About this replacement
Motorola Moto C Plus XT1723 / XT1724 — 3.8V Li-Polymer Replacement Battery (HC60)
This is the HC60 replacement cell for the Motorola Moto C Plus, including the Dual SIM variants XT1723 and XT1724. It runs at 3.8V and delivers 2850mAh (10.83Wh) using Li-Polymer chemistry. Fit this battery when the original no longer holds charge or the phone shuts down unexpectedly under load.
- Moto C Plus family compatibility: The XT1723 and XT1724 share the same battery bay dimensions and connector pinout, so one HC60 cell covers both the single and Dual SIM variants. The BMS wiring is identical across this sub-series — no adapter or modification needed.
- Bench tested on actual hardware: We cycled this cell through charge and discharge on the Moto C Plus platform, confirmed BMS handshake with the charge IC, and verified the protection circuit trips correctly at low-voltage cutoff without false lockout.
- Fuel gauge recalibration on first use: After fitting a new HC60, disable fast charging and run one full discharge down to automatic shutdown, then charge uninterrupted to 100%. This gives the Moto C Plus fuel gauge IC one clean reference cycle against the new cell's actual discharge curve before fast-charge current is applied.
Why the Moto C Plus reports the wrong battery percentage after a cell swap
The Moto C Plus uses a coulomb counter that stores the discharge curve of the original cell. When a new HC60 goes in, the stored curve no longer matches the new cell's voltage-versus-capacity profile. The phone reads voltage correctly but maps it to the wrong percentage because the reference data is stale. One full discharge-to-shutdown followed by an uninterrupted charge to 100% lets the fuel gauge IC overwrite its calibration table against the actual new cell.
Sudden shutdown at 20–30% on the replacement cell
This happens when the modem radio or display draws a current spike the cell voltage cannot sustain, causing the terminal voltage to drop below the BMS cutoff threshold even though the reported percentage looks safe. On a freshly installed cell with an uncalibrated fuel gauge, the OS may show 25% while the actual cell is already near the voltage cliff. Run the first full discharge cycle without fast charging to let the coulomb counter recalibrate — after one clean cycle, the shutdown point should align with reported charge below 5%.