Charging problem - 5185i

About two months ago I bought a vibrating battery for my 5185i Nokia
from BestBuy (Just Wireless, Lithium Ion, SKU No. 10014). The first
time I had trouble, I passed it off as a fluke, but now its gone and
done it again so I gotta wonder. I use the phone as an emergency
contact and have it on 24/7, recharging every other day overnight.
(The battery will last another twelve hours but I'd rather not use the
car charger if I can help it although it usually works fine when I
forget the overnighter.)

I have occasionally had problems getting the battery to take a charge.
Sometimes just wiggling the battery (there is a little back and forth
play in the catch) will get it to charge. Other times I've turned the
phone off, removed the battery, cleaned the contacts, reassembled and
still won't take a charge. As long as there is still a little juice in
the battery the phone comes on with no problem. Twice now the phone
has also shown a fully charged battery when I know good and well its
only got hours, maybe minutes, before the phone shuts itself down. In
fact that's how I finally got it to charge the last two times, after
it powered itself off (no warning as it showed fully charge up until
the last). I got a problem with that as it's gotta charge an hour or
two before I can turn the thing back on which puts me out of my 24/7
contact loop.

I've tried different chargers. When it won't charge, it *won't* charge
from anywhere. When it will charge, it will take juice from anywhere.
A guy at work has the same battery (also from BestBuy) but has a
problem with the phone shutting down if it gets cold. I'm going to
swap batteries with him for a while and see if we also swap problems.

Any ideas?

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"Mike S." <[email protected]> wrote in message
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|
| In article <[email protected]>,
| David Thomas <[email protected]> wrote:
| >About two months ago I bought a vibrating battery for my 5185i Nokia
| >from BestBuy (Just Wireless, Lithium Ion, SKU No. 10014). The first
| >time I had trouble, I passed it off as a fluke, but now its gone and
| >done it again so I gotta wonder. I use the phone as an emergency
| >contact and have it on 24/7, recharging every other day overnight.
| >(The battery will last another twelve hours but I'd rather not use the
| >car charger if I can help it although it usually works fine when I
| >forget the overnighter.)
| >
| >I have occasionally had problems getting the battery to take a charge.
| >Sometimes just wiggling the battery (there is a little back and forth
| >play in the catch) will get it to charge. Other times I've turned the
| >phone off, removed the battery, cleaned the contacts, reassembled and
| >still won't take a charge. As long as there is still a little juice in
| >the battery the phone comes on with no problem. Twice now the phone
| >has also shown a fully charged battery when I know good and well its
| >only got hours, maybe minutes, before the phone shuts itself down. In
| >fact that's how I finally got it to charge the last two times, after
| >it powered itself off (no warning as it showed fully charge up until
| >the last). I got a problem with that as it's gotta charge an hour or
| >two before I can turn the thing back on which puts me out of my 24/7
| >contact loop.
| >
| >I've tried different chargers. When it won't charge, it *won't* charge
| >from anywhere. When it will charge, it will take juice from anywhere.
| >A guy at work has the same battery (also from BestBuy) but has a
| >problem with the phone shutting down if it gets cold. I'm going to
| >swap batteries with him for a while and see if we also swap problems.
|
|
| Try a real Nokia battery. If it works OK, you know where the problem is.
| From what you describe, it's likely to be poor quality or quality control
| in the packs you bought at Best Buy.
|
|

I believe you got batteries that were way past its due date. By emergency
contact I take it you use it very little? Properly charged and maintained,
my OEM 5110 battery can sustain up to 10-11 days standby. Like what nokia
said on the website ;-) Only thing is you must charge it for one whole day
(24hrs) for the maximum >10 days performance.