[bookport] Re: Beta Problem- battery drain
- From: "Grant Hardy" <grant_r_hardy@xxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 19:52:03 -0800
Well this is because your battery indicator on the Book Port doesn't support
this type of batteries. I think there should be a way of turning off
"battery low" messages, as they interupt reading and can be really annoying.
Grant
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Justice" <m.d.justice@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 7:47 PM
Subject: [bookport] Re: Beta Problem- battery drain
> Rob, et al,
>
> Since my alkaline batteries died, I have been using Ni-MH (nickel-metal
> hydride) batteries purchased from Radio Shack (~$10.50 for a two-pack).
> The
> first set I used had been previously used in a radio, and they were
> indicating 64% when first inserted into Book Port. they seem to be
> holding
> up reasonably well with Beta21 and Beta22 for reading text files. I tried
> playing an MP3 music file when the battery level was indicating about 39%,
> and the song did not quite finish before it was interrupted with a low
> battery message. I forced it to resume playing for the final seconds, and
> when I checked battery level it was about 6%. Surprisingly, the battery
> level began to recover with the Book Port not playing any file, and as I
> checked, it continued to rise until it reached about 39%. I then played a
> microphone recording of a music file (WAV), and the result was very
> similar
> to the MP3 file. The song did not quite complete before the low battery
> message was announced. This time the level was about 9% when I stopped,
> but
> again, it recovered to about 39% with only a few minutes of "rest". Next
> I
> tried playing a text file for about 5 minutes straight, and the battery
> level did not drop any lower than 33%. After I stopped and let the unit
> "rest", the battery level recovered to about 36%, where it seems now to be
> remaining with no active use of files.
>
> Mike Justice.
> www.mpnhome.net
>
>
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