra care in avoiding potential risk.

The true problem with these gold battery is that they are not branded or backed by a reputable third party manufacture. In another word, the rogue factory who produce them has zero accountability. They can basically try squeeze as much capacity as physically possible and not care about stability. Even they are fully aware of the risk involved. They knew consumer cant find them when accident happened. All they interested is the upfront cash generated by the bragging right. Where a brand name like Anker has to maintain their reputation for longevity of their company.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Accessories] beestee:
Well all I can say to that is it is a good thing that we don't have to rely solely on the safty measures put into place in these thrid party batteries, but by means of apps can monitor and sound an alarm or even shut down the phone if the battery is operating outside of safe conditions.

I tried looking up the company behind the logo on this battery and came up with no results. Perhaps I will try again.

I do have two Anker batteries at home and I will run the same test on one of them for comparisons sake.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Accessories] Bond@007:
Here an official battery WITH NFC but not more power : http://www.exportprive.fr/fr/samsun...eb615268vk-eb615268vucstd--8806071790138.html
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Accessories] stevencyc:
Is there any supporting claim that "squeezing" more capacity would lead to stability issue?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Accessories] animal1974:
Quite happy with mine. Atm is, with a normal use around 1.5h better than the stock one. :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Accessories] ngocdao:
Thanks for the thread OP

I debated awhile back whether to buy the one you have or this one:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/High-Capaci...sung-Galaxy-Note-GT-N7000-i9220-/140740192870

Sadly I let the Japanese writing and higher price fooled me.

Hence why I'm back here researching lol. Your results are impressive ;) will go buy that now.

Thanks!

N7K - IMILKA.cyanogenmodV2 (No Ka Oi)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Accessories] GallardosEggrollShop:
Just got mine in, charging it to full right now before I give it a test run. I'll post results as well :D
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Accessories] beestee:
I ran the test on the Anker battery as well and here are the results side-by-side, if anything the higher margin of error on the Anker will bring that capacity up since when I checked it at 52% accuracy it was much closer to the OEM capacity:

I got the parts in to do an external test to verify these numbers but I can't help but think that these are a pretty good/accurate indication since what I will be doing externally is very similar to what an internal app could do. I am also still not completely sure that it will work as I want it to, but we will see. At the least, I now have a number in the ballpark so I should be able to tell if it is working or not.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Accessories] pepeto2001:
So the Anker battery seems to perform much better than stock one!, where did you buy it from?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Accessories] Sobakel:
What is an anker battery?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Accessories] beestee:
Amazon. They have a good package deal on them right now:

http://www.amazon.com/Anker-Batteries-SGH-I717-GT-N7000-Multi-purpose/dp/B007JSSNHI/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1334766489&sr=8-2
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Accessories] pepeto2001:
And what about the mugen 2650mah battery?, any review out there (i cannot find any)?, will it be better than anker one??????
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Accessories] Kraize:
Here's a review (not one with much data though): [Link]
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Accessories] sharp2G:
In other words... THE BATTERY IS LEGIT!

Anyone want to disapprove?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Accessories] boyrei:
i have ordered from love2morrow.com
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Accessories] beestee:
Just to update the anker with similar tolerance (and the slightly higher mAh I was expecting):
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Accessories] pepeto2001:
now the gold lasts more than the anker???
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Accessories] beestee:
Always has. You need to look at the mAh as opposed to the usage since usage will vary depending on what I did with the phone during the day to run it down. That duration on the gold probably has the most screen-on and gaming time of all of the tests and it still says 12h+ which impresses me.

Still, look at the mAh, that estimated usage stat is rubbish for anyone except me.

I would probably need a month plus of usage on each battery for the duration stats to level out.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Accessories] Bond@007:
The link in the post doesn't work on Ebay Belgium ... :(
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Accessories] beestee:
Your best bet is looking for the same battery on your local ebay pages that has the same logo and everything...here is a reference:
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Accessories] martinbej:
You can find the battery on this website:

love2morrow.com

Once there, search for "3250"
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Accessories] Bond@007:
Thanks for you friends ;)

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I've just to buy on your link, because with Ebay, it's was more expensive.

I've paid with my paypal account and the site said for delivery 5-12 days ... What are you thinking about this delay for Belgium ?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Accessories] hp79:
I just went ahead and ordered Anker battery kit (2 x 2500 mah and charger for $15) from Amazon. Anker was a better deal for me with much more reviews I could find online.

For the 3250 mAh Gold battery, even though one person showed his/her test data, I'm still not convinced about 3250 mah. Enerloops have less capacity than other regular NiMH rechargables but retains a charge much longer when stored. Something like this might apply to this Gold battery as well. It might degrade faster as a tradeoff of higher capacity, but who knows. I won't need any more battery now that I already have 3.

Another thing, isn't it kind of annoying to take off the back cover to replace the battery? Aren't you guys worried that the plastic holders might chip off while removing the back cover?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Accessories] Bond@007:
The Anker kit from Amazon is a good deal for many people but not for me.

I hate this one because :

- Shut down the phone

- open the back cover for swap my battery

- reboot my phone

It's long and not good for me.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Accessories] stevencyc:
+1
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Accessories] mongolito:
+2

Enviado desde mi GT-N7000 usando Tapatalk
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Accessories] cooldudey:
My opinons on the 3250mAh Gold Battery !

Hi everyone, I thought i would leave my opinion on the following battery.

I ordered the 3250mAh battery from the following ebay seller :

[sorry cannot post link as I am a new user however the username in the UK ebay is extras4nz and the current price is 14.70 GBP]

I am quite a heavy user and never get to an end of the day with the normal battery. However with this Gold battery i still have lots of power at the end of the day doing the same tasks.

The battery is heavier than the original and very slightly larger.

I was quite sceptical at the start but i am very pleased with the performance of this battery.

According to Battery Monitor Widget it has a capacity of 3332mAh. Wether this is actually true or not is another matter. But i can tell you for sure it has more power than the original 2500mAh battery by at least 20%.

The only thing i do not know is how well the battery will last for over time.

However for the price of the battery its well worth it in my opinion :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Accessories] tefots:
hi all

i have my gold battery in test

battery monitor pro, don't show real capacity, (i had to put it), but estimated capacity show me as 3450mah.

i'm very pleased with the duration of this gold battery, more better than my original samsung, with original never arrived to 3h duration.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Accessories] krazman325:
Stop teasing me!!!

Could y'all quit posting how wonderful this Gold battery is until after i receive mine. Tracking says mine passed through San Francisco Post Office 3 1/2 days ago and I still don't have it! I'm getting rather impatient. It must be traveling by pack mule.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Accessories] ngocdao:
Testing new anker battery atm and so far so good!!!!

N7K - IMILKA.cyanogenmodV2 (No Ka Oi)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Accessories] sparkyxda:
Bad luck. I heard there was a pack mule pile up in SF, several mules shed their loads of batteries and iPhone Sponge Bob cases. Hope there isn't a mix up :-D
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Accessories] zuqka10:
Well I got mine from this seller on ebay: extras4nz

I does not last not even 1 min longer then the original samsung battery. I have recharged it 3 times and results are identical with original battery. My 2 cents
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Accessories] paris.gr:
I am in the first charge and I have to admit that I also have similar results with the friend above. The battery was also purchased from the same seller. I will wait for 2-3 more charging cycles but I don't seem to get any extra time vs. the stock one.

Edit.

I just noticed a strange thing. I opened my phone at 10.40am and now at 17.10pm instead of 6.5 hours of battery use it shows only 5 so it is missing 1.5 hours of use.

Also my phone froze for about 1 minute and now when I look at the battery curve there is an sudden drop of around 10%. To be honest I don't know if both happened together or if they are connected but I thought it is worth mentioning. Maybe the above happened when I was trying to calibrate the battery with battery monitor something to be honest I am not sure how it should be done properly.

Edit 2.

I tried to manually measure the screen time from the usage graph and I have around 220 minutes of screen time (almost all of it was with wifi on and browsing) and around 40% battery time left. That means that with some rough estimations I will have around 1 more hour vs. the stock battery with the same more or less conditions.

Anyway the above estimations most probably are not that accurate so I will report back again tomorrow after a new charging cycle.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Accessories] oc_masta:
Hi,

im going to place an order for the 3250mah battery today.

luckily, i have a brand new white galaxy note that i bought to replace my black one. felt i needed a change :p

that has a brand new 2500mah battery inside so i can continue to use my current black note while i use the white one for testing the 3250mah battery.

so in short, i will run a test with a NEW 3250mah battery vs NEW 2500mah battery, in the exact same condition, ill run with gsm off and wi-fi on, playing back a video file until it dies.

The ULTIMATE PROOF will be known soon ;)

im not rooting for the gold battery either, since ive had bad experiences with cheap batteries, so if its ****, ill gladly say it and trust my instinct next time.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Accessories] panyan:
cant wait - please document your report on xda :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Accessories] magickiller9:
My clock seems to get reset to year 2000 and 8am whenever I swap battery. Any solution?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Accessories] Rambo87:
How about setting the Date and time to automatic so that it follows the network values?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Accessories] newg:
There's enough positive feedback in this thread to make me go for it.

ordered the battery. was £14.70, so not a big expenditure. Hoping for good results, but, worst case scenario, I have just bought a spare battery.

looking forward to it arriving.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Accessories] DJsCrIBbLe:
Short term feedback. What's the long term like? Crappy stats or maybe exploding on you? ...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Accessories] beestee:
Or not? Speculation works both ways bud.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Accessories] DJsCrIBbLe:
I'm just saying you never know. Sure it works both ways. Except these are probably lipo battery's and are very dangerous compared to normal ones like OEM...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Accessories] hp79:
Li-Po is safer than Li-ion. But the OEM stock battery and Gold battery both are Li-ion. Li-Po is used for more customized shapes.

Here's my OEM battery test result. I used it up until I started seeing warning messages, then charged it all the way.

I think this software has a flaw on estimated capacity. I have to manually type in how much mAh I'm suppying, and it is guessing the capacity by calculating how long it takes to fully charge the battery. The best way to compare is probably to play a video side by side.

This is about a 1 week battery.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Accessories] mpascal:
I just purchased a new White Galaxy Note to replace my old one. Fresh install of CM9 v3 and have done two full charge cycles on the new OEM battery. I've also purchased the Gold battery from eBay seller "voguestatus88" and should be receiving it on the 25th. Here is just a screenshot of my OEM battery. I will update as soon as I receive the Gold battery. I hope I get the legit one that some of you guys have ordered.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Accessories] chelseafcfan:
The ULTIMATE test :D

cant wait to see the result :p...what more better way to compare a battery than to standing it side by side....

lucky you to have identical devices :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Accessories] wesley29:
Here's my 2 cents...

If the great battery company Mugen can only fit 2650mAh into their higher capacity battery that still fits in the original casing, then there is no way a Chinese no name brand can put 3250mAh into one.

Standard battery already gets over 8 hours of video on a single charge based on my own findings and reviews from sites like Gsmarena or Engadet.