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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: How do you calculate the battery status?Re: How do you calculate the battery status?
From: TP Diffenbach <rockbox_at_diffenbach.org>
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 08:39:48 -0400 Quoting Nanker Phelg <nanker_at_sacbeemail.com>: > I have the same behavior on my new JBR 15. I wrote this mailing list about it a > week ago, but I never got a response. > > Does anyone have any information on the battery charging/capacity status on the > JBR 15? > > Thanks > > ---- Begin Original Message ---- > > Hi, > I have a JBR 15. I installed the RockBox(nightly build) and I am very happy > with it. There is one problem however - the battery status is totally wrong. > Around half charge i switch off. Then, when i boot it tells me i have 9% > left. ok. after 10 minutes it says 25% and continues to climb. The first > time i saw this it climbed to 50% and just then started falling again. > Voltage stays virtually the same during the climbing(roughly 5.05v according > to the I/O ports). So now its impossible for me to tell when to plug the > charger. > What gives? Is it time for new batteries yet(right now I am using the > default 1500mAh and they are about a year old)? This is normal behavior. the battery calculation is based on a moving average, and is incorrect immediately after booting. --Tom -- Archos FM has a Rockbox!Received on 2003-08-13 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |