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Cingular 8125 Battery Woes

June 19th, 2006 - 259 Comments

I have to say, this whole Cingular 8125 battery deal is starting to piss me off a bit. For the second time, my 8125 will not charge. It is really nice to have a phone that not only smokes a battery, as far as “talk time” goes, but also ends up killing the battery after about 3 weeks. It is a really nice feature. All things considered, at this point I would probably switch to Verizon where I can get a PDA or PDA type phone and some kick ass data bandwidth. Cingular does not offer their super fast data on a phone and only on their data cards right now. So, I am pretty stoked on my current setup.

UPDATE:

Iif your battery level falls too low and the wall charger will not charge, use the “Jeff Schaffer Method” found below:

Take a USB cable cut off one end and expose the red and black wire. Touch the black to the negative pole of the battery and the red to +, directly. I held it there for about three minutes. Put the battery back in the phone and now boot it up. When it starts up, IMMEDIATELY plug it into the USB PC cable or wall charger to charge completely.

Apparently, Li-ion batteries will not charge without a software solution to charge and this will not happen if the phone is not running.

Thanks to Jeff for posting this.

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tini says:

July 16, 2009 at 4:35 pm

Another one for the USB stripping method! Not only got my phone working, but I FEEL LIKE MCGUYVER!

Oortism says:

August 11, 2009 at 2:55 pm

I bought a new battery for my 8125 as I thought that my 8125’s battery was dead and gone. I had not used my 8125 for about 1 year that’s when I got my iPhone 3g. Tried the USB stripping method also and got my old battery up and going! So now I have two batteries for my 8125. Great method for getting the battery up and new again!