Bump charging...

[aupharmd2011]

ugh wish I knew I would have gotten him a different phone, but all in all it's still a good phone.

not a reason not to get the inc, it's not that big a deal

what I do is unplug it when the alarm goes off, get in the shower, plug it back in when I get out of the shower and it's usually 99-100% by the time I'm ready to walk out the door

Is it annoying? a little

Does it add any extra time to me getting ready? no

 

[jas o]

True. I think I am the one haviing a problem with it now that I know lol he don't have a clue.

It is a pain that is more noticable on the Dinc. Battery life is a trade off in smart phones. Short of a 3000+ Mah battery I am not sure that there is too many smart phones that will stand up to teenagers excesssssssssive texting. My daughter has Fruit phone and on weekends she needs to charge by noon and again before dinner when she goes out for the evening.

 

[angiebugg]

So back to the OP questions, will the T-bolt need to be bump charged? I am hoping the same thing as I have a Dinc too. I love my phone, but hoping that HTC learned their lesson and will have better battery life on this phone. That is the #1 issue for them from what I can see.

Not sure if I am going to get this phone tomorrow or not, I want to see some reviews, esp battery power, first then go for it. Anyone have any insight yet?

 

[Air Force One]

With the Nexus One at XDA, this whole bump charging thing was figured out and solved. The issue is these batteries actually have electronic chips in them which , basically, can lose their calibration. They all do eventually. What they did at XDA is made a battery calibration application. It was for root users only. The reason bump charging works is because the battery is not really at 100%...and what also will happen is the battery will die before it actually hits 0%....sometimes will die even at 15-20%(after you bump charge but it will seem to drain slower but thats because it's not really telling you the correct charge level)). What the app did was recalibrate that chip so the battery level would read true charge. You didn't need to bump charge and it woudl go all the way to zero before it died. Unfortunately all the guys who worked on the app have moved on to other devices and they cannot get the app to work on anything but the nexus one. So yes I think we will be bump charging.

here is the thread...if you have the time to read it you'll come to a whole new understanding of these batteries. It reads kinda complicated but you'll catch on if you read the whole thing and you'll see what bump charging is really doing and why it does what it does.

[UTILITY] Battery calibration tools - xda-developers

The long and short of it is the issue is with the batteries not the devices. basically. that app gave us total control of our batteries in a way we will not have with the Thunderbolt and it's batteries. you could even find out which battery manufacturers were lying and shipping extended batteries that did not meet their claimed mah

 

[blackops1125]

Affects all phones