Rockbox

  • Status Closed
  • Percent Complete
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  • Task Type Bugs
  • Category Battery/Charging
  • Assigned To No-one
  • Operating System Sansa e200
  • Severity Low
  • Priority Very Low
  • Reported Version Daily build (which?)
  • Due in Version Undecided
  • Due Date Undecided
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Attached to Project: Rockbox
Opened by haudyr - 2008-01-23
Last edited by bluebrother - 2008-03-08

FS#8505 - Wrong battery levels on sansa e200

I have a Sansa e280 and the new battery levels for Sansa e200 added in
revision 16122, predicts a battery life of about 4 hours and fully
charged reads about 80%, after 3 hours of playback it reads about 25%.

The levels from the previous revision is more accurate and predicts
the battery life to about 12 hours and fully charged reads about 100%, after 10 hours of playback it reads about 15%.

I recommend a roll back to the old levels.

Closed by  bluebrother
2008-03-08 13:58
Reason for closing:  Fixed
AthenaOfDelphi commented on 2008-02-03 20:14

I have also noticed this issue, with roughly the same times and levels as Kim.

Buschel commented on 2008-02-05 15:35

I cannot explain this difference from the changes in source code. With this patch it is “easier” to reach 100% (now 4.16V = 100%, before 4.2V = 100%) and the main changes are in lower voltage area and avoid the “%” stying at 40% and drop to 0% within 30 minutes. The estimated battery life was not directly touched with this change – estimated runtime for 80% capacity must be still the same, with or without this change.

haudyr commented on 2008-02-05 19:49

I can see your point Andree.
I will try to use the current revision, for now, and check it for a couple of charge cycles.

Regards
Kim

haudyr commented on 2008-02-08 20:45

I have now tested the current revision and it works fine, the battery levels is more accurate now.

The problem was not with the new levels as i first thought but more likeley a bug was triggered
in the build from the 23/1-08 on my sansa so it gave false readings of the battery levels,
and probably also on Christina’s sansa, but for all i know it has been fixed in the build from the 5/2-08.

So if you observe similar problems on your sansa, try upgrading to the current build, it may fix the problem.

Thanks Andree for the new battery levels :-)

I think we can close this case.

Best regards
Kim Hauritz

AthenaOfDelphi commented on 2008-02-10 14:34

I downloaded and installed the latest build last night. With my Sansa fully charged, I got the correct battery level. I’m currently just running the battery down and so far, the levels look correct.

Thanks :-)

Just like to say, this is an excellent project, thanks to everyone who makes it possible.

Buschel commented on 2008-02-12 14:21

So, anyone please close this one.

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