Pebble only charging till 90%

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psycho-sonic

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Hi all.

Now i have my second original pebble watch and have a question.
With my first pebble (also on fw 2.3) i never noticed that the battery charging only till 90%.
Now i have the second pebble with 2.3 and when i'm charging it, it charges only till 90%.
Any ideas?
 

Aut0mat3d

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Try changing on a USB power supply which provides slightly more than 5v.

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Erovia

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@psycho-sonic: Mine does it too, but I'm not too concerned.
Pebble's battery is so small that it is nearly impossible to measure it accurately (this is the official reason why it only shows images and not percentages) so even the Battery Lifetime watchapp is just trying to guess it.
 
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psycho-sonic

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@psycho-sonic: Mine does it too, but I'm not too concerned.
Pebble's battery is so small that it is nearly impossible to measure it accurately (this is the official reason why it only shows images and not percentages) so even the Battery Lifetime watchapp is just trying to guess it.
Yeah.
But why some users have this and others can see 100%?
Can't understand it.
 

Erovia

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Okay, a little more explanation:

The Pebble's battery is rated at 3,7V and 130mAh as you can see here.
Comparing it to the Nexus 4's battery which is rated at 3.8V and 2100mAh the difference in the capacity holding capabilities is huge.

Note that I said it is their rated Amperhour values. Since every battery (and everything inside your devices) has its own, unique manufacturing errors, the batteries in the actual devices are close to these rated values.

Let's say my N4's battery can hold in reality 2090mAh, which is 99.5% of the rated value, so it can be easily considered as 100%.
Now if the Pebble's battery hold 120mAh, it is only 92% of the rated value.

So the point is, every app (even the OS) is checking if the battery is full, it is checking the capacity it holds, compares it to the rated value and checks if it is inside a tolerance interval.
Since the Pebble's battery is so small (in every aspect) this tolerance interval has to be very-very small and if your device's battery's actual full capacity is barely outside this interval, the app will not report 100%.

(I hope you got the point, sorry if something is not perfectly clear, English is not my first language)
 

Den in USA

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Okay, a little more explanation:

The Pebble's battery is rated at 3,7V and 130mAh as you can see here.
Comparing it to the Nexus 4's battery which is rated at 3.8V and 2100mAh the difference in the capacity holding capabilities is huge.

Note that I said it is their rated Amperhour values. Since every battery (and everything inside your devices) has its own, unique manufacturing errors, the batteries in the actual devices are close to these rated values.

Let's say my N4's battery can hold in reality 2090mAh, which is 99.5% of the rated value, so it can be easily considered as 100%.
Now if the Pebble's battery hold 120mAh, it is only 92% of the rated value.

So the point is, every app (even the OS) is checking if the battery is full, it is checking the capacity it holds, compares it to the rated value and checks if it is inside a tolerance interval.
Since the Pebble's battery is so small (in every aspect) this tolerance interval has to be very-very small and if your device's battery's actual full capacity is barely outside this interval, the app will not report 100%.


Thanks! This is a very clear explaination of why my Pebble may never display 100%.
 

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    Okay, a little more explanation:

    The Pebble's battery is rated at 3,7V and 130mAh as you can see here.
    Comparing it to the Nexus 4's battery which is rated at 3.8V and 2100mAh the difference in the capacity holding capabilities is huge.

    Note that I said it is their rated Amperhour values. Since every battery (and everything inside your devices) has its own, unique manufacturing errors, the batteries in the actual devices are close to these rated values.

    Let's say my N4's battery can hold in reality 2090mAh, which is 99.5% of the rated value, so it can be easily considered as 100%.
    Now if the Pebble's battery hold 120mAh, it is only 92% of the rated value.

    So the point is, every app (even the OS) is checking if the battery is full, it is checking the capacity it holds, compares it to the rated value and checks if it is inside a tolerance interval.
    Since the Pebble's battery is so small (in every aspect) this tolerance interval has to be very-very small and if your device's battery's actual full capacity is barely outside this interval, the app will not report 100%.

    (I hope you got the point, sorry if something is not perfectly clear, English is not my first language)
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    @psycho-sonic: Mine does it too, but I'm not too concerned.
    Pebble's battery is so small that it is nearly impossible to measure it accurately (this is the official reason why it only shows images and not percentages) so even the Battery Lifetime watchapp is just trying to guess it.
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    I find that if I turn it off and charge it overnight that when I turn it on in the morning, it reads 100%. I don't know how accurate it is though.