I just got my Nokia N95; generally I am very happy with it.
But the battery last daily, so I have to recharge the battery every evening to have my phone ready for tomorrow.
Is that normal for Nokia N95 or I got substandard battery?
I tried to check the battery number through Nokia website but it did not work as it is meant for BL-5B type only.
Some body, please help me.
Yes it's normal for most N95 owners to have to charge their battery daily. What I did is buy a 2nd battery just in case.
In eBay there is a high capacity BL-5F battery for Nokia N95.
That battery claims to have 1400 mAH capacity as of 950 mAH of original BL-5F.
Anybody has had tried that? Your comment please.
I'm not sure if anyone on here has tried it, but the same question about such a battery has been asked many times.
Really, the only good solution is to buy an official Nokia battery. 3rd party ones, regardless of their capacity, are not as reliable as official ones. They're likely to run out of steam in 6 months time... that's if they haven't blown up in your phone before then.
I don't have any definitive evidence to back this up, but I did have a 3rd party battery for my N70 which, over time, has swelled. I threw it away in the end as it didn't look good.
All 3rd party batteries claiming to be lithium-ion are indeed made from the same chemical composition as genuine Nokia batteries. While manufacturing tolerances may be better or worse than the originals for cheap model handsets, it is entirely safe to say that after market batteries do not die within six months, nor do they explode, leak, or cause horrible nightmares 😊
They are regularly identical to the original product. Generally this is because they are overruns from exactly the same manufacturing plants, these surplus batteries are purchased in bulk, minus the nice Nokia stickers, and sold to fill in the gaps at a lower price point with cheap imitation stickers and holograms. There are a large number of manufacturers, all of these compete amongst each other to get the big deals, the tech required to manufacture them is the same. Genuine Nokia is not automatically better.
But claims of twice the capacity for the same physical size is just a joke to suck people in. I have a non-genuine battery here (that I got with a car, desktop stand & usb charger) that is blown up like a balloon, but that may be because the silly desktop charger kept charging it for 8hours!
Before it got expanded, it worked ok, I wouldn't say it was 100% of the original, but then I only used it a few times, and we know these batteries tend to get a little better with age (I mean a few uses, not a few months of use).
Regards
There are many threads about this on here, so a search, and you will find lots of tips to help you get more life out of your battery.
Instead of a new battery, I bought THIS and it is brilliant, and quite a bit cheaper than a genuine Nokia battery.....:icon14:
Steve_R wrote:
Instead of a new battery, I bought THIS and it is brilliant, and quite a bit cheaper than a genuine Nokia battery.....:icon14:
Need to get me one of these. Friend had a similar one for japanese phones. Kind of forgot about it, thanks for reminder.
macrossru wrote:Need to get me one of these. Friend had a similar one for japanese phones. Kind of forgot about it, thanks for reminder.
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