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DSpider · 20/03/2011 04:27 PM

No, actually, there's a barrier toggle that the chip inside the battery sends to the PSP. The syscall is only activated when you hit the Battery Information entry from System Settings. So when it reaches a certain (apparent) percentage, it tells the PSP to replace the 3 bar battery icon with a 2 bar battery icon.

Constantly monitoring the battery (like staying at the Battery Information screen or using plugins that constantly update an on-screen status) is kinda like using the Task Manager on your computer. It's going to draw resources. And like I said, using battery percentages is extremely inaccurate. That's why most devices use bars instead of percentages. And I actually prefer it that way.

For example, I will never set my iPod touch to display percentages instead of the graphic indicator. It would seriously piss me off. At times it'll read 54%, use it for a while, drops to 27%, leave it alone for a few minutes and it's back to 48%... Use it some more, drops to 26% and soon tells me it has 20% battery left. Then leave it alone for five minutes and use it sparingly and I GUARANTEE you it will complain at least 2 more times when it reaches the 20% battery limit.

It's the same with the PSP and pretty much anything that runs on storage cells.

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