Actually, the real reason is that when batteries sit on the shelf for a long
time, the voltage is reduced somewhat. I don't know if it makes any difference
to the life of the battery (if it does, its probably very slight), but this
difference was enough to make our battery gauge appear not-quite-full. User's
wouldn't appreciate that, so batteries that are almost-but-not-quite full are
rounded up to 100%.
HTH...
Jesse
Alan Pinstein wrote in message <5090@palm-dev-forum>...
>
>'zen of palm' as far as I can tell... apparently if the batteries are that
full (ie, 90% plus) then the user has no need to know more resolution of the
battery level besides 'FULL'. In my opinion that type of behavior should be
done at the application level.
>
>Alan
>
>>Why would they do that??
>>
>>-rmh
>>
>>
>>
>>Alan Pinstein wrote in message <5046@palm-dev-forum>...
>>>
>>>Hey, I know the answer to this one! For some reason, Palm decided to
alter
>>the % range of this function according to this algorithm:
>>>
>>>percentage = truePercentage;
>>>if (percentage >= 90%)
>>> percentage = 100%;
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