Introduction

Battery Panel is a system preference panel which displays the current battery settings. If your handheld supports user changeable batteries (Alkaline, NiCad), the battery type can be chosen. Also the warning and critical (shut off) voltages can be set. All settings will survive a soft reset. Battery Panel is an application and does not patch any system trap (unlike a hackmaster hack).

The various PalmOS versions (2.0 to 3.5) behave quite different on battery settings. I'm using PalmOS 3.5 on a Palm III and can verify that the settings for the battery kind and critical voltage do work for myself (NiCad 2.00 V). But I'm not sure about about the warning voltage. For this reason I'm happy to get feedback per email with the information, which settings do work for yourself and which OS are you using on what kind of device.

Installation

Unzip the archiv into any directory and install batterypanel_en.prc (or batterypanel_de.prc for the german version) like any other palm application with the Palm Install Tool provided with your Palm Desktop application.

To configure your battery settings, you have to open the Preferences application (called Prefs in the Launcher). With the popup menu in the top right corner of the screen, you can switch to the configuration screen by selecting Battery from this menu.

The kind of battery used can't be changed, if your handheld has a fixed build in battery (e.g. Palm V and Palm IIIc devices).

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