Here are the missing instructions: Try terminals on your battery until you get a red light. Then plug it in and wait until the light turns blue. It automatically figures out which is positive and negative for you.I bought this charger because I got a few batteries for my Nexus S for cheap and didn't want to have to swap them out of the phone to charge them. I've actually been pretty impressed with this device. It says on the back of it that it can tell which terminals are positive and negative automatically. I was pretty skeptical of this claim until I checked it with my multimeter, and sure enough, the thing automatically figures it out when I put the battery in backwards. After I figured out that the light hints to you how to use it, I thought that the entire thing was really clever.
It also charges my batteries fairly fast, so it's probably equally clever about how to charge lithium-ion batteries. All in all, pretty happy with it.
No instructions though, and i didn't want to plug my battery in the wrong way. I didn't see any positive negative indicators on the charger terminals. So i used a volt meter to see which one is which before i plugged in the battery. If your staring at the face of the charger with the big ANKER logo, the gold terminal on the left is positive + and the gold terminal on the right is negative ). Look on your battery for polarity markings and plug in your battery appropriately. My battery has 3 terminals, and the middle one should be ignored for charging purposes. I'm not to sure what happens if you plug in the battery backwards????? Probably just wont charge, maybe the led on the charger lets you know somethings wrong. I don't feel testing it.I purchased this item because the USB charging port on my cell phone was damaged. So rather than pay $$$ to get my phone fixed, I bought this. Is works like a charm!! It's not hard to line up the annodes, and I really like that the indicator light turns from red-purple-blue letting you know when its fully charged. The down side was that there were absolutely no instructions. Granted, it is pretty self-explanatory, but still instructions at least detailing the indicator light would have been nice.So far I tried it on two different sized batteries for 2 different cell phone. Works well. The charger auto-detects the polarity of the battery so it doesn't matter whether positive is on the outside or inside contact. The terminals can be easily moved to adjust for different battery configurations and the charger has a spring loaded adjustment for holding the battery in place. When the terminals touch the battery contacts you get a red light. The charger will show red while charging, then switch to a blue light when fully charged. I don't know how it could be made simpler.I purchased this to charge my Samsung Galaxy Note 2 GT-N7100 batteries. It is not sufficient for these. It will not fit the batteries physically, or charge them above 94% (I managed to get it to hold the batteries using a rubber band). However, it's a very nice charger with lots of features and the company has outstanding customer service. They sent me a proper charger for no charger after I contacted them about this.
There is a review here that recommends using this charger for the Note 2. DO NOT BUY THIS FOR THE NOTE 2.
However, since I still have a Samsung Galaxy S 2, this should be fine for that phone.
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