I recently decided to replace the battery in my 3GS. Here is my tale of woe. I bought a battery and tool kit from Amazon and figured after watching a couple of videos on YouTube that I could manage it. Well when it all got here it took me a few seconds to break the flimsy plastic tools trying to remove the screen.
So I thought I'd get a local shop to do it for me instead. Gave them the new battery and paid £15 for them to fit it. When I got the phone back, it rebooted every 3 minutes. I guessed that my guaranteed genuine OEM replacement battery from Amazon was garbage. So I took the phone back and paid another £25 for them to fit one of their replacement batteries for the 3GS.
Now my phone no longer reboots every 3 minutes. However I have other issues. The first thing I noticed is they seem to have broken the camera, presumably the connector hasn't been replaced properly or has been damaged. So I'll be back on Monday asking for that to be fixed.
Now to the part I need your help with. I used BatteryInfo Lite and BattSaver to check the battery information after the new battery was installed and was amazed to see that both reported that my "new" battery had a cycle count of 238 and a current maximum capacity of 1115 mAh down from the design capacity of 1200 mAh. Which suggests to me that my "new" battery has previously been used in another phone for a year or two.
Can I trust what the chip on this "new" battery is telling me? I braced the guy who did the replacement about it and he swore that it was a new, was he lying? Now the apps report I'm up to 240 charge cycles and capacity is down to 1109 mAh. I'm going back to complain about the broken camera on Monday. Should I also demand they put in a new replacement battery?
So I thought I'd get a local shop to do it for me instead. Gave them the new battery and paid £15 for them to fit it. When I got the phone back, it rebooted every 3 minutes. I guessed that my guaranteed genuine OEM replacement battery from Amazon was garbage. So I took the phone back and paid another £25 for them to fit one of their replacement batteries for the 3GS.
Now my phone no longer reboots every 3 minutes. However I have other issues. The first thing I noticed is they seem to have broken the camera, presumably the connector hasn't been replaced properly or has been damaged. So I'll be back on Monday asking for that to be fixed.
Now to the part I need your help with. I used BatteryInfo Lite and BattSaver to check the battery information after the new battery was installed and was amazed to see that both reported that my "new" battery had a cycle count of 238 and a current maximum capacity of 1115 mAh down from the design capacity of 1200 mAh. Which suggests to me that my "new" battery has previously been used in another phone for a year or two.
Can I trust what the chip on this "new" battery is telling me? I braced the guy who did the replacement about it and he swore that it was a new, was he lying? Now the apps report I'm up to 240 charge cycles and capacity is down to 1109 mAh. I'm going back to complain about the broken camera on Monday. Should I also demand they put in a new replacement battery?