Battery life with exam mode

[gteague]

i gave up and connected the prime to windows. it's not at all clear how to get out of exam mode. and why would you want to create a new object called 'exam mode'?

i'm wondering if my charging circuit is fubar. when i charged i yesterday it took about 2.5 hours and the charging was normal in that it started at around 600mah and ramped down to about 6mah before i declared it charged. i read the battery was 1500mah, so 2.5 hours at 600mah is nearly exactly right for charging time. then, as i said in the previous post, with hardly any use the battery completely drained over the course of the day and it shut itself off.

today i charged it for 2 hours and it never left 660mah and it said 50%. and now and i'm trying to get it to 100% and another 2 hours and it's still drawing 600mah. this doesn't seem right nor consistent. i think when i was exploring it (with the getting started guide in hand) i did something to put it into exam mode although i don't know what. and when it went into that mode it screwed up the charging algorithm.


/guy