Green elf, your life force is running out.

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I don't know if this is typical. My Intercept's battery does great when I'm not using data, but with heavy browsing or tethering, it loses hit points like it's soaking up ghosts in Gauntlet. I'm looking for extended or high-capacity batteries, but there don't seem to be any on the market yet. I found some 1800mAh ones (bump of 20%) for Omnia i8910 (supposedly same form-factor) over here on Ebay UK but anyone know of any others? Thanks.

The stock 2.1 battery meter seems to be somewhat flawed on the VM Intercept. Using a 3rd party battery monitoring app will show the battery at only around 75% when the Android system is reporting it as 'full' or 'charged'.
In other words, if you're charging your device based on what the stock 2.1 system tells you, your battery is apparently only being charged to around 75% or so.

Originally Posted by old_dude

The stock 2.1 battery meter seems to be somewhat flawed on the VM Intercept. Using a 3rd party battery monitoring app will show the battery at only around 75% when the Android system is reporting it as 'full' or 'charged'.
In other words, if you're charging your device based on what the stock 2.1 system tells you, your battery is apparently only being charged to around 75% or so.

Hmm, yeah, I'd noticed the battery meter didn't always seem accurate, but that's pretty lame if it's not charging fully. If it helps I'm leaving it on charge all night, every night. For now, I just got an extra charger to leave at my desk at work, it just sits on there all day.

Originally Posted by 5318008

Hmm, yeah, I'd noticed the battery meter didn't always seem accurate, but that's pretty lame if it's not charging fully. If it helps I'm leaving it on charge all night, every night. For now, I just got an extra charger to leave at my desk at work, it just sits on there all day.

Intercepts batter should last at least 16-18 hours on decent amount of usage. The battery meter is flawed, severely. It has the images inside of the framework for 10% increments but doesnt use them. The stat_sys_batt_vinsq.xml shows the readout changing ever 25-30% or so. Not sure why samsung did this but its pretty wonky

My stock VM Intercept 2.1 begins reporting the battery as 'charged' at around 65%, meaning that it will begin bleeping for you to remove it with popup messages. If you leave it on longer and either ignore the bleeping or put it in silent mode, the battery will continue to charge up to around 97% or so according to 3rd party battery monitoring apps. Sometimes this causes android to wig-out though, requiring a reboot to restore functionality. It seems best to remove it from the charger around 90% - 95%.

Also interesting is that it seems to take a long time for it to reach that last 20% ...don't know what's up with that. Compared to my G1 the Intercept takes forever to charge.

Maybe 2.2 for VM will fix it. lol!

Yeah, I'm hoping 2.2 will tighten it up a bit and help some 3rd-party stuff lose a bit of lag (games mostly.) Looks like the 3/25 date got pushed back, I'm hearing 4/4 now. Network issues or something, I dunno.

Interesting to note that the 'wigging out' of Android that I spoke about above when charging past the stock 'battery full' bleeping noise (70%) seems to be sound-related. It is interesting in that the issues with replacement roms also appear to be largely sound-related (sound lag, etc.). Don't know whats up with that....hardware issues?
You can mitigate the sound issues during charging by putting it in 'silent' mode though when you go above 90% or so.

Now if someone can figure out why picture-messaging is so buggy when you send from the camera app.....