Comments on: EeePC: Battery Life http://crschmidt.net/blog/297/eeepc-battery-life/ Ramblings of a GIS Hacker Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:22:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: willer http://crschmidt.net/blog/297/eeepc-battery-life/#comment-19994 willer Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:22:35 +0000 http://crschmidt.net/blog/archives/297/eeepc-battery-life/#comment-19994 If your battery shows 90 percent after fully charging. Run your eee until its the battery is empty but not to the point killing your OS. Shut down your eee, unplug your battery 10 seconds. Replace battery and start charging it. Do not unplug your power cord until its complete "Full charged charge light is off!" If you want to drain your battery faster, plug in a usb mouse or usb camera etc. Screen brightness to full, etc.etc. If your battery shows 90 percent after fully charging. Run your eee until its the battery is empty but not to the point killing your OS. Shut down your eee, unplug your battery 10 seconds. Replace battery and start charging it.
Do not unplug your power cord until its complete “Full charged charge light is off!”

If you want to drain your battery faster, plug in a usb mouse or usb camera etc. Screen brightness to full, etc.etc.

]]> By: Rich http://crschmidt.net/blog/297/eeepc-battery-life/#comment-19785 Rich Mon, 02 Jun 2008 01:37:23 +0000 http://crschmidt.net/blog/archives/297/eeepc-battery-life/#comment-19785 mine is only 2hrs and 15mins max.... my screen brightness is already at its lowest.... its only showing 90% when its full charge.. do u think my laptop has a batt problem? mine is only 2hrs and 15mins max…. my screen brightness is already at its lowest…. its only showing 90% when its full charge.. do u think my laptop has a batt problem?

]]> By: crschmidt http://crschmidt.net/blog/297/eeepc-battery-life/#comment-19336 crschmidt Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:37:13 +0000 http://crschmidt.net/blog/archives/297/eeepc-battery-life/#comment-19336 Really? The same ACPI complaints I have have been made under a stock Debian distribution by several different users; I wonder what's different between Ubuntu and Debian in this case? (The debian reports I'd seen were both Sid, rather than etch, so I assume it's something Ubuntu 'fixed' then didn't push upstream to Debian.) I guess I'll have to learn something about ACPI and work on getting the bits I care about; if I care, that is. For the most part, the crappy battery status reporting on my Macbook has made me stop depending on the battery meter for anything other than a vague guess at the current status. Really? The same ACPI complaints I have have been made under a stock Debian distribution by several different users; I wonder what’s different between Ubuntu and Debian in this case? (The debian reports I’d seen were both Sid, rather than etch, so I assume it’s something Ubuntu ‘fixed’ then didn’t push upstream to Debian.)

I guess I’ll have to learn something about ACPI and work on getting the bits I care about; if I care, that is. For the most part, the crappy battery status reporting on my Macbook has made me stop depending on the battery meter for anything other than a vague guess at the current status.

]]> By: Ben Combee http://crschmidt.net/blog/297/eeepc-battery-life/#comment-19335 Ben Combee Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:30:22 +0000 http://crschmidt.net/blog/archives/297/eeepc-battery-life/#comment-19335 I switched to eeeXubuntu on my 4G device, and I'm linking it a lot more than the stock Xandros distribution. In particular, the battery reading is much better :) I switched to eeeXubuntu on my 4G device, and I’m linking it a lot more than the stock Xandros distribution. In particular, the battery reading is much better :)

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