Re: Pybattery - battery statusbar applet with candies
 

seems similar to something i experienced. watched the battery drop from ca 45% to 0.3, and keep thing going for anher half hour or so...

Re: Pybattery - battery statusbar applet with candies
 

This behaviour might be the result of the battery's fuel gauge getting out of sync. See for example the section "Calibrate the notebook PC battery" here:
http://h20239.www2.hp.com/techcenter...attery_max.htm

Of course, no one really knows how Li-Ion batteries work, so this procedure might lower you battery's capacity, instead of calibrating the fuel gauge.

Re: Pybattery - battery statusbar applet with candies
 

So basically, it says to fully charge the battery, make sure the device doesn't go to sleep, while you fully discharge the battery, and then you fully charge it again. That doesn't seem so risky. Probably the easiest way to make sure it doesn't go to sleep and to make the battery discharge fast is to play a long video, right?

Re: Pybattery - battery statusbar applet with candies
 

i know nothing and may be blowing smoke out of my you know what... but the oem batteries are not Li-Ion but are Li-Polymer see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium-polymer "When compared to the lithium-ion battery, Li-poly has a greater life cycle degradation rate. However, in recent years, manufacturers have been declaring upwards of 500 charge-discharge cycles before the capacity drops to 80%"

Re: Pybattery - battery statusbar applet with candies
 

Even better, stream a video over WiFi, over and over again. Write a script that just keeps looping:

I guess you could also just play something on WorldTV99 or something.

That should sap the battery quickly.

Re: Pybattery - battery statusbar applet with candies
 

Running the Map application (with the GPS on?) seems to keep it "on" forever.

Re: Pybattery - battery statusbar applet with candies
 

There is supposed to be some light sensor function with this advanced battery app, right?

I don't have that. I have an N810

Re: Pybattery - battery statusbar applet with candies
 

And this feature (which I did a quick hack in python):

http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...ad.php?t=26445

Pause when the charger is disconnected and play when it starts (like when using a car charger).

Re: Pybattery - battery statusbar applet with candies
 

Been away for a while...

Well, it should work... Is problem still there?

No problem. It will be a part of "User controlled event handling", so I put a note about it in my roadmap.

Re: Pybattery - battery statusbar applet with candies
 

Interesting, so that means a device of 1,5 years old has about a battery life of 80% which is still reasonably good. If you keep that in mind and you really need 2 hours with your laptop while it only gives that when you initially bought it thats a big problem. But if your phone goes from 2 days to 1,5 days while you load it up every day anyway that is not an issue.