[ale] [Semi-ot rant] Why is obtaining a cell phone battery such a degrading experience?

[Neal Rhodes]

Thanks for the lead on Anker.    If HTC says they don't sell new
replacements I guess aftermarket is the only choice.   I like having a
real supplier with a real address and phone number and somewhere my wife
can sue if it blows half of my face off.    Sounds like Anker is a real
company.    I'll call them and try to confirm the right part for a
BTR6425B HTC battery. 

Meanwhile, I tried one of the counterfeit batteries, and the phone
didn't last overnight.   I'll run a Nova battery test once it recharges
and call the credit card company and dispute the charge. 

On Tue, 2014-10-07 at 14:44 -0400, dev null zero two wrote:
> 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).
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 2:31 PM, Byron Jeff
> <byronjeff at mail.clayton.edu> wrote:
> 
>         On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 02:17:16PM -0400, Neal Rhodes wrote:
>         >    Am I the only person that keeps their android smartphone
>         more than a
>         >    year?
>         
>         Nope. Going on three with my current one.
>         
>         >   Because the new ones aren't any better and I'm
>         grandfathered
>         >    into an unlimited Verizon data plan?
>         
>         Understood.
>         
>         >    But try to get a battery - sheesh.
>         
>         Agreed.
>         
>         >    After looking all over, I call BatteryMonster and they
>         swear these are
>         >    new OEM batteries.
>         >    So, I order 2 of them.
>         >    Today they showup:
>         >        The color of the label is wrong.
>         >        The label doesn't fit snugly on the plastic case.
>         >        They BOTH have the SAME serial#.  My two genuine HTC
>         batteries have
>         >    different ones, and the later one has.......wait for
>         it....... a higher
>         >    serial#.
>         >        That Serial number is LOWER than the serial number on
>         my original
>         >    battery which is now three years old.
>         
>         Typical.
>         
>         >    In short, these are obvious counterfeits.  They copied
>         the same label
>         >    from years ago and slap it on every one they crank out.
>         >    I dunno.  What do I expect.   I call HTC and they say
>         they aren't
>         >    making replacement BTR6425B batteries anymore.
>         >    But given that these batteries are known to sometimes
>         explode and burn,
>         >    one would like to avoid unknowns.
>         
>         I've tried at least 4 different batteries in my Samsung Galaxy
>         S2 Skyrocket
>         and each and every one was much worse than the 2+ YO OEM
>         battery the phone
>         came with.
>         
>         I wish there were a solid solution to the problem.
>         
>         BAJ
>         
>         
>         
>         --
>         Byron A. Jeff
>         Chair: Department of Computer Science and Information
>         Technology
>         College of Information and Mathematical Sciences
>         Clayton State University
>         http://faculty.clayton.edu/bjeff
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