Re: [iPAQ] CF problems with low battery

From: Anthony Jones <ajones.a.t.clear.net.nz>
Date: Thu Sep 26 2002 - 16:58:36 EDT

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On Monday 09 September 2002 02:56, you wrote:
> The ipaq jacket interface tends to quit working when the battery is
> nearly exhausted. There isn't any way to fix this in software; the only
> way to avoid the problem is to keep the charge level up.

I just thought it should be known that the OS doesn't generate a write
failure. It just silently dies. Or at least java doesn't notice that the
write has failed (java could be ignoring an OS message). I have to read the
proc filesystem to read kernel messages. This kind of sucks but it won't
really be a major problem for me. I've now made it so that it will shut down
if the battery gets anywhere near low. For my application it should almost
always be on charge while being used.

Anthony Jones

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Received on Thu Sep 26 21:00:11 2002

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