I bought a used nokia 5165 real cheap and so far haven't been able to
get it to power up. I'm supisicous of the battery, but I don't know
what the battery cell arrangement is. It has four contacts, two on one
side two on the other, one of each with a line through it. After
charging 24 hours I've got 3.6V on the left pair (using the the
contact with the line as negative) and 0.0V on the right. If I take
voltages in other combinations (outside, inside) I get some wierd
readings, but I think that this is probably a two battery set run
inline with two 3.6v batteries side by side. Not that this is any more
than a guess.

Now I've read that sometimes a battery will drain so completely it
won't take a charge and you can shock it by applying 12-20volts and
bring it back, but I'm not sure of orientation.

Also if I plug in the phone with the battery out and take readings off
the contacts on the back of the phone I get .62V for the left and
1.36V fro the right

Oh, the right left orientation is with the phone/battery top forward
and the contacts facing up. So the left contact set on the phone would
actually connect to the right contact set on the battery.



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