Battery Drainage Run-Down Information

**Frenchy** · 10-29-04, 03:35 PM

Here it is as promised using a standard Dell 950mAh

100% to 41%: The battery monitoring graph bar is green.
40% to 21% : The battery monitoring graph bar change to gold
20% to 0% : The battery monitoring graph bar change to red

At 20% You get a message to make sure that the backup battery is in order and to recharge or change the battery.
At 15% The ON/OFF button starts flashing (red).
At 10% You get a Red dialog box message titled "Main Battery very low" and you are asked to recharge according to the instructions in the manual.
At 3% The music was still playing normally.
At 0% Everything stopped and the Axim

The backup battery show normal through the whole process.

Time needed to completely discharge the battery - 6.5 hours playing music with full brightness on. :approve:

It took 75 minutes to drain the last 5%
A little over 30 minutes for the last %

biffs · 10-29-04, 03:40 PM

Originally Posted by Frenchy

Here it is as promised

It took 75 minutes to drain the last 5%
A little over 30 minutes for the last %

wow, thats more than 1 hour in the last 5% of battery

**Frenchy** · 10-29-04, 03:46 PM

I was surprised too but remember that we do this to resync the battery power to be displayed properly and maybe even if it was showing 5%, it may have been 10 or 12. This is the best explanation I can come with.

10-29-04, 03:59 PM

Yeah and I really recommend that if you need your Axim for all day, don't leave the brightness on maximum. I usually have it lowered by 3-4 levels.

gerald_26 · 10-29-04, 04:11 PM

is it recommend to complete drain the battery once in a while? doesn't affect the battery?

biffs · 10-29-04, 09:29 PM

i do it every 20 mini charges or so

**Frenchy** · 10-29-04, 09:33 PM

Originally Posted by gerald_26

is it recommend to complete drain the battery once in a while? doesn't affect the battery?

No it is recommended to keep the battery healty

**Frenchy** · 11-11-04, 09:55 AM

To make this information viewable again.

gdub · 11-11-04, 10:25 AM

Originally Posted by biffs

i do it every 20 mini charges or so

How do you completely run down the battery? Just leave your axim on until it manually shuts itself down due to the main battery level being too low?

**Frenchy** · 11-11-04, 10:34 AM

Just let it drain to 0% and it will shut down. Recharge after.

Mr-Fly · 11-11-04, 10:41 AM

@frenchy
when I do that, to let it run to 0 and it turns off.
Is that the moment when the backup gets in ?
So the data is not lost?
How long can the device be in that mode, until it looses the data?

Kind Regards Thorsten

**Frenchy** · 11-11-04, 10:44 AM

Originally Posted by Mr-Fly

@frenchy
when I do that, to let it run to 0 and it turns off.
Is that the moment when the backup gets in ?
So the data is not lost?
How long can the device be in that mode, until it looses the data?

Kind Regards Thorsten

Yes, the Backup battery gets in and you then have about 30 minutes to start recharging the unit.

Rainh2o · 11-12-04, 11:09 AM

Great info Frenchy!! If you want a fast way to run it down do this...turn on the wifi, blue tooth, brightness on screen all the way up and crank up the processor speed to its max and then play a movie or something with sound. It will only last a couple of hours in this mode.

I usually run mine in auto for the processor and brightness as far down as I can. I have no problem lasting all day with few mins of use here and there. When I use Bluetooth I turn wifi off and that saves lots of battery also.

**Frenchy** · 11-12-04, 11:19 AM

Thanks for the tip. I try to do it normally for everyone benefit. Now that it is completed I will drain as you said to save time. The first try and recording took to long.

Rainh2o · 11-12-04, 01:35 PM

even if you dont play a movie, just having the wifi and bluetooth and brightness up drains it pretty fast. Thats how I drained my battery fast enough to test and see if the little regulator I had was going to be able to handle it.