Android battery calibration, what are other people experiencing except me?

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Well members,

I really want to know who has their battery percentage the same as in winmo. I know it has a issue with the battery driver, but still i am curious.

My battery.capacity=4462 Units.
Current percentage in Android 41% at the moment
Current Units in Dmesg 2988Units
After restart in Winmo it says 53%

If I calculate this, (2988/4462)*100= almost 67%
Someone knows what i am doing wrong?I will charge my battery again tonight, plug usb out, read units, change Units again in default.txt. Then I will keep for myself updates trough the day of the current data. Will post again tomorrow with updates.

Hope to hear what other people are experencing
Don't blame my poor english, Firefox English dictionary isn't downloaded/installed yet

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Yeah is really not understandable of how to calibrate the battery, iv been trying it for the past 2 weeks...and i still have not get it right! well..i got 4320

My battery reports completely wrong in android, to the point where it's 30-50% left then dies as it's really flat!

Hmm,

Try to use this line in default.txt if you don't got it yet
board-kaiser-battery.battery_capacity= ****

**** stands for the unit you get in with Dmesg in terminal of android after a full charge.

I can say that doesn't even is correct for me.
But I Tried another value. I read (translated) on japanese forum dat you have to put the mAh instead of units.
So I tried with 1350 (Of my Kaiser160).
Now my android shuts of when it's 15% instead of 59%. He also said something like, try to double the value. I am testing now with the value 2700

You guys should try :eek:
I've to say, after changed to 1350, i had a more realised idea how android does with the battery. I can say that android sucks more battery than winmo.

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Originally Posted by assangflexx

Hmm,

Try to use this line in default.txt if you don't got it yet
board-kaiser-battery.battery_capacity= ****

**** stands for the unit you get in with Dmesg in terminal of android after a full charge.

I can say that doesn't even is correct for me.
But I Tried another value. I read (translated) on japanese forum dat you have to put the mAh instead of units.
So I tried with 1350 (Of my Kaiser160).
Now my android shuts of when it's 15% instead of 59%. He also said something like, try to double the value. I am testing now with the value 2700

You guys should try :eek:
I've to say, after changed to 1350, i had a more realised idea how android does with the battery. I can say that android sucks more battery than winmo.

Hi there, well iv tried the above instructions, but i found out something is strange, i deleted the batterystats.bin and then make sure that the board-kaiser-battery.battery_capacity= 1400 (my battery is 1400) i adb pushed it to my device....but strangely when i reboot....it changes back to 2700 automatically....i think this is the reason why we still cannot calibrate our battery for now...since as soon as my battery reaches down to 20% and suddenly 4% then shuts off...

Perhaps do you guys think that to keep our kaiser's stanbby time longer rather buy an external battery charger and make sure that battery is charged up fully.so that we can utilize the battery fully.

i think for now we should just try an carry our chargers with us say to work or school..and charge it over night....

Usually i wouldnt charge my phone for bout 2 days but it will last..but now i realieze its a must if ima use android..

Cheers

i never trust the battery status when charging.

if I am looking for a full charge I wait until dmesg reports a charge of less than approx 30mA. if it shows charge at 100/100 and it still is showing over 100mA then it is not done charging.
also if it is showing less than 30mA and a charge of less than 100/100 it really is done charging. don't wait for 100/100 if it is done charging.

as far as battery usage is concerned, one thing to not as far as a difference between winmo and android:
winmo shuts down many services when sleeping.
such as in winmo if you are playing music and it goes to sleep, music shuts off.
and same for wifi.

android doesn't seem to shut of anything except the screen.

maybe there is settings for what is to be run while sleeping.

I had a program in winmo that allowed you to turn on or of services during sleep.

Originally Posted by mnjm9b

i never trust the battery status when charging.

if I am looking for a full charge I wait until dmesg reports a charge of less than approx 30mA. if it shows charge at 100/100 and it still is showing over 100mA then it is not done charging.
also if it is showing less than 30mA and a charge of less than 100/100 it really is done charging. don't wait for 100/100 if it is done charging.

as far as battery usage is concerned, one thing to not as far as a difference between winmo and android:
winmo shuts down many services when sleeping.
such as in winmo if you are playing music and it goes to sleep, music shuts off.
and same for wifi.

android doesn't seem to shut of anything except the screen.

maybe there is settings for what is to be run while sleeping.

I had a program in winmo that allowed you to turn on or of services during sleep.

yep...you are right....maybe we should just focus on dmesg for now...by the way, do you guys have the same problem as i have...20% then suddenly drops to 4% then shuts off?

Originally Posted by twinklesam123

yep...you are right....maybe we should just focus on dmesg for now...by the way, do you guys have the same problem as i have...20% then suddenly drops to 4% then shuts off?

i dont have that problem..however today, i charged to 100 percent and talk to my gf on the phone for about an hour..it went down to about 40 percent..i set it down and didnt touch it for about 20 minutes..and it went up to about 70 percent..very weird

Yes, i can tell you, in the settings under connection (i think, i have dutch android language) you can define a setting that wifi goes to sleep after your screen sleeps.

Also,best way to use android is that you have to 
1. fully charge your phone in android and keep the powercable on it, 
2. look in dmesg for the units. when te units aren't getting bigger, than that's the last one that is charged.
3. write down or do something with your mind :D
4. restart to winmo, KEEP POWERCABLE ON
5. change and/or put a line to your default.txt "board-kaiser-battery.battery_capacity= ****"
change **** to your units you have written down
6. after you changed units, start to android.

But still it doesn't is good yet. I experienced that 1350 value is the most effective one. When android said 15%, i tought lets restart and look what winmo says. winmo was at 1%.

Also, i was a little cocky and without 100% battery i started android. I can say, it took ages that 100% was changed to 99%. Also you never know when battery is going to die

Maybe someone can do something with this.