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01-18-2003, 07:42 AM	#1
profvisor On the Learning Curve Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Southern New Jersey Posts: 189	Launcher increases battery drain? I installed a launcher (zlauncher) two days ago, and I seem to notice that the battery is draining quite a bit faster than when I just used the internal launcher. Has anyone else noticed this, or is it just my imagination? __________________ Lorin -- NX70V

01-18-2003, 08:06 AM

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Re: Launcher increases battery drain?

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Originally posted by profvisor
I installed a launcher (zlauncher) two days ago, and I seem to notice that the battery is draining quite a bit faster than when I just used the internal launcher. Has anyone else noticed this, or is it just my imagination?

No, I don't notice anything, except when I am using WiFi and that chews up battery power. Unless it's another app that's running draining your battery more.

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01-19-2003, 11:55 PM	#3
rdf Registered User Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 14	Funny ... I was just thinking along those same lines. Acutally, I have been using ZLauncher since the beginning, w/good battery life, but nothing to compare it too. Then I added McPhling and it sure seemed as if the battery was draining quicker.   I wonder if there is an always on polling loop, looking for the "activation stroke", and that this consumes more power ??? Anyone with Palm Programming expertise care to comment on if this could conceivably be the case ?

02-12-2003, 10:34 PM	#4
SolarWind Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Tucson Posts: 32	yea... just recently my clie froze due to some multimedia error and i couldn't turnit on... theni put it in the charger and it turns on... but the battery is at 18% then a few seconds... 14% then 12 then 11... so i kept it in the charger due to getting scared it was going down so fast. i have zlauncher tooand mcphling.. but i don't see why it just now started doing this?? what is wronga nd what can i do!?!?!??!?!! __________________ 1 Corinthians 14:4 -Now I wish that you all spoke in tongues, but more that you would prophesy Ephesians 2:3-9 -For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast.

02-12-2003, 10:37 PM	#5
mashoutposse Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: NY, NY Posts: 502	I don't think it's draining batteries faster; rather, it reports battery life differently (more in/accurately?).

02-12-2003, 11:25 PM	#6
SolarWind Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Tucson Posts: 32	uh... we it never used to be like this until today. now when i run a program it drops the battiers liek 20 percent. even the palm launcher fluctuates a lot but it doesn' t really go down. the zlauncher one goes down and then the palm one follows it. so i emailed zztechs. but it's really frustrating and ... ouch.. see , in the last 30 seconds, it whent from 38% to 33% just sitting there. for a few minutes. __________________ 1 Corinthians 14:4 -Now I wish that you all spoke in tongues, but more that you would prophesy Ephesians 2:3-9 -For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast.

02-12-2003, 11:42 PM	#7
mashoutposse Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: NY, NY Posts: 502	Mine fluctuates, too. One time, I used WiFi, got down to about 50%, plugged in my Game Controller, and the battery creeped back upwards, all the way to over 70%!

02-12-2003, 11:58 PM	#8
SolarWind Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Tucson Posts: 32	what is that all about... i don't get it. somethign has to be wrong... is it returnable to sony for this?? i think so. at least after some point of trying. cause i hear Lithium Ion's crystillize at a point so low in charge __________________ 1 Corinthians 14:4 -Now I wish that you all spoke in tongues, but more that you would prophesy Ephesians 2:3-9 -For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast.

02-13-2003, 01:45 AM	#9
cbulock Moderator Bronze Contributor Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Michigan, USA Posts: 3,116	The curcuitry in the batterys won't let you run them low enough to damage them. It will cut the power off so I wouldn't worry too much about it. __________________ -Cameron

02-13-2003, 02:30 AM	#10
n2ifp Retired Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Manchester, NJ Posts: 12,444	When I had mentioned an app was running, I was talking about something that had continuos activity, not a launcher. Sometimes, and I have done this myself, I push on the power button too long, thinking I had shut it off and all I did was kill the backlight. I thought I had read somewhere that deep discharges of the Lithium battery would shorten it's life span. __________________ Cheers! Larry Winward T\|T3 + SE T610 + SE HBH-65 = BT Heaven!

02-13-2003, 02:52 AM	#11
cbulock Moderator Bronze Contributor Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Michigan, USA Posts: 3,116	Deep discharges will shorten battery life, but serious damage won't happen to the battery because of the circuitry that it has. __________________ -Cameron

02-13-2003, 03:38 AM

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