Just did a charge using the PlayBook charger I'm under 20% now 6 hrs med use, brutal guess slow is the way too go always eh
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Just did a charge using the PlayBook charger I'm under 20% now 6 hrs med use, brutal guess slow is the way too go always eh
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You used your PB charger for your Z10?
BlackBerry Z10-Go Leafs Go
Yes have a few times
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PB charger was doing funny things for me as well before the 10.85 update
And that's not good?
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That's the only charger I use for my z10 and it works wonderfully well. After a full day of heavy use I am usually about 10 to 15 percent after 12 hours. Also when I come home I can put it on there for an hour or so and be back to 80 or 90 percent.
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Ok so what gives, ur correct 1/12 hour tops and fully charged but only 5 plus hrs of use come on please. I've been told fast charging is brutal for ur batt
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I can attest to what he said, very fast charging. I find the standard charger that comes with z10 not as fast as the PB charger.
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Thank u but what about the 5 hrs on a full charge???
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This is odsurd
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It may be brutal but it's a user replaceable battery. Unlike some other phone that I won't name... you can enjoy fast charging and heavy usage... worse thing spend 30 $ in a year if the battery wears out!
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You shouldn't be experiencing less batt life just because you use the pb charger. I think you need some quantitative information to even assert something like that is going on on your device. Might just be in your head. Batt use varies greatly depending on different activities.
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I often use my PB charger on my Z10. Super fast and the battery drain is the same as any other charge as far as I can tell.
CB10 App, Z10
My dev alpha came with the pb charger.
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Here is a screen shot of the usage this morning after a charge on my PB charger.
Definitely going to get more than 5 hours here.
CB10 App, Z10
Yeah no sh!t you didn't use it all morning.
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Lol! I get about 5 hours on heavy usage and I am very happy. On medium usage with maybe 10 emails and textes per hour and about a couple of Facebook and crackberry app per hour, I get about 10 hours.
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I have been using my pb charger for over a month now and used the original Z10 charger for the first month and do not notice any difference in battery between the two chargers.
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sounds just about right :). I get similar results. 5 hrs of HEAVY use is actually good but I think many people think otherwise.
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Also you should notice that the charging power diminishes as you get closer to being fully charge.. probably to protect the battery
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Ok! here is another shot. It's almost 7 pm now. BT music CB most of the day. Still more than 5 hours. I will not need to charge my phone until 12am or later/ earlier depending on how you look at it.
CB10 App, Z10
As bobshine points out, the device limits the charging current at the top of the curve, and protects the battery and such.
There should really be no difference which charger you use, in terms of how long the charge lasts afterwards. Anyone believing otherwise is pretty much tricking themselves. It's pretty easy with Battery Guru to observe and disprove such a claim.
"Brutal" might also be over-stating the effect of "rapid" charging here. If you'll note, the difference in time is relatively small, and the difference in charging current is also not so extreme. My very rough guess would be that if your battery would last 3 years (before you give up on it) with the regular charger, it would last at least 2.5 years with the rapid charger being used exclusively.
Lots of great points given out here y all, but I can only post what I seen and that is I put the z10 on to the pb charger and bang the thing was fully charged in no time flat, then I was on and off the phone for about 5 hrs if that and she's dead well 20% fine. And with a regular day usage I get up at 530 am I can easily get till about 5pm b for I need to charge. What's this guru thing u talk about. Sounds like it's quite informative.
Cherrs
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The "guru thing" :-) is my app Battery Guru: https://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/content/35712/
I have used the PB charger on my 9900 and z10. I haven't noticed any difference other than it chargers quicker.
