Battery Maintenance application BUG

[danny_isr]

I’m setting the charge manually to go up to anything less then 100% , and it will always go back to 100%.
Auto mode is not better. Any way to fix this ?

Thanks Danny

[Nick Y]

No sure if this will help, but in the Battery Maintence dialog box you can set the start charging and stop charging levels. This works for me, although there is a note in the help menu, under 'Tips for Maximising Battery Lifetime' that the Battery Gauge needs to be displayed for the levels to work. A comment in http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=21976 suggests that this is not necessary.
Nick

[danny_isr]

this is what i'm doing , i'm setting it manually - means start and stop levels.
sure it works for a wile , then it goes back to "always fully charge" by itslef.
and yes i got it displayed on my task bar.

I just thought about this now , maybe the cause is that I'm switching between modes : maximum performance to default and vise versa ?




Danny

[davidspalding]

I've noticed this too ... I set my 2nd battery to only charge up if < 75% a few days ago, but now they're both at default. (The idiosyncratic setting shows up in the Batteries Installed box, upper right of the third tab.)

Frankly, you're not helping your batteries by "topping off" at anything < 100%, so letting power manager take care of it to maximize battery lifetime is probably better, indeed.

[danny_isr]

this is an old bug that IBM/Lenovo didn't fix for long time.
maybe they don't know about it.

[Nick Y]

this is what i'm doing , i'm setting it manually - means start and stop levels. Sure it works for a wile , then it goes back to "always fully charge" by itslef and yes i got it displayed on my task bar.

I just thought about this now , maybe the cause is that I'm switching between modes : maximum performance to default and vise versa ?Danny

I recently installed the ThinkPad System Update (and I am still unclear as to whether I should be using that or the IBM Software Installer.) System Updater comes up with a critical and recommended update of the IBM ThinkPad Battery MaxiMiser and Power Management Features package. This is Version A-1.38, dated April 22, 2005, which seems rather strange (nearly a year old?) I did install it initially, but then removed it as it came up with an overlay on the power status indicator.
Anyway, quoting for the read me, which you can read before selecting to download/install, is the following:
'<1.38>
-(Fix) Manually done brightness setting is not kept in Battery Endurance mode.
-(Fix) Charge stop level is not reset when both start and stop levels need to be done.
-(Fix) Charge threshold settings are not kept after hibernation wakeup.
-(Fix) Some conditions for resetting automatic charge thresholds are not correct.'

Does this fit your problem? Should this update be installed and something else removed (to resolve the problem of the superimposed battery status indicators)?

[dorin]

hi, i had the same problem when using batery maximizer or whaterver the name was, now i use power manager, though x40 is not in supported list, but goes with abs no pb!

ok, so, double check that the automatically notify or anything with autmatic option is disable in same window where you can adjust the start/stop levels. it worked for me in the past!

hope it helped!

[davidspalding]

<1.38>
-(Fix) Manually done brightness setting is not kept in Battery Endurance mode.
-(Fix) Charge stop level is not reset when both start and stop levels need to be done.
-(Fix) Charge threshold settings are not kept after hibernation wakeup.
-(Fix) Some conditions for resetting automatic charge thresholds are not correct.'

Fix #3 is probably what I've encountered, as my usual "slumber" method is a) log out, then b) hibernate.

Unfortunately, Power Manager 1.12 is the version running on my T43. And 1.38 doesn't install on my T41 (probably an unrelated problem, which IBM support has never answered to).