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Title: Battery Life?
Post by: runT1ME on August 12, 2004, 04:23:21 am

Hi everyone, I was just wondering if anyone could verify that my battery's performance is abnormally crappy for my Sl5500.   My friend gave me his zaurus, so I promptly went out and purchased an Ambicom WiFi card.  Unfortunatly, I can only use it for about 10 minutes before my batter goes to "critical".  This is coming off it being charged all night, and it having a full blue bar.  Is this normal? If so, should I have paid extra for one of those "low power" wifi cards?  Any suggestions?  Thanks in advance.

Title: Battery Life?
Post by: waalkman on August 12, 2004, 04:30:22 am

That really sounds bad, what kind of performance do you get without the card in?

If your friend bought a newer Z, is there a chance that you two could swap batteries for a day or so?


John


Oh, and I forgot about this:

https://www.oesf.org/forums/inde...?showtopic=5888 (https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=5888)

Thanks to Omicron

Title: Battery Life?
Post by: Omicron on August 12, 2004, 08:26:35 am

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Hi everyone, I was just wondering if anyone could verify that my battery's performance is abnormally crappy for my Sl5500.   My friend gave me his zaurus, so I promptly went out and purchased an Ambicom WiFi card.  Unfortunatly, I can only use it for about 10 minutes before my batter goes to "critical".  This is coming off it being charged all night, and it having a full blue bar.  Is this normal? If so, should I have paid extra for one of those "low power" wifi cards?  Any suggestions?  Thanks in advance.

SOunds like the battery is shot...buy the bigger one and shave the nub abd tape it in ...ain't pretty but worth the (approx) 3 hours of WIFI.  


Unless your Z is shot and sucking juice like crazy...although I have never heard of that.

Title: Battery Life?
Post by: waalkman on August 13, 2004, 05:35:11 am

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SOunds like the battery is shot...buy the bigger one and shave the nub abd tape it in ...ain't pretty but worth the (approx) 3 hours of WIFI. 

Speaking of which, how are those new batteries that you turned us onto? As good as Sharps?

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Unless your Z is shot and sucking juice like crazy...although I have never heard of that.

Yeah, not likely...


John

Title: Battery Life?
Post by: Omicron on August 13, 2004, 05:19:10 pm

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SOunds like the battery is shot...buy the bigger one and shave the nub abd tape it in ...ain't pretty but worth the (approx) 3 hours of WIFI. 

Speaking of which, how are those new batteries that you turned us onto? As good as Sharps?

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Unless your Z is shot and sucking juice like crazy...although I have never heard of that.

Yeah, not likely...


John

they are working great