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    Chris Sherlock
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    I ran this by Nokia and they wound up answering a question I didn't ask, so
    I thought I'd try my question here. As the subject line indicates, I have a
    Nokia 5165 that I've had for about two years. In that time, I have not had
    to replace the battery. I recently charged the battery and noticed that,
    where the battery icon on the display normally has five bars above it when
    fully charged, it now has four. Does this mean I need to replace the
    battery? Thanks for any advice.





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    Michael MacMahon
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    Re: Need New Battery in Nokia 5165?

    I have two batterys for that phone laying around the house. (Switched
    to GSM last year.) If you want to send me a padded mailer with enough
    postage on it to send to you I'll give them to you. Let me know via private
    E-Mail.


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    "Chris Sherlock" <[email protected]> wrote in
    message news:[email protected]...
    > I ran this by Nokia and they wound up answering a question I didn't ask,

    so
    > I thought I'd try my question here. As the subject line indicates, I have

    a
    > Nokia 5165 that I've had for about two years. In that time, I have not

    had
    > to replace the battery. I recently charged the battery and noticed that,
    > where the battery icon on the display normally has five bars above it when
    > fully charged, it now has four. Does this mean I need to replace the
    > battery? Thanks for any advice.
    >
    >






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    Re: Need New Battery in Nokia 5165?

    "Chris Sherlock" <[email protected]> wrote in
    news:[email protected]:

    > I ran this by Nokia and they wound up answering a question I didn't
    > ask, so I thought I'd try my question here. As the subject line
    > indicates, I have a Nokia 5165 that I've had for about two years. In
    > that time, I have not had to replace the battery. I recently charged
    > the battery and noticed that, where the battery icon on the display
    > normally has five bars above it when fully charged, it now has four.
    > Does this mean I need to replace the battery? Thanks for any advice.
    >
    >


    What it probably means is the calibration circuitry in either the battery
    or the phone is changing value. There is a resistor in the battery that
    the phone reads to determine the type and capacity of the battery, if that
    or the reference resistor in the phone start changeing then the indicated
    battery charge--the bars--may not display correctly and the battery may not
    be charging fully. The best solution is to send the phone, the charger,
    and the battery to Nokia for a check-up. If there is nothing wrong with
    the phone's charging circuitry or the battery the phone will be retuned and
    recalibrated. Probably they will give you a new battery and charger in any
    case. Unless they've changed policy was to replace charger and battery for
    charger-related customer complaints. Since the battery and the charger
    were life-time warranted there should be no charge for them. If only the
    software needs tweaking in the phone there should be no charge for that
    either. From the age of the phone it is obviously not in warranty so if
    any other repairs are necessary they will contact you with quote
    information and tell you what is wrong. On my line, when I worked at
    Nokia, if it was something simple I would usually tell the tech to go ahead
    and fix the phone and not charge for it, especially if the problem was a
    known deficiency of the phone. Hope this helps...

    Ron
    (Ex-Nokia and 5165 tech)



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