low battery warning

nighthawk · Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 7:52 pm Post subject: low battery warning

Should the 530 give a low battery warning before it dies?

I quite like using the device sans cables, but after a 2 hour journey the screen started to flicker and voice messages became garbled. About 3 mins after that i briefly saw a battery icon flash on the screen and then it shut down.

Is that right?

I'm a little disappointed in the battery life as i'm sure i saw claim that 5hours was expected, and even more annoyed that the unit will shut down without a low power warning to give you time to plug in.

AndyVaughan · Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 8:17 pm Post subject:

It should give a warning - on my borrowed 930 I forgot to plug it in and got the low battery warning icon for about 30 secs before I managed to plug it in.

You notice that the voices pack in before you get the low battery icon.....

mikealder · Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 9:06 pm Post subject:

AndyVaughan · Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 9:27 pm Post subject:

I was blasting up the M6 at the time so I wouldn't have been getting any nav instructions for quite a while prior to the icon appearing anyway.

It has been commented that since 8.302?? the voices etc all seem to stop well before the battery is flat - probably some bodge to try and stop the stuttering!

Seems pretty normal to me, apart from a sticker here and there Wink

andy-c1 · Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 10:51 pm Post subject: Re: low battery warning

nighthawk · Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 5:28 pm Post subject:

I'm 100% i got no warning icon, it's run out of juice twice now and both times it caught me by surprise.

The first time I was on a long stretch of the M6, so never noticed the broken voice or flickering screen.

Second time I was on the M53 passing through 3 junctions when I noticed the voice was akin to Norman Clolier and the screen flickered, I thought I had a faulty unit tbh and then the screen flashed up a full screen battery icon and it turned off.

DennisN · Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 5:53 pm Post subject:

Mine puts up the low battery warning icon and switches off immediately. I can't say this is a consistent "feature" or perhaps "challenge", because I've only ever once used it on battery when Mike asked me how mine coped with it - lasted 40 minutes then voices turned to glop, another 20 minutes and even the glop disappeared, another 40 minutes and "Low Battery" puff (gone).
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AndyVaughan · Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 5:53 pm Post subject:

The icon is quite small in the bottom left of the map.

If you turn the map view off above a certain speed though I don't know if you get the warning icon or not - if you do it won't be easily visible against the black background.

Moral of the story - plug it in whilst navigating!

Andy_P · Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 5:00 pm Post subject:

Yes, two different warnings being talked about here....
The tiny red one in the bottom left corner and the full-screen image with the green background.
For me, the full-screen image only appears a few seconds before it turns off, but the other one lasts for a while.

AndyVaughan · Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 7:46 pm Post subject:

I have only ever let it get as far as the full screen one once and the same happened for me - it flashed up and the device turned off.

The low battery icon appears for a while on map view - I will try and force the issue on the blue screen and see what happens, but as it isn't that noticeable against the lighter background of a map if it does appear you would probably have to be looking for it to notice if you know what I mean.

AliOnHols · Pocket GPS Verifier Joined: Oct 15, 2008 Posts: 1936

Like others here I get two low battery warnings.

The first is a small battery icon in the lower left hand corner next to where the compass icon is on my Go720. It displays as an empty battery with a flashing red line in it and displays for about two minutes. As AndyVaughan says, you have to be looking for it to notice it. Big&Bold it aint!

Next I get a full screen image of a battery against a green background with a Low Battery text message. Automatic shutdown is almost immediate after this last display.
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