View Poll Results: Battery performance and charger type.

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  • Stock HTC Charger and normal/good battery life.

    9 56.25%

  • Stock HTC Charger and poor battery life.

    1 6.25%

  • Other Charger and normal/good battery life.

    4 25.00%

  • Other Charger and poor battery life.

    2 12.50%
06-22-2010 07:31 PM
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  1. UTnick's Avatar
    UTnick
    i found this dead horse and i wanna beat it.

    hey folks. how many of you guys out there are using a charger that isn't the stock HTC charger? something from your Pre or other phone or some other wall charger? and then how many of you guys are seeing poor battery life?

    i use the stock charger and weaker wall chargers at the office and my GF's house. with the two other wall chargers the battery charges up to 100% and it does it pretty quick, but i think it's a false reading. the chargers are weaker than the stock charger and on my Hero the weaker chargers took longer to charge my Hero which made sense. what is getting me is that these weaker chargers seem to be charging the phone just as fast or faster than the stronger stock charger. now this is important because then the battery drains insanely quick after using one of these weaker chargers which leads me to believe the phone is showing a false reading.

    any other theories welcome.
    06-22-2010 05:33 PM
  2. Gekko's Avatar
    Gekko
    you need a 5 Volt/1 Amp Charger. many of the shiitty cheap chargers are not 1 Amp.
    06-22-2010 06:01 PM
  3. JCrater11#AC's Avatar
    JCrater11#AC
    I use my Powermat Charger with the Micro USB adapter. It works really well and stops charging once the battery has reached max capacity.
    06-22-2010 06:23 PM
  4. UTnick's Avatar
    UTnick
    Originally Posted by Gekko
    you need a 5 Volt/1 Amp Charger. many of the shiitty cheap chargers are not 1 Amp.
    Roger that. The two weaker ones are 800 mA. I guess the direction I was going is to try and figure out if the phone is displaying a full charge before it is actually at a full charge.
    06-22-2010 06:47 PM
  5. wrecklass's Avatar
    wrecklass
    Lower amperage mainly means the battery will take longer to charge, as long as it is five volts. That is the USB standard.
    06-22-2010 07:17 PM
  7. Gekko's Avatar
    Gekko
    i've seen ones at 500 mA. be careful.
    06-22-2010 07:23 PM
  8. Darth Mo's Avatar
    Darth Mo
    Originally Posted by UTnick
    Roger that. The two weaker ones are 800 mA. I guess the direction I was going is to try and figure out if the phone is displaying a full charge before it is actually at a full charge.
    The charge indicator merely converts the voltage of the battery to a percentage, 100% being 4.2V.

    It doesn't matter how fast or slow it charges, full is full.

    And I just pulled a fully charged battery and got a reading of 4.177V using a meter, and the Evo is reads 4.201V, but that small variance isn't indicative of everything.

    My Evo, at least, is reporting the battery correctly.
    06-22-2010 07:31 PM
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