got a new battery and..

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and I don't remember where, but I read somewhere, some time ago, that when you get a new battery, you should fully charge, and fully discharge the battery a few times.. Is this a good idea? does it help the battery?

are there any tips, like doing a complete cycle every so often?


Also, well, I got this on Amazon so I'm hoping it really is brand new. The brand new batteries are supposed to be dead, not charged, right?

Lithium ion batteries are never shipped "dead", bad things can happen (read up on it). So when you buy a lithium ion battery it always has a charge on it. They also don't have a "memory" like older batteries do so just use it normally. When i got my Naztech battery it was fully charged!

Ouch.. So does that mean my battery isn't going to be as good as an OEM battery? It looks like it's a legit samsung battery, it has the same model #

Anyway I charged it up fully, then I had to send in my phone to Samsung, so I took it out. When it gets back I'll see how my battery life is.

Li-ion batteries aren't supposed to have a memory, however I read a lot of good articles that argue no batteries have memory. However that being said, I've had the best luck out of cycling batteries like that. We have 7 Samsung batteries for our Fascinates, and always just run them down and swap to the next battery. Whenever I get a new one I charge it up, then run it down a few times.

I always charge them, they do come partially charged, but usually not 100%.

Any battery "woes" of memory is all placebo affect much of the time. Unless the phone doesn't get a balanced charge it will have no memory. But I think these batteries are one cell so you don't have to worry about it.

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If you have 7 batteries isn't it a pain swapping them back in to charge them?

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you can get chargers, like just a wall charger that you can drop a battery or two in and it'll charge without the phone.

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