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[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] RazoE:
Ive had this phone since the day it came out. Ive put it through almost every rom there was and it was fine until i bought that stupid gold battery. I hadnt even played playstation on the phone for a day. It got hot and swelled up just sitting in my pocket. You can keep walking around with that ticking time bomb in your pants, just dont blame me when your hairy eggs get hard boiled.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] gtmaster303:
If I was a betting man (and I am a betting man), I would bet that if your phone had governors or wasn't OCed, this problem wouldn't have occurred.

And let this be a lesson to all the rest of you.

PUT OVERHEAT CPU GOVERNORS ON YOUR PHONE.

So if your phone does OC too much, it can scale down and not damage itself. Anyone that values their phone will do so
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Riyal:
I'd like to oppose some of the info you provided. :) When you OC your phone the thing that heats up is your phone's processor and not the battery :) The battery only heats up if the phone sucks up the battery's capacity like theres no tomorrow :p Which means even if you're undervolted & underclocked to lower than 1Ghz you still might heat up your battery if your playing games, internet or whatever that continuously eats power.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] gtmaster303:
Yes, that is correct, the processor will heat up when OCed. But the only time your phone would suck more power than usual is WHEN you're overclocked. Yes, the battery can heat up even at normal clock speeds, but it was never designed to continuously supply power for 1.7GHz. That's what pushes it past its limit.

I have played GTA on this phone at stock speed while charging for almost 2 hours. Phone was warm for sure. But not burning hot. It only got that way when I OCed it.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] joker0221:
Giving it a shot

I know this is an older thread, and I missed from the original ebay seller, but if you search for "gold high capacity battery sensation" you can find the same thing from a range of sellers. I read through about half of the posts, and except for one instance, most feel this is at least the same or better than stock, which is just starting to show it's age for me. I got one for $5.69 free shipping, in line with the original posters'. Can't post a link, since I'm a newbie :)
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] gtmaster303:
Feel free to post your findings. The results of these batteries can always vary, but on the whole, they have been mostly poisitive
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] joker0221:
Will do. Mine is the standard 2+ week shipping, so it'll be a bit before I can. I got one that was the same mAh as the OP, 2450. I did see others for 1930 and 2680 as well. As noone has said anything about those I wasn't feeling brave enough to try the 2680. Plus I think it was more money, like $20 or so.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] shawde:
Did anyone try other ebay seller, other than the one the OP mentioned, and had a good battery results? Please post a link or recommend a seller. TIA.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] abnormalreply:
Ordered one...

I ordered one about a week ago from an ebay seller named "betterclover."

Should be here in about a week. Will report back with my findings.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] abnormalreply:
My 2450 gold came yesterday, and I've finished one charge/discharge cycle. First thing I noticed about the battery is that I had absolutely no trouble getting it into the phone--did not have to force it in at all. It fits as loosely as the stock battery, so no need to mutilate it as OP had to. Second, I did not notice any kind of swelling while charging. I had the case open and kept an eye on it on the first charge and I'm watching it again right now during the second charge. On the first charge, I let it charge for an additional 4 hours after the phone indicated 100% and the green light was on, just to make sure it was full. Here are some screenshots of my drain with fair-moderate usage--some wifi and gaming, no GPS/BT/tethering, many text messages, a few calls. Honestly, I expected better. I get the same results from a 1900mAh I have (from htcexpress.com), but I suppose it will get better with subsequent charges. Also, I do not have the stock battery to compare them physically side-by-side; sorry about that.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Freerobots:
another data point

On my "gold" battery, after a few charge/discharge cycles, Battery Monitor reports it as 1546 mAh. For comparison, my aging stock battery is measured as 1314 mAh. So it looks like my goldy is simply about as good as a new stock battery. Which is fine, since it was such a cheap battery. It is certainly not 2450 mAh.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] abnormalreply:
My "gold" turned out to be a dud too. only charged to around 1480. I informed the seller and he refunded my money. so I have a spare now (for free.) Just a word of caution to anyone else considering purchasing this battery from eBay: avoid the seller "betterclover"
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] adrenalinemedic:
I'm at the six month mark now. My gold battery can't make it five hours without dropping to 30%, and thats with light to moderate texting, facebooking, and twitter. I've rarely been playing games, and I dont watch movies on it.

At this point, I'm not sure where I'm going to go with batteries; this one WAS only $7, and it worked great for a while. Now its on par with a stock battery. If it doesn't get any worse, than I'm no worse off than I was before I bought it. I'll update in another couple of months with changes.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] CoNsPiRiSiZe:
Have you tried the ankers? I have used ankers since I got a doubleshot a pretty long time ago, and they have always been great for me.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] adrenalinemedic:
Yeah, I've used Ankers. I found the difference over stock to be negligible, so I sent it back.

I just ordered another Gold battery. I'll pay $14 a year to get 30 hours of battery time in the same form factor as the stock battery.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] MT4GS:
after 6 months...

I guess I was lucky.

Using the same Gold battery for 6 months now and still no signs of capacity loss on mine.

Pictures taken as always right after 5% battery warning:

My "Gold" batt lasts on average 24+hrs and sometimes up to 1.5 day - basically the same as I reported here half a year ago when I bought it.

Longest run I had on a single charge so far was about 4.5 days when I left phone in my car at the airport parking, when I came back it was still at 20%. Of course phone wasn't used in that time (however all the usual background services - mail etc - were still running).

The shortest run I ever had was during hot and sunny day on a beach when we had very long Skype video call. From fully charged down to 0 in less than 3hrs. I got videocall just when I unplugged it from charger and walked from house to the beach, and all that time it was Skype over HSDPA draining it. Connection is low there too (2 bars only) which probably added to the fast battery drain too.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] alphaz1:
I bought a gold battery from the same seller in OP's link. First thing I did after unpacking the battery (really simple packaging, it was just wrapped in plastic) was to fully do the discharge-recharge cycle, 3-4 times. Been using my gold battery for 2 weeks, it's definitely better than stock battery. I never achieved 24hr with stock battery, the longest was 16 hours. But with this gold battery, 24h on battery with 2h screen on time is normal. My usage is auto brightness, wifi and sync for 7-8 hours, sms, and 2 alarm clocks. So far I'm happy with this battery, it's worth the 6 bucks lol. Thank you for recommending it.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Riyal:
In my mugen 1800mAh battery I get to use it for 1 day and 19 hours of uptime and 3 hours screen-on time and using it for texting, playing videos(almost 2 hours) and listening music for hours. I don't see any of this 2450mAh battery performing well at all. Will post a screenshot of my usage later. Although yeah $6 price is an advantage.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] MT4GS:
What do you mean you "don't see any of this 2450mAh battery performing well at all", haven't I posted enough screenshots here and many people stated same results as me in this thread?

From what I understand there are many manufacturers of these batteries in China (half a year ago I counted at least 5 direct-from-factory sellers on ebay) and probably only 2 factories in Japan. Obviously if you get the Japanese battery you're in luck, and when you get the China "fakes" you're not.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Riyal:
I am referring to the screenshot above my previous post.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] anitgandhi:
I'm really considering buying atleast one of these batteries. As far as I can tell, some people are getting good results and others aren't. Would you guys recommend me to get this? Any things I should look out for on ebay?
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] MT4GS:
How can you go wrong with this one, it is just a $6... it's not like $80 battery from Mugen LOL

Even if you get a "lemon" (as some people have reported), at worst case scenario it will be same as your standard battery, and if you get a "good one" you certainly will enjoy 1.5 day of phone use, with everything on, including more than 2hrs of screen on (or even longer use per single charge if your "screen on" is less than that).

I expected my battery to die after half a year, but no - unlike someone else reported here, mine is still going strong.

The only drawback of this battery - as far as I can tell after using it for so long - is it's quick discharge when it is very low. Just don't try to play/watch HD movies, do GoogleTalk/Skype videocalls or other intensive power use things when this battery is drained down to 15% or less, that's all.

So, what's there to risk? ;)
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] anitgandhi:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/2X-Gold-Bat...067229?pt=PDA_Accessories&hash=item3cc8fd161d

that's the one i'm probably gonna get. either neither of them are quality, both of them are, or one of them is. either way i think it should be ok.

thanks!
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] gtmaster303:
Dude, that's a ripoff. If you're going to pay $50 for a set of 2 gold batteries, buy from me!!
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] eclipsed450:
Just received this. getting them all charged up; can't wait to use them!
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Appogee:
Don't get to excited. It's maybe a 1 in ten thousand chance that you get one of the good ones. I have 3 and all of them are pretty much like getting another stock battery. Not complaining but definitely would've rather spent the money on just one 1900mah Anker Battery.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] anitgandhi:
where exactly are you seeing $50...
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] eclipsed450:
got 8hrs until poweroff for first charge. 12hrs until poweroff for second charge. better than the stock one after a year - worth the $20; and i have an always charged backup battery!
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] eclipsed450:
Well worth the $20 IMO. What we're doing is running the batteries from full to dead, then swapping with the backup that's full, so our phones are never tied to a charger anymore.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] sodambored:
I have the Anker battery and this gold battery. After a month or so of usage, the gold battery has lasted much longer than both the stock and Anker batteries. I have been able to reach about 41 hours on the gold battery on my HTC Amaze. :D
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Xcore66:
I have the 3600 mugen power battery and its starting to get annoying. Yes I love never have a phone die on me. But its huge and heavy, I am looking forward to getting the gold batt.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] alphaz1:
There are many variants of 2450mah Gold Battery, IMO you'd have smaller chance of getting a dud if you buy from the seller in OP. This thread is only relevant for that particular gold battery.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Xcore66:
Thanks a lot, I will look into it

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[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Jas91888:
Does anyone have any good suggestions for a good gold battery that is still available on ebay for less than 10 dollars?
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] MT4GS:
I have just discovered an interesting fact and wanted to add to the Li-Po/Li-Ion "subdiscussion" we had with strapped365 few months earlier (about their safety)

Here is a picture of a battery that came with my old HTC TyTN II:

This a 2007 phone model, manufactured on June 11, 2007. There is no manufacturing date on battery, but IIRC this picture was taken in September 2007 shortly after I bought the phone because couple months later I was using extended battery (which also is Li-Po type).

Anyways, apparently the Li-Po batteries have been always present in phones, we just haven't noticed when manufacturers have switched from Li-Ion to Li-Po because they weren't clearly marked as "Li-Po" back then (notice the recyclable logo bears "Li-ion" description underneath)
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] GoPadge:
I think our biggest risk comes from cheap or poorly manufactured charge circuitry and not from Li-Ion or Li-Po batteries themselves.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] strapped365:
its funny this came back up, because I literally just threw away a 2 or 3 cell lipo that blew up. It could be the batteries. I'm sticking to that because of the amount of blown up lipos I've seen vs no other type. I know all batteries blow up or can, but from what I've seen I couldn't use a lipo branded battery reguardless of how much its like a regular battery
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Ratler5:
For under 10$ total i will definatily give this a try :) thanks !!
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] MT4GS:
It's been a year since I'm using this battery.

Here are the stats after 1 year of use, from my very last full charge down to 10%:

Battery life: 1 day 6hrs 12min (screen on: 2hrs 33m)

Usage: 31 txt msgs, 9 phone calls, 18MB of data (for autosync/emails and 1 short navigation with google maps).

Wifi, bt, data 4g, ... everything is on, screen brightness on automatic.

ROM: stock Gingerbread (rooted, with T-Mo junk removed by me)

Basically after 1 year my battery is still going strong, which I'm honestly surprised. I really can't tell any difference in battery's behaviour from my post half a year ago.

IMO one of best batteries I ever have purchased for a phone, and certainly it is the cheapest one I ever had, what a joke.

I'm planning to have my MT4GS replaced with some newer phone (I'm done with any junk-polluted phones ever again, only pure "nexus" for me - but I don't know can I find one with keyboard). So, before I shut down my MT4GS for the last time I will post this Gold battery's stats here one more time.

EDIT:

Actually I have just check, 1 year of using this battery will come in the middle of May. Apologies for posting 2 weeks too early.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] debianmain1:
Interesting....

I'll be getting one about the time you do your last post.....nice to know that the life has stayed so consistent....Luck with your new phone!!!!
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] davidf9:
When I checked, the OP seller had none in stock. Instead I chose a seller whose photos said "made in Japan" (noting the discussion a while back concerning quality versus "made in China"). No guarantee I know, but when it arrived it was indeed Japanese made, and the battery has worked out really well. Went from 8 to 14 hours to 18 to 30+. It's odd because battery monitor doesn't recognise it as all that much bigger than stock, but it definitely has a big effect. I've also had far fewer instances of the phone rebooting itself at odd times, which I put down to a lower internal resistance. As a consequence, I've even moved max CPU clock back up to 1.5GHz, whereas with the old stock I had to reduce to 1.2GHz to make it half way tolerable.

Conclusion is, I've gone back and bought another one from the same vendor. Then I posted this!
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] adyo13:
Under the sticker of my gold baterry (2430 mAh for motorola defy) it says:

KFP 474260 ArT C227

down arrow 2K06 01038

Is any of this relevant for anyone?

The battery is ok-sh..after 1 day I still have 40%..but from there to 0 I only have few minutes and the phone jumps to 19, 14, 4 and shuts off.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] gamerka:
Bought two batteries from ebay about 5 months ago, one gold "New High Capacity Gold Battery For HTC EVO 3D G17 G18 G21 SENSATION 4G G14" and one branded as Kinps "2450mAh Extended Battery for HTC Sensation XL XE 4G G14 Pyramid z710e HTC EVO 3D".

After some testing I got 4 days+ to 23% on the Kinps battery (see attachment) and less then half of that on the Gold one.

Though Kinps is a bit thiker and back cover closes very tight with it.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] gtmaster303:
No effin way :eek:

Sent from my Galaxy S Relay
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] MT4GS:
Well, as promised, here are my last screenshots since tomorrow (well, today) is basically last day I'm going to use it.

Screenshots taken when battery was down at 10% (instead of usual 5%) but it doesn't make any difference I think.

I won't post to this thread anymore, so if anyone have any questions just PM me.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] x DragonBlade v:
Gold 2450 battery question

I have seen alot of pictures of here about the battery life of this battery....My question is are these reviews based on just sitting the phone on standby and not using it or is this with playing games browsing the internet etc etc,,,I play games and use the internet/facebook alot on my phone so I just wanted to ask,,,,,I also have a HTC EVO V 4G which is Virgin Mobiles HTC EVO 3D
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] gtmaster303:
If you look carefully, the screenshots show screen on time, as well as detailed usage in some posts. This thread may be a little lengthy, but it's about as thorough as it gets. Don't ask questions that already have answers. It causes clutter

Sent from my Galaxy S Relay
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] WangChung81:
I bought a 3 pack of the gold batteries off of eBay, and I'm quite happy with the results. I don't get signal at all while I'm at work so I put my phone into Airplane. But I can get up to 3 days with mild usage and using my phone as my alarm clock.

The ROM used really makes a difference as well (of course), but what I really noticed is the ROM also affects how the battery heats up either while charging or heavy use. With the OEM ROM the battery heats up significantly, to an uncomfortable and worrisome level. The old RubiXed ROM was REALLY good at not letting the battery heat up. MikTouch is significantly better at not heating up the battery but not as good as RubiX whether overclocked or not. The CM9 for MT4GS seems to be the best compromise. Even overclocked with heavy usage and/or charging the battery does heat up but not enough to be overly concerned.

Overall, definitely recommend the gold 2450s but do a full charge/discharge on them 5-6 times before any partial charges.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] strapped365:
Yea a lot depends on how the battery actually transfers the power in my world, different wire connectors let the juice flow faster ect. But it should have dawned on me man, 1cell li-po = 3.7v because my 2 cell is 7.4 lol major brain fart when I seen li-po I just went oh sh*t them batteries rawk. Now with some thought I might buy a few of these because li-po batteries are just all around better. Also the battery shouldn't get hot if its a true li-po when li-po batteries get hot it can be dangerous. I've had one swell up and puff out on me when it blew a cell, but I've seen them physically explode when hit with the wrong charge type,or when the cell was ready to go. Another downfall about Li-po cells are you never know when their going to go, I mean your cell/cells could be good for 3 years, but they could also go bad on 3 charges.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] strapped365:
Well it didn't really need twice the juice to chrage, it needed something called a balancer to not let each cell charge over a certain voltage. When the cells charge unevenly it destroys them
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] gtmaster303:
Lol, thanks buttons are always where they have been. Make sure plugins in your browser haven't crashed.

Regarding your LED testing, I don't think that's a good idea. You may burn the LEDs out. They're not designed to be on for that long. Even on battery power, it could take an hour or more which could possibly damage your phone.

+1 for the li-po comment. They can't do any harm to our phones. You should be more concerned with overclocking and so on. That can have a much more immediate effect.

We can't exactly get tech specs on the battery, but I'm thinking they're just using higher capacity cells. Definitely a good deal.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] MT4GS:
Yeah, Li-Po batts do heat-up when charging, and "swell" when they are fully charged (and "shrink" when they are drained). That's why they always have the "breathing holes" in the casing. It is the polymers that expand.

But it isn't much. I watched this battery charging at first charge, if it did swell I didn't notice it (it must have swelled something, just not enough for me to see difference I guess). It did get warm though.

Also yesterday when I was trying to drain it fast and turned on everything and used phone/data all at once, bottom of the phone got very warm too. But that's not where the battery is, so I'm assuming it was the CPU and other chipsets, not the battery

I agree on the lifespan too. If Li-Po is well made it will outlast any other type of battery, but if it is not made properly it may die very quick even after few charges, or - as you've said - in extreme cases of poor/shoddy chinese workmanship it may explode (IIRC them Sony exploding laptops had multicell Li-Pos)

edit

wait a sec - you used 7.4V battery on a 3V electric motor? I doubt there are any power supply voltage regulators in those RC models, so you are lucky you didn't burn it!
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] strapped365:
Lol search my motor its top of the line and can handle a 3 cell Li-Po and 72 mph with stock gearing. I got about 4 wrapped up in it. Anyways like i said Li-Po shouldn't get hot nor swell during anything. Our hard case Li-Po has no holes and neither does my soft so now I'm back to worried

*EDIT*

I'm gonna get it out and take a pic its not a toy its hobby grade
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] strapped365:
Its a mini truck so its small, all aluminum control arms, aluminum oil filled shocks, full ball bearings all around in the rims,titanium outdrives and cvd axles And yes my front shocks are pink, my daughter wanted it that way lol

Also I have the sidewinder ESC in this one. Not the Mamba max pro