Comments on: Extended G1 Battery: Get 15% More Juice

By: Mike Cardwell

Mike Cardwell — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 13:50:42 +0000

They also do a larger battery that more than doubles the amount of juice at the expense of making the phone 5mm thicker. I use one in my G1. I wrote an app to record my battery level usage and then upload it to my site which then graphs it using RRD. You can see hourly, weekly and daily graphs at:

https://secure.grepular.com/blog/index.php/2009/03/30/google-phone-battery-usage-graphing/

The graphs aren’t static. They’re updated every 15 minutes.

By: James

James — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 22:27:52 +0000

Download “Power Manager” from the Android Market. It should still be free and it really helps extend battery life by automatically changing settings depending on battery level. This still may not extend the battery life to what you would want, but it definitely extends the battery life. I would easily say this app extends life by 25-30%. And, its FREE.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:27:54 +0000

I’m RC33 and, if anything, battery life seems to have gotten worse. Especially if I try to do a simple google map search, have it find my location a few times, listen to one mp3 and my battery is in deep yellow. Try to make one more google search and it’s in the red. It is very annoying.

By: jack

jack — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 20:50:08 +0000

Everyone, if every person who read this webpage will call TMO, they will send us new batteries…

Call them now and ask to speak to a manneger…

By: Rakem

Rakem — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:58:43 +0000

15-20% aint nothing. I need atleast 25-35% for significant improvement…im not even going to pretend to be amped about this. Even though i do commend the manufacturer for answering customer demands. Its not worth 40 bucks.

By: Wes

Wes — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:16:28 +0000

A couple of months back I was contacted from an independant analysis company contracted by T-Mobile. I agreed to take the survey. It was online and there were several questions about battery life. It seems T-Mobile may be taking the complaints of the low battery life seriously. I think it’s a good possibility T-Mobile will give us a upgraded battery.

By: Jonwa

Jonwa — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:58:06 +0000

I’m not sure I’d pay much for a 15% upgrade, but I would quickly pay t-mo $40 or more for a battery that doubles the life of my droid.

By: Jo

Jo — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:36:01 +0000

I call TMO customer service on this issue.
From what I got TMO cares less about the usage time on this phone.
They hope the new upgrade to the firmware will fix the issue.

There are (at least for mine) no batteries in the mail. not anytime soon. i could use my iPhone all day. My G1 I am lucky if I get 5 hours standby.

By: John Goncalves

John Goncalves — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:22:08 +0000

The idea that Tmobile will send us all a new battery is unfounded.

First they would have to release a new model with this battery (a revision, if you will) and latter they would communicate that old customers wouild also get the new battery.

So, if they don’t start selling phones if the new battery don’t expect them to give the batteries to us, old customers.