Droid X extended battery IS A MUST!

[ronnyclicks]

what cases work with the extended battery and door?

[pvcdroid]

The extended battery comes with a new backplate that is slightly larger than the standard battery cover. The phone with the extended cover will pretty much fit in anything such as the docks and cases, including the stand up leather one. Or, you can just use the standard cover with the extended battery and it is just a tight fit. I like the look and quality of the extended cover. Conservatively, I believe I get about two more hours out of the extended, so I think it is well worth it.

[phishfi]

Has anyone heard about the studies into how bad using task killers is? It actually ends up causing your CPU to cycle more if you clear your RAM more often... Not sure how much this plays into things, but I know I was one of the people that believed that using a task killer was making my phone more efficient, turns out I was actually making my phone clear all my apps, then turn around and load them back into the RAM as soon as I wanted to do something (like send a text or check my gmail)... Just a suggestion, but try Watchdog instead of any task killer... Also, if anyone already knew about this and has tested it already, let us know how it worked. I haven't used it enough to see the results of this yet.

[gerio]

Since there might be new users at this forum, I want to comment on a statement made 2 posts ago. It concerns the use of the standard battery door with the extended battery.

This is actually a Bad Idea. The reason is that the standard battery door will press against the larger extended battery, which in turn will put undue pressure on the back of the display screen, which will cause eventual damage and/or failure of the screen. So please, use the door that came with the extended battery. It was made for a good reason.

So now we have a dilemma. Most tight-fitting phone cases will not properly fit the phone with the extended battery door. If they do, they will exert the same harmful pressure on the screen. I've tried loose-fitting cases, a couple of tight cases that I actually cut the back out of to better fit.

For the time being, I've just given up on cases and I am very careful with my phone, just keeping it in my pocket for now. I gotta do something soon, though.

Geri O

[LoydroidX]

With my regular battery, I was able to go only about four or five hours before the battery dropped to about 20% or 30%.  After about three weeks of this, I got the extended life battery.  Currently, it's been off the charger for 16 hours and I'm at 40% - and that's with medium/heavy usage (about 50 emails, a brief phone call, about 20 minutes of a game, numerous texts and frequent FB and Twitter checks).  As long as I can go all day without needing to charge, I'm happy.  I would highly recommend getting the Motorola branded extended life battery.  I got mine at Verizon.  And please use the cover that comes with it.  It adds only about a millimeter of thickness...you don't even notice it. 

Regarding cases, some of the 'hard' cases might be too tight and put undue pressure on the battery and screen.  Some of the 'gel' type cases would probably fit well, but I don't like how they are sort of sticky.   I don't use a case/cover...never have. 

[ripplecutbuddha]

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gerio wrote:
Since there might be new users at this forum, I want to comment on a statement made 2 posts ago. It concerns the use of the standard battery door with the extended battery.

This is actually a Bad Idea. The reason is that the standard battery door will press against the larger extended battery, which in turn will put undue pressure on the back of the display screen, which will cause eventual damage and/or failure of the screen. So please, use the door that came with the extended battery. It was made for a good reason.

So now we have a dilemma. Most tight-fitting phone cases will not properly fit the phone with the extended battery door. If they do, they will exert the same harmful pressure on the screen. I've tried loose-fitting cases, a couple of tight cases that I actually cut the back out of to better fit.

For the time being, I've just given up on cases and I am very careful with my phone, just keeping it in my pocket for now. I gotta do something soon, though.

Geri O

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I use the side-opening belt pouch, so I imagine a thicker battery won't affect it at all unless the battery makes the phone thicker than the camera bulge, which....imagine the charge cycle of that battery!!!!

at any rate, I have heard that Otterbox's top-level hard case for the DroidX has enough space to accomodate the larger battery and cover. Since I'm planning on buying each next week, I'll come back and report on what I find out.

Thank you for your attention.

[gerio]

Cool, I look forward to your findings.

Geri O

[ssmith10pn]

Maybe I'm the exception to the rule but my extended battery is actually lasting less time than my origional battery!

More later, headed to Church.

[breezex]

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ssmith10pn wrote:

Maybe I'm the exception to the rule but my extended battery is actually lasting less time than my origional battery!

More later, headed to Church.

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Unless (1) you changed your usage habits with some power hungry apps or heavy use or (2) the battery is defective this should not happen.   If the former it's your problem.  If the latter take the battery back to Verizon for a replacement.  Your extended battery is genuine Motorola/Verizon, correct?  If it's a third party one or a knock-off, then all bets are off.

 The extended battery is a great boon to a full day of moderate/semi-heavy use without a midday charge.  The definition of "moderate/semi-heavy use" is left up to the reader.  

[ssmith10pn]

Genuine Battery bought at a corporate Verizon store.

Old Battery is a BH5X and new Battery is a BH6X.

I haven't changed a thing. I blew it off the first day because the battery is new.

Pulled the phone off the wall charger this AM at 7:30 and since it's Sunday I stayed on the couch most of the day. I did some TXTing and made one phone call. It's now 9:00 and I have 15% left.