I bought this one and it works great with the 3500 battery. I don't think you can use the holster designed for the innocase with just the 3500 battery back installed on the EVO. You need to get the one for the stock EVO and it will work with the bigger battery installed.
bought a new battery for my evo 4G and it sucks (1750 seidio)
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I bought this one and it works great with the 3500 battery. I don't think you can use the holster designed for the innocase with just the 3500 battery back installed on the EVO. You need to get the one for the stock EVO and it will work with the bigger battery installed.
I have no clue what you are doing to kill your battery that much.
I have both the 1750 and the stock battery; i can easily last an entire day on either battery (1750 i can get 24 hours, stock i can get about 20 hours).
The easiest thing I can tell you is; turn off your mobile network. There is no legitimate reason to have your mobile network on all the time if you don't need it. I can easily text all day, remain on wi-fi during work and still have 62% battery life after being on for 12 hours and 50 minutes. Turning off your mobile network will prevent you from receiving emails, however if you are in a wi-fi network, that will sync email via wifi.
On one of my screens, I have widgets for 4g, mobile network, profile, the network app, gps, bluetooth, wifi and my profile. Before turning off my mobile network I would average 12 hours of battery life; after I can easily double my time.
I have both the 1750 and the stock battery; i can easily last an entire day on either battery (1750 i can get 24 hours, stock i can get about 20 hours).
The easiest thing I can tell you is; turn off your mobile network. There is no legitimate reason to have your mobile network on all the time if you don't need it. I can easily text all day, remain on wi-fi during work and still have 62% battery life after being on for 12 hours and 50 minutes. Turning off your mobile network will prevent you from receiving emails, however if you are in a wi-fi network, that will sync email via wifi.
On one of my screens, I have widgets for 4g, mobile network, profile, the network app, gps, bluetooth, wifi and my profile. Before turning off my mobile network I would average 12 hours of battery life; after I can easily double my time.
I got a 3500 from Ebay for 13 bucks and it last me about 10 hours with heavy usage and 4G on a lot of the time.
I bought the 3500 Seidio and am expecting it on the 7th so I'm pretty excited. It will be good to have an extra battery and also have this huge one when I will be going on trips or anywhere were I may not be near my charger or car charger. 
That was one of my only two gripes about my EVO was that the battery life was so bad. If there was a way to make the battery life significantly better without compromising the aesthetics of the phone, I would consider getting another one. But the battery has to last the entire workday without having to basically not use any of the phones features. I don't understand why people accept that they have to turn off all of the phone's functionality to make it last.
If your house has a furnace; do you keep it running at 70 degrees all day even when you're not home? No, you turn it down to save on energy consumption. Same thing here; why waste energy by having functionality on that you aren't using?
you can also buy an external battery that you plug in as needed. They also recharge the internal battery
Yeah, I picked up one of these on sale at an Office Max --
Amazon.com: Energizer XP4001 Universal Rechargeable Power Pack: Electronics
Dave
I just ordered 2x3500 batteries and a wall charger on Ebay for $23. I will update when I recieve them and give my opinion. Hope for the best...
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Interesting, I hadn't thought of that and am going to test out the impact on the battery by doing this. During most of that day I am in my office (connected to WiFi) and then at home (also on Wifi), so this makes sense to me based upon my access to WiFi through the majority of the day.
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I bought the Seidio 1750 about a week ago. I figured that, all things being equal and the price difference for the extended over the stock being somewhat nominal, that I would rather have the higher capacity battery (without having to change out the back of the phone).
I followed the recommended battery conditioning steps (5-6 full charge/discharge cycles) and so far am rather discouraged by it's performance.
I used to have a Hero, so I use that as basically a 'charging station' for whatever battery is not in the phone.
Whereas a fully charged HTC stock battery coming out of charging on the Hero and inserted into the Evo would retain the full charge for many days and still only drop from 100% to 98% upon start-up of the phone. The Seidio will drop from 100% to 93% just from powering up the phone.
It (1750) does seem to drain quickly at first, then levels off in the high 80's and drains slower the rest of the day.
I DO seem to get more juice out of it than the stock, maybe about 1.5 - 2 hours more, which is good. But basically it just feels like another stock battery and not necessarily a replacement of the stock as my "primary" battery. I don't want to swap batteries everyday, so I would rather have one that I use most of the time and have a back up for when I travel or are going to be out for a long time.
Also, equally discouraging, is it feels flimsy. When I got it, the tape that surrounds the cell / battery felt loose and you can physically bend the battery a little (the edges that case the cells). The stock feels more solid and the material doesn't "bunch" up when you insert it like with the 1750.
Anyway, it's an extra battery that works. However I am wary of using the Seidio as my back-up only battery, since it does not seem to retain it's charge very well (when not in the phone and just sitting in my laptop bag / pocket).
Lately too, I seem to be getting a lot better performance and time out of the stock. Not sure what it is, I think it has to do with up-time, but it seems to be getting better with time, lasting longer. Maybe the same will be said about the Seidio when I have had it longer.
Anyone else have it (1750) and getting great performance from it? I am a pretty heavy user, WiFi on most of the day, always checking my phone, playing a game, internet, WordFeud, FB etc.
I'll unplug at 7am, usually charge it back up on the drive to work so that I am at 100 when I get to the office (9 am) and am usually at between 40%-60% at the end of work (6pm) and then charge up again on the drive home.
I followed the recommended battery conditioning steps (5-6 full charge/discharge cycles) and so far am rather discouraged by it's performance.
I used to have a Hero, so I use that as basically a 'charging station' for whatever battery is not in the phone.
Whereas a fully charged HTC stock battery coming out of charging on the Hero and inserted into the Evo would retain the full charge for many days and still only drop from 100% to 98% upon start-up of the phone. The Seidio will drop from 100% to 93% just from powering up the phone.
It (1750) does seem to drain quickly at first, then levels off in the high 80's and drains slower the rest of the day.
I DO seem to get more juice out of it than the stock, maybe about 1.5 - 2 hours more, which is good. But basically it just feels like another stock battery and not necessarily a replacement of the stock as my "primary" battery. I don't want to swap batteries everyday, so I would rather have one that I use most of the time and have a back up for when I travel or are going to be out for a long time.
Also, equally discouraging, is it feels flimsy. When I got it, the tape that surrounds the cell / battery felt loose and you can physically bend the battery a little (the edges that case the cells). The stock feels more solid and the material doesn't "bunch" up when you insert it like with the 1750.
Anyway, it's an extra battery that works. However I am wary of using the Seidio as my back-up only battery, since it does not seem to retain it's charge very well (when not in the phone and just sitting in my laptop bag / pocket).
Lately too, I seem to be getting a lot better performance and time out of the stock. Not sure what it is, I think it has to do with up-time, but it seems to be getting better with time, lasting longer. Maybe the same will be said about the Seidio when I have had it longer.
Anyone else have it (1750) and getting great performance from it? I am a pretty heavy user, WiFi on most of the day, always checking my phone, playing a game, internet, WordFeud, FB etc.
I'll unplug at 7am, usually charge it back up on the drive to work so that I am at 100 when I get to the office (9 am) and am usually at between 40%-60% at the end of work (6pm) and then charge up again on the drive home.
The Wal*Mart mentality is ... pay half for something that winds up being crap then buy it again when the first one fails to perform only to have that die or fail to perform THEN buy the real thing.
Repeat!
Going the cheap route tends to be more expensive AND you're stuck with something inferior. When you finally dump the junk and buy the good stuff you'll have paid the same for the good stuff but wasted all the money you spent on the crap...
You can't fix stupid!
Brian
Repeat!
Going the cheap route tends to be more expensive AND you're stuck with something inferior. When you finally dump the junk and buy the good stuff you'll have paid the same for the good stuff but wasted all the money you spent on the crap...
You can't fix stupid!
Brian
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