Thanks for the information. However, people ARE using NiCd batteries
in their PIII and older devices and the OS gives me the correct information
about the battery kind.
So, does anybody know what should be the warningTreshold voltage for NiCd?
I'm using 2.56 v for the MaxVoltage. Is this correct?
TiA
Bozidar
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Schram [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, March 07, 1999 3:12 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: Problems with getting accurate battery readings.
>
>
> At 1:49 PM -0800 1999/03/06, Bozidar Benc wrote:
> >And what about the battery kind? You should check for it too (MaxVoltage
> >for NiCd is not 3.00 volts).
>
> Unnecessary. All devices running Palm OS versions prior to 3.1
> use standard alkaline batteries.
>
> You may be thinking NiCd support existed because of the grafitti
> shortcut to switch battery types. Unfortunately, it was never
> fully implemented nor supported in OS versions prior to 3.1 and
> does not affect the low battery thresholds or warning dialogs.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jim Schram
> 3Com/Palm Computing
> Partner Engineering
>
>
