laptop battery life

helane helane at o2.pl
Mon Nov 5 06:52:08 UTC 2007


brightness is down. bluetooth - unistalled. :) wireless only working 
when needed... it helped. :)

thank you all for help,
helane.

Ralph Pichie wrote:
> It's always helpful to check for extra services that may be running 
> and accessing your hard disk or other devices. That will kill battery 
> life. Make sure that your wireless connection (ath0) and Bluetooth are 
> deactivated, unless you need them. Reduce your screen brightness, when 
> possible. That should stretch your battery life considerably.
>  
> On 10/31/07, *ubuntu-ca-request at lists.ubuntu.com 
> <mailto:ubuntu-ca-request at lists.ubuntu.com>* < 
> ubuntu-ca-request at lists.ubuntu.com 
> <mailto:ubuntu-ca-request at lists.ubuntu.com>> On Tue, 2007-30-10 at 
> 22:44 -0700, helane wrote:
> > i have laptop compaq presario v3000. just a couple of weeks ago i
> > switched to new ubuntu, and then last week my battery started 
> showing as
> > "old/broken". it would charge but would not give me only about an hour
> > on it. i used the laptop extensively in the last year so thought it was
> > an old battery. i bought a new certified one - 12 cell, hoping it would
> > give me even more time than the last one. i plugged it in, it came 50%
> > charged showing 50 minutes. it charges fast... it went to 77% in 20
> > minutes but now shows again 55 minutes on 77%. the percentage seem 
> to go
> > up the time does not as fast... now it went to 80% still showing 55 min.
> > on the old battery i used to get 2.5 hrs on the new one i was supposed
> > to ~5 hrs. not sure if something else is broken, or the linux shows
> > wrong time... any ideas? i really appreciate it. spend a lot of money on
> > a new battery... no happy about it.
> >
> > thanks
> > helane.
> >
>  





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