Battery Monitor Inaccuracies?

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mamiidetuvida

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Has anyone experienced squirrely battery monitor behaviour? For example, the other day I was listening to my music via bluetooth headphones and reading an e-book for 45 minutes. I got home, checked the battery monitor and saw that there was about 55% left. I read for another ten minutes, and got a message that my Palm was critically low on juice, and then it shut down a minute later. Today, however, I did the same 45 minutes streaming music and reading, and when I quit, the battery monitor claimed 99% left! That, to me, is abnormal. Is there a better battery monitor, or a bug fix for this?
 
Thanks, Ian. It is VERY odd behaviour, I'll agree. When you couple that with the lousy power button, I'm starting to consider sending it in for repair...
 
The battery need recalibration from time to time. About every 6 month to year do a hard reset, charge the Palm for several hours then do a restore. You'll find what is actually going on with the battery and what the palm reports is now more accurate and stable.
 
Sometimes it just needs to refresh the battery indicator. I'll put the m130 on the charger when the battery is about half. It will creep up a little over the course of a day, but not much. It should really show full at this point. But then I'll leave the program manager (by running an app briefly), and return to the program manager. When I return, I get a much higher battery indicator.

So refreshing is part of the problem - but not entirely. I upgraded from the stock 750 mAh to an aftermarket 850 mAh battery, and no I rarely see a full indicator, even after days of charging, and refreshing the display. This may be a matter of calibration, but that would be rediculous to have to recalibrate as often as the indicator is off.

Also, wouldn't calibrating involve discharging the battery first Johnling?
 
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