Hi All,
Since last Sunday, my Dell Axim X51V is in a situation where the battery is draining faster.
Today I used for 10 minutes and the battery is 50% charged.
There is any way to know if there is any program running and eating the battery?
I checked the memory icon and there is no program running in background.
Do any of you faced this kind of situation and has a tip or idea on what is happening.
Sorry, but I am very new with my Dell Axim and at this site. I had no chance to verify if some similar thread was posted before.
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Last July, I thought my battery was dying. I then realized that li-ions drain a lot faster at different temps. They run better when its cool. Around 60F or 15C.
As it gets warmer out, the liions seem to act like they are dying, at least mine does. I just try to use ac whenever i can during those hot sticky days. On those cold winter days, the battery works a lot better.
Freezing your liion battery can kill it, so dont get any ideas. That doesnt mean u can put it in the frdige. LOL
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hummm. This make sense. I am using a new cover and I realised that my pda get very hot when it is charging. Last Sunday I used my Axim during many hours without take it out of the cover. Let try to charge it out of the cover and check if something changes.
Regards and thank you for your comments.
/Mauro
...I'll add one more... I've noticed that when one of my reminders go off and I'm not around to turn it off, my battery seems to go into a speed drain... I haven't had time to tinker with it much lately, but every battery drain period occured concurently to a reminder not being attended to...
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Please check out my link to the Fake Server trick. Rapid drop in charge is a known issue with the X51 and this trick fixes it in every instance I've ever heard about.
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I don't think it's anything actually draining the battery faster. Even when I'm running the CPU and GPU and, well, everything full out, it discharges a maximum of 10% in 10 minutes. Li-Ions have two special properties that could be causing this.
1. They need to be fully discharged once approximately every 50 partial charge cycles to correct their on-board charge meters.
2. They have a nasty habit of losing capacity in steps, unlike most other battery chemistries which lose capacity gradually over their lives.
They also, as just mentioned, function much better in cooler temperature, but I don't think this is the point here.
On an extraneous note, Li-Po (Lithium Polymer) batteries, which are almost like Li-Ions except instead of seperate Lithium, well, Ions, they are strung together in, well, Polymers. Among other things, this means they don't need a protective layer between every cell in a battery, meaning batteries can be made in much more specialized shapes then Li-Ions, and they have a higher capacity density, mainly in smaller applications. However, they have only become practical to use in the last coupe years as technology has advanced to allow them to function at normal temperatures. Before that their nominal running temperature was in excess of 1000 degrees F (no extra zeros there). About now, their nominal running temperature has been lowered to around 110 degrees F, making them quite practical for small devices. Since they are noticably cheaper to manufacture than Li-Ions, it is quite surprising that the only device I have found them to be used in is the OQO.
The end of a mostly pointless post.
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Please check out my link to the Fake Server trick. Rapid drop in charge is a known issue with the X51 and this trick fixes it in every instance I've ever heard about.
...and it fixed the VAST majority of mine too... Then I began adding other programs... at first, still great... then more programs... well, you get the picture... then, somewhere along the way, I started having ridiculously fast battery drains again... like before the fake server trick... only this time, it only happened sporadically.. I started checking if other programs were running in the background (like Activesync), but - nothing... I began to notice that my drains were happening when I was at work and that I hadn't had tme to address a reminder (such as work begining)... my Axim would go from a virtually full charge down to 25-35% within less than an hour... Now, I may have been doing something else inadvertantly (don't let the WF influenced post count fool you into thinking I really am a senior member... I am still quite the newb), but the pattern became quite clear when I started keeping track... I plan to remove the .wav file that I use for my reminders as it is not the defaut one set with my X51v... if that doesn't do it, I'll try to go an extended period without using any reminders to see if the drain still happens occsionally...
BTW, I did actually re-do the fake server trick at one point with the idea that maybe one of the programs that I had added may have somehow changed my registry and :voided: the original fake server trick... unfortunately, this was not the needed remedy....
Lastly, this is a very occasional happening... not at all like pre-fake server drains and WSOD...
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it appears this issue has happened for me today as well. redid the fake server to test it out. i did notice my notifications stopped happening as well in P.Information. Not cool ,as i almost missed a meeting today. o drat.
**just an update for me, memmaid solved my issues...
The batteries have 3 month. I am very new with Axim. I never discharged completly the batteries and charge than every day. They still draining faster than some weeks ago.
I have two 1100 batteries.
it appears this issue has happened for me today as well. redid the fake server to test it out. i did notice my notifications stopped happening as well in P.Information. Not cool ,as i almost missed a meeting today. o drat.
**just an update for me, memmaid solved my issues...
What did you do with Memmaid to fix it???
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Last week, I had a problem with my PDA and I had to hard reset it.
After that, I installed again some f the applicatons I had installed.
Now, my PDA is working with a normal use of the battery. This means that I can use it for a day long and only 30% of the battery is used. I sync it with my desktop at work with BT 4 or 5 times a day period of 10 hours.
So, now it is working fine after a hard reset.
Regards,
/Mauro
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