Re: Battery Time Left (Pismo)
I use it on a TiBook and an AlBook both with 10.4.4. I've never had a problem with Panther nor Tiger. Try deleting theorg.orange-carb.SlimBatteryMonitor.plist file from your user/library/preference folder. John On Jan 20, 2006, at 2:50 AM, Daniel Colwell wrote: On Thursday, Jan 19, John McGibney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use SlimBatteryMonitor, it loads a menu icon that can be color coded, shows time left till empty, shows percent charged while charging and pops up a dialog box when the battery gets to 10% left. And its donationware, pay only if you want to. John John, I use SlimBatteryMonitor as well. In fact, that application is how I first noticed my problem. What hardware/OS are you using? Some others with a Pismo have had my same problem. SlimBatteryMonitor stopped showing the time left, just about when I updated to Tiger. In fact, after all my testing, I still run it in the Menu bar. Just hoping for a fix so I don't have to switch to Dashboard every time I want to see the time left... Dan- -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com --- -- I know that God won't give me anything I cannot handle, I just wish He didn't trust me soo much! -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: Battery Time Left (Pismo)
On Jan 20, 2006, at 6:05 AM, John McGibney wrote: I use it on a TiBook and an AlBook both with 10.4.4. I've never had a problem with Panther nor Tiger. Tjhis is a Pismo-specific Tiger issue. My wife's Pismo was also unable to calculate the remaining battery/charge time after the update from Panther to Tiger. It's a known - and unfixed - bug. I'm not sure Apple cares too much about it. -Dylan -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: Battery Time Left
On Sunday, Jan 15th, I started this thread: For some reason I can no longer get info on how long my battery has left in hours and minutes. I can get the info in percentage, but if I ask for it to be shown as time left, it says calculating... or is just a blank, depending on which program I use to measure it. I have show battery status in the menu bar checked in the Energy Saver Systems Preference. I also use SlimBatteryMonitor. Both show the same percentage, but no longer the time. As best I remember this was working up till just a week or so ago. I have a 400MHz Pismo, 40G, 768MB. I recently upgraded to Tiger and then 10.4.3. Could have been the same time. Battery is fairly new. I was getting about 4 hours or so last I remember seeing the time. Is this a Tiger issue? I tried running just on battery till it went to sleep (about 1-2 %), then charging to full. Did this twice, still no joy so I tried reset- nvram, reset-all. Still nothing but %. I've got the same problem with a 500 MHz Pismo running a clean install of Tiger with 512 Mb RAM. It's a new aftermarket battery so I haven't worried about it but it would be nice to have. I did try running it down till it shut off but that made no difference. Seems like if my 520 could figure out time remaining the Pismo should be able to manage it. Andrew in Ann Arbor From: Alan Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Battery Time Left Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 21:01:22 -0500 My Pismo, w/ clean install of OS X.4, original apple batteries, and =20 the computer always says Calculating. too. -- Alan Miller On Jan 15, 2006, at 8:57 PM, Frank Cornew wrote: Me too...Pismo Anyone see this with claen installs? or a fix? Thanks Andrew, Alan Frank, nice to know it wasn't just me... Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 20:22:47 -0500 From: John McGibney [EMAIL PROTECTED] Various upgrades to Tiger screwed up Apple's battery monitor software. Try using one of the freebee aftermarket ones found at versiontracker.com. They seem immune to the upgrade bug. John OK, I have downloaded several aftermarket ones from versiontracker. None of them show minutes left. Any specific one that anyone knows for sure does work? From: mike kochkodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Battery Time Left In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stupid question/comment for you all...I had this happen once with Panther...It seemed to correct itself by running a combo of DiskWarrior and also simply repairing permissions...Now running 10.4.4 pismo 400 igb ram...Never had that problem since..Original Apple battery that came w/the Pismo. Regards, Mike K in central PA I repaired my permissions and downloaded 10.4.4 to be completely up to date. Battery however is not Original Apple. Still no time showing... So I thought maybe a Widget would work and downloaded EVERY Widget that said it would monitor my battery. Some of them wouldn't even show that I had a battery, some constantly showed 0%, and one (miniStat Battery) not only showed the %, but showed it up to a tenth of a % (89.5% instead of just 89%). And then I struck paydirt. Juice http://www.islayer.net/ viewWidget.php?id=11 showed the time left! Not only when I was using just the battery, but how long, in hours and minutes, it would be until it was fully charged as I was charging it!! Now how can iSlayer a small team of focused widget and web developers get the details just right and so many others, including Apple, drop the ball. Anybody know the best way to let Apple know and have the best chance of getting something fixed? I would still love to have that info up in the Menu where I could see it all the time. Oh well, give Juice a shot (freeware at that), and let me know if it works. Or if anything else does as well. Thanks, Dan- -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: Battery Time Left
I use SlimBatteryMonitor, it loads a menu icon that can be color coded, shows time left till empty, shows percent charged while charging and pops up a dialog box when the battery gets to 10% left. And its donationware, pay only if you want to. John On Jan 19, 2006, at 9:02 PM, Daniel Colwell wrote: I repaired my permissions and downloaded 10.4.4 to be completely up to date. Battery however is not Original Apple. Still no time showing... So I thought maybe a Widget would work and downloaded EVERY Widget that said it would monitor my battery. Some of them wouldn't even show that I had a battery, some constantly showed 0%, and one (miniStat Battery) not only showed the %, but showed it up to a tenth of a % (89.5% instead of just 89%). And then I struck paydirt. Juice http://www.islayer.net/ viewWidget.php?id=11 showed the time left! Not only when I was using just the battery, but how long, in hours and minutes, it would be until it was fully charged as I was charging it!! Now how can iSlayer a small team of focused widget and web developers get the details just right and so many others, including Apple, drop the ball. Anybody know the best way to let Apple know and have the best chance of getting something fixed? I would still love to have that info up in the Menu where I could see it all the time. Oh well, give Juice a shot (freeware at that), and let me know if it works. Or if anything else does as well. Thanks, Dan- -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: Battery Time Left (Pismo)
On Thursday, Jan 19, John McGibney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use SlimBatteryMonitor, it loads a menu icon that can be color coded, shows time left till empty, shows percent charged while charging and pops up a dialog box when the battery gets to 10% left. And its donationware, pay only if you want to. John John, I use SlimBatteryMonitor as well. In fact, that application is how I first noticed my problem. What hardware/OS are you using? Some others with a Pismo have had my same problem. SlimBatteryMonitor stopped showing the time left, just about when I updated to Tiger. In fact, after all my testing, I still run it in the Menu bar. Just hoping for a fix so I don't have to switch to Dashboard every time I want to see the time left... Dan- -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: Battery Time Left
Dan - I have suffered this exact issue on my Pismo. Haven't figured out how to fix it either - my next stop? Start from scratch. Also - I believe my battery doesn't last as long under Tiger.. but that is just a sense. Please let me know if you remedy this - I'd be very interested to learn what you find out. thanks and good luck! --Van On 1/15/06, Daniel Colwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For some reason I can no longer get info on how long my battery has left in hours and minutes. I can get the info in percentage, but if I ask for it to be shown as time left, it says calculating... or is just a blank, depending on which program I use to measure it. I have show battery status in the menu bar checked in the Energy Saver Systems Preference. I also use SlimBatteryMonitor. Both show the same percentage, but no longer the time. As best I remember this was working up till just a week or so ago. I have a 400MHz Pismo, 40G, 768MB. I recently upgraded to Tiger and then 10.4.3. Could have been the same time. Battery is fairly new. I was getting about 4 hours or so last I remember seeing the time. Is this a Tiger issue? I tried running just on battery till it went to sleep (about 1-2 %), then charging to full. Did this twice, still no joy so I tried reset- nvram, reset-all. Still nothing but %. Seems like its probably just something simple, but no luck with Google or searching the Apple site. Any Suggestions? Thanks, Dan- -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com --- -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: Battery Time Left
Dan Van: Me too...Pismo with Newertech high cap battery. Tiger upgrade, not clean install. Many full cycles on battery, PRAM reset, power mgr reset, utilities, Macaroni type maintenance, full sotware updates. Thought it had to do either with the battery not being from apple or that the Tiger upgrade was not a clean install? Nonetheless, think I've seen the same in some Tiger upgraded TiBooks with their original batteries, and no third part utilities. Anyone see this with claen installs? or a fix? F. (not Fran) Dan - I have suffered this exact issue on my Pismo. Haven't figured out how to fix it either - my next stop? Start from scratch. Also - I believe my battery doesn't last as long under Tiger.. but that is just a sense. Please let me know if you remedy this - I'd be very interested to learn what you find out. thanks and good luck! --Van On 1/15/06, Daniel Colwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For some reason I can no longer get info on how long my battery has left in hours and minutes. I can get the info in percentage, but if I ask for it to be shown as time left, it says calculating... or is just a blank, depending on which program I use to measure it. I have show battery status in the menu bar checked in the Energy Saver Systems Preference. I also use SlimBatteryMonitor. Both show the same percentage, but no longer the time. As best I remember this was working up till just a week or so ago. I have a 400MHz Pismo, 40G, 768MB. I recently upgraded to Tiger and then 10.4.3. Could have been the same time. Battery is fairly new. I was getting about 4 hours or so last I remember seeing the time. Is this a Tiger issue? I tried running just on battery till it went to sleep (about 1-2 %), then charging to full. Did this twice, still no joy so I tried reset- nvram, reset-all. Still nothing but %. Seems like its probably just something simple, but no luck with Google or searching the Apple site. Any Suggestions? Thanks, Dan- -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com --- -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html --- www.1-800-ipod.com Over 1,000 Mac and iPod items... Find everything you need - all in one place. --- End of G-Books Digest #2640 *** -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: Battery Time Left
My Pismo, w/ clean install of OS X.4, original apple batteries, and the computer always says Calculating. too. -- Alan Miller Underwater Photographer °°.°.°.°. http://home.earthlink.net/~uwphoto/ Pismo400, 1G RAM, OS X.4.3 eBay ID uwphotoer Live each day like it is your last because someday you'll be right. On Jan 15, 2006, at 8:57 PM, Frank Cornew wrote: Me too...Pismo Anyone see this with claen installs? or a fix? -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: Battery Time Left
My Pismo, w/ clean install of OS X.4, original apple batteries, and the computer always says Calculating. too. Stupid question/comment for you all...I had this happen once with Panther...It seemed to correct itself by running a combo of DiskWarrior and also simply repairing permissions...Now running 10.4.4 pismo 400 igb ram...Never had that problem since..Original Apple battery that came w/the Pismo. Regards, Mike K in central PA __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: Battery Time Left
My Pismo, w/ clean install of OS X.4, original apple batteries, and the computer always says Calculating. too. Stupid question/comment for you all...I had this happen once with Panther...It seemed to correct itself by running a combo of DiskWarrior and also simply repairing permissions...Now running 10.4.4 pismo 400 igb ram...Never had that problem since..Original Apple battery that came w/the Pismo. Regards, Mike K in central PA __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
