[Galaxy Note II Accessories] sfsilicon:
Not sure if you missed my post, but they are in stock again. At least they were when I posted and bought one a 3 days ago.

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Bought mine off eBay too. Since I live in CA it comes down to the same price anyway, because eBay does not charge sales tax, where as Amazon does and I get eBay points too. I actually missed that they were not the same price, because some listings from Zerolemon are the same on eBay and Amazon. Guess for these their reseller is making us pay for their higher fees on eBay. Sigh wish ZL had not gone with a reseller they are jacking up the prices by 10+%.

On to more positive things, my wife's SGS3 w/ ZL lasted 5 days (full brightness and WiFi on, she doesn't use it heavily). Can't wait for mine!

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It really depends on how you use it and what ROM / SW you have on your phone. My suggestion is use it for a while and get a feeling how long it takes to discharge from 10% in my wife's SGS3 case another day (but YMMV). Here are 2 tools I used to help me.

1) Battery Calibration (needs root)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/...xLDEsImNvbS5uZW1hLmJhdHRlcnljYWxpYnJhdGlvbiJd

2) Battery Notifier BT Free

https://play.google.com/store/apps/...51bGwsMSwyLDEsImNvbS5sYXJyeXZncy5iYXR0ZXJ5Il0.

I used 1) to calibrate my battery after I fully charged the phone. Make sure once you see the phone reaching 100%, to turn it off and plug it into the charger again. It will typically charge a bit more before it is really 100% full. Then turn the phone on again. Start the app 1) and let it charge a bit more if it is not at 100% (should only be a few more minutes). Then hit recalibrate which will delete the battery stats and force the phone to generate the data new again.

Unplug the phone and use it till it is empty and turns off on its own. For reference turning on GPS and full screen brightness will speed up the process, but depending on your usage (as per my wife's phone above) it can take 2-5 days. You will be fine until 5% and I have heard folks take a long time under 2%. Personally at 1% playing lots of Youtube and/or CPU/GPU intensive games will drain the battery to zero in a <2 hours.

App 2) comes into play when your battery reaches ~15% then the annoying low battery warnings come. You the app to set it lower, in my case I did 5%, then when I got to that I set it to 2% then finally to 0% (phone was at 1% and I started doing the heavy battery drain). App 2 has more features, where you can turn off the repeat alarms, change warning sounds, colors of battery indicators, etc. I'd suggest only changing the %s for the first battery drain run, then tweaking it to what you like. I am currently using 30%/10%/5% (green/orange/red) for my battery text colors and 5% for low battery warning - this is for my wife's S3 + ZL. I'll post my Note 2 experiences and settings when I get my Note 2 battery.

When your phone turns off, plug it into the charger overnight and let it hit 100% and then turn off and let it charge again to 100%. Then your set. Your battery stats should be set and there is no need to discharge the phone to 0%. Remember Lithium batteries do not have a memory effect and you will damage the battery if you discharge it completely. Thankfully phone manufacturers know this and turn off the phone before that - so the 0% your phone shows is not really 0% battery level. The SGS3 turned off on its own as per by discharge report above, but I hit the on button by mistake and the phone powered back on and was still at the 1% level (not recommended, plug it into a charger ASAP) , but turned off again after a few minutes. Yes, I know ZL recommends discharging/charging the battery 5 times (5x 5 days = 25 days???), but does not say why and what they will achieve with this. My guess is that they do not do enough testing on the batteries and recommend the extra cycles to one allow the battery to register new stats AND to CYA and let their customers do the extended QA testing. Their quality reports and 180 return guarantee does show that they do good testing, plus the battery is a good value so I'm not *****ing about this point. Due to the length of time to actually due it I'm skipping it. It is up to you what you do.