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- NiMHSet v0.01, 1999/11/15
-
- http://geekzilla.geekazoid.com/nimhset/
- geekzilla@geekazoid.com
-
- NOTE: If you can't find the program, you need to read this readme closer.
-
- This is the first version of two different programs. NiMHSet might change a
- little, but it's fulfilling it's full function, and will always be
- distributed just about as is.
-
- Its only function is to set the battery type to NiCad (I use NiMH batteries,
- and PalmOS versions prior to 3.3 consider NiCad and NiMH to be the same, and
- I don't have a set of 3.3 headers, so it's called NiMHSet anyway), set the
- warn voltage threshold to 2.26, and the critical voltage threshold to 1.60.
- On later OS, you can't pick the voltage anyway, so the lack of
- configurability isn't a major issue.
-
- It does this by using SysBatteryInfo, and Palm discourages using
- SysBatteryInfo to change settings. NiMHSet has been tested on PalmOS 2.0
- and 3.3. According to the programming documentation I have, SysBatteryInfo
- wasn't changed between 1.0 and 2.0, so it shouldn't crash on that OS, but
- hasn't been tested there. If it should crash, you'll need to press the up
- button while resetting your Palm to reset it without running NiMHSet. You
- have been warned, you can now rename the file notyet to nimhset.prc and
- install.
-
- This could be a lot smaller. I know, 2K isn't much, and I'm probably not
- going to sweat it, but it really could be.
-
- On the other hand, this program will probably also evolve into BatBelt at
- some point in the future. BatBelt will have the ability to set the battery
- type, voltage thresholds, automatic detection of battery replacements
- including days since last replacement, time on since last replacement, info
- on time of last hard and soft reset, and maybe a voltage graph and other
- features. There is no timetable as to when this will happen.
-