Anyone know how much extra thickness the extended battery adds? I wanna know if my silicon case I ordered is still going to work with it
Carrying a spare battery can be a great option. Or picking up an extended battery may do the trick.
Any ideas as to which current HTC compatible battery to buy that will work with the Incredible?
Hmm
Are these batteries different from the kind of batteries they used to use? I thought you wanted to minimize the amount of cycles that the battery goes thru. Never heard about DoD. Learn something new everyday! Cool
I've always plugged my phones in when I can. They won't charge once they're full, so why not?
Yeah I thought the same. I've always been afraid to charge my phones if they weren't near dead. I've also heard that every once in a while you should let the phone go completely dead (like to 0%) and give it a full recharge, is this not true?
It's a trade-off. Yes, there is a specific cycle life. These cells can probably handle about 1000 cycles under good conditions. However, if you discharge completely every day that may drop to <300 cycles before the useful capacity is gone. So in my opinion, its better to charge early when convenient rather than specifically run down the battery. Also, I'm not sure if a 20% top off counts as a full cycle. The mindset of running a battery dead is from older battery technologies that suffered from battery memory and required a deeper discharge to maintain capacity. Lithium cell chemistry is not prone to this. My experience is from lithium cells used in electric vehicles but the concepts are the same.
Alex
It's a trade-off. Yes, there is a specific cycle life. These cells can probably handle about 1000 cycles under good conditions. However, if you discharge completely every day that may drop to <300 cycles before the useful capacity is gone. So in my opinion, its better to charge early when convenient rather than specifically run down the battery. Also, I'm not sure if a 20% top off counts as a full cycle. The mindset of running a battery dead is from older battery technologies that suffered from battery memory and required a deeper discharge to maintain capacity. Lithium cell chemistry is not prone to this. My experience is from lithium cells used in electric vehicles but the concepts are the same.
Alex