Can you cycle a dead cell phone battery??
04-16-2007, 10:18 PM
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Can you cycle a dead cell phone battery??
Just a thought, can it be done, I have a cell phone batt that gets like 5 minutes talk time, can it be brought back to life with cycling??
04-16-2007, 10:24 PM
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RE: Can you cycle a dead cell phone battery??
Probably not. It could be checked though on a digital rc battery charger/cycler/discharger (it could be a charger problem)
04-19-2007, 05:05 PM
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RE: Can you cycle a dead cell phone battery??
yeah thats what it was with my friends and he just got a new charger and it works fine now
same thing happened to me on my battery for my video camera
same thing happened to me on my battery for my video camera
04-27-2007, 01:26 PM
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RE: Can you cycle a dead cell phone battery??
A short while ago my mom asked me to check out her cell phone because it was doing the same thing, and when I opened the case to see what kind of battery it had I noticed the lithium battery was all hot and puffed up[X(]. Beeeeeeeeeeee careful!
04-27-2007, 04:28 PM
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RE: Can you cycle a dead cell phone battery??
That battery is a lithium ion and is way safer than any lipo. FYI Maybe it is a lipo though......haven't seen any lipo's in cell phones around here but I suppose they might be.
04-27-2007, 05:14 PM
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RE: Can you cycle a dead cell phone battery??
You're right, it was a li-ion pack. but I decided to get rid of it because I didn't like the way it was puffed up... it was bulging out of the plastic outer case and you could see what looked like aluminum foil inside, so I wrapped it in like, 5 plastic bags and took it to radioshack (they said they'd have it recycled).
