Nokia 5800XM High Performance Battery

Nokia 5800XM High Performance Battery
I saw this advertisement and also some of my friends in Malaysia using high performance battery on their Nokia 5800XM phone. Whereby the standard power output allowed to the device is 3.7volts @ 1320mAH. However, these users bought higher performance battery (linked example below). My question is:
1. Does this allowed by Nokia to be used by end-users on the device?
2. Any side effects technically on long term use?
3. Does Nokia covers warranty on this issue?
Example seller link: http://www.valuemax.co.uk/product_details.php?id=15835
Note: I prefer some senior members / Nokia staff to reply on this topic.
TQ .. XM
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Using this battery in and of itself will not have any impact on your warranty.
However, if the phone is damaged through use of this battery (eg. electrolyte leakage or explosion!) then it will not be covered by the warranty.
I actually have one of these batteries and I'm pleased with it. Please do note, however, that the camera window is poorly designed making flash photography impossible. There is no insulation between the flash and the lens meaning that light from the flash floods any photo taken using it. It has no discernable impact on daylight photography, though.
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MSI GS60 Ghost Pro 2QE Golden Edition:
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Comfort- System locks GPU chip temp and dynamic adjusts the GPU chip temp
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Hello,
When I originally bought my Macbook Pro three weeks ago, I had no issues with going to system preferences and selecting and saving the "Higher Performance" setting for the graphics for the Power Adapter. This visibly improved graphics performance for some programs I use.
However, recently, I noticed graphics performance wasn't as expected when running on house power, and I noticed that in system preferences < Energy Saver, my graphics settings have been placed back to "better battery life" for the Power Adapter setting...I keep trying to change it back to "Higher Performance;" when I log out and back in, and re-check the Energy Saver settings, there's a message box saying that I still need to log out for the changes to save. I can log out multiple times and they never seem to save, with that message continuing to be there. If I reboot altogether, and go back to system preferences < energy saver, its back to "better battery life," as if I never made an attempt to select "Higher Performance." Ive tried repairing permissions, and I've tried repairing the disk using the start up DVD during the boot cycle, and nothing seems to help. Since this is a new computer with few items on it, I even did a clean install of the OS....still to no avail.
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my problem is simalar but different.
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Turn the computer off (to be safe, remove the power-cord)
Clear cmos with the jumper (instructions can be found in your manual)
Wait 30 seconds
Put the jumper back to its original position.
Power on the system, and see if it works ?
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Clear CMOS Jumper: JBAT1
There is a CMOS RAM on board that has a power supply from external battery
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MSI Reminds You...
You can clear CMOS by shorting 2-3 pin while the system is off.
Then return to 1-2 pin position. Avoid clearing the CMOS while the
system is on; it will damage the mainboard.

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Hei.
I have bought Nokia N95 last week and returned it today after extremely poor battery performance. I observed following things:-
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3) I fully charged the battery connected to WIFI and did chat on MSN for around 1 hour and battery was finished exactly after 3.5 hours.
Nokia builtup so great device and with so much poor battery?
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Anyone if having same problem with battery please post comments here or its just with my device?
Waqar.

selling my n95 on ebay
battery is too poor
i need a phone that dosent need charging 2x 3x every day just for average general use
gonna go back to my n73 battery is much better operating system is nice and stable after v4 on n73-- i hate the key miss bug in the v12 firmware on n95 --
i dont need wifi
dont like maps and in built gps as it takes so long even with the assisted thing turnt on
my n73 and tomtom is up and running in 1 min max via bluetooth gps
allthough it would be handy to have the inbuilt one when i didnt have my reciever but my battery would prob drain after 1-2 hours :-)
my gps reciever goes for at least 6 hours constantly connected probs much longer and that only cst 30 quid
dunno i was just much more satisfied with the n73 as a contract upgade
even the slider seems loose
this device is supposed to cost 500+ quid on nokias website
if i paid that i would be sooooo dispaointed
just my view
if your near a power source all the time or are in the car with a charger youd prob be ok but i just think nokia could/should have put a better battery in there i mean it plays music for like 3-4 hours then batterys drained a half decent mp3 player will last 10-15 hours and my n73 does 5-6 no probs :-)
cheeses it even more they release the american nokia n95 with bigger battery
pantsMessage Edited by buxz777 on 29-Aug-200701:53 AM

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I am using a refurbished Macbook purchased in late 2011, its running on Mac OS-X version 10.6.8.
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The guy at the shop says the fans are working fine, even though iStat says the fans are running at 0 RPM.
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its most likely shutting down to prevent the mac from overheating and getting damaged. Since this only happens during high performance.

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Same here. Macbook Retina 15", purchased earlier this year.
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