laptop battery

Laptop Battery Monitor, is an intelligent laptop battery monitoring software. It accurately displays an estimated time, until your battery will discharge, or fully charge. You no longer have to worry on how much battery power you have left, when you can have this information in hours, minutes and seconds.

Features :

- Display remaining time until the battery is fully discharged (when running on batteries)
- Display remaining time until the batteru is fully charged (when the battery is charging from the AC power supply)
- Application runs in system tray, using minimum memory and screen space
- Custom indicator colors
- Sound alerts when charging starts/stops, battery is full charged, or battery charge drops under a predefined percentage
- Automaticly starts when you turn on your laptop
- Complete manual included
- Works with any laptop and battery model, new or used.
- Lifetime free updates, tech support, and the ability to redownload your software if you loose it.

Laptop Battery Power Monitor allows you to track the battery power of your laptop. This cool little widget can be dragged across your desktop and placed over any window. To eliminate intrusiveness on your other programs, users can adjust the transparency of the battery. In addition, the battery can be resized to 33%, 50%, or 75% of its original size. If you place your mouse over the battery, your batterys charge status, total hours remaining, and percentage of battery life remaining will be displayed.

Fix for Windows XP SP2 Laptop Battery Drain Bug description
When you unplug the AC power from a Microsoft Windows XP-based portable computer, the battery may drain more quickly than should When you unplug the AC power from a Microsoft Windows XP-based portable computer, the battery may drain more quickly than you expect. Therefore, the operating system may shut down prematurely.

This problem may occur if one of the following conditions is true:

The portable computer cannot enter the deeper Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) processor idle sleep states.

This occurs when the USB 2.0 driver leaves the asynchronous scheduler component running continuously. This prevents the processor from entering the deeper ACPI processor idle sleep states, or C-states. C-states save power when the processor is not busy. These states range from C0 to C3 or C4. Typically, an idle portable computer uses the C3 and C4 states to preserve battery power. If an idle portable computer cannot enter or maintain the C3 or C4 states, the battery power drains more quickly. This problem is fixed by installing the download that is available in this article.

The USB host controller is unable to turn off.

This typically occurs when devices are removed from a nested USB hub that is attached to the host controller. The host controller does not recognize the device removal. Therefore, the controller is never turned off. This prevents the processor from entering the ACPI processor idle sleep states. This problem is not fixed by installing the download that is available in this article.

The USB host controller uses the periodic scheduler for USB 2.0 devices.

This typically will occur when the devices that rely on the periodic scheduler are attached to the host controller. These may be isochronous (Isoch) devices such as audio devices. Alternatively, they may be interrupt devices such as mouse or keyboard. This problem is not fixed by installing the download that is available in this article.

Note Various factors can affect the battery life of different portable computers that use different types of batteries. Therefore, you may not notice any improvement in battery life after you apply this update.

The patch only exists for x86 versions of Windows XP, Service Pack 2.

Displays the amount of battery life in minutes and as a percentage. Also displayed is the current time and batteryimages showing the charge level and a power plug if the battery is being charged. Visual clues are provided if thebattery is low. Resides on the System tray with options available via right-mouse click. Options include: Clock Chiming, Laptop Suspend and Shutdown, automatic Wallpaper Changer, User defined programs and CPU Usage display. Full access to all Performance Valuesto monitor as well as CPU e.g. Modem speed, disk usage, network speed, memory usage and swapfile status.

Battery Bar was designed to show you exactly how much time your laptops battery will run.

Battery Bar uses the most accurate time prediction algorithm on the market today. It also displays the current percentage of battery power left. Battery Bar is intelligent, the more you use Battery Bar the more accurate it gets.

Battery Bar continuously displays status icons so that you can always tell if your battery is on AC, charging, battery power, or if your battery is low. Battery Bar will also let you specify a battery percentage level that when reached Battery Bar will shut down the computer.

Battery Bar has the ability to run on top of all other programs so that it is always visible. Battery Bar is small so that you have plenty of screen space for other programs.

Here are some key features of "Battery Bar":

· Always visible with a quick glance. Capable of always on top mode.
· Status color scheme, blue is using battery power, red is low battery, green is battery charging, and purple is AC power with a full battery.
· Status icons are displayed on the Battery Bar and in the system tasktray, i.e. by the clock.
· When running on battery power, Battery Bar shows the exact amount of battery life left.
· When charging the battery, Battery Bar shows the amount of time until the battery is charged.
· Can be placed anywhere on the screen and it can automatically snap to the nearest screen edge.
· User configurable warning percentage level.
· Automatic computer shutdown at user configurable percentage level.
· Quick access to help screen.
· Popup hints.
· Registered version has free unlimited e-mail technical support.
· Works with Windows 95 / 98 / ME / 2000 / XP, does not work with Windows NT.


Limitations:

· Limited to 30 days.

laptop is a small theme designed to show the battery laptop status.

The theme look is based on aSensors theme. The basic idea, the battery icons and some of the code is from the sk_battery applet. Other parts are taken from the superkaramba examples.

After I made the first parts, I realized there is too much space left on the panel, so I put a mixer on the widget and a penguin to kill the useless applets (when on battery, I usually dont have internet connection, so I dont need eg. kopete and kcheckgmail).

Note that the penguin-menu appears only when the widget is locked.

I planned first this penguin to hibernate the computer, but this can be done using KLaptop, so it would b useless. If you want to include this feature, Ive left the icon in the pics directory, you can modify the code, eg. by uncommenting and modifying the last line in laptop.theme.

Dont forget to modify the paths for the icons in laptop.py!

Battery is a free widget that gives you the current status of your laptop battery. It will display the current capacity of the battery and whether its charging or connected.

Part of the Yahoo! Widget Engine installation, but offered here in the event youve lost the Widget.

Battery Life lets you see the Life of your Laptop Battery throught the Hour Glass.

Battery Bar shows you exactly how much time your laptops battery will run and displays the current percentage of battery power left. It works with Windows 95/98 and Windows 2000 Professional.

Battery EEPROM Works is designed to simplify the process of laptop battery repair. This process can be divided in two parts: cells replacement and fixing the content of EEPROM or integrated Flash of laptop battery controller. While cells replacement is easy and can be made by any technician who can work with welding machine, EEPROM fixing is very complicated and important task and can be made only by the personal with special skills and equipment. Battery EEPROM Works makes this process as easy as 1-2-3. The technician needs just to connect EEPROM chip to adapter and press the button. All the necessary work will be made by the software. The laptop battery data will look like a brand new: Full Charge Capacity will be the same as you entered and will reflect real cells capacity, Cycles Count will be set to zero, and Manufacturer Date will be changed to current system date, Permanent Failure Flag will be removed and all the additional necessary changes will be made too. Battery EEPROM Works supports a lot of laptop batteries of different manufactures

Pardus-Status for Laptop is a SuperKaramba theme for system monitoring.

It offers system informations such as:

· CPU
· Memory
· Harddisk
· Network
· Battery for Laptop

To use ACPI support you should have ACPI installed in your system.

iStat battery is a free and simple Widget to monitor your laptops battery with a striking design and two different views.

Switching between the simple and advanced views is merely a matter of clicking on the dials centre.

Laptop-Hotswap kernel module enables hot-swapping for disk drives with full DMA support under Linux. It requires kernel 2.6.15+ and ACPI.

I think it ought to work on just about any laptop, although Im not as familiar with ACPI as Id like to be. It works fine on my T22. There could be issues with laptops with two expansion bays -- I shut down the entire ide1 interface and fire it back up, and I do all my watching on the ACPI device for the IDE1/Master. So if you had a slave device, and you ejected the master, your slave will go bye-bye. Thinking about ways around that, but they dont export too much of the ide driver. I think itd be easy to handle, you just have to make sure youre not using either master or slave whenever you eject one of them.

At least on my laptop, dont go pulling things while your laptop is sleeping. Do it when its awake.

The floppy support should work, but my floppy drive isnt with me right now.

Theres one parameter -- auto_eject. If you set it to 1, the driver will automatically shut down and unregister the IDE interface upon getting a request for ejection (On my T22, I pull a little switch and a lever pops out -- the drive is still connected at that point, but it shows as a request for ejection). If your laptop doesnt have a mechanism for that:

echo -n "MSTR eject" > /proc/acpi/lths

Will shut down and software-eject the drive, and you can safely pull it and insert another.

See the scripts in config/ -- theyre made to work with acpid to handle the ejection and umounting and insertion. The mount/umount stuff only matters for a drive caddy, I suppose.

It shouldnt matter what you have in your laptop at boot. This module also fixes that annoying thing on my T22 where if I dont have a ultrabay battery in at boot, I cant ever see its status.

Whats New in This Release:

· Support for the Fujitsu S7020 (and possibly other laptops using a PATA bay with an SATA main disk).

iPod Battery is used to change the iPod battery indicator. By default iPod display a battery with some small tags.

You can change to a numeric rappresentation from 0 to 999, giving a better understanding of battery status.

Here are some key features of "iPod Battery":

· The digital number indicator gives a more detailed view of battery status.
· You can change from analog (a small battery picture on Ipod) to digital, or vice-versa.