The further saga of the cell phone battery

[dagibbs]

And, about 24 hours later, it has dropped from 2 bars of charge to one bar. Apparently the representation of charge is not particularly linear. I wonder how long it will last at one bar.

Comments

[scottij.livejournal.com]

It's definitely not linear.

Rechargeable batteries charge/discharge on a bell curve. They charge/discharge faster on the low and high end of their range, and slower in the middle.

[dagibbs.livejournal.com]

I know the discharge pattern isn't linear... but the monitoring software should be written to understand this, and give me something closer to linear than what I got:

3 bars (maximum) -> 2 bars took more than a week
2 bars -> 1 bars took about a day.

[scottij.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah. I agree there. I've always wondered why they don't do this, unless it's just not predictable enough due to different environmental conditions, etc.?

[zenten.livejournal.com]

I've had the number of bars increase on my phone while it's on. Not often, but it happens sometimes.