Thinkpad Power Manager has a battery app in it that tells you status, etc. _______________________ Robert Rosen CIO NIAMS Sent from the portable shiny device
On Jan 2, 2011, at 1:00 PM, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2011 23:05:33 +0000 > From: Simon Royal <[email protected]> > Subject: [Thinkpad] R31 Battery & Charging > To: ThinkPad Mailing List <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Hi > > I have a ThinkPad R31. It came with a battery but I think it is totally > shot, but before I buy a new one I wanted to make sure. > > The battery light is green 99% of the time. The machine will not run off the > battery either, but occasionally the light will go orange for a little while > which I presume means it is charging for a bit. > > Is there a way of checking the battery life/status/cycles. On my Mac there > is a tool called CoconutBattery which tells you how charged the battery is, > how many times its been charged, how much of the original capacity is the > battery holding and hold your battery is. > > It is a great tool. Is there something like this for either XP or Ubuntu. > > Simon > > -- > > --- Twitter: http://twitter.com/SimonRoyal - LowEndMac: > http://tinyurl.com/macspectrum - Skype: Simon-Royal. > --- IBM ThinkPad R31 running Ubuntu 10.10 & Windows XP Home. Apple > PowerBook G3 'Pismo' running OSX 10.4. Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini > Pro running 2.1 > > > _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
