Rom update and battery life- bad charge read from the ROM

[drkostas]

A lot of people have referred problems with the battery life (both the standard and the extended batteries OEM and not) after upgrading to the new rom.
There are a lot of threads outside Brighthand about this issue , but I have not seen such a thread in this forum, so I started this conversation to inform Brighthand's users about the problem.

First of all I have to admit, that personally have found nothing wrong with battery life after the rom upgrade.But today I read an email answer from hp confirming the problem.
Read this thread and pay attention to post # 10 from Steve Sohn. I quote here the hp email

Dear HP Customer,

Thank you for contacting HP eServices.

This is with reference to your e-mail regarding the issue with your iPAQ hx4700 series.

We understand your concern and regret the inconvenience.

This case is that of a bad charge read from the ROM.

HP engineering is currently working on this and soon an update will be released to address this issue.

Unfortunately, we do not have the exact date of release of the update.

Once it is released, it will be made available in the below mentioned web link:

http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/fi...1120_6089.html

Once again, we apologize and truly regret any inconvenience or frustration this matter may have caused. We value you as our customer and your satisfaction is very important to us.

Please e-mail us if you need any clarification and we will be glad to assist.

Thank you,

HP eServices

Also take a look to following threads
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/f...hreadId=886612
http://www.ipaqhq.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17812

[cracou 111]

Hi,
I have the same problem since the the ROM update!

The battery remaining time in SPB plus indicates 2h06min (100%) after full charge (with standard battery) and when I insert the fully charged 3600 mAh battery it's shows me the same remaining time!

I use a 4 Giga CF Sandisk and a 2 GB SD Sandisk together.

I hope HP will fix this problem!
Bye

[drkostas]

This is not the same. SPB Pocket plus uses statistics in order to calculate the battery life. If you change your bstandard battery with the extended you should use it for some days in order to let Pocket Plus caclulate the new battery life.Or you should test it on your own in order to have more accurate results

[imported_Possum]

It's scary how closely that form letter response was to one I received from Palm concerning an issue I was having with audio streaming over their wi-fi card.

Hopefully HP (and think they will) will actually fix the problem in a reasonable ammount of time.

I still have the same issue with wi-fi on my Palm although there have been two updates, which appear to have only added support for new devices.

[bigray327]

Glad I'm not the only one!