Right - new batteries certainly are expected to need initial
charging. So, you initially just charged it in the phone while using
the phone, without ill effects?
Thanks,
Dick
P.S. By the way, my Dad (career NY paper/CBS/NBC journalist) and I
love(d) Eric Sevareid. Thanks for the remembrance.
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Richard E Johnson, ScM, MD, DABA
Palm/Treo 680
Mac G4, iBook G3, PowerBook G4
Lawton, OK 73505 USA
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On Jun 14, 2007, at 9:18 PM, J Messeder wrote:
> Almost every rechargeable battery I've ever bought came with
> instructions to charge it first. I also don't have a separate battery
> charger, and though I could have turned off the phone (probably the
> greatest battery hog), I didn't -- and mine's working just fine.
> Had it
> in Miami over a long weekend and got two full days of emailing and
> telephoning and still had some battery left on the third day -- though
> not enough I was willing to leave home without charging it.
>
>
> Richard E Johnson, MD wrote:
>> I just bought a Seidio 2400 mAh replacement/extended battery for my
>> 680. The only instructions tell me to charge it for 8 hours before
>> putting it into my phone for the first time. I have never seen any
>> prior mention of a requirement to pre-charge this battery outside the
>> phone, and I have no external battery charger for either this or the
>> OEM Treo 1200 mAh battery. What is going on here and how do I use
>> this battery?
>> Thanks,
>> Dick
>> -----------------------------------------------
>> Richard E Johnson, ScM, MD, DABA
>> Palm/Treo 680
>> Mac G4, iBook G3, PowerBook G4
>> Lawton, OK 73505 USA
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>
> /“Thirty-five million deaths leave an empty place at only one family
> table.” /
> (News commentator Eric Severied in a radio essay on the 25th
> anniversary
> of the start of World War Two. 8/31/64)
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