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I dont believe it...but it would be nice

Adding bulk to the phone is not a great idea. If that's the case, I think there are going to quite a few enlarged covers/batteries on eBay.

I'd rather just have the beefier, not bulkier Seido battery.

wow im so glad i did not buy that expensive extra battery

Sweet now if they would just send the headphone adapter and a refund of my upgrade fee along with it that would be awesome!!!!

Don't hold your breath.

If its 1400 why does it have to be bigger. I thought there already a 1400 battery. Out there made by seido that didn't requiere a larger cover, why not make it like that? Still I don't believe it considering every time I tiole them they basicly said too bad.

If they were smart, i would think that they would keep the battery the same size so we don't need a larger back case and just have the battery same size with extended life to 1400mAh

I hope this is true. crossing my fingers

yeah the headphone jack would be GREAT, and how is this going to work if its true, everybody who purchased a g1 through tmobile gets shipped a battery? or you have to ask or what? (sorta thinkin outloud i doubt anybody knows yet sense its still a rumor)

i hope this is true cuz i would love more power... but i hope my case still fits..

I hope this is true but I also hope it's not true that we need a new back cover.

Now I can surf itap.to 20% longer.

lol the f#ck... f that shiz, my stock battery is good.

i aint about to be putting an "extended back cover" on my G1...

i like my G1 the way it is... i dont want no hunchback phone.

You guys are funny. Always finding something to complain about. First of all, if they do send out the battery to us, I would thank them. If you dont want it, send it to me, I could use an extra battery. The fact that we got jipped on the headphones this is a gift. I am grateful that the batter is coming and if it means a slightly bulkier phone, so be it.

I'm just saying... one of the reasons I got the G1 was because of how it looked... I prefer this look... say if they didn't release this current G1 form... and instead released a G1 with a hunchback... I would have not even look twice at it.

Battery isn't important to me so I don't care for the new "extended" battery if there is one.

Just voicing my opinion that I would not prefer a hunchback look and I'm sure everyone feels the same way.

i hope they send them out but hopefully they will be normal size, or at least if there going to be bigger make it have more than only 1400

I doubt this is true, but I'll be psyched if it is. I won't care if it's bulkier and on top of that I'd then have two batteries for long trips!!!

If the back cover is gonna look like the hood of a mustang with upgraded engine, I would be a little upset. I like the 'balance' of the phone right now. Plus I perfected my effing Invisible Shield.

I would still put in the upgrade if this rumor is true.

im definitely not interested in a hunchback look, we already have a thick phone and no need to get it thicker

YEah I got the extended battery for my shadow and man, i hope its not a hunchback like the shadow.

I just got my Invisible Shield in the mail but I'm kinda scared to put it on. Might do it wrong, lol. I'l try it this weekend.

I hope this is True ... I was cursing my G1 today. I look like an idiot carring a USB charger everywhere I go. Today the phone died in 4 HOURS!!! .... I'm not liking the bigger back cover idea either ... I got the Invisible Shield Perfect on my phone

lol don't worry what others think! There's a price to pay for such a cool phone. Why do you think Apple has iPod/iPhone docks everywhere for people, in your car, on your desk, clock radio, etc? They die just as fast too, it's just that when they are docked everywhere they stay charged up.

Its a nice gesture, but if I'm gonna get a beefier phone then, I'll be going with this:

http://www.boxwave.com/products/high...3.htm#features

its not free and but with that kinda increase, i'm thinkin' its well worth it.

Um, why am I about to return my battery to Seidio and order this? LOL

I called T-Mobile and talked to a CSR and they said that there were no plans to release an extended batteyr and that there was definately no plan to give them out free. They just told me to use the Power Manager app. Does anyone know if the CSR knows anything about this or if he is simply trying not to get my hopes up? He also said that this was a big rumor and that he had heard it.

It would be great to see this. I think it's great when companies can take responsibility and stand behind their products. I have noticed like many others, that my G1's battery drains rather quickly. Even with GPS/Wifi/3G/syncing off. Could be the battery itself, or it could be that Android needs a bit of optimization, or both.

If HTC/T-Mobile are going to step up and answer the cries of the consumers (read: the people that make them rich {us}), then that is great. If it's going to come at the cost of a slightly thicker G1, that is just fine by me. Anybody who doesn't want their extended life battery, I'll gladly pay the shipping for you to send yours to me.

I'm a CSR for a large electronics manufacturer, and believe me, we cannot deviate from what we're allowed to say. Known issues/rumors that are true, we have to deny until it's announced publicly.

Ok that's good to know. Thank you. I have been on a few smartphone forums and I have heard that CSRs don't know or can't say things that haven't been released. That is good to know because I was worried about this and I have hope now. Thanks!

It would be nice if they also included the stereo adapter for the really early adopters also
But most likely I'm wishful thinking.

But the real question is, why is remister staking out in front of his driveway?

I have late XMAS Present arriving
Actually I haven't updated my status since getting my G1, it's been that long

Oh I see. I sometimes forget on Facebook too. Hahaha.

Though not to say that this rumor is entirely true either. I'm just saying, we're told what we can and cannot say.

And yes, sometimes you will reach a CSR who does not have correct information. I see it happen quite a bit.

if its true its good, that will give me a total of 6 batteries... now gotta buy more chargers.

Would be awesome if true.

Highly doubt it though, nothings for free.

haha that sucker is HUGEE, no way in heck i could allow my phone too look like a brick, although i did have one of those for my old dash. this can be useful when you are expecting to use allot of power hungry tasks/apps/gaming..and not to concerned with looks

Or whether or not you can fit it in your pocket.

I would love a free battery with a better life, hunchbacked phone or not! If you don't like the hunchback and you don't need the battery life you don't have to use it!

Think about the cost associated with this...

Let's say the battery costs tmobile $5? They sold somewhere in the neighborhood of a million phones.

$5,000,000 in freebies? I doubt it.

If they do ship me the larger batt & cover, I say thank you very much, and I put it up on ebay. I don't want my G1 any thicker or heavier.

I get by fine on the stock batt, unless I am out of town, then I take my turbo charge, powered by two AA batts along to recharge it during an occasional day of heavy use.

Though Tmo may offer a bigger mah battery, no way they will send them to everyone without any feedback from the consumer. Perhaps they would send to people that complain.

This is a completely ridiculous conjecture.
The amount of money they'd spend sending out new batteries would show a horrible business plan.

I think the OP states it quite clearly, there's no way to terminate currently running processes. This is an Android issue that I'm sure will see some development sooner or later. The power management capabilities are pointless right now if the phone keeps transferring data for apps that aren't supposed to be running. That needs to be addressed before TMobile ships out some goofy battery to patch a hole in the G1.
Personally, I'll spring for the Seidio battery and hope that the Android alliance gets a grip on the power issue.

The rumor is full of holes, BUT! Has seen mention on the tMo moderator forum, googleandblog.com which has yet to be wrong, although they are being weary of this one...

They would not send out a battery cover for the 1450ma battery, maybe if it was for the 2400 mah battery. It would cost them millions either way. T-Mobile has never once gone out of their way for me, in years and years of service.

They did not send out the headphone adapter that started coming standard with he phone that most early adopters missed out on, however it is no longer available and if the rumor were true, maybe it is part of the deal.

tMo PDA reps have confirmed the rumor to multiple blogs, but they are known for just repeating whatever they hear.

The battery is jacked, with all on, syncing a lot and surfing wifi while letting your location broadcast with he screen on bright, you can get as low as a couple of hours. Ridiculous.

The external USB battery recharger they sold temporarily, only really refilled about 2/3 of the 39 minute battery...

i don't know, I'm just spouting off my thoughts but.. it almost seems just as likely as unlikely. If they were to make it happen, and the project is true, then I am sure they would be having HTC fit a good portion of the bill. After all tMo did manage to far outdo HTC's original estimates for 2008 in handset sales and has already purchased future handset development... so...??


ALSO THINK ABOUT THIS - VERY IMPORTANT:::::
They are giving us stereo bluetooth, video recording, Adobe has proven flash works, a virtual keyboard which will likely eat more processor and therefore battery, as well as a slew of other new features.. Our short battery life is about to get chopped off at the knees. Maybe they have found through testing with Cupcake that they have no choice. Recall or send new batts.

yeah and little Styrofoam crutches to make the little tiny ones fit in the new big gap so you don't have to carry around both back plates lol

Totally reminiscent of the Nokia 5100 black brick series where you could literally drop them off of a building, and worst case was you would need to stick some paper between the battery and phone.

I miss my 5100 series brix.... :-(

Any time I've run the Service Viewer app, I haven't seen that many processes or tasks running in the background. Mostly just a few that seem necessary for the android system. Only a couple apps seem to run perpetually in the background (tunewiki is one). Perhaps a lot less processes are running in the background than most people fear and the few that do are by the DEVELOPERS choice. Perhaps as we find ones that do perpetually run in the background we should be complaining to those developers that it is unnecessary for their app to be doing this and ask them to reprogram it to change its behavior. For example, I don't know why tunewiki needs to run in the background when I'm not listening to music or videos via its interface.

Some apps have the choice, some apps are not well developed or debugged and have memory leaks. Keep in mind the built in service viewer only shows the 6 most recently user accessed running apps.

I have 'opened' apps after a few days of not suing them and found they were paused or on the same screen I had left them on before, games, social apps, calculator type apps, etc - things that the OS should have shut down due to inactivity or should have a close function, but do not. On the other hand I have had cases where I because of the previously described occurances opened apps expecting to see my session still active, but the app relaunches so...

Flawed system IMHO.

Findings: uninstalling Loopt, TuneWiki, location centric games and other background apps did increase my battery life.

I was not talking about the "built in" service viewer which isn't an active service viewer but merely a indication of the last 6 apps that were run. I was talking about the Poidio Service Viewer which actually shows you both the Services and Tasks that are running. Most those apps that you return to that are still at the point you left them were not running in the background and were not using any memory. They save their last state when you exit them and then load that state when you start them again so that you can pick up where you left off. If you check the service viewer in between, you'll see that most of them aren't running in the background.

Yes, the location tracking apps are the ones that really do run in the background and as I was trying to argue, I think we need to demand from the developers some changes in the behavior of their particular apps.

There are a lot of processes running at any giving time, I installed the developer app from XDA & it has an option to show all processes on screen, I keep it on just to see what's running and it's a lot at times, it also has the option to immediately kill processes & the # of minimum processes to let run.

I don't understand why everyone thinks this is so crazy. I bought a Tmobile Shadow from a friend and STILL got my extended battery and cover for it when i called tmobile. They didn't advertise that you could get this battery, but if you called and asked they would send it. SO if they did it for the shadow i actually find it quite probable that they would offer something similar for the G1.

I have to laugh at all the comments about how thick the G1 is.

Last month I was cleaning out a closet and found a box that had the first cell phone I owned (circa 1995 or so). It's battery was as thick as the G1, and all told the phone was over twice as thick as the G1.

Is a hunchback battery ideal? No, but even with a hunchback the phone will still be less than 1" thick.

i can see it now if i got the extended battery...
woman bumps into me and brushes against my leg, notices a bulge in my pants , then says are you happy to see me.... no thats my G1 in my pocket and im happy to see you..
lol

Well in that case they can make the G1 as bulky as they want.

This is completely false information. I called T-Mobile 4 times last night and got 4 different people from different HTC/Data phone departments.

Every single one of them said that this is false information.

It would be nice though.

I'm just going to get the 2400mah phone with the extended case. Its kinda bulky but its worth the battery power.

o rly?????????? Very interesting....