DTVuser2009

I'm curious. of course we all have moments when our fancy cell phones chirp 'LOW BATTERY' and subsequently 'RECHARGE BATTERY' and having it then shut down. but i'm not convinced it's really that low and it's turning itself off early for some reason.

Reason 1: the phone is turned on, then chirps 'RECHARGE BATTERY', and performs its shutdown routine. well, it sure has enough juice to do the dinky little AT&T Wireless animation and have the backlight lit shortly after before going blank! there's apparently more power for that alone!

Reason 2: on laptops, when Windows starts shutting itself down due to low battery power, it sure has enough juice to still do all the Windows Vista logoff sounds, video animation, and shows it up to 3 more minutes. and it said the battery is 'critical?' i highly doubt it!

Reason 3. Boot up an iPhone or iPod touch from a low-battery condition (as in a hard reboot) and it goes through all the booting routines long enough to show the home screen but then alerts the battery is too low to continue, but of course it still even then has enough to go through all the logoff routines?!


Is there still some life left and some reason it's just shutting down early? i don't know. but it does apparently have enough life left to show all that jazz as it goes off! i don't know why though.