Bugzilla – Bug 13761
Very little or no warning before battery-only unit automatically turns off
Last modified: 2009-10-05 14:28:08 UTC
When playing a track on a battery-only unit, it will turn itself off without much warning when the battery low condition is encountered. With firmware 7307, the Please Charge Me screen is shown for approximately 12 seconds and then the auto shutoff occurs. It would be preferable if some warning was given much earlier to allow the user to plug it into the wall for uninterrupted music. Suggest the following sequence: 1. 10 minutes beforehand, the battery icon on the Now Playing or other screen displays a out-of-battery-charge state as an initial warning. 2. 1 minute beforehand, the Please Charge Me screen is displayed. 3. After 1 minute, the auto turn off process initiates.
Richard and Caleb, does Mickey's proposal sound reasonable?
Richard is there any variable power supply testing I can do to help here?
initially assigning to Richard, but I could probably be on the hook for the UI level work for this.
With r7426, Baby will shut itself off without any warning. It will be playing a track and then suddenly the screen will go blank and music stops playing. I can then power on the unit, and it will stay on for a little bit and then repeat the above. The battery icon at the bottom of the screen shows perhaps one-quarter filled. Maybe that icon should blink as a battery warning?
== Auto-comment from SVN commit #7434 to the jive repo by richard == == https://svn.slimdevices.com/jive?view=revision&revision=7434 == Bug #13761 Extended low battery warning to one minute.
I've extended the please charge me warning screen to 1 minute (from 30 seconds). It should work as Mickey suggests anyway (I'm not sure when the low battery state is shown, probably more than 10 minutes before hand). This needs to be tested, and if it does not work then it's probably Calebs to fix.
With r7438, there's no warning screen at all. The music is playing and it simply cuts off suddenly -- the screen blanks and there's a slight "thump" when it happens. The battery icon on the bottom bar shows one-quarter full.
== Auto-comment from SVN commit #7565 to the jive repo by ccrome == == https://svn.slimdevices.com/jive?view=revision&revision=7565 == Fixed #13761. Updated lua code to correspond to MSP codes.
Sorry, no change to symptoms listed in Comment 7. PVT2 Baby with firmware r7576.
I've seen the Charge Me screen on some build recently. It was displayed for 45 seconds (it happened twice so I timed it the second time) before the display blanked suddenly.
== Auto-comment from SVN commit #6427 to the player repo by ccrome == == https://svn.slimdevices.com/player?view=revision&revision=6427 == Fixed 13761. Fixed shutoff logic so that it will display 'please charge me' before shutting down.
== Auto-comment from SVN commit #7676 to the jive repo by ccrome == == https://svn.slimdevices.com/jive?view=revision&revision=7676 == Fixed 13761. Fixed shutoff logic so that it will display 'please charge me' before shutting down.
*** Bug 14176 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 14120 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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