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x10 mini fully charged?

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:20:58 GMT

Fellas, I've got a little issue. I don't really know if it's a problem itself or it's just something else.

The x10 Mini has a light in the upper part. That part turns on red when is charging, and it is suppossed to turn on green when the phone is already charged. Ain't it?

Well, I installed a third party program called Battery Indicator from the android market and this program tells me the phone is not fully charged (93%, for instance) but the light green is on.

The green light is on from the 90% aprox. and just reachs the 97%. Never the 100%. Is that normal? Is just that the phone is like that, or the Battery Indicator is not accurate? Or maybe my phone has a real problem?

Please, enlight me about it.

Regards,

Re: x10 mini fully charged?

Dr_Chris — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:29:33 GMT

There's no problem with your phone.In my experience sometimes SE phones show a 97-99% charge even when they are fully charged.I have found that if you restart your phone after a prolonged charging period, the charge shows up as 100%, so it appears to be a harmless software glitch.

Re: x10 mini fully charged?

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 16:16:26 GMT

As far as I know, my X10i has a green light during charging and turns off when it is done, as written in the user guide. It also shows 100% for a good half hour before changing to 99%.

Just out of curiosity, did you charge your X10 for a full 8 hours before first use? Apparently the new battery requires this very ancient charging technique. Odd.

Re: x10 mini fully charged?

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:53:49 GMT

Mine doesn't turn the green light on. It just remains green. And when the charge reaches the 97 or 98 starts dropping with the cell still connected! That's weird.

I hope it's a "harmless glitch" of the software as was said before. But in my case i'm a little worried.

And for the record the 8-hours time to charge a device with a lithium battery it's just anachronistic: it's just a long time ago that this is a unnecesary step to follow. Anyway I charged 5 hours aprox. the first time.

Re: x10 mini fully charged?

Dr_Chris — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 22:35:09 GMT

I don't think you should be worried, as I too have noticed that while my W995 is charging via USB and the charge reaches near maximum, it will then drop by 1-2%.After disconnecting and restarting the phone the charge shows up again as 99-100%.I have also noticed that over the period of the 50 days that I've owned this phone and after several charging/discharging cycles, the battery now lasts noticeably longer than at the start even when using Wi-Fi, which would previously drain the battery quite rapidly.What would worry me is if the battery depleted while on stand-by in a matter of hours or even worse, if it depleted within minutes of being charged, as I have read happening on some forums.

Re: x10 mini fully charged?

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 06:35:09 GMT

yes, DrChris there reminds me of something I totally forgotten. I think this is a built-in feature of the smaller phones, or something to that effect. I believe it prevents the phone from overcharging and frying itself while you sleep.

I strongly believe you do not need to worry about this as well.

Re: x10 mini fully charged?

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 06:37:09 GMT

in regards to the 8 hour initial charge, it was written in the user guide and specifically said to charge it 8 hours. I did not find this instructions in any phone in recent memory, but was surprise to see it in the X10i user guide.

Re: x10 mini fully charged?

Dr_Chris — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 12:08:05 GMT

That's very interesting darkmax.But what exactly do you mean by smaller phones?

Re: x10 mini fully charged?

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:17:25 GMT

Actually, I think it's one of the phone feature. The light turn green as soon as it hit 90%. And it is still charging until it reach 100%. Then it stopped with the green right on. Make me confused the first time. But then I realized it when I took a peep as soon as as the light turn green. It show 90%