I bought this battery and LOVE it, but do I have to entirely discharge the battery before recharging it or is recharging at 2 bars okay?
1014529
I always recharge even when down to 1-3 bars. I just ordered my 3rd one as my kids have took over mine ;-)
1014530
Read #3 and #4. http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/five-apps/five-tips-for-extending-lithium-ion-battery-life/
1014531
It ok to do either one , the battery it self has a limited number of charges. I keep mines charged haven't had any problems with it.
1014532
I charge the battery pack regardless of what the charge reading is and it seems to work just fine !
1014533
Read #3 and #4.http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/five-apps/five-tips-for-extending-lithium-ion-battery-life/
1014534
It is fine but may not fully recharge device. This battery works fine on my iPhone 4s but would not charge my iPad mini at all. Says not compatible.
1940062
I charged mine a couple days ago, and just looked and it still has 4 bar . I have not noticed any leakage. I do try to hold the button down and turn it off when I am not using it.
249807
It is a bit tricky. Mine came with a charge and when it ran out I plugged it into my car charger with a usb plug in that I already had. I have no idea what the application of the bar it came with. Also, when charging with my car this way it has only held a charge for a small period of time. This is all I can tell you. I hope this helps.
2021742
To be honest I did not discharge them first. I put them in the bays that worked. I had problems with a few of them. I now just tried the bays that did not work worked, but with a different kind of battery. There is something wrong with mine. Bummer
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I charged my new camera according to the instructions, 2 hours, and now a month later the battery is dead and it won't recharge. I read on another online site about lith. batt. they should be charged 12 hours, taken out of the camera, reinserted and charged for another 12 hours, and then do it again to fully charge the battery. No one else has had a problem with the battery?
2251642
Hello. My new battery I purchased this year only took a couple of months to start its decline in battery life. Under normal load, unplugged.. I might get 30-45 min of use before it is at 7% power left. I'm past the timeframe for return so I am basically stuck with this bad battery. I will not be purchasing another battery from Anker.
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Sadly, I'm not able to answer that question adequately at this time. I haven't had mine long enough to know. As a habit, I do remove the battery once I'm done with it. But I use mine until all charge is down and then have a full charge ready to go for the next time and "that" charge appears to hold when I use it.
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I was able to replace my battery. But right now its always blinking on one bar. It seems to be charging now though so I will be patient and let it charge. Hope fully bars will return. When its charging the bars blink right? Mine doesn't do that anymore. @Richard L How did it strip the battery case?
147779
Tough to say. My old battery had to be charged daily and since I got this one I only have to plug it in every 4 or 5 days. One of the keys is to let it discharge down to 15% or so before recharging it.
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You might want to Google this one. But understand you need to charge the battery All the way and let it discharge almost All the way for the first couple of charges.
1986356
I don' know. I believe letting/not letting them discharge is NOT an issue with this type (they don't have the ghost charge problems other models do) . I recharge mine when they still have life left and haven't noticed a shortened lifespan, but haven't done a formal experiment.
560910
When we received the battery it did not need to be charged before using. But you should charge it after each use. Hope this helps!
317968
How do I find out what is wrong with this battery? I did not know that you aren't supposed to use the regular battery tenders on these kind of batteries and I left it charging for a couple of days and now it is beyond dead. So if the tender didn't kill it, apparently (also read just now in the questions section) if it drops below 8% charge it is no longer anything but a paperweight? So tell me now if I should just go out and buy a new battery after wasting my money on the 1 ride I got out of this battery.
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Older batteries used to be susceptible to "memory" meaning if you kept charging it when it was only 1/2 discharged it would eventually think it was dead at 1/2 full. Memory free means you can charge it whenever you feel like it without worrying about the memory thing.
2247313
Yes, this battery was recharged before I used it. It charged faster than the old battery (took about an 1 1/2 hrs. to reach 100%). Recharging it is not the problem. The life of the battery in the phone was short lived. All the juice was gone before the end of the day. Daily, it needed to be recharged. A better investment is the EC TECHNOLOGY High Quality 2 x1500mAh Li-ion Battery. It lasted for many days without recharging. Thank heaven, I found a solution to the problem..... Samsung batteries are a huge disappointment!
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The instructions recommend fully charging before use. The battery does come with some charge in it typically.
508362
Did you charge the battery for the length of time indicated in the instruction manual prior to use? The first time or two I used mine the battery ran down pretty fast. After recharging it, the battery definitely held a charge longer than it did initially. If it continues to not maintain the charge as long as you think it should, I would contact the manufacturer or return it.