So I may have inadvertently ruined the battery from the new LG Ally cell phone. Since all cell phone batteries have become universal and my old LG EnV2’s charger plugs into the new phone, I’ve been using that charger. The first day I had the phone, the battery drained in 8 hours. The second day, it lasted about that long with little to no use, and I tried using the USB charger that came with the new phone. After plugging it into my CPU, I checked it in 45 minutes to find that it had DRAINED 3%. I left it in all day and in almost 8 hours, it had charged 60%. This means that the phone drains at a faster rate than it charges on USB, and this is even with my Bluetooth, GPS, WiFi, and Syncing turned off. I was so irritated I took the phone back to Verizon. They tested the phone and gave me a new battery. One of the salesguys says that these new batteries take about 2 weeks to “season,” so with regular use in about 2 weeks, I should see a noticeable improvement in battery capacity. I happened to ask about using the old charger with this phone, and one guy said that’s not recommended because the old phone and this smartphone are so different, even tho the charger fits, it may be the wrong input capacity or whatever and having the wrong amount of voltage (I’m probably using all the wrong terms here) would ruin the new battery. Oopsie. When I got home I put away the old charger and pulled out the new one. It charged the phone MUCH quicker than the old one, and now that I’ve had the battery a few days, even with heavy usage playing online and downloading apps, the amount of usage time has at least doubled. Whew.

Now I can be properly excited about a new phone.