I have problem and i don't have the skill to solve it by myself. I often use my phone during charging. It turns out that my phone often presenting "recharge needed" or somthing like that, a second later the phone is dead, out of power. well, thats ok. becouse there is no power left.

the thing is that i dont get any signs of low battery, since the phone is connected so wallsocket. The indicator is green and jumping up and down, no indication of low power is presented until its to late.

I'm often using music, one or two browsers and mail client. nothing more. is this really enough to consum more power than added during charging.

Any why to see battery level during charging? if not, any why to get other warning message during charging, instead of one sec before closedown?

is this command presenting correct info during charging too?

lshal|grep battery
lshal|grep percentage

How are you charging it? AC or USB?

wallsocket --> micro usb

Oddness. I have mine connected via USB to my laptop all day, and it stays fully charged.

lshal percentage is not updated during charge.

However, voltage is, one can guess from there. This already being discussed in another thread, i think with the battery percentage widget.

I think there's a request to Nokia, too. I'm in the middle of something and can't search now

ok, i can do that

unplug it to see how much its charged?

i could. but i have a feeling it always presenting a much higher power level and then lose power fast. just a feeling

Not really.

Your guess would be golden for direct-sustained devices. N900 uses the battery to drive the internals, the AC is just too noisy. So it has an accurate feel of the battery voltage since it's under load and not disconnected and charging, thus showing the vdrop on the charger.

lshal also shows last full voltage so it's even better than just guessing 4.25 or so. I just wish that the battery would be red and indicating when charging instead of the useless animation.

But that part of the phone is closed IIRC.