Battery Trick?

[alphanu22]

the weirdest thing happed... my battery was at 40% and i go to use my camera and it wouldn't load. so i did a shut down and boot back up. when i went to look at the battery it went to 70%

so... does doin a restart give you extra 30% worth of battery?

 

[Bond32]

This happened to me a few times with the Droid, but I didnt have time to investigate. Would be interesting if its a known issue, or if it actually is at 70%...

 

[zachflauaus]

I've been having this problem as well and I've been posting it in the Problems With Droid X Battery thread. Apparently the battery has to be conditioned.

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[Bond32]

Interesting... Good news that there is a solution, bad news that anyone has to "condition" any part of the phone. Regardless I have had mine for a day now. At first the battery was draining fast but after a few charges it seems to hold up good.

 

[doctorlove316]

Interesting... Good news that there is a solution, bad news that anyone has to "condition" any part of the phone. Regardless I have had mine for a day now. At first the battery was draining fast but after a few charges it seems to hold up good.

^
This.

 

[shawnpk]

the weirdest thing happed... my battery was at 40% and i go to use my camera and it wouldn't load. so i did a shut down and boot back up. when i went to look at the battery it went to 70%

so... does doin a restart give you extra 30% worth of battery?

Mine did the exact same thing. It was down to 20%, restarted and it's back up to 50% and lasted another 5+ hours.

 

[Stang68]

Interesting... Good news that there is a solution, bad news that anyone has to "condition" any part of the phone. Regardless I have had mine for a day now. At first the battery was draining fast but after a few charges it seems to hold up good.

Ditto

 

[Kupe]

Interesting... Good news that there is a solution, bad news that anyone has to "condition" any part of the phone. Regardless I have had mine for a day now. At first the battery was draining fast but after a few charges it seems to hold up good.

Go to Battery University and you can read about how "conditioning" is a meaningless term with Lithium Ion batteries, but you might learn that the electronics built in to a Li-on battery need to be reset every few dozen cycles (maybe monthly) to maintain the accuracy of the battery monitor.

 

[TurboCam]

okay, I'm a moron. I can't seem to find anywhere that actually shows my battery percentage. where are you guys getting the % from?

nevermind.....just found it:

went to: Settings, About Phone, Status, Battery Level.

damn..that's alot of menus just to get to a battery level %.

 

[1088933]

okay, I'm a moron. I can't seem to find anywhere that actually shows my battery percentage. where are you guys getting the % from?

nevermind.....just found it:

went to: Settings, About Phone, Status, Battery Level.

damn..that's alot of menus just to get to a battery level %.

You can get an app called "Battery Widget" from the market. It's a 1v1 square that gives you a percentage

 

[bucky716]

Go to Battery University and you can read about how "conditioning" is a meaningless term with Lithium Ion batteries, but you might learn that the electronics built in to a Li-on battery need to be reset every few dozen cycles (maybe monthly) to maintain the accuracy of the battery monitor.

It amazes me how long Lithium Ion batteries have been common place but people still think they're using nimh batteries from 1996.

I think the only battery issue is that no one fully charges their battery before they start abusing the phone and then question it.

I was amazed at how well my battery in my Moto Droid did just sitting around today once I deactivated it.