The battery-eating properties of Android phones are well documented. Battery life isn't really a problem when you can charge up every night, but becomes one when you're on the go or sharing a room. I'd like to be able to stick a spare battery in a charger and put my phone away overnight, then put in the recharged spare next day. Not incidentally, I'd also like to read books on my phone during my 30 hours of travel, without being constrained by the capacity of a single battery. But neither spare nor charger prove easy to come by.
There's a Trade Me seller specialising in unofficial spare batteries, but the one they have listed for HTC Desire HD has a different part number to the one on my phone's battery.
There are various websites offering batteries with the correct part number, but they list them as suitable for other, mostly older, HTC handsets.
There's one seller on Amazon offering a battery with the right model and part number, but the capacity is greater. Will a higher-capacity battery damage my phone?
HTC themselves don't offer spares, at least not through their website. The manual says "replace only with recommended batteries", but of course there's no list of recommendations anywhere.
And there are heaps of "universal" external chargers on offer, but no way to tell whether any of them will work with a given battery type.
Any suggestions? Comment below.
Try either? I suspect both the ones with the same part number and the others listed for your phone model will work, but how much do they cost? If it is not too much it is probably easiest just to buy one and try it. I do not see any way a higher capacity battery could damage your phone, as long as it fits and is the right voltage.
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