Polaris battery question?

jc240 · 29th January 2008, 06:45 AM

Polaris battery question?

Does anyone know if there are batteries from other devices that will fit the Polaris, or is it a battery specific to this device? Thanks in advance.

Jules Winnfield · 29th January 2008, 09:23 AM

According to this, it's the same battery for Artemis 200, Love, Artemis and Polaris.

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JulianL · 29th January 2008, 09:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Jules Winnfield

According to this, it's the same battery for Artemis 200, Love, Artemis and Polaris.
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That is what the link says but I have to say that I'm really suspicious. I have an Artemis and a Touch Cruise so I'm in a pretty good position to check this. Right now I'm running a test on my TC to try and reproduce a bug in a third party app so it's not accessible to me for a few hours but once it is then I'll have a look (although I hate to do it because the one thing I don't like about the TC is that the battery cover is horrible, it takes a disturbing amount of force to get off).

One comment on that battery in the link above though. I think you'd be short-changing yourself as far as the Polaris goes, even if it did fit, because the factory-fit Polaris battery is 1350mAh and this one is a 1300mAh.

I'm hoping that Mugen Power will come out with something, or that one of the existing non-Artemis batteries will fit. Mugen Power seem to consistently get about 10% more mAh on their versions of the batteries so I'd guess that their replacement for a 1350mAh Polaris battery would probably be a 1500mAh unit and an extra 11% on battery life is always useful.

Here is a link to what is available from Mugen for HTC devices right now: http://shop.eten.hu/batteries-batteries-c-25_33.html

- Julian

P.S. If I take out my Polaris battery to put it side-by-side with my old Artemis one, will that effectively hard reset my device or is there a small backup battery in the device to keep it alive for a few minutes? If taking the battery out is going to hard-reset the device then I'm afraid that you might need to wait a day or two before it's convenient for me to do that.

rickgillyon · 29th January 2008, 11:39 AM

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Originally Posted by JulianL

If I take out my Polaris battery to put it side-by-side with my old Artemis one, will that effectively hard reset my device or is there a small backup battery in the device to keep it alive for a few minutes?

This will not hard reset the device nor is there a backup battery. Because these devices now use non-volatile flash memory, they retain everything even with no power for extended periods.