[geeks] Pointers for iPod battery (3rd Gen)

[Lionel Peterson]

On Jul 16, 2009, at 8:06 AM, Phil Stracchino <alaric at metrocast.net>  
wrote:

> Lionel Peterson wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 6:52 AM, sammy ominsky<s at avoidant.org> wrote:
>>> On 16/07/2009, at 04:58, Lionel Peterson wrote:
>>>
>>>> I've got a 40 Gig 3rd Generation iPod that needs a new battery, it
>>>> looks like batteries run around $15-25 or more, with $20 being  
>>>> about
>>>> average price for a "kit"... Anyone have any pointers to vendors  
>>>> they
>>>> like/have worked with before?
>>> I have the same iPod.  I bought the battery with tools from  
>>> iFixit.  Always
>>> been happy with them, even back when they were an eBay-only seller  
>>> and I
>> was
>>> buying Wallstreet parts.
>>
>> Thanks, they have a good set of instructions, and their price seems
>> about the going rate ($14.95 for an 850 mAh battery), but I've seen
>> 1,100 mAh replacement batteries at longlast-ipodbattery[0] (and
>> others) for $19.99 shipped, and I'm leaning that way. (Nearly  
>> doubling
>> the battery life for $5.04 more seems like a no-brainer, the original
>> battery is 650 mAh).
>
> I just bought a new battery for my Canon digital camera that claims
> almost double the capacity of an original Canon BP511.  Granted the
> battery's only been through one or two charge cycles, but so far I  
> have
> not seen evidence of the increased capacity.

Might your camera need to be 'trained' to use the full capacity of the  
new battery? I remember some laptops required you to drain to "0" then  
charge fully and drain again before they 'knew' about the capacity of  
the new battery...

Just a thought...

Lionel