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Originally Posted by bast525
since we are talking about battery life, there is one thing that REALLY irks me on this phone. Lets say I have been using the phone moderately, and battery life has dropped to 80%. Something may come up that prompts me to do a soft reset, maybe to reclaim ram or if an app has locked up. Reset the phone, and now it's showing battery life at like 40%!! That happened today when I was streaming music for a bit... battery life went from 100 to 80% in like 20 mins... then I stopped the app and did a soft reset, and battery life then showed 40. This happen to anyone else?
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If the phone locks up, I can see it....everything is in Limbo
However while listening to music, my
guess is that the "polling" circuit will take a low priority so as not to cause the stream to "stutter" or fail. It's only when the battery level reaches the "report" level that you would actually see a change.
I use a small app called "Batti" that puts a narrow bar along the top of the screen giving me a visual indicator of the battery level. During the test I ran for you it worked fine, going from Green, to Yellow, and finally to Red.
I have seen an alternative to that called "TBattery.exe" that I think is even smaller in size. You might want to check either or both of them out. Edit: Not the same type of "animal"...difficult to understand and follow. Batti is the one with the "bar"
Bob