Anyone Have a Battery Discharge App???

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i am one of those anal people who likes to keep his battery in good condition by always letting it empty completely before recharging and i have noticed alot that i run into a situation where i need the phone fully charged for some reasion or another but dont have the time to sit around with all the nic's turned on waiting for it to die. i have seen a battery discharge feature on some devices that will rapidly drain the battery to 0 so it doesent develope memory when you plug it back in i was wondering if anyone has made one of these for the raphael?? any links would be apreciated.

i have already rtfw'ed and searched everyone seems so obsesed with prolonging battery life not draining it :P so i have had no luck

You are actually doing more damage to the battery draining it all the way then if you'd just charge it when you can if you are indeed doing this every single time.
All HTC devices use a Li-ion (Lithium Ion) battery, which do not get a charge memory in the cells like rechargeable batteries of yesteryear.
Instead their life cycle is based on number of discharges and recharges and the batteries age. If you're needlessly discharging your battery and recharging it, you are dramatically shortening it's life.
You should read up...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_ion#Advantages

...they may be irreversibly damaged if discharged below a certain voltage.

Like many rechargeable batteries, lithium-ion batteries should be charged early and often.

Lithium-ion batteries should not be frequently fully discharged and recharged ("deep-cycled"), but this may be necessary after about every 30th recharge to recalibrate any electronic charge monitor (e.g. a battery meter). This allows the monitoring electronics to more accurately estimate battery charge.

It is clearly stated in the Fuze manual that it is SUGGESTED that you fully discharge your battery and fully recharge to get the most out of it.

thanks for the advice i will look into it but i would still apreciate someone answering my origional question as to wether or not anyone has actually made one of these apps

Originally Posted by PwnCakes193

It is clearly stated in the Fuze manual that it is SUGGESTED that you fully discharge your battery and fully recharge to get the most out of it.

This is almost certainly suggested so the battery meter maintains a good calibration. As GldRush points out, you are not doing any damage to the battery or shortening its life by short-cycling it. You could also harm it by deep-cycling it. Allowing the phone to go to 0% is not, however, deep-cycling the battery. For the phone, 0% is the point at which the operating voltage of the battery has dropped to a level that is approaching the lower limit for the board set (with a safety factor included). That's almost certainly nowhere near a discharge level that could damage the battery.

So if you want to let/make your phone go to 0% before every charge you are probably wasting your time (except for the slight benefit of frequent battery meter calibration), but also probably not harming the battery.

After the 2nd battery warning notification comes up, I end up just launching youtube and running a video. The use of 3g coupled with video playback gives me an auto shutdown of the unit with 5 mins or so.

Turn on the GPS. That should drain it in less than an hour.

I haven't seen any discharge apps but I do know that the biggest battery vampire is palringo...start palringo and join a group with a lot of members and your battery will drain at least 20% in about 10 minutes...even if there are no conversations going on you will still get a dramatic battery drain running palringo in the background

Haha, or use an older version of S2U That drains your battery like crazy too.

Way to discharge a full battery within an hour:

- Start Wifi and let it stay on (no need to connect).
- Start Bluetooth and keep it on (also no need to connect).
- Open Google maps and let it use GPS
- Put Google maps in the background and start playing Teeter.