Battery Update in Software Update.

[stcanard]

Re: Improvement seen in 15.2" PB 1.25

Originally posted by lakhdip
BTW: which app can tell you the actual power in the battery and stuff like the charge stored in it? and what are the expected levels for the 15 FW800 battery?

Thanks

There is a program to check (I think it's called XBattery?) but I just issue the following from terminal:

ioreg -l | grep IOBatteryInfo

Actually I put an alias in my .profile so I don't have to remember that.

 

[Les Kern]

Once again I escape devastating issues sometimes associated with an update.
Here's a pic after the update. Before it said 53 mins. I'm not expecting to get 4 hours, but 3 would be sweet. (I have all settings on "I don't care, I need the speed and it HAS to be bright too".

 

[visor]

Originally posted by rog
I don't know why I only get 20 minutes of battery life on my 17" AlBook. All I was doing was burning a DVD while backing up with carbon copy cloner to a firewire powered portable hard drive, charging my ipod, playing iTunes with the visualizer on large in the background, while running some photoshop filters on 5 GB files and doing some net surfing over airport and syncing my palm pilot and watching a divx movie in a small window. While I know it's bad to have screen brightness all the way up and processor at highest setting, I figure I made up for that by taking out the RAM and putting in a 128MB chip to save the power of having to access all that RAM. Maybe part of the problem is that I also had Norton utilities & AltiVec Fractal Demo running in Classic in the background. I hope this updates lets me do all that and gives me 42 hours of power instead of 20 minutes.

shocking call for warranty.

 

[davesag]

ipod battery life

Originally posted by Gymnut
Huh, too bad Apple can't release something like this to improve the iPods battery life.

damn straight. i have a fairly new 30gb ipod and to get it to full charge i need to let it charge until it thinks its full, then unplug it from the dock and reconnect it again, and let it charge up again until it thinks its charged, and over and over. each time it holds a little more charge than before, and after a day of this i get a fully charged ipod that will give me 8hrs of play time. but it used to be different, and i fully expect my battery will just vanish soon.

 

[CmdrLaForge]

On my iBook 900MHz I get more then 3 hours. I don't see a change before and after the update. The 3 h is timed by watch and not what the iBook says.

 

[sethypoo]

Haven't noticed any real increases in battery power with my 12" PowerBook G4 (rev. A). We'll see with increased battery use.

 

[sethypoo]

After installing the battery update I've noticed one very annoying problem: when my 12" PowerBook G4 (rev. A) is unplugged, the battery indicator in my menu bar says "Charged". Does anyone else have this problem?

See picture below. I think I'll post this in Software Discussion and Help.
Thanks!



Edit: To clarify, when unplugged, my PowerBook doesn't tell me how much charge is left, if just says unplugged. The picture below was taken while my PowerBook was unplugged.

 

[sjk]

Originally posted by sethypoo
After installing the battery update I've noticed one very annoying problem: when my 12" PowerBook G4 (rev. A) is unplugged, the battery indicator in my menu bar says "Charged". Does anyone else have this problem?

I've noticed the Battery Menu Extra not always being updated.
I "fix" it by running killall -v -HUP SystemUIServer in a Terminal shell to restart the SystemUIServer process.

 

[plasticparadox]

This is what I get after the update.

 

[Marlon_JBT]

Re: 12" with FW 800?

Originally posted by McMike
This may just be a spell mistake by Apple, but in the german version of the update there are 3 PowerBooks 12":
PowerBook 12"
PowerBook 12" (DVI)
PowerBook 12" (FW 800)
Just a mistake or is it like with G5's appearing at Apple Store 3 days before launch?

Hmm, this could be a sign of things to come. I'm VERY SURPRISED that everyone thinks that this is a typo.

Maybe we're getting 12" PowerBooks with a 1.25 GHz processor, AND FireWire 800 at MWSF?

just dreaming.

By the way, my battery life increased to 4:30 under normal use.