Battery Stressing App for testing?

[Compaq Rep]

[Got KarmA?]

I'm not talking about the main battery power . . . thats lasting AGES. I can drain through the entire expansion pack battery and still have 80% left on the main battery, depending on what I'm doing.

When I play MP3's, I'll turn it on, and then use a hot button to turn off the display . . .

As far as I've noticed, the expansion battery and main battery function COMPLETELY independently of each other. I haven't done testing with the PCMCIA hard drive removed yet, as I just got the darn thing . . . but if my internal battery is quite full and the expansion dies . . . I lose the hard drive functionality. It just shuts off. I can use the rest of the iPaq just fine, but at this moment, thats not what I'm trying to do.

I guess this is just the way it goes . . . a real shame if you ask me. Sharing batteries may not get me much further, but it'll get me a hellova lot further than nowhere.

[Mechcommander]

I JUST got my iPAQ a couple weeks ago and I luv it! But I thought the battery life was to be desired... So I am now saving up for a new CF pack plus. I use an under/overclocking utility from Jimmysoft and at 177Mhz, everything runs fine (except for PocketTV and Argentum) and got 1hr, 36 mins at %90 juice left. (BACKLIGHT OFF) I dont know if that is normal, or good... For your problem Karma, did you look at the expansion pack thingy in settings? Maybe you can tell it to keep using it even though the slimbattery is dead. If not, there's an affordable solution for And for those who like to Oh, and is there any way to tell my iPAQ to stop whining to recharge at %40 battery?