Most of you have seen my posts (JerryF) and many of you know that I believe it could be the battery that is causing many of the problems with the Charge phone.
I have seen posts where the person said, I have had 3 charge phones and one said I have had 6 Charge phones and none of them worked. I wonder if they may have been using the same battery in all those phones? it is almost impossible to get 6 Charge phones (1 new & 5 refurbished) that all fail unless 80-90% of all the phones manufactured are bad and that is not the case.
What you may not know is that with all my overzealousness about batteries only 3-4 folks have said that they did the battery test and as I remember three said it helped (the battery was bad) and one said it did not help (I assumed the battery was good).
I cannot understand why so many folks have replied back to me that they know it's the phones fault and that Verizon should fix it but they did not try to see if they had a BAD battery. I say shame on you for venting your anger here and then not even trying to diagnose and fix the problem yourself. To those folks I say, you're ignoring help just like Verizon is ignoring you. And even worse, some of you have returned your just purchased NEW Charge phone, instead of trying the help offered, only to get someone else's returned, maybe broken, phone. I guess you got what you deserved.
Now that I have made you angry at me, just sit back, take a deep breath and try this "much shortened" version of my battery test to see if maybe "low amperage" in your battery could be causing your phones problems.
Best regards,
JerryF
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Try this much shortened battery test. It's easy and if it does NOT work you have not lost anything except maybe an hour of your time. Here goes...
Plug your phone into the powerful 110 volt 1 amp charger that came with your phone. Go to bed. Leave it plugged in overnight.
Next morning: leave the phone plugged into the charger and use your phone while the charger in still plugged in. Run all those things that are failing in your phone to see if any of them now work okay with a fully charged battery and also with the 110 volt 1 amp charger plugged into the phone at the same time. Please don't tell me "that's no way to run a phone" as some folks have. I already know that. We're doing a test!
BTW, the ultimate amperage test is to quickly take 8-10 FLASH photos in a row. If you can do that without your phone locking up your battery has enough amperage.
If ANY of your phones problems now work properly, GET A NEW BATTERY!!! Is this case your current battery is BAD.
If the phone still does not work properly it's not the battery so take a hammer and beat your phone into 1000 pieces...Just kidding here. In this case it is the phone that is BAD.
If you have time to do this please let us know your results, Thank You. In the past VERY FEW have even responded to my many requests for folks to test their battery.
Those of you have done the test in the past please add your results to this post.
