[BryanHarig]

Mine also drops to 95% almost instantly, however I have gotten excellent life from mine despite that. 2 days of heavy data and voice use. If I go easy on the voice and GPS use I can make it from friday morning to monday morning.

[dbly1850]

Originally Posted by tsac

If reading the forum and still seeing problems with full charging not being able to be acheived has not prompted your company to look into this problem honestly what will?

Simply stating you dont see any problems wont cut it. How about some info on what may be causing the problem. It does not make me want to upgrade when it will only charge to 80 or 90 %. Is it all vendors batteries or limited to only some?
Facts and suggestions would be nice.

Marketing political correctness not needed. You have a good rep with the BB folks, dont blow it.

Look I upgaded from a AllTel 7250 to Alltel 8703e.. *IF* I use the old 7250 wall charger, it will not charge the 8703e beyond 95%.. The factory 8703e wall charger shows it will charge to 100%.. Just notice it stll takes a little longer, as the battery is MUCH bigger.. so common sense says if you recharge the OEM battery in 4 hours, it will take a little more than 4 hours to charge the bigger battery.

[backbeat]

Originally Posted by tsac

Ok how to say this. I have to fall on my sword. I asked one of my people to send me the “Seidio” battery. Having been told the battery was from Seidio because I had asked them to buy from that company strictly because of the statements made on the forum favoring them. Well after receiving the battery, I discovered the battery was NOT from Seidio, it was from another company. When I called that company I was given the same run around all my folks received. Ok so now I found out they were accurate in the story they told me about the problems with charging and attempt to get it resolved. I also ran into problems with an attempt to return the battery. Guess what, they would get back to me with shipping information. After chewing out a few people and telling them to “correct “the problem on their own and at their own cost, I think this will not happen again.

Seidio, My sincere apologies for the impression I made here. If anyone asks what company I would recommend, I will certainly say yours. My initial gut feeling was there was a disconnect when I started to receive the information and complaints. Never thinking they used another company specifically after I told then to go to yours was something I never suspected until I received the battery.

For everyone who does have problems, dump the battery you do have and buy one from Seidio,

dbly1850, in your haste, I believe you overlooked the above resolution.

[BBmertz]

Originally Posted by seidioseidio

which 8700 do you have ? 8700C or 8700G ?

I have the 8700c and the battery still works great, lasting about a week with moderate use after each charge. FYI, I use the "Fortte STi Vertical Pouch for BB8700 Extended Battery Leather Case" which works great with this battery.

[FLIP954RR]

Ok-i've had the battery for about 2mos now on my bb 8700g with the new Cingular OS. Only programs I have running is bbweather,and jivetalk-newest version .23 with the batery save mode when idle. Bluetooth is off,same amount of emails I get-which is around 20-30 a day,about 20 answered calls-not lasting more than 5-10mins each.
I've done this the past week or so-I charge the battery until the red lightning disappears-then after 10-15mins-battery goes down to 95%
And the past 3 days in a row-the battery goes down to 50% after 9hours of taking off the charger.
Is it normal that this would go down this fast the same day-given the fact the amount of calls,emails and programs I have running? Its like the same performance of the stock slim battery before I upgraded.
I dunno if its me or if im going cuckoo

[FLIP954RR]

Since my last post-down to 25%. No answered calls,no texts,no emails-nothing!

[bukwit]

Have just ordered the 2400mah battery for my wife's 8700g from here:

eBay.co.uk: (497/498) Seidio 2400mAh Battery Blackberry 8700g (item 260087107607 end time 16-Mar-07 21:26:47 GMT)

I'm in the UK so will most likely take a week to deliver.

[blakeatl]

Too bloated for me. I just looked up the batteries on google and saw you guys have the 1250mah as well. Any future plans to get a 2400mah to the size of a 1250mah battery?