another battery problem

I have Ipaq 2210 about 4 years old, with 2003 SE. Two old batteries, one
original and one copy, both charge to 100% but work short.
I`ve bought two new, both made in China.
At the first charging they go to 100%, but after every next charging percent
drops with 10%-unit. At last percent is only about 20 and Ipaq gives
warning - low battery.
The wall charger gives 5.0 V as should be , USB charging is not better.
Original HP battery has 1400 mAh, the copies 1600 mAH.
Is 1600 too much for HP charger? or any other explanation.

Kari
Wed Mar 26 06:18:10 PDT 2008

I need to correct: The old Ipaq is 2750
"Kari Jalonen" <kari.jalonen@kymp.net> kirjoitti
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>I have Ipaq 2210 about 4 years old, with 2003 SE. Two old batteries, one
>original and one copy, both charge to 100% but work short.
> I`ve bought two new, both made in China.
> At the first charging they go to 100%, but after every next charging
> percent drops with 10%-unit. At last percent is only about 20 and Ipaq
> gives warning - low battery.
> The wall charger gives 5.0 V as should be , USB charging is not better.
> Original HP battery has 1400 mAh, the copies 1600 mAH.
> Is 1600 too much for HP charger? or any other explanation.
>

xyz
Wed Mar 26 09:45:57 PDT 2008

Hi Kari,

"Kari Jalonen" <kari.jalonen@kymp.net> wrote:

>I have Ipaq 2210 about 4 years old, with 2003 SE. Two old batteries, one
>original and one copy, both charge to 100% but work short.
>I`ve bought two new, both made in China.
>At the first charging they go to 100%, but after every next charging percent
>drops with 10%-unit. At last percent is only about 20 and Ipaq gives
>warning - low battery.
>The wall charger gives 5.0 V as should be , USB charging is not better.
>Original HP battery has 1400 mAh, the copies 1600 mAH.
>Is 1600 too much for HP charger? or any other explanation.

I did the same misstake as you and bought cheap batteries from
HK/China and let me tell you, never again!

Many of these "eBay batteries" are rip-offs and perform much
less than orginal batteries even if their marketing and labels
tries to state otherwise!

The ones I got was labeled 1200 mAh but after testing them I
can tell you this... 1200 mAh my ass! Actual capacity is _maybe_
half of that, way less than orginial X30 950 mAh battery.

Fool me once...

/CJ

Werner
Wed Mar 26 12:49:08 PDT 2008

Agreed. Never EVER buy any non-official battery. I had exactly the same
problems with my HardCE iPAQ h2210 batteries. They didn't even have an
overchrge protection circuit...

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"CJ" <xyz@eatspam.com> wrote in message
news:47ea7baf.7746484@news1.telia.com...
> Hi Kari,
>
> "Kari Jalonen" <kari.jalonen@kymp.net> wrote:
>
>>I have Ipaq 2210 about 4 years old, with 2003 SE. Two old batteries, one
>>original and one copy, both charge to 100% but work short.
>>I`ve bought two new, both made in China.
>>At the first charging they go to 100%, but after every next charging
>>percent
>>drops with 10%-unit. At last percent is only about 20 and Ipaq gives
>>warning - low battery.
>>The wall charger gives 5.0 V as should be , USB charging is not better.
>>Original HP battery has 1400 mAh, the copies 1600 mAH.
>>Is 1600 too much for HP charger? or any other explanation.
>
> I did the same misstake as you and bought cheap batteries from
> HK/China and let me tell you, never again!
>
> Many of these "eBay batteries" are rip-offs and perform much
> less than orginal batteries even if their marketing and labels
> tries to state otherwise!
>
> The ones I got was labeled 1200 mAh but after testing them I
> can tell you this... 1200 mAh my ass! Actual capacity is _maybe_
> half of that, way less than orginial X30 950 mAh battery.
>
> Fool me once...
>
> /CJ
>