Find out how good/bad your battery is

[jasondoes]

My email to seidio:

I have discovered that the battery that you sold me was not as advertised. I purchased a 1350 mAh extended life battery. I received a 1150 mAh version that can be purchased for under $4. I am requesting either a refund of $40 or a proper replacement. I am obviously out of the 180 day warranty period so the normal rma request does not seem to apply. Thank you for your time, Jason

[somline]

Originally Posted by jasondoes

Ok, so this is post 500 on THIS thread. Forgive me, I have just spent over 2 hours reading and after looking at these threads I found that the 1350 was at one point correctly charged and the "do not buy" thread is still in effect. I have a 1350 from my centro (reads about 1150) and would like to know if the Dr. will or will not correct the reading (v 0.1.2) and if you still boycotting Seidio. BTW, I have doubled my knowledge about programming from this thread. That's 100 percent increase!!

Hi jasondoes,
that was a long read, congrats ;-)
I usually answer within 30 minutes but since I'm in Germany I was asleep.
As you may have find out in my poll 3/4 off the Seidios are 1150.
I know at least 4 ppl who tried to get the advertised capacity using Dr.Battery. Non of them got it. It's possible to set the MFR (manufacturer rating) to 1350, but when you calibrate the health will be set down and you get a capacity of 1150.
I saw your mail to Seidio. Assuming the battery is out of warranty I don't expect some positive response from them, but wish you good luck.
Keep us informed.

[cmoneyct]

Failed
-1: Unable to run command: /usr/bin/curl --create-dirs --insecure --location --fail --show-error --output /media/internal/.developer/ca.canucksoftware.filemgr_1.1.9_all.ipk http://ipkg.preware.org/feeds/precen..._1.1.9_all.ipk 2>&1
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
0 161 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- 0:00:01 --:--:-- 0
0 161 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- 0:00:02 --:--:-- 0
curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404



I tried to download internalz and thisis way I got...

[somline]

Originally Posted by cmoneyct

Failed
-1: Unable to run command: /usr/bin/curl --create-dirs --insecure --location --fail --show-error --output /media/internal/.developer/ca.canucksoftware.filemgr_1.1.9_all.ipk http://ipkg.preware.org/feeds/precen..._1.1.9_all.ipk 2>&1
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
0 161 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- 0:00:01 --:--:-- 0
0 161 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- 0:00:02 --:--:-- 0
curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404



I tried to download internalz and thisis way I got...

They have changed something in the feed:
http://forums.precentral.net/canuck-...ml#post2810907

[somline]

So reducing IMIN doesn't work as well.
Seems it's all hardcoded in powerd:

CHG_LOGIC: debug_battery_taper (charging, type=0, 1128.000000mAh, 97%, 33C, 49mA, 4191mV, (avg)49mA, min=50mA, max=4141mV, taper_state=start, battery_state=learn,  battery-authentic charger-connected) 
CHG_LOGIC: debug_battery_taper (charging, type=0, 1126.400024mAh, 97%, 32C, 48mA, 4191mV, (avg)48mA, min=50mA, max=4141mV, taper_state=complete, battery_state=learn,  battery-authentic charger-connected) 
CHG_LOGIC: Turning charging off because of charge complete

As you can see powerd stopped charging at < 50mA.
IMIN is set to 55mA in the battery chip.
Learning stopped with "ERROR: Calibration interrupted"

[Xanadu73]

Originally Posted by somline

So reducing IMIN doesn't work as well.
Seems it's all hardcoded in powerd:

CHG_LOGIC: debug_battery_taper (charging, type=0, 1128.000000mAh, 97%, 33C, 49mA, 4191mV, (avg)49mA, min=50mA, max=4141mV, taper_state=start, battery_state=learn,  battery-authentic charger-connected) 
CHG_LOGIC: debug_battery_taper (charging, type=0, 1126.400024mAh, 97%, 32C, 48mA, 4191mV, (avg)48mA, min=50mA, max=4141mV, taper_state=complete, battery_state=learn,  battery-authentic charger-connected) 
CHG_LOGIC: Turning charging off because of charge complete

As you can see powerd stopped charging at < 50mA.
IMIN is set to 55mA in the battery chip.
Learning stopped with "ERROR: Calibration interrupted"

I wonder if playing with thr .conf file again would get it to stop? You know, that line disable_override or whatever it was.


M.

[somline]

Originally Posted by Xanadu73

I wonder if playing with thr .conf file again would get it to stop? You know, that line disable_override or whatever it was.


M.

Good idea, I already looked into it without success.