I can't believe it!

[MrNako]

I can't believe Sony included such a great battery with the TH55. Yes I know we all know our Clies have a great battery but from what I did yesterday Im more than pleased to have chosen this Clie.

I finally watched a full movie in my Clie using MMPlayer. I hadnt finished charging my TH when I unplugged it in order to watch the movie, but it was 100% already. When I finished watching my movie the charging status read 84%!!! I couldnt believe it, 84% even though I didnt fully charge it, and even though I was using a program that doesnt use Sony's DSP to save battery. I had brightness to the middle and I was using a big set of hedphones.

I love my TH55!! :D :D :D

[winexprt]

Can you imagine how long it could have lasted if you used the built-in MoviePlayer!?? :D

[MrNako]

Can you imagine how long it could have lasted if you used the built-in MoviePlayer!?? :D

That's exactly what I thought

[blitz9092]

Mr Nako,

I downloaded the MMPlayer to my TH55 and when I tried to launch it, it keeps telling me "MMplayer library not found, please reinstall MMPlayer.

You may need to restart the handheld by performing a soft reset ..........."

I reinstalled the MMPlayer but got the same message. What do I have to do before I launch the MMPlayer. Where do I get the MMPlayer library? Please help!!

blitz

[JulianL]

It is exceptional, but I have discovered that my battery gauge isn't linear. I mostly read ebooks and it stays at 100% for the best part of 4 hours, after about 12 hours use it's usually at about 55%. Sadly this doesn't mean that I get 24 hours until I get to the 10% threshold, it's more like 14 to 16 hours. I'm not complaining, just making the observation.

- Julian

[ysr23]

It is exceptional, but I have discovered that my battery gauge isn't linear. I mostly read ebooks and it stays at 100% for the best part of 4 hours, after about 12 hours use it's usually at about 55%. Sadly this doesn't mean that I get 24 hours until I get to the 10% threshold, it's more like 14 to 16 hours. I'm not complaining, just making the observation.

- Julian


this drives me up the wall..... the thing will stay at 100% for ages before dropping rapidly - and similarly charge to 84% very rapidly - this makes it very hard to guage how much juice you actually have - i pick up my pda off my desk and its says 100% i know that if it hits 9x% very quickly then the battery is gonna go pretty soon but if it stays on 100% for a while then its a 'good' 100% - am i making sense here?

just to me i would rather get an honest answer out of the thing - when it reads 84% i do not believe that the battery will last as long as it should - i only trust it on 100

[m8rk]

True JulianL, I noticed that too. Like the petrol indicator on my car, it says full for say 100miles and then suddenly plummets to 50% after a further 10. I call that a logorithmic scale - is that correct?

I also noticed that if you charge until the battery just reaches 100% - it starts losing percentage straight away and doesn't take long at all before reaching that "critical" level.

It all helps with the feel-good factor ;). Thats why manufacturers do it. [duh!]

[JulianL]

I'm not sure, but I suspect that a linear battery guage is quite hard to do. If you look at stats with BatteryGraph you see that not only is the percentage staying at 100% for the first few hours, but the voltage is staying at 4.2V. That's the problem I think, the percentage is calculated using the battery voltage as part of the equation, and if the battery discharge characteristics are such that the battery stays at 4.2V for a long time then that is going to fool the percentage indicator.

It would be possible to be a bit cleverer with the battery indicator though, BatteryGraph has most of the code to do it. The battery indicator in PalmOS could collect time-on statistics so over time it could build up a pretty good picture of the true decay of battery life against time and use that to adjust the percentage reading, so for instance even though the battery is still showing 4.2V it would know that you'd already used the device for 2 hours since a full 5 hour charge and so it could display 96% instead of 100%. Unfortunately the PalmOS battery indicator software isn't this smart. I just use BatteryGraph and judge it based on how many hours of on-time I have had since the last charge.

- Julian

[khad_o]

I can't believe Sony included such a great battery with the TH55. Yes I know we all know our Clies have a great battery but from what I did yesterday Im more than pleased to have chosen this Clie.

I finally watched a full movie in my Clie using MMPlayer. I hadnt finished charging my TH when I unplugged it in order to watch the movie, but it was 100% already. When I finished watching my movie the charging status read 84%!!! I couldnt believe it, 84% even though I didnt fully charge it, and even though I was using a program that doesnt use Sony's DSP to save battery. I had brightness to the middle and I was using a big set of hedphones.

I love my TH55!! :D :D :D


WOW!! thats incredible :eek: :rolleyes: :D . BTW winexprt, you're a former UX50 user, is the battery life comparable to UX + EB40? and by how much?..thanks

..its nice and warm here, always plenty of people login in TH's thread :)

[Shadowhuah]

I jump started my car with my TH yesterday and it only showed a 2% decrease in the TH's battery! Go Sony!

[alonzo]

I jump started my car with my TH yesterday and it only showed a 2% decrease in the TH's battery! Go Sony!

now, that's funny