XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone   
   From: nospam@nospam.invalid   
      
   In article <1w1mx0dcm8iv5$.dlg@v.nguard.lh>, VanguardLH    
   wrote:   
      
   >   
   > > I've got round to connecting my ipad to my Windows with 3uTools and found   
   > > the battery have 99% health.   
   > >   
   > > So that's good confirmation that any further issues won't be down to the   
   > > battery.   
   >   
   > I could find no mention how 3utools measures battery health. In fact,   
   > there is little info on anything in the tools suite.   
      
   you're looking in the wrong place.   
      
   the *battery* reports its health, which can be read by software and   
   reported to the user, much like smart monitoring on hard drives.   
      
   > Measuring by   
   > voltage is not a valid indicator of a battery's health.   
      
   which is why that's not used for the battery health report.   
      
   > Since coulombs   
   > cannot be measure for the battery's capacity, about the only other   
   > method is to record and graph the discharge and charge rates over many   
   > discharge/charge cycles.  However, that is only an indicator of battery   
   > health, and still does not measure capacity (coulombs).   
      
   no, that's not the only other method.   
      
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