NW-HD3 Battery Meter

[Matt]

First off I would like to thank the people that responded to my last post, it was a big help.

I have another question to all you NW-HD3 users. Does your battery meter not accuartley display the amount of life left in the battery? For example hanging on the last (lowest)part of the battery bar for a long peroid of time after the device has only been used for say an hour. Or jumping from low to medium battery life randomly? I am not sure if this is a fault or this happens to all NW-HD3's.

Anyway If anyone has expeirenced a similar situation, I would be interseted to hear.

Thanks,

Matt

[Guest Stuge]

Even I have also face this problem but One thing i have noted that I you give shocks to your hard disk while using then battery life suddendly jumps from High to med or medium to low but after switching it off & starting it again the battery again showed the medium life...Also Sony has written on somewhere on their manual that actula battery amount may be different from what is battery meter is showing at that moment ..

[Kit]

Same here...it doesn't really display it accurately.

[ajitp]

sony's battery meters have always been made that way.

[pata2001]

This pretty much applies to most battery meter on most electronic devices. After I finish watching a video on my 5G iPod, the battery would be in red, but letting it idle for a couple of seconds, it will jump back to green (about 1/3 of the meter).

[Guest Stuge]

People who haave Flash Based player will not have this kind of problem because HDD based player has moving part so when these moving parts are disturbed( when it Get`s Shock) they take more power from the battery(at that instant) to become stabilise .

[pata2001]

I was thinking about more of the device's processor clock speed. Many electronic devices now (especially DAPs, PDAs) use processors with variable clockspeed (like the Pentium M). So when doing intensive stuff, the processor runs at higher clock speed, the battery meter will seem to drain faster or at lower point, but when the processor is idle (lower clock speed), the meter also adjust accordingly. If you have a Pentium M notebook, you'll see the estimated remaining battery time changes, depending if you are running a game, using wireless, or idle, etc.

True, the moving parts can also take part (just like when the battery meter of a PCDP flickering between full/partial charge when spinning a disc).

[lxrichbirdxl]

Well, I got that pretty often, when the player beeps repeated and stops as the battery runs out. I somehow figure something out, as if I leave it for a while it would SOMETIME start playing again and never run out of power for quite a while!!! Ya, I get the random battery life display as well.

[sh33p]

This goes back to my Sony discman... Every time it died on me I would leave it off or move the batteries around and start it up again, get an extra 20 or 30 minutes out of it.

With my NetMD it was worse. Once the internal died, I attached the external battery case and played with that for 20 minutes. Then I'd unplug it and get another hour or so on the internal. Real dodgy if you ask me.