So I hear Epic 4g battery wont work in Fascinate?

churro7

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Why is that?


That means I wont be able to use the Yoobao and other extended ebay batteries from the Epic in the Fascinate?
 
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imnuts

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There is code in the battery driver that checks to see if you are using an OEM battery. I guess there is a slight difference between the fascinate battery and other SGS batteries that Samsung/Verizon don't want you to mix them, despite all other SGS phone batteries working from what I know. You can use non-OEM batteries if you are on Eclair and using a patched kernel though.
 

Terror_1

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u actually can use an epics battery in a fascinate, my experience it worked fine.. i just couldnt charge it at all.. but verizons battery will def not work in an epic or a vibrant
That's my experience as well since I ordered one from Amazon for the Epic and found that I couldn't charge it. The charger that came with it also would not charge the original Fascinate battery either. You can leave it that way if you like and use the Fascinate to charge the Fascinate battery and the Epic stand alone charger to charge the second battery.... I preferred to use either to do their specified job and returned the Epic battery and charger.