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Is Your Cell Phone Battery Dead? Posted: 12 Sep 2013 02:03 AM PDT Now the batteries of most cell phones are rechargeable lithium ion batteries. This type of battery can recharge 300 to 500 charge cycles to its full capacity before it will not charge fully. If your cell phone needs charging more often or the charge lasts for several hours less than when the battery was new, you may need to replace it with a new one. Testing the battery to obtain its capacity will tell you if you need a new cell phone battery. 1. Plug the cell phone into its charger and plug the other end in to an electrical outlet. Allow the cell phone battery to be charged to full capacity. 2. Press and hold the power button on the cell phone to turn it off. Let the phone power down and remove the back cover to access the battery. 3. Remove the cell phone battery and observe the label for the voltage. The voltage of most cell phone batteries are 3.4 to 4.5 volts. 4. Turn on a multimeter. A multimeter can test current flow in voltage and amps and also resistance in a circuit. Place the black test probe on the negative battery contact and the red test probe on the positive battery contact. The contacts are on the edge or bottom of the battery and marked negative (-) and positive (+). 5. Place one test probe on the left terminal and one on the right, if the battery terminals are not marked. These are usually the correct terminals and the multimeter will show a positive reading. If the meter shows a negative reading, move the left or right probe to the middle terminal until one pair shows a positive reading. 6. Read the display on the multimeter. The voltage should be the same or a little higher than the battery label due to the fact that batteries hold an additional charge above the full charge mark when they have just been charged. Attached Thumbnails

Need help finding a new phone... Posted: 11 Sep 2013 09:42 PM PDT Guys, I need some phone buying advice. I don't use it much so I don't need all the latest things but I do have a few requirements. The last one I bought and the one I have now is the Nexus One. I got it when it first came out I like it but the touch sensitivity is crap and I'm tired of having to click 5-10 times sometimes. Also, speaker volume is not enough and the speaker quality is so, so. Camera quality is $HIT! Here is what I need. Note, I DO NOT want an iPhone in case someone was going to recommend me one. Size about the same as the Nexus one. I need a decent size screen as my eyes are bad. I do NOT need a bigger phone. Android so that I can pimp it with an app that will let me make ALL the fonts bigger. Crisp and bright screen. Good touch sensitivity. LOUD speaker and good quality. For voice only, not much need for music. I would like to be able to use this with voice dial for future use with headset and hands free in my truck. Something cheap that I can buy right now and I would consider used or even something directly from one of the chinese sites, as long as it does what I want. UNLOCKED for use with my own sim card. I DO NOT do contracts. Good quality camera. I'm not sure how a dual sim card phone works but IF it's possible to have one phone that I can have two numbers on and be able to answer any of those numbers, WITHOUT having to power down and changing to a different number, then I would really like that. Also, I have another question. I have two google voice numbers but they will only let me forward calls to ONE cellphone number. Ie, I have a google number ending with 1111 and I can forward it to my cell but I cannot forward the calls from google number 2222 to my cell. They will however allow me to forward calls from both google numbers to my home number...? Is there a way around that so that I can answer calls from BOTH google numbers on my phone? I don't do facebook or twitter or stuff like that and I only do a few minutes a month on my phone. ALL I do is make calls and the occasional browsing and checking out youtube videos. Thanks George

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