USB Power

[Guest SJSpencer]

Hi ppl

This is a question about the power from the usb port and is there a way to ask the phone not to charge the battery when connected. As if you are always connecting to the PC it may affect the battery and may produce a memory affect as the battery is not drained before charging and resultin gin poor battery life?

So is there a way just to connect the phone to the PC and not charge the battery to?

Cheers again

Ste

[Guest Richie M]

The SPV family of phones have Li-ion Batteries, which do not suffer from the "memory effect".

But, no there isnt a way to disable charging, afaik

[Guest awarner [MVP]]

Li-ion batteries prefer to be topped up than fully discharged,

unlike Ni-cd and Ni-mh batteries. As long as you are not constantly only

connecting for a few minutes and charging for a few hours at a time you

will not have a problem as the memory effect is much less pronounced.

It is always recomended that you replace your battery yearly

(who actually does this :?) but as I said do not be tempted to

try and fully discharge the battery, as apart from probably c

causing a partial reset on the phone you will also damaged

the internal circuitry of the battery.