Jay N760
02-05-2003, 05:30 PM
Today I am killing my N 760. You see, the battery life has been getting shorter lately. I'm going to drain the life from my CLIE and then recharge completely. I know Li batteries aren't supposed to retain memory, but I'm hoping that the complete drain and recharge will help.
It started this morning with YiShow reporting the battery at 66%. Half an hour playing Patience with the front light on full took it down to 48%. I fired up Kinoma and set the little guy looping a video, like a slow morphine drip straight to the processor. After 20 minutes or so, the screen went blank. I thought my CLIE had finally passed--I pressed the power button and got no response. I gave it a soft reset and it gasped into a deadly reset loop. "There, there," I said softly as I gave him a hard reset like an adrenaline shot for a heroine overdose. He came around, but he was groggy. He could no longer play the videos on the memory stick. I switched to Acid Image and sent him into a slideshow loop from which he would likely never recover. A few minutes later, the images stopped coming. I left Acid Image and tried to access other applications on the memory stick. When he whispered "There is not enough battery power for that operation." my heart caught in my throat. He promptly forgot the name of the memory stick he has held so close to his processor for the past year, and simply addressed it as "Card". Shortly after, he wasn't even aware that "Boom Stick" was near.
He's fading fast, now. I've set him looping on the Clie Demo. He keeps turning his front light off and pleading with me to recharge his battery. Poor thing. It won't be long, now...
It started this morning with YiShow reporting the battery at 66%. Half an hour playing Patience with the front light on full took it down to 48%. I fired up Kinoma and set the little guy looping a video, like a slow morphine drip straight to the processor. After 20 minutes or so, the screen went blank. I thought my CLIE had finally passed--I pressed the power button and got no response. I gave it a soft reset and it gasped into a deadly reset loop. "There, there," I said softly as I gave him a hard reset like an adrenaline shot for a heroine overdose. He came around, but he was groggy. He could no longer play the videos on the memory stick. I switched to Acid Image and sent him into a slideshow loop from which he would likely never recover. A few minutes later, the images stopped coming. I left Acid Image and tried to access other applications on the memory stick. When he whispered "There is not enough battery power for that operation." my heart caught in my throat. He promptly forgot the name of the memory stick he has held so close to his processor for the past year, and simply addressed it as "Card". Shortly after, he wasn't even aware that "Boom Stick" was near.
He's fading fast, now. I've set him looping on the Clie Demo. He keeps turning his front light off and pleading with me to recharge his battery. Poor thing. It won't be long, now...