Changing low battery notification from 40% to 10% in registry

[johnegq]

I remember back when I had my Audiovox Thera that I applied a registry hack that allowed me to set the percent of battery remaining (40% default) at which the Pocket PC OS gives the notification bubble.

Will someone point me to that information again? (I've searched many different sites and pages...no luck yet...)

[smittyofdhs]

I remember back when I had my Audiovox Thera that I applied a registry hack that allowed me to set the percent of battery remaining (40% default) at which the Pocket PC OS gives the notification bubble.

Will someone point me to that information again? (I've searched many different sites and pages...no luck yet...)


that's interesting, as it's a OS-driven feature that doesn't have a reg entry for it. If you find it, let us know. I've even researched it with the authors who make these reg tweakers and every one of them said it was impossible to control from the registry....

you can use a reg tweak to allow you to make changes on how the notification displays, such as blink light, show message, make sound, but nothing for changing the percentage at which it displays the notification.

[johnegq]

I am sure that a year ago on Brighthand someone posted information about the registry change...could be wrong

but no Brighthand archives to search

[smittyofdhs]

I am sure that a year ago on Brighthand someone posted information about the registry change...could be wrong

but no Brighthand archives to search
if someone posted it at brghthand it would be tied to the forums search, you can search in the forums..


http://discussion.brighthand.com/search.php?s=ad7ab28ebc02e28ff5c8708f0e6501e0

[johnegq]

I did Brighthand searches...but all results bring up pages that are only a couple months old, not a year. Nothing from before 2003. Or am I missing something?

[smittyofdhs]

I did Brighthand searches...but all results bring up pages that are only a couple months old, not a year. Nothing from before 2003. Or am I missing something?

they have a feature that defaults to last 30 days, it's a pull doen menu that you can change the value to "since beginning"

[johnegq]

Actually it defaults to "Any Date"

[Sooner Al]

...what your looking for?

http://www.phm.lu/PocketPC/RegTweaks/Tweak.asp?ref=55

Other registry tweaks...

http://www.phm.lu/PocketPC/RegTweaks/

The editor...

http://www.phm.lu/Products/PocketPC/regedit.asp

[smittyofdhs]

...what your looking for?

http://www.phm.lu/PocketPC/RegTweaks/Tweak.asp?ref=55

Other registry tweaks...

http://www.phm.lu/PocketPC/RegTweaks/

The editor...

http://www.phm.lu/Products/PocketPC/regedit.asp


all three of these just allow the user to modify the way the low batt indicator works, such as light, sound, message...but these will not allow you to reduce the % at which it notifies and/or allow the user turn the notification completely off. These are the tweaks I mentioned prior as well sa this is one of the app authors I spoke with about reducing the %, all of which said it was impossible to do that with a registry function.

[Sslixtis]

Actually you are both right! 8O

This registry hack Modify the Low battery warning (Pocket PC 2002) (http://www.phm.lu/PocketPC/RegTweaks/Tweak.asp?ref=55) doesn't actually change the percentage at which the notification comes up, but it does allow you to turn off the notification that displays at 40% which only leaves the default notification that comes up at 20%. One of the hacks I have used on my HP568, iPaq3955 and my Axim X5.
:beer:

[smittyofdhs]

Actually you are both right! 8O

This registry hack Modify the Low battery warning (Pocket PC 2002) (http://www.phm.lu/PocketPC/RegTweaks/Tweak.asp?ref=55) doesn't actually change the percentage at which the notification comes up, but it does allow you to turn off the notification that displays at 40% which only leaves the default notification that comes up at 20%. One of the hacks I have used on my HP568, iPaq3955 and my Axim X5.
:beer:


a little clarification....

this hack allows the low battery notification to be changed but you can not totally get rid of it. Even if you uncheck everything under this sound notification, you still get the icon appearing in taskbar. Yes, no notification bubble pops up, & no sound...but the icon still appears on the taskbar. There's no way to stop that from happening.

[karen]

I would think that some small indicator would be a GOOD THING.

I can't imagine the D'oh factor level if I could turn off all indicators and all of a sudden had the machine shut down when I could have been charging...

Karen

[smittyofdhs]

I would think that some small indicator would be a GOOD THING.

I can't imagine the D'oh factor level if I could turn off all indicators and all of a sudden had the machine shut down when I could have been charging...

Karen
yes it is a good thing... I was just clearing up the mis-information above....

[Sslixtis]

little clarification....

this hack allows the low battery notification to be changed but you can not totally get rid of it. Even if you uncheck everything under this sound notification, you still get the icon appearing in taskbar. Yes, no notification bubble pops up, & no sound...but the icon still appears on the taskbar. There's no way to stop that from happening.

Interesting, I've never seen this. Although, I must admit that I'm usually reading an eBook by the time my battery gets to the 40% mark, so it could be under the Palm Media Reader GUI so I don't see it when it appears. I'll have to keep an eye out for it. :worried:

Ok, I just ran my battery down to 39%, no icon appeared in my taskbar. Could this be a feature of some other software on your PPC? This doesn't appear to be standard to PPC2K2.