Customer Reviews

Nokia BL-5C Extended Li-Ion Battery

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4 star:		(9)
3 star:		(5)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(11)

 

 

For less than two bucks I was expecting a cheap knock-off that would not hold a charge for five minutes, especially given the "mixed" reviews of replacement phone batteries. Instead I got what appears to be a new Nokia OEM battery that holds a charge for over a week, depending upon usage of course. The battery has the hologram but the "scratch off" is actually a code number, X762U6A if anyone is interested in bird-dogging it, stamped over the hologram. So perhaps Nokia has changed the way they code their replacement batteries. Or not, who gives a crap, for what the ATT store or Batteries Plus wanted to ream me for I can buy twenty of these, not counting shipping of course. If I can complain about anything it is that I paid almost three bucks to ship an item that costs less than two bucks. But the packaging was good (almost too good, I had a hell of a time getting into it) and it arrived in a timely fashion. So for less than five bucks I have a good battery back in my phone. Which is a good phone for talking, much better than my POS Blackberry, where everything sounds like it is coming out of a barrel and which drops more calls in a week than my Nokia has dropped in five years.

P.S. I guess I should note that I purchased this item from AccessoryOne. It seems that this item gets bounced around from vendor to vendor and your experience may be different from mine due to your having purchased your battery from a different vendor. Could this possiblly account for the wide variations in the experiences of various customers with what appears, on the surface at least, to be the same item??

batteries arrived well before delivery date & were as advertised at a great price( shipping was more than the item). I charged & fully discharged them. I've used them for a month now & they are working well.

I purchased this for a friend with the fear it might not be the real thing or not be able to hold a charge but it turned-out to be a GREAT battery and the price with shipping was almost to good to be true! Thanks to Amazon and the Vendor!

Bought this when my factory battery wasn't lasting long after a couple years. Don't remember exactly how long the factory one lasted when it was new, but this one is generally good for 2 days with average talk time. Much cheaper to buy a battery than get a new phone.

I bought the BL-5C from Amazon twice, but I didn't pay attention to the supplier. This product came from Just Cellular. It came wrapped in a plain sleeve. The battery had Nokia markings and was labelled Made in Japan. I will watch to see how much life I get from it.

I bought others from Amazon, wrapped in sealed bag, bar coded, with date of 09/08/2011. The battery itself is marked "cell made in Korea with furhter processing in China". The battery has a Nokia hologram.

I draw two possible conclusions: 1) the Just Cellular battery is a fake, or (2) the Just Cellular is very old stock. Neither brightens my day.

Bought one for $5 from Accessory One and that one barely held a charge. Tried the $10 one from Amazon LLC and I'm getting 24 hours. So it's a split review, but really it all depends on if you get a good one or a bad one.

I first bought this battery for $5 from Amazon vendor Accessory One and that one barely held a charge (2-3 hrs total idle time for IPEVO Skype Phone). But I started reading the reviews where people were saying some of the batteries could have been reconditioned or just "bad apples" in the bunch. I ended up buying the one for $10 that was being sold by Amazon LLC directly and after conditioning the battery (letting it charge full then leave on battery to drain, then charge full - rinse and repeat 1 or 2 more times) I'm now consistently getting about a full day out of this battery. That's more like it. I can't say whether the one from Accessory One was a reconditioned battery but it sure was a bad one of the bunch. It's your call which vendor you want to buy yours from.

Very disappointed.

I got this because the old battery, which was4-5 years old, seemed to be going. It went from holding a charge for 8-10 days - light usage and standby - to holding a charge for three days with the same usage.

I bought this one. It came promptly and seemed to be okay, though I didn't look closely. It holds a charge for three days with (very) light usage and standby.

I waited awhile to write this review, because a tiny note on a tiny tag says it may require three charges before it reaches maximum capacity. Well, now it has had four or five charges (charging now, Thurs. afternoon after having been charged Sunday night) and it's still the same deal. Three days, with almost no calling.

As I said, very disappointed. I'm going to write the seller tonight, see how they respond.

It works fine and hasn't given me any indication that it's not a fully functioning battery. My only concern is that it's not completely brand new. The hologram and the battery itself has some tiny scratches on it and it didn't come in Nokia brand packaging (although the previous one I purchased did). This one came in a little resealed pouch. Also the electric receivers look like it's been in and out of another component because of the wear of the metal. Regardless, it's a good price and hasn't discharged quickly. Hopefully it won't and that's all that matters.

I purchased one from OEM and it was supposed to be new, but came in open plastic sleeve. It has almost zero capacity, lasts about 2 hours after charging full overnight.

There are many different sellers here on Amazon selling what is supposed to be the same exact battery. I bought one from Amazon itself for about 10 bucks, and am happy. Though it cost more than buying from other sellers, frankly it's still very reasonable.

The battery came in a simple plastic sleeve and I was a bit alarmed at first, but it looked new, very clean with no scratches at all and Nokia hologram sticker looked genuine (to read Nokia's explanation for this, search using "nokia genuine battery", unfortunately it seems that amazon doesn't want me to provide the direct link).

And most importantly, right now it's in an old Nokia 6600 which is only used for 2G calling once in a while, and it holds charges for several days (not one day).

And to some of the reviewers, thank you very much for writing the sellers' name explicitly in your review. I hope others follow, like "I bought from seller XXX and it worked (or didn't work)". That way, we will eventually know which seller is better than others at providing genuine, new, good batteries.