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Strange Battery Icon during updaate of Prime Firmware. Message #1 Posted by Harold A Climer on 5 Dec 2013, 3:39 p.m. I upgraded one of my Primes with no problem. While upgrading the other one I noticed a lightening bolt inside the battery icon when I plugged the second prime into my computer. When I unplugged the USB cable the lightening bolt DISAPPEARED AND THE BATTERY ICON SHOWED A 100% CHARGE. This did not happen while upgrading the first one. Any idea as to what is going on and is it a problem?

Re: Strange Battery Icon during updaate of Prime Firmware. Message #2 Posted by Chris Pem10 on 5 Dec 2013, 4:14 p.m., in response to message #1 by Harold A Climer My battery meter says 100%. I haven't had it on the charging cable for two days... I doubt it is fully charged. I wonder how accrate the meter is? I fully expect to turn it on soon and see 75%. I asked the question a few days ago if there was a function that returns the battery state; but I haven't gotten a response.

Re: Strange Battery Icon during updaate of Prime Firmware. Message #3 Posted by Tim Wessman on 5 Dec 2013, 5:04 p.m., in response to message #2 by Chris Pem10 There is no function to return the status. Wouldn't be too incredibly useful due to the non-granularity either I don't think. It only has basically 4 states. 100, 75,50, 25, off. The warnings to work well though in terms of letting you know when it is getting low and critical though. TW

Re: Strange Battery Icon during updaate of Prime Firmware. Message #4 Posted by Erwin Ried on 6 Dec 2013, 1:36 a.m., in response to message #3 by Tim Wessman Quote: It only has basically 4 states. 100, 75,50, 25, off. Since the info is in there, why don't use every pixel row as granularity? 100%, 90%... is not like the device is oriented to elderly people that can't perceive the differences in the icon... BTW I almost finish all the other consumption tests, and as far I can see the hardware handles very nice the power (specially on idle, 0.06 mA in average with eventual 68 mA spikes every x minutes)

Re: Strange Battery Icon during updaate of Prime Firmware. Message #5 Posted by Massimo Gnerucci (Italy) on 6 Dec 2013, 6:46 a.m., in response to message #4 by Erwin Ried Quote: is not like the device is oriented to elderly people that can't perceive the differences in the icon Hey youngster! Be careful... ;-)

Re: Strange Battery Icon during updaate of Prime Firmware. Message #6 Posted by Tim Wessman on 6 Dec 2013, 11:20 a.m., in response to message #4 by Erwin Ried Looking forward to seeing your data! The problem is that the info is *not* there. Basically, you get a 4,3,2,1 and that is it. TW

Re: Strange Battery Icon during updaate of Prime Firmware. Message #7 Posted by Paul Berger (Canada) on 5 Dec 2013, 4:38 p.m., in response to message #1 by Harold A Climer I believe the lightening bolt is just a charge indicator. I noticed that too when I upgraded mine and just now I plugged the USB cable in again and it came on for a while and then went away. I have seen lightening bolts used as charge indicators on other electronic devices as well.

Re: Strange Battery Icon during updaate of Prime Firmware. Message #8 Posted by Michael de Estrada on 5 Dec 2013, 4:40 p.m., in response to message #1 by Harold A Climer The "lightning bolt" just means it's charging. Once it is charged, it will go out or if you unplug it, regardless, since it won't be charging.

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