It just throws the health warning message instead.īug? I don't know but at least we know how to work around it.
#BATTERY STATUS 1.11 SERIAL NUMBER#
The R-30 cells seem like they have a charge counter of some sort in them but they must not have a serial number or if they do, the R-30 is not smart enough to use it. When I popped the original cell back on, it surprised me when it gave me the health warning even though it was fully charged when I'd swapped to the new battery. When I did, it ran fine and I ran it down to about 40% charge for storage. When I bought the spare cell just about 1 or 2 months ago, the radio reported the cell only had 2% charge in it! Of course it also gave the health warning and then it promptly shut down until I charged it.
So the R-30 must have some kind of smarts about the battery cell as long as you don't swap it with another cell or charge it with USB. It takes almost 10 charge cycles from 90% charged back to 100% before a charge cycle is added to to info page cycle count. Those small charge cycles do not count as a charge cycle. And if I do use it off the cradle, I may only use 10% of the charge before sticking it back in the cradle to get topped off. I'm still well under 300 charge cycles but mine does sit in the cradle much of the time I use it. I think they were out about a month before I bought mine. I remember you saying you bought an R-30 when they were released. In fact, since I started charging in the cradle only, I've only ever seen the warning again if I swap in the spare cell.Ĭlick to expand.Out of curiosity, how many cycles does the radio show your cell has been recharged when you look at the info screen?
I usually only use the cradle for charging as I don't trust not breaking the fragile USB ports and I rarely see the health warning. I think you are the only one to say it does this all the time. Something else may be going on with your R30 if it displays the health warning after every drain and recharge in the cradle that you do. I learned that very fast after buying a spare battery! It also seems to forget and will display the warning pretty much every time if you swap in a spare battery. At least that's how I read it from others that saw the same warning as well as when I had the warning when the radio was still fairly new to me. When you use USB to charge and then switch back to the cradle or visa-versa, that seems to be when it forgets and displays the health warning but only some of the time. Click to expand.It is calibrated from the factory but the radio has no way of knowing what the charge level should be when you pop a cell in that may have been sitting for several months.
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