How To Tweak Pda Batteries?

[cliehelp 0]

The first time that you use your pda, you need to charge it for about 4 or 5hs, depending on your model (Check the manual), so the principal thing you need to take care to increase the autonomy of the battery are:1. Turn off the backlight/frontlight or set the brightness at the minimal value (when possible).2. Disable the Beam Recieve setting, in Preferences/General on the PalmOS, this is because if the Beam Recieve is on, the infrared port is scanning all time to detect another device. So only when you going to beam somethig, enable it.3. Set the Auto power off, in 2 or less minutes, sometimes a value lower of 2 is irritating, specially when you are reading, etc, (when you are not using the stylus). Meanwhile you use the pda, the battery level will decrease, depending on for what you use the pda, for example you can use your cli? for approximately 10 days, 30 minutes each day if you do not use the audio function, but if you play music or videos, the duration decrease to 2 or 3 hours.So, in order to increase the lifetime of a Li-ion Polymer battery you should charge the battery every day, or if the battery level indicates 65% or more, you can put to charge too.I'm not saying that you can't use the battery at the maximun, but generally proceed like i described before.Another thing to pay attention is that If your battery drains and you leave your pda in an uncharged state for an exetended period of time, then is probably that your battery no charge again.Well, i think that this could help pda user's.....Put your impressionsClieHelp

[BuffaloHelp 24]

I am unsure if this constitutes as a tutorial, as it is more of technical advice in my opinion. I will let other pro-mods to decide.

Notice from "whyme:

I agree with BuffaloHELP, this constitutes more of something that can be classified as common generic advice, rather than really teaching anyone. I'm moving this over to the Technology forum.

Edited May 21, 2005 by whyme (see edit history)