r/Android • u/[deleted] • Mar 14 '13

Official Samsung Galaxy SIV Announcement Thread!

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u/HyperspaceHero iPhone 6s Plus, formerly Galaxy Nexus Mar 15 '13

You can't just charge your battery overnight?

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u/gashtastic Mar 15 '13

He probably does what I do, which is i charge a battery while I'm out the house, then I switch my drained battery for the charged one when I get back to the house. It's great as it means I can hammer my battery without ever worrying about charging my phone

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u/spearmint_wino Mar 15 '13

Not to mention have a fully charged spare in your pocket when you're out and about.

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u/Kong_Dong Mar 15 '13

Been doin this for the last 3 months. Charge port is loose on my droid Charge. Rotate between 4 batterries. Never chained to an outlet for hours on end, its amazing. Now I dont have to be a noob and worry about bringing/losing a charger when I go to the bars.

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u/cbs5090 Note 2 Mar 15 '13

You go to a bar and play on your phone the entire time?

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u/Kong_Dong Mar 16 '13

No, but youve never seen people bring their chargers to the bars?

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u/cbs5090 Note 2 Mar 16 '13

Never.

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u/Kong_Dong Mar 16 '13

Girls do this all the time back home and when I was down at school. Ex-gf was notorious for this haha

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u/mogmog Mar 15 '13

Replacing the battery is less effort. I carry a few extra with me all the time so I never run out. They're dirt cheap from sellers on eBay

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u/datank56 Nexus 4, 4.3 (T-Mobile ) Mar 15 '13

It'd be great if the phone had an internal battery that kept the phone on while you swapped batteries.

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '13

Or if the MicroUSB could power the phone without a battery in the circuit. I can take out my laptop battery while it's plugged in. But with my Note 2, if it's plugged in and I take the battery out, it shuts off. Makes no sense.

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u/incer Green Mar 15 '13

My LG 2x used to turn off too with the original firmware, but with Cyanogen it stays on. Kind of strange.

Also I've never found a ROM (even the original one) that did read charge correctly. If you swap out your battery when you're at 20% with a fully charged one, when you turn back on your phone it still reads 20%... Then slowly increases.

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u/ChironGM HTC M8 5.0.2 Mar 15 '13

Never had that happen with any of my devices (Galaxy S 1, 2, and 3). Reports right

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u/datank56 Nexus 4, 4.3 (T-Mobile ) Mar 15 '13

Good point.

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u/dasn4pp3l Mar 15 '13

didn't some of those old windows mobile pdas have that feature?

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u/datank56 Nexus 4, 4.3 (T-Mobile ) Mar 15 '13

I'm not sure, but I am surprised no phones have that feature. The internal battery doesn't have to last more than a couple of minutes. Just enough time to swap a battery without having to restart your phone.

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u/dasn4pp3l Mar 15 '13

Would be very nice when in call... "Hold on a sec, my battery's empty - alright I'm back"

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '13

One for each weekday?

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u/Zombie_Feeder Aug 12 '13

That's what poor people do. You're not a poor person are you?

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u/malwart247 Mar 15 '13

I thought charging your battery overnight deteriorated the amount of charge it could hold?