[REVIEW] PolarCell 3400mah Note 4 Battery

Melissakis

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Jul 22, 2016 at 6:55 AM
Eddawgs13 said:
Where can I find this battery?
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Here.
There are to "editions", the cheaper one (€17,90) with 6 months of warranty and the more expensive (€19,89) with 2 years.
I just received mine, it's too early to judge it (only two charges),but it looks OK. And, finally, does anybody has a solid opinion about battery charging? After a lot of reading, I came to the conclusion that it's better to charge the battery a little bit every once in a while than deplete it completely and fully charge it. And maybe once a month do a full charging circle. What do you think?
 
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Melissakis said:
Here.
There are to "editions", the cheaper one (€17,90) with 6 months of warranty and the more expensive (€19,89) with 2 years.
I just received mine, it's too early to judge it (only two charges),but it looks OK. And, finally, does anybody has a solid opinion about battery charging? After a lot of reading, I came to the conclusion that it's better to charge the battery a little bit every once in a while than deplete it completely and fully charge it. And maybe once a month do a full charging circle. What do you think?
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First, let me start by saying this:
1) I have the PolarCell 3400mAh battery and am having no issues with it whatsoever.
2) On all my Android phones over the last 6-10 years now, I've never had battery issues except for custom rom issues causing the CPU to never sleep, and 1 issue where I received a refurbished phone from ATT with a defective cpu. Other than those instances, which weren't actually battery (physically) related, the batteries I've had have always lasted the lifetime of my phones.

Based on that, my charging advice is this:
Use the phone like normal and only charge it each night, or when the phone is about to die. Whichever comes first.
It's probably not what you wanted to hear, but I personally have never had any problems with the battery, and this is exactly what I do. Every night when I sleep, I put my phone on my charging dock that's on my night stand. Every morning, it's fully charged and ready for the day. Then I'll charge it if it's about to die, or if I feel like it won't last me all day because I'm using it abnormally more than usual. In that case, I may charge it in my car while driving home from work or something (I have a Quick Charge 2.0 car adapter in my car).

Edit: Oh, and I always keep Fast Charging ON. This is my first phone with this feature, but my Note 4 is almost 2 years old now and I've been using the PolarCell battery in it for the age of the phone, minus 2 or 3 months. The battery is still working just as good as the day I got it.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Tapatalk
 
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Jul 23, 2016 at 3:40 PM
dancrow said:
Using exactly the same type of battery and still have 3220mAh not 3400 as is written on battery package.
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Mine says 3000 mAh!..
The reason is that there you don't see the actual capacity of the battery, but the data provided by the device's rom. I use a Note 5 rom, which has a 3000 mAh battery, so I see that figure there. You use a Note 4 rom obviously, so that's the figure you see.
 
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@Melissakis
Thank you for the link.
I just bought my from there as it seems I can't get it through eBay this time, it says there's no shipment to US (Not even from Germany one).

Hope the shipping to be fast, I'll share my thoughts on arrival.

JP
 
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Sep 13, 2016 at 3:18 PM
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The fast charging is a very good question, as it would limit the capabilities of this battery.

I have also noticed in your comments that you mention wireless charging, but couldn't find the info anywhere on the ebay page or when googling for the battery.
Can you please confirm this is working as well?

Thank you.
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Was thinking about getting one of these. Did anyone ever clarified wether this has wireless charging? :)
 
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Sep 13, 2016 at 5:08 PM
WMaddler said:
Was thinking about getting one of these. Did anyone ever clarified wether this has wireless charging? :)
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Wireless charging requires the official Samsung Wireless Charging backplate for your phone:

https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-Wireless-Charging-Cover-Galaxy/dp/B00OP5SAAI

https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-S-View-Wireless-Charging-Galaxy/dp/B00NQG2WFG

OR one of the widely available third party adaptors that fit underneath your standard backplate, such as:

https://www.amazon.com/Qifull-Ultra-thin-Standard-Wireless-Charging/dp/B00R3WK2LU

https://www.amazon.com/N4-SlimPWRcard-integrated-compatible-recommended/dp/B00OFKS66G

I use the Fonesalesman one.
 
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Hello all,

As I told you, today I got the battery, in my first charge without calibration and heavy use just got 3hr 20m SOT.

- Using Discord app to continuously voice streaming *about 5 hours* , chat and attachments such as links, photos, etc.
- WhatsApp (calls too), Snapchat, Facebook app, Messenger, Instagram, Web Browsing on Chrome, Youtube, Phone calls and app updates.

So, I can tell it's very good in comparison of the original one that came with the phone (about 1.5 years now and it went off at 40% - 50%).

I will be testing it as normal use and will upload my results.
 

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