Hi for all,
The battery of my P3600 shows falls each 10% (100, 90, 80...) It would like to know if it exists a skill to become the visualization most accurate (of 1 in 1%)...
Thanks!!!
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I bought a new HTC P3600 2 weeks ago.
It went with WM5 but I flashed it to WM6 (US AX3L 2.0.8.1 ROM).
I installed all my applications, and tested everything (phone, camera, GPS, WiFi...etc).
=> Wonderful ! Everything works as it should (a little miracle !)...
But: the only thing I noticed (I don't know if it's a bug) concerns the battery meter.
I'm using SPB Pocket plus to display the meter on the Today screen, but the "internal" WM6 system battery meter displays the same value, so, the problem doesn't come from SPB PP.
When I unpacked the device (coming from the factory), the battery was showing 40% of charge. After 2-3 hours, it climbed to 100%. Fine.
But since, it's ALWAYS showing 100% !!!
2 possibilities:
- the battery management is excellent and it doesn't loose much power. Strange, because phone, GPS or WiFi are usually power-consuming applications, and my old HP iPaq hx2410 was easily loosing 10% by quarter hour of heavy use...
- the battery meter is inaccurate.
Just one time, I noticed (after having worked on battery during the day, and after a soft-reset), the meter was showing 90%. I connected the USB cable, and after some minutes (too short in my opinion to charge the missing 10%), the meter was at 100% again.
So, it's like if the meter was only moving by 10% steps.
Therefore, when it's striclty over 90%, it show 100%, whatever it's really at 91% or at 99%. When it shows 90%, that should then mean the power is between 81% and 90%.
Strange behaviour. It's the very first PDA I know acting like this !
Is it just an impression or is it the reality ?
Can't I improve the meter precision ?
Thanks in advance.
The battery meter does move in 10% increments on this device,
Cheers,
Danny
Hello personnel, would show the p3600 the consumption of battery in fraction of 1 by 1%, rather than 10 to 10%?
We tried several programs but all show of 10 by 10%.
Compliments.
I don't think, that it is possible to read the Battery-status that exactly!
i noticed battery level feedback in my x1 is just in 10% steps. (shown with homescreen). is this normal? other htc devices are more precise...
DocMAX said:
i noticed battery level feedback in my x1 is just in 10% steps. (shown with homescreen). is this normal? other htc devices are more precise...
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Yes, I notice that also after putting in the percentage icons for the battery meter.
Probably SE purposely design it to be like that.
is there a registry hack?
Would like to have precise indicator too, 10% steps are bit ugly. With 1% steps you can figure actual consumption and extimated battery time quite well...
No hack yet?
X1 can only show battery life with 10% precision? even 3rd party Battery meters display in 10% steps. Can not think of any advantage of such a primitive feature design. Hack or a workaround would be much appreciated.
would be happy to be proven wrong, but the source that provides the status of the battery life is an OEM driver that is device-specific, Microsoft only provides the API to access the source. So there's no way you can hack unless you write a new power management driver for X1.
The thing with LiPo batteries is, that the nominal voltage is 3.6 [V] and the minimum voltage is 2.5 [V] (below this, the battery will be damaged).
So the usable voltage range are 1.1 [V]. The device has to measure the voltage to show the battery level. Due to the tolerances and mesurement deviations it is hard, if not impossible, to measure more exact than 1/10th [V].
SonyEricsson therefore shows a realistic value of the battery level whereas devices that show more exact values simply lie.
i have noticed that the battery metter is completely unreliable
for example it shows 28% left (btw, i installed FInixNOverBattery for percentage indication) and after a soft reset it shows 41%
or it shows 50% and after soft reset it shows 31%
in this way i can never estimate how long the battery will last
does anybody faced this issue? any solution fot it? (i also tryed to calibrate by completely drain the battery followed by complete charge withe the device turned off)
thank you in advance!
noris08,
it is completey normal to experience big jumps in % after a reboot. The battery % is just a representation of the actual voltage of the LiPoly battery, which usually recovers (rises) quite a bit when there is no load on the battery (even for a short time).
maybe what you say it is true, but i never experienced this behaviour with any of my previous phones. and i had a few, including wm for a few years
and variations of 10-15% - i find them too big
I noticed the same thing. Any explanation for this? Or it is just that FInixNOverBattery is not reliable/compatible/accurate ?
Voltage may vary/jump around due to environmental changes and power consumption or voltage sensor may be insufficiently accurate to provide reliable voltage readings for 1% steps. This is one of the reasons why many battery drivers in WM only provide remaining charge percentage in 10% steps.
In this light, voltage on its own is not a sufficient indicator of remaining charge percentage. Other parameters, such as voltage deviation and other factors, such as power consumption and temperature may need to be taken into account to obtain a more accurate evaluation.
Hello all,
I'm using the original European rom (the first updated ROM that came out; didn't have time to install the second updated ROM )
The only program I'm running is S2U2 (slide to unlock2), the newest version.
The problem I'm experiencing is the next: The battery status from S2U2 gives a percentage of 26%, but the battery indicator from Windows Mobile (upper right corner) gives an indication of 2 Blocks (so battery more than half-full).
When I go to the settings tab, press more and have a look at the battery indicator of Windows Mobile in detailed version, I see I have only 3 green blocks left. This shows the INDICATION of S2U2 of 26% battery remaining was correct!
But the TRUE CAPACITY isnt, because:
The weirdest thing is, my battery stayed at the level of 26% remaining ALL DAY, while normally my battery goes down with about 20% a day..
The problem is situated in WM itsself I guess :s
It also isn't something that happened once, it has occurred more often...
I also shut down the phone every evening and boot it up every morning, but I never experienced any trouble with that. Even letting the battery go flat to about 3% and then a full recharge (as wel leaving the phone turned on as letting it shut down by itsself) didn't help...
Any Idea's / experience with it?
Thanks in advance,
Borai
The answer is in the information you've provided; The WM "4-bar" display shows 25% per bar. If S2U2 is showing 26%, that's over 25%, and therefore showing two bars
A small explaination:
- 4 bars = 100% - 76%
- 3 bars = 75% - 51%
- 2 bars = 50% - 26%
- 1 bar = 25% - 0%
As for the battery draining faster / slower than usual, it all depends on usage. In low signal areas the battery will drain faster as it spends more ticks trying to get a connection. Turning the screen on and off consumes battery power, using WiFi, leaving applications running in the background... Any number of causes.
Not really
At the moment I'm at 21% according to S2U2 (yes, a full day and I only used 5% battery power, not really possible I think...)
The battery indicator in the right corner still shows 2 bars... And the indicator from 'all settings' still shows 3 blocks left...
There is defenitely something strange going on, because I never really experienced this problems when the phone was brand new...