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    Battery meter going completely berserk (HGL-30)

    Discussion in 'Other Manufacturers' started by mike130, Nov 30, 2008.

  1. mike130

    mike130 Notebook Guru

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    The battery meter on my HGL-30 is totally losing it - most of the time it's telling me I'm at about 1000% battery, or if the software doesn't support numbers that high (I only get that reading with a particular Ubuntu widget), it'll just tell me I'm at 100% all the time. This happens under both Ubuntu and XP (I dual-boot), and letting the battery run out and recharging it (done it once) hasn't seemed to help. Is there anything I can do to fix this? Thank in advance.
     
    mike130, Nov 30, 2008
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    iSkylla Notebook Consultant

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    You can try calibrating your battery.
     
    iSkylla, Nov 30, 2008
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    Wirelessman Monkeymod

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    Get yourself another battery application.
     
    Wirelessman, Nov 30, 2008
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  4. mike130

    mike130 Notebook Guru

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    I use about 4 different applications (Google widgets widget, Notebook Hardware control, Ubuntu standard app for battery and a screenlet for it) and they all keep on showing me 100% beyond an hour's use.

    How do I go about calibrating the battery? I though you just did that by letting it discharge and charging it.
     
    mike130, Nov 30, 2008
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  5. skinnie

    skinnie Notebook Enthusiast

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    charge the battery (for example with windows on),discharge it (in windows safe mode),then with the computer turned off charge it till 100%
     
    skinnie, Dec 22, 2008
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