<div dir="ltr">I have bought spare Anker batteries for my last three cellphones from Amazon and they all work fine (though you have to buy special ones if you want NFC, but I don't really care about that).<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 2:31 PM, Byron Jeff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:byronjeff@mail.clayton.edu" target="_blank">byronjeff@mail.clayton.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 02:17:16PM -0400, Neal Rhodes wrote:<br>
> Am I the only person that keeps their android smartphone more than a<br>
> year?<br>
<br>
</span>Nope. Going on three with my current one.<br>
<span class=""><br>
> Because the new ones aren't any better and I'm grandfathered<br>
> into an unlimited Verizon data plan?<br>
<br>
</span>Understood.<br>
<span class=""><br>
> But try to get a battery - sheesh.<br>
<br>
</span>Agreed.<br>
<span class=""><br>
> After looking all over, I call BatteryMonster and they swear these are<br>
> new OEM batteries.<br>
> So, I order 2 of them.<br>
> Today they showup:<br>
> The color of the label is wrong.<br>
> The label doesn't fit snugly on the plastic case.<br>
> They BOTH have the SAME serial#. My two genuine HTC batteries have<br>
> different ones, and the later one has.......wait for it....... a higher<br>
> serial#.<br>
> That Serial number is LOWER than the serial number on my original<br>
> battery which is now three years old.<br>
<br>
</span>Typical.<br>
<span class=""><br>
> In short, these are obvious counterfeits. They copied the same label<br>
> from years ago and slap it on every one they crank out.<br>
> I dunno. What do I expect. I call HTC and they say they aren't<br>
> making replacement BTR6425B batteries anymore.<br>
> But given that these batteries are known to sometimes explode and burn,<br>
> one would like to avoid unknowns.<br>
<br>
</span>I've tried at least 4 different batteries in my Samsung Galaxy S2 Skyrocket<br>
and each and every one was much worse than the 2+ YO OEM battery the phone<br>
came with.<br>
<br>
I wish there were a solid solution to the problem.<br>
<br>
BAJ<br>
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Byron A. Jeff<br>
Chair: Department of Computer Science and Information Technology<br>
College of Information and Mathematical Sciences<br>
Clayton State University<br>
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