Is the battery supposed to come with a full charge? It shows 0% when I plug it in. It begins to charge and then quits, never getting above 0%.
1862941
I bought and exchanged this battery for charging problems. I was not happy with replacement battery either. I suspect that theses batteries are past their shelf life.
1862942
Sounds faulty to me. It has been a while since I bought my replacement battery and cannot recall if I had to charge it prior to use. All I know is that mine works great. Never have had a problem.
1963379
Ansgar - I am sorry but I don't really know. When it arrived it was nearly fully charged. Since then I have usually just plugged it in every once in a while. I'll try to really run it down and they take note and try to pass the info on. Sorry I could not have been of more help.----M
513583
I believe it comes fully charged. It's a GREAT battery! I've never had a single problem with it and it starts first time, every time. I would HIGHLY recommend this product!
99616
I have the exact same problem. I contacted the vendor about it but I have not recieved a reply. When the battery is 100% full it runs fine but when charging, it's almost unusable.
504261
I've never let mine get completely down to 0%, the lowest I let it get down to is 20%, but so far on an average charge, is usually 6-7 hours. These are larger batteries than most so will take longer to charge.
2013698
Make sure its fully charged. I only figures this out after testing it out and seeing very short videos of the test. I know there has been some complaints of malfunctioning, but mine works fine.
982877
You need to calibrate the phone's charging sensor. There are instructions for this online. Basically, the battery is charged 100%, but the phone only thinks it's at 80%. When you unplug the charger, the phone looks at the battery and decides it's at 80%, so it drops down to that level almost immediately. It's the same reason why some people report that the last ten percent of the battery's charge seems to last longer. The phone thinks the battery is almost empty, but it is actually 30% or more charged.
852924
It's normal, unfortunately it doesn't have an indicator of when is fully charged. It usually charges in about an hour if not used while charging
851177
Mine appears to already be fully charged, so I can't tell yet. I'd have to run it down a while, I guess. Does yours not record anymore? I'm also not sure how it indicates when it is in the charging mode. If I learn more I'll get back to you.
2098385
Not certain. When running low I plug in for 4 hours and I seem to get a full charge.
1580574
I've plugged in another brands battery pack like this and when I plugged it in, it instantly showed "fully charged" on it's indicators. However, I wasn't sure so pulled the plug on the charger and checked the battery voltage which was under 6V (showing that it was far from fully charged). So I plugged it back in for the 12+ hours and for the first hour, it stayed showing full (because the battery was resisting the charge power and the charger gave the lights the "full" 14V false reading), but as the battery began accepting the charge it dropped to 60% and then climbed back up over time. So don't be fooled by it showing that "full" within a few minutes, leave it plugged in for at least 12 hours (and by then it should be accepting the charge and the readings should have dropped, so once it raises again you can believe it's really "full".
406159
My battery had a minimal charge when I RECEIVED it.I believe we are expected to fully charge it before using.
1193132
I have the same issue. Not sure what is going on. Tried full charge with no load. Only time I would have 100 percent is when the charger is hooked up.
949081
Yeah man I noticed that too but not consistently. So sometimes it was like 95%. I just checked it and now it is at 99%. I don't know but I suspect a software feedback problem where it "thinks" it is isn't charged. I just can't imagine that many people have batteries that physically "refuse" to be charged to 100 percent, that'd just be too weird. Still, I love this machine. Did you have any other problems? So far mine has worked like a dream.
1087186
Perhaps mine is defective, but a fully charged battery discharges to 0% within a week or two.
755886
In all honesty, I don't remember if it did or not. The only thing I could recommend is to run the battery down completely and let it charge back up again. I know, it'll be hard work playing enough to do that, but see if it keeps reporting an incomplete charge after that.
889574
I've had it for so long that I can't remember exactly. As best I can remember, it came charged or partly charged because I wanted to make sure that it worked. Once I found out it did work, I just let it charge overnight and it's worked perfectly ever since. Could have come 100% charged or 10% charged as there was no way of knowing but an overnight charge for sure made it 100%. I'm happy with mine.