Recover a dead battery - Solved

[perereman]

Hi there

I just want to share with you how I fixed my battery. The problem I had was that my HTC Desire HD did not recharged the battery. Every time I plugged the charger, the smartphone flickered orange, green, orange, green, orange, green and then stopped charging.

What a I did was to place the battery into the freezer for 3 days. Then took it out and waited until its temperature came to normal.

When I tryed to charge it again, the Desire HD flickerd again the same combination but after 5 seconds it started to charge regulary

 

[coolpixs4]

may it a good trial ?
but i wonder that does your battery work normal after you charged it ?and how does it performance
I have one battery just bought and used for 3 months but I forgot and put it in over discharge then its capacity drop from 1000mAh to just only 500mAh. I just though some of its's cell became death

 

[perereman]

Well, after 24 hours since I unplugged the charger it still keeps 29% of battery.

Of these 24 hours, the phone keep flight mode 8 hours (I always use when I go to bed), and the other 16 it has been working with Wifi always on, 2G and sync on.

I am not a very intensive user as you can guess, but for me, it is more than enough after thinking that battery was dead. Anyway, I already order a genuine replacement battery at eBay (I didn't think freezing the battery could recover it) so I just will keep the old one until I get the new one

 

[xChr11s]

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Wow, never heard of this option to revive a battery.But good to know and I maybee will need it one day, so thanks ;D

 

[thetood]

Good tip for when you're stuck without a phone! Sometimes also works on chargers that die (put in a bag, freeze for 20 minutes, try again), and hard drives (got a 15 year old HDD working long enough to get some data off it).

PS, keep the HDD in the bag once out of the freezer, condensation forms on the bag and not the HDD.