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    Cant see the estimated time on battery. dv5t

    Discussion in 'HP' started by K1LL4J0L0K14, Aug 22, 2008.

  1. K1LL4J0L0K14

    K1LL4J0L0K14 Notebook Consultant

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    When i put the cursor over the battery it just shows percent remaining. I am pretty sure it showed time also before. does anybody know how i can make it display time also. thanks
     
    K1LL4J0L0K14, Aug 22, 2008
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    Infamous22, Aug 22, 2008
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  3. K1LL4J0L0K14

    K1LL4J0L0K14 Notebook Consultant

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    Ok thanks for the download. Even that still dosent tell me how long it has. Does it take a little while to recognize it?
     
    K1LL4J0L0K14, Aug 22, 2008
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    It has a charge time and a discharge time. There's also a little accuracy box. It gets more accurate after a few charges and discharges. The higher the percentage in the accuracy box, the better.
     
    Infamous22, Aug 22, 2008
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  5. K1LL4J0L0K14

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    ahhhh i see how it works. Thanks for this.
     
    K1LL4J0L0K14, Aug 22, 2008
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    Will it show accurate time if I frequently switch between power plans?
     
    Vladk1000, Aug 22, 2008
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    Do you have any other suggestions infamous other than the one link you provided? I looked at it but overall it doesn't look quite how I want something like that to look.
     
    TheAtreidesHawk, Aug 22, 2008
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  8. Infamous22

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    I haven't found any others quite as good.
     
    Infamous22, Aug 23, 2008
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    Do you know how accurate it is from your experience, when compared to natively estimating, if that makes any sense at all. I'm going to give the program a shot though. Thanks.
     
    wifi1, Aug 23, 2008
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    I think it works awesome. It's near perfect.
     
    Infamous22, Aug 23, 2008
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    Okay, so I tried it. The percent charge it gives seems accurate enough, the same as the one HP gives. Do you have to have the program running to increase the accuracy so it can display time left? It takes up 5-8% of my CPU which in my opinion is a bit much considering its function. I'm guessing the cool little animation takes up the power. Is there any way to disable that and just have a simple tray icon? Besides that, it's a nifty program.

    Edit: The accuracy goes up fairly quickly so no problem.
     
    wifi1, Aug 23, 2008
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  12. jreezy86

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    windows media side bar will give you an accurate time until battery dies...
     
    jreezy86, Aug 23, 2008
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    MioPlanet is NOT a good program to tell you how long the battery will last. i have used it, and for the first go, it was working very nicely. But then after I calibrated the battery, it wouldn't tell me right time. Yeah, the percentage was always right, seems like it picks the data from same place HP picks up its battery stats. Now the extimate shown is so much out of range, I haven't used it in long time. if its working for you, great. otherwise you are in same shoes as me looking for a possible program which could provide accurate battery time.
     
    prabhg, Aug 25, 2008
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    Hmm... what I do find strange is the last time I used this laptop, my total time discharge was 2:36, now it's 2:06 after charging. Accuracy is 69%, but I don't see why I basically lost 30 minutes of total battery life. That's pretty strange, I highly doubt I picked up that much battery wear in three days. Anyone know how to measure battery wear under Vista 64 bit?
     
    wifi1, Aug 25, 2008
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  15. Infamous22

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    Uninstall and reinstall the program prab!

    wifi the program takes time to get fully accurate. It may fluctuate until it gets to 100%.
     
    Infamous22, Aug 25, 2008
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    Hi,

    You said you saw the time remaining before. Are you sure? I am using this brand new DV 5t notebook with vista 64. I only see the percentage battery remaining and not the time remaining. I am eager to see if anyone sees the time remaining, or is something wrong with my settings or vista or is it HP itself?

    Swaroop.
     
    swaroop, Sep 19, 2008
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    So is there an official HP solution to this or is it a design limitation? Cause my dv4z only shows percentage as well. I don't get why my last five laptops have all shown time remaining and this brand new one will only show percentage...
     
    Aleman, Oct 4, 2008
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    What do you use then?

    And I think it's stupid that they can't tell us exactly how much time we have left before the laptop goes dead...it's just stupid...

    I just found this searching on Google...looks a whole lot better than the one infamous suggested and it's pretty recent.

    I'm gonna save the link and as soon as I get my laptop (whether it's the HDX 16t or 18t I don't know yet) I'm downloading it and giving it a try.
     
    TheAtreidesHawk, Oct 4, 2008
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  19. Pranalien

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    Everest Home or Ultimate Edition . Look under power management tab.
     
    Pranalien, Oct 4, 2008
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  20. Headbanger64

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    working on the same premise, theres a widget for the yahoo widget program called "battery time" that estimates battery life based on past discharges and discharge rate. works great for me since i use that and a few other yahoo widgets all the time. highly recommended.

    here's the link
    http://widgets.yahoo.com/widgets/battery-time

    (dont mind the nuclear skin, you can disable that lol)
     
    Headbanger64, Oct 4, 2008
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