Is it possible to calibrate the battery voltage measurement?
Sometimes the battery appears to be discharging rapidly, sometimes slowly. After rapidly discharging, sometimes the battery display even goes up again by 1% or so. I don't suspect any permanent battery drainage or hw problem, so I was wondering if it is possible to calibrate the voltage measurement.
In the thread https://together.jolla.com/question/8562/battery-issue/ it is suggested to discharge the battery totally, then charge it while the phone is still switched off. Will this cause any calibration to occur? Does SW adjust its knowledge of lowest / highest possible voltages whenever an out-of-range voltage is seen? Why does the phone need to be switched off when charging?
just so you know, the % (capacity left) indicator is not a voltage measurement.
urjaman ( 2014-12-05 12:40:25 +0200 )editWell, even if the percentage does not tell the voltage as such, I suspect the indicator is calculated from a voltage (and potentially current) measurement. Please let us know if you have information that this is done in a different way.
Jolly-Jo ( 2014-12-05 13:30:15 +0200 )editUpdate: I've not seen the battery display go up just like that in a very long time. Sometimes the value jumps after a reboot, a few times even by more than 5 % (both up and down).
But another peculiar part is that the percentage points charged from a PC's usb don't seem to last as long as the percentage points from the wall plug. I.e. the battery percentage seems to go down a lot faster after charging from a PC compared to charging with the plug charger. This cannot be seen always, but quite often, e.g. after I have used the debug network interface via usb. I have performed the discharge-completely-then-charge-while-switched-off-trick in the mean time, but still see this issue.
So while my observations are a bit different nowadays, it'd still be nice to get some light into this matter.
Jolly-Jo ( 2015-01-20 14:54:52 +0200 )editUpdate2: I noticed that the percentage gets mixed up basically always after rebooting using SailfishReboot. It usually shows something close to 100% after a reboot, no matter what the real situation is. When switching the phone off and on again, the 'real' percentage returns.
Jolly-Jo ( 2015-01-23 22:22:19 +0200 )editSame question for me. Battery level display is totally weird after replacing the original (dead) one. Connected to the wall plug it rarely reaches 100%, instead goes to some value (e.g. 76%) and than decreases while plugged in. Sometimes it does not go beyond 40%, but sometimes 100%. Loading time does not mater. Wall plug or PC cable is just the same. I see spontaneous reboots at various battery levels, sometimes multiple cycles. To stop that, I take out the bat, wait a while and start up, facing a percentage that has nothing to do with the pre-shutdown value. Clarification of any kind would be great. (Well, if there would be a suitable replacement phone available I'd drop the J1 immediately (since there is no original replacement akku avail, presumably). This battery thing is driving me nuts. But no chance to find a non-Android/iOS phone that's not too large...)
meriones ( 2019-08-14 10:38:56 +0200 )edit