My battery is taking an age to charge...capacity is down since new but not drastically recently. 15 months old.
Time for a new one?
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Desire battery issue
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Posted 5 months ago #
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A 15 month-old smartphone battery, it'll be drained imo.
http://www.nicecans.co.uk/htc-phone-accessories-batteries-c-67_44_93.html
TM
Posted 5 months ago # -
OK so the new battery makes no difference...warranty job?
Posted 4 months ago # -
Fully drain it, fully charge it, rinse and repeat.
Posted 4 months ago # -
Got the t shirt already!
Posted 4 months ago # -
My mates went back for the same fault recently. Writing this on a HD that's actually pretty good. On Android 2.3.5
Posted 4 months ago # -
my HTC Legend is on a 20 month battery and still holding a good charge.
Posted 4 months ago # -
My desire is 20months and still holds fine too. I have been thinking about a new one as a friend bought an aftermarket battery that gives him 2days + charge.
Posted 4 months ago # -
Which one did he get? I'm not aware of a straight replacement for the original Desire (that isn't silly money).
Got an Anker (yes, yes) battery for the Sensation, it's very very good.
Posted 4 months ago # -
Hmmm....wonder if I can get a new phone out of this?
Shame I had to btw a new battery to find out...internet advice in "incorrect" shocker!
Posted 4 months ago # -
Worth a punt regardless. Ring your provider before you buy anything.
Posted 4 months ago # -
Ta...odd thing is it's not a consistent fault. Will speak to Orange...guess I'll have to get something cheap as A spare while it gets investigated.
Posted 4 months ago # -
Well...Orange said it's not their problem as it's out of the 1 year warranty and HTC would likely tell me to ram it as it's a wear and tear issue on the charging port (WTF?), HTC said do a re-set, which, oddly, may have worked!
Posted 4 months ago # -
PSA for those interested (prob only me!)
Apparently your Desire charging cable has certain connections in the micro usb soldered together, and so can draw more current (WTF?), charging with the proper cable seems to work better and weirdly gives a "better" full charge than the cheap cable (WTF Squared)
Posted 3 months ago # -
the first wtf is fairly common; the USB standard specifies a certain current limit and many devices identify faster chargers by the short on two of the pins. bit of a hack but it's widely used
Posted 3 months ago # -
If only you'd been here a month ago
Posted 3 months ago # -
As I understand it, the proper cable does give you a faster charge.
Same with the car charger. It charges at a higher rate than cheap aftermarket ones. I got a genuine HTC charger for the car to plug its in when using Google Nav.
Had read reports of nav discharging battery even when charging when using a non HTC lead, where's the proper lead will power the device while using nav and charge the battery...Posted 3 months ago #
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