After about 10 months use, my extended battery is no longer maintaining a charge like it used to. I used to be able to go about 36 hours of regular usage before going down to about 20% battery capacity. Now I am barely able to squeeze out a day (nothing to do with MR1 - I was having the same issue before updating). Is this normal for the extended battery?.
Sounds about right for the time you have had the battery. You may be able to breath some life back into the battery by having a battery specialist attempt a reconditioning. Somewhere like a BatteriesPlus store or a Hobby shop that sells Remote control Cars and planes.
I just made the swith to the 1800 and for the first 2 days I pulled about 20 hours....days 3 and on...I'm just making it 10 hours. I've been playing with the GPS and had on "Location On" vs. "911 only"...we'll see what today brings.
Still better than scrambling for a charger or praying I make it thorough the day at 2pm.
Every once in a while do you let your battery drop down so low that it turns the device off? That resets the "digital fuel gauge"
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A lithium-ion battery provides 300-500 discharge/charge cycles. The battery prefers a partial rather than a full discharge. Frequent full discharges should be avoided when possible. Instead, charge the battery more often or use a larger battery. There is no concern of memory when applying unscheduled charges.
Although lithium-ion is memory-free in terms of performance deterioration, batteries with fuel gauges exhibit what engineers refer to as "digital memory". Here is the reason: Short discharges with subsequent recharges do not provide the periodic calibration needed to synchronize the fuel gauge with the battery's state-of-charge. A deliberate full discharge and recharge every 30 charges corrects this problem. Letting the battery run down to the cut-off point in the equipment will do this. If ignored, the fuel gauge will become increasingly less accurate. (Read more in 'Choosing the right battery for portable computing', Part Two.)
Babied the use today with the 1800...no gps...not even a full minute of internet..light email day...batts at 32% now @ 14.38..she came off the charger at 7.45 this am ?? Something's not right..
Babied the use today with the 1800...no gps...not even a full minute of internet..light email day...batts at 32% now @ 14.38..she came off the charger at 7.45 this am ?? Something's not right..
Run it until it shuts the device off.. Not just shuts the radio off, but actually turns the device off. To help it along, when you get home change the power settings to keep the backlight on forever. That will do it.
Oops, sorry dude, I guess I skipped over the part where you have a brand new battery...
That doesn't seem right at all.. unless the "digital fuel guage" was messed up from the start.. still.. I've never seen that before.. I guess it wouldn't hurt to drain her down to 0 and see what happens...
I did notice this AM that the google maps "my location" was turned on. The GPS was off in the device and google maps. I imagine that had something to do with it.
yep the GPS is a HUGE hog for sure. But I dont understand why really becasue that radio would only receive and never transmit.
I guess it uses a TON of cpu to analyze the raw data the gps sends and have a location calculated and ready for any app that might ask for it. But just a WAG on my part.
Something interesting I wanted to note...over the weekend I spent a ton of time outside in the light...of course you can't see the Saga screen out in sunlight because everyone works in an office and nobody goes outside !!
Anyway...I usually have my screen around 60-70% brightness.
Well to see the screen in the sunlight I had to jack it up to 100%.
I forgot all about it and Monday and Yesterday and both days my battery was down to 10% at 4pm from off the charger around 7.30 am. I started receiving warnings around 2pm (25%)
It was interesting realizing how much extra juice the LCD can suck out of the battery time.
Another note worthy item that had me puzzled...To get a little bit of trickle garage into it last night I connected it to my USB on my pc here at work. So it was on the PC from about 5pm to 7.30 pm. The area above the battery was pretty warm....
The odd part...
About 30 minutes into my drive home I noticed it never cooled down. I pulled the battery thinking something must have been stuck.
Once it came back up it cooled back down to it's normal temp.
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