Captivate Battery

Nice one. I will most likely get an extra one myself, the battery does seem to go down quiet quickly. So far, the battery goes from 100% in the morning to about 10% at night, so the extra battery will be nice.

I'm also looking for a portable device to charge the battery just in case. What is this clip charger you mentioned?

Hi, This is not mine but thought I'd post it for you. I did perform this and now my battery is lasting 3 days with moderate use.  I would die over night sitting idle.

BATTERY Calibrate
So, you are having trouble with your battery seemingly draining too quickly, especially after having flashed many ROMs/Kernels/etc...

It is possible that the problem (or part of the problem) is not necessarily the phone using too much power. If this is the case for you, you should see some results from doing the following:

1. Connect the phone to the charger with the phone powered on, and allow the phone to charge until it shows 100%

2. Disconnect the phone from the charger, and power it off.

3. Reconnect the phone to the charger with the phone powered off, and allow the phone to charge until the battery indicator shows 100% (you can use vol-up/vol-down to make the indicator come back up when the screen goes to sleep).

4. Disconnect the phone from the charger and power it on.

5. Once the phone is powered completely on, power it off again and reconnect it to the charger until the battery indicator shows 100%.

6. Disconnect the phone, power it on, and use it.

You should only need to use this sequence one time.

I thought the proper way to re-callibrate a battery was to let it drain completely, to the point the phone turns off... then turn it on and allow it to turn off again.  Give it a few hours of down time, then charge it to 100%.

Not sure how bumping it to 100% a couple of times within a few minutes does much... not disagreeing, just can't quite understand  how that would work.   If it does, it's certainly much quicker than the alternative.

I just looked at the clip thing again, and at first glance, I thought it was a portable charging device, like something you can use to charge on the go. After glancing at it again, I find that I am wrong.

Is there such a thing? Some sort of AA/etc battery powered widget that can charge phone batteries without an outlet?

The clip is still useful and I will still probably get it, but an on-the-go charger would be nifty as well.

Nice! That was exactly what I was looking for, thanks.

There is one that is priced at $50, and another that is $40.

http://www.amazon.com/Energizer-XP4001-Universal-Rechargeable-Power/dp/B0029U2WUA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1284690024&sr=8-1

http://www.amazon.com/Energizer-XP4000-Universal-Rechargeable-Power/dp/B0029U2WTG/ref=pd_cp_p_1

The only difference I can tell between the two is that the $50 one can charge two devices at once.

It is a bit expensive, but I may grab this instead of the extra battery and clip.

Out here in California we have a discount store called "Tuesday Morning". I was in there last week and they had quite a few of the Energizer chargers for something like $25.

http://www.tuesdaymorning.com/indexCatalogOn.asp

just be careful of those batteries cheap may be nice but it can also be dangerous