Battery consumption - Page 2

diabloNL · 09-04-2006, 01:53 AM

The battery gives the first two discharges twice the capacity? Isn't that a little bit weird. Normaly it would be a lower capacity until a few charge-discharge cycles. Could it be I wasn't paying attention the day they were explaining battery characteristics?

Was I so poor I couldn't pay attention?

Cynics · 09-04-2006, 02:12 AM

I see your point. I'm just going on what a couple of the people said, maybe it is a firmware issue.......

diabloNL · 09-04-2006, 02:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cynics

I see your point. I'm just going on what a couple of the people said, maybe it is a firmware issue.......

I'm sure they can improve it in the firmware but it's strange that with the same firmware it has a higher capacity in the first two cycles. I mean what's causing this? What I would like to know if the battery is really drained when the iLiad switches off.

Cynics · 09-04-2006, 10:56 AM

I guess a couple of questions have to be answered from the people who said they received longer battery life on the first 2 tries:

1. Was the firmware the same version throughout the 3 tests?
2. What is the battery life with firmware 2.6.1?

Could a runaway process eating up all the cpu time cause battery life degradation from 7 to 4 hrs? If the firmware was buggy...i could see it. I seen runaway processes on Linksys wrt54gl routers with dd-wrt linux installed take up all mem and cpu time available.

kusmi · 09-04-2006, 03:09 PM

Also be aware, that CF, MCC cards & USB use lot of battery - so if you did test with cards installed before and removed (or just other brands with other power characteristics) them afterwards, this could affect battery life?

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09-04-2006, 01:53 AM	#16
diabloNL Gadget Force® Posts: 705 Karma: 2733 Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: The Netherlands Device: Sony PRS-300 + Cybook with funny screen :P	The battery gives the first two discharges twice the capacity? Isn't that a little bit weird. Normaly it would be a lower capacity until a few charge-discharge cycles. Could it be I wasn't paying attention the day they were explaining battery characteristics? Was I so poor I couldn't pay attention?

09-04-2006, 02:12 AM	#17
Cynics The Iliad Avenger Posts: 7 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2006	I see your point. I'm just going on what a couple of the people said, maybe it is a firmware issue.......

09-04-2006, 10:56 AM	#19
Cynics The Iliad Avenger Posts: 7 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2006	I guess a couple of questions have to be answered from the people who said they received longer battery life on the first 2 tries: 1. Was the firmware the same version throughout the 3 tests? 2. What is the battery life with firmware 2.6.1? Could a runaway process eating up all the cpu time cause battery life degradation from 7 to 4 hrs? If the firmware was buggy...i could see it. I seen runaway processes on Linksys wrt54gl routers with dd-wrt linux installed take up all mem and cpu time available.

09-04-2006, 03:09 PM	#20
kusmi Connoisseur Posts: 73 Karma: 16 Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Zurich, Switzerland	Also be aware, that CF, MCC cards & USB use lot of battery - so if you did test with cards installed before and removed (or just other brands with other power characteristics) them afterwards, this could affect battery life?

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