Power consumption or bad battery

[Joe Horn]

(12-26-2022 05:50 PM)cahlucas Wrote:  What should I pay attention to when buying a new battery?

Avoid buying one of the double-capacity batteries which are available for the Samsung S3 phone. Those batteries are twice as thick, and they protrude out of the back of the phone slightly, requiring the phone's back cover to be replaced with a fatter one. But those double-capacity batteries do NOT work in the Prime at all, because HP decided (unfortunately) to put the battery contacts on the OPPOSITE SIDE from where they are on the phone.

Also, the HP-supplied battery has no NFC antenna inside it, whereas the Samsung batteries do, which makes them slightly thicker than HP's battery. If your new battery makes the back cover of your Prime seem to bulge outward, that's due to the NFC antenna in the battery. I have found that removing the thin piece of foam rubber from Prime's battery cover solves that problem.