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Old 03-06-2003, 12:10 AM
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Default Battery Monitor by PDAwin.com

http://www.handango.com/PlatformPro...productId=24748

I've always been obsessed with battery life on the Pocket PC - measuring it, testing it, poking and prodding it. Battery Monitor is one product for measuring battery life - what do you use for battery life testing?



� "Display the time (hour:minute:second) while your PDA device is running since last charged
� Display the time while your PDA was in suspend mode
� Display the estimated time to 20% of battery capacity
� Display system resources as free Program memory, free Storage memory and free memory on Storage card
� After reset the all data will be refresh
� Display battery capacity in task bar
� Graphics presentation of battery capacity level
� History of battery capacity in numerical values (date, time and capacity)
� Display the time when you start to charge your PDA device"

You can download a trial version or buy the full version for $9.95.
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Old 03-06-2003, 12:39 AM
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Wow...a photocap from the Aero?

I wonder -- if this program is installed on something can't read the precise battery level due to hardware limitations (i.e. Jornadas can only read the accuracy to quarters) -- what would happen?
 
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Old 03-06-2003, 12:46 AM
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Wow...a photocap from the Aero?
Yeah, retro interface? Look how far we've come... :lol:
 
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Old 03-06-2003, 03:12 AM
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This looks like just what I need. My Toshiba e740 has been experiencing short battery life, or at least I think it is. I hadn't had anything that would give me history before, just current.
 
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Old 03-06-2003, 03:33 AM
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This looks like just what I need. My Toshiba e740 has been experiencing short battery life, or at least I think it is. I hadn't had anything that would give me history before, just current.
Its not your Toshiba, its the battery itself. I had one and it was the best device in the world, save for the battery. It was bad. You can fix it a little by buying the extended battery (100 bucks) or wait until the e750. Although, I have heard that its the battery app in the OS that doesn't sync properly to the battery, and this might be true. After all, you plug it in and the battery meter goes up 20% in a second.

As for the battery monitor, works just fine. I tried it on a 3955 (my trade in for the e740) and it works fine. And is it me or am I the only person that misses the Aero look. It might be retro but I still have one. And its with the Old OS. I don't use it but I like the look of the OS anyway.
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Old 03-08-2003, 06:57 AM
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I ended up uninstalling this software. I soft reset my e740 every morning after the backups run. This is because I have the backups kill all running apps so that they are clean. This results in a "Please soft reset your device" message.

Battery Monitor started from scratch as if I had just started it for the first time and didn't have the previous information.

Oh well.
 
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