[TESTING] SCBS: Improved battery meter system

[manekineko]

Originally Posted by jonpry

The code for scbs is here scbs in scbs - Gitorious

I have limited data on the consistency of the numbers. From my own experience, the numbers i get all "work", ie my battery meter is always accurate enough that I cannot prove it to be wrong. But there is a great deal of variation in them. Say +/- 25%. That may seem like a lot but its really only -6dB of noise.

It would be nice to get them more consistent, and i have some ideas on how to do it. But none of it is easy, and I wonder what the purpose of getting battery readings accurate to 6 decimal places really is.

Cool, is there any explanation anywhere on what each of these numbers means? So +/- 25% is still within a few percentage points on the battery meter?

Unrelatedly, just got hit be the connected-to-charger-battery-suddenly-drained-out bug. I'd really been hoping that one would have gotten taken care of by having more accurate readings on the battery meter. Battery drained down to nothing over the course of 4000 ticks of the log, all while it was connected to the charger, and had been connected for like 15000 ticks. Not sure if it's helpful for anybody, but on the off chance it is, I attached my scbs log.

[arrrghhh]

Originally Posted by manekineko

Unrelatedly, just got hit be the connected-to-charger-battery-suddenly-drained-out bug. I'd really been hoping that one would have gotten taken care of by having more accurate readings on the battery meter. Battery drained down to nothing over the course of 4000 ticks of the log, all while it was connected to the charger, and had been connected for like 15000 ticks. Not sure if it's helpful for anybody, but on the off chance it is, I attached my scbs log.

I've heard this happening to people on WinMo - I've had it literally happen once - you seem to get it much more frequently - for that reason, I think this is a hardware issue, not a software issue.

[manekineko]

Originally Posted by arrrghhh

I've heard this happening to people on WinMo - I've had it literally happen once - you seem to get it much more frequently - for that reason, I think this is a hardware issue, not a software issue.

Interesting, didn't know it happened on WinMo.

Yeah, I do seem to get hit by this annoyingly often, maybe once every month or two.

It is solved by a reboot, though, which makes it seem like it might be a software issue, but at the very least seems to suggest it can be solved by software.

[jonpry]

Manekineko,

Somewhere in this thread there is an explanation of the parameters. What scbs.conf were you using when this discharge happened? Do you know of the battery really did discharge or is it possible the readings were wrong?

[manekineko]

Originally Posted by jonpry

Manekineko,

Somewhere in this thread there is an explanation of the parameters. What scbs.conf were you using when this discharge happened? Do you know of the battery really did discharge or is it possible the readings were wrong?

scbs conf was using the values I posted here:
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/android-tp...ml#post2087146

Battery really did discharge, when I turned it off, the light was orange indicating charging rather than green indicating charged, and when I rebooted into WinMo battery percentage was consistent with Android, indicating something like 2% charge remaining.

Found the explanation you referenced, in case anyone else was wondering:
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/android-tp...ml#post2085359