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turp Occasional Visitor
Joined: Apr 26, 2005 Posts: 12
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Posted: Fri May 06, 2005 8:49 pm Post subject: MDPNA100 ?????? Battery Life |
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HI there just bought one of these does not seem to last long on the battery 30 mins on gps anybody is this normal ???? |
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bigbob Regular Visitor
Joined: Feb 13, 2005 Posts: 108 Location: Highlands Scotland
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Posted: Sat May 07, 2005 5:02 pm Post subject: |
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They are not known for lasting long but 1/2 hour seems a tad too short. I wonder if you had it in your pocket and it was on before you used it without knowing it easy done because all that is needed is something to touch one of the buttons I was caught with this before and have disabled the buttons heres how:-
Go into settings then poke the system tab at the bottom of the screen and poke the power control select the advance key at the bottom and then tick the option Disable User Keys. This helped with my problem. |
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turp Occasional Visitor
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Posted: Sat May 07, 2005 5:33 pm Post subject: |
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Cheers for your reply i shall try that out i have aqucired another battery thats seems to be better but the power seems still to drop quick not as quick as the old battery though hmmm dunno
Cheers
Paul |
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snj Occasional Visitor
Joined: Apr 21, 2005 Posts: 7
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Posted: Tue May 10, 2005 10:04 am Post subject: |
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The main battery drain is probably the backlight so you might also want to fiddle with the settings for that - reducing the brightness when it's on battery power and setting a short timeout so that it goes off after 10 seconds without the screen being touched. I walked around for a while like this the other day, just taking the unit out of my pocket every now and again to check that the navigation software was showing my correct location. It used it for at least an hour like this and had plenty of battery left afterwards.
Of course this isn't much use if it's a bright day and you're continually looking at the screen, in which case your only choice is to drag a small reactor around with you... |
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turp Occasional Visitor
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Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 4:56 pm Post subject: |
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i have now put it doen to a lower setting ill try that out i have since bought a new battery an thats no differant so maybe its just a case of using gps plugged in oh well cheers for your reply
Thanks
Paul |
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rother Regular Visitor
Joined: Jan 26, 2005 Posts: 81 Location: North Lincs
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Posted: Sat May 14, 2005 7:30 am Post subject: |
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just had a problem with the battery in the medion, the light had stopped flashing on the pda so i presumed it was fully charged, took the pda off the charger swithched it on bang no charge, repeated the charge again same again. noticed that the slide lock for the battery cover was not locked slid it into lock and the pda shows full charge, but i cannot understand why or feel shure this was the reason, |
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turp Occasional Visitor
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Posted: Sat May 14, 2005 7:40 am Post subject: |
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Funny enough last night i charged up the orignal battery i had with the unit stuck it in and did not put the battery cover on. the unit lit up when turned on then just flicked off thought it had really gone wrong now stuck the new battery i had in same there too i then put the battery cover back on an away she went very odd im begining to think now that when it in the windscreen holder it sometimes pushes the battery slider button down therefore draining the battery ????
Thanks for you reply
Paul |
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