Low Battery and Poweroff

[Guest caio1]

I noticed that when my battery goes very low, the SPV doesn't shutdown correctly but act as when you remove the battery with the SPV on.

Isn't there a way to have the spv automatically shutdown when the battery reach e.g. 3%? Every other cellular phone do this!!

Thank you.

Caio

[Guest v1nn1e]

every other phones normal shutdown and battery take out shutdown looks the same, how do you know which shutdown the old phones is doing? :wink:

[Guest caio1]

Didn't understand your reply...

I just mean that when the battery is empty, SPV doesn't shutdown as when you press the power button. Instead it stop to receive power and give you that garbage on the display like when you remove the battery when spv is on.

And by doing this, your spv will lose any setting you did in the last session.

That's why it would be necessary that spv shuts down correctly when battery is empty.

Caio

[Guest v1nn1e]

you wrote "Isn't there a way to have the spv automatically shutdown when the battery reach e.g. 3%? Every other cellular phone do this!!"

You said other phones shutdown properly right? but how can you tell. There normal shutdown looks the same as a one would look if the power down was incorrect. With the SPV you can tell the difference between a normal shutdown and a shutdown by taking the battery out or incorrect shutdown.

My point is that you siad all other phones do this, but how can u tell what type of shutdown it is if the correct and incorrect ones look the same!? So other cell phone might be shutting down incorrectly. You get me? :?

[Guest mrjuglas]

That's fine Vin, but it's not that helpful... I think what caio wants to know is that no, there is no way that we know of to get the spv to automatically shut down, maybe a way will be found in time but it would need some software development presumably

[Guest caio1]

@v1nn1e:

with my old phone Siemens s45:

- if I shut down with power button or if battery was empty it correctly shutdowns as I don't lose the changes made to settings in the last power session

- if I remove battery when it's on, I do lose my settings changed in the last power session.

A big difference :lol:

[Guest v1nn1e]

Oh!

I'm saying this because my past nokia's shutdown looked the same when battery dead and normal shutdown.

mrjuglas: was about to say what you said but wasjust having a little conversation with caio1.

Anyway here is my question, Are settings or anything actually lost when the spv shuts down badly? I believe that it is not that bad to shut down that way.

[Guest caio1]

v1nn1e:

as for my results, you lose all the settings made in the last session.

elsewhere I wouldn't complain about :lol:

[Guest midnight]

errr, what settings are you losing? cos mine doesnt lose anything, even if i just pull out the battery.

[Guest caio1]

Ehehe... don't remember.

I have no time now, going play golf.

Tonight will find the problem

Caio

[Guest madu]

Well it seems that it only looses settings if you changed something recently. It tends (as I see) to save them automatically every XX minutes or something. So only the very recent changes will be lost.

Ie: Add an appointment and take the batt out - you should loose that. Same if you have just changed homescreen..

[Guest midnight]

ahhh, getcha, yeh, think theres a 5minute delay, same if you create a shortcut and add to the start menu, doesnt appear straight away, but it will after a while.

[Guest caio1]

Hmmm

It would be interesting to know what process it runs every 5minutes to save the new info permanently.

Or even better to find the registry key which set the timeout of this saving.

Caio

[Guest fraser]

This is a serious design flaw. My old Motorola phone 4 years ago was capable of switching itself off before the battery got too low. Laptops and PDAs are the same.

[Guest caio1]

thank you fraser!

at the end someone thinks like me that it's really an annoying bug!!!

Caio