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Watching battery VOLTAGE...

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TomXP411

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I'm watching the VOLTAGE (not the "fuel gauge") on my battery, and I've noticed that after roughly 5 hours, the battery indicator is like "OMG 5%", and yet the battery is still showing a voltage of 3.6 volts. The battery shouldn't be dead until it gets to 3.0 volts. (LiPo's start at 4.2 and drain down to 3.0)

So I'm keeping the phone turned on and using BatteryWatch to see what the actual power levels look like... ideally, I'd like to run this succer all the way down until it turns itself off. Then we'll see how the battery gauge compares to actual usage tomorrow...

Here's a link to BatteryWatch so you can try this: BatteryWatch on Android Market

It's currently 1:35, my phone is screaming "IM GONNA DIE!" and my voltage is 3500mV (3.5 volts).

I'll post back when the phone goes dark and quiet.

Help me out, I'd like to see if anyone else has the same experience.
 
Wow. It just died, not 5 minutes after I posted that... battery was 3463mV, or 3.463 volts... that tells me we're not actually getting the battery's full capacity; the phone is leaving much of the energy in the battery when it shuts down....

can anyone else confirm this? If you have another brand of Android phone to test alongside you TB, that would be even better. (I"m currently doing the same thing on my Droid X to see how it ends up.)

And FWIW: I talked to a store employee today who said "Customers have been playing with our display unit all morning, and the battery is still showing almost full." This was at 11:30, about 2 and a half hours after store opening. My phone was already around 60% by then.
 
It just died in your arms tonight? Must've been something you said...You should've walked awayaayy.....YOU SHOULD'VE JUST WALKED AWAY!!!
 
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