T61p Power Manager - battery care

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• Power Manager - battery maintenance does it really work?

  I use a CTO E525. Since owning, almost 3 years now, I never had a message advising me when the thresholds have changed.

  If you don't have already figured it this out it's regarding the "optimize maximum life of the battery (change automatically for me)" option, which has been verified and the option "warn me when the thresholds change."

  In addition, reset battery meter also has an option to "Notify me when reset is recommended" which is also checked. However, I was never notified of a.

  Is the reason I'm bringing this place, I was looking to buy a new battery, until they are no longer available. My battery is in good enough condition, and the power manager supports this. After a count of 464 cycle I would have thought that he should have at least a few notifications about the battery. Even the thresholds have never changed.

  So my question is... It's really nothing. I really don't think. If anyone has any pictures, screen captures or links to the video of how some of these notifications appear, it would be too much. Periodically show messages about the load capacity is also activated, never seen a.

  PS - these forums/community is really bad. Virtually none of the sons began to get as an answer and many of them remain unsolved. Lenovo should have a team of programmers of high quality and of engineers to solve the problems of the people here. None of my previous posts have been resolved, and since the purchase of this Thinkpad, remain problems/flaws. It would be nice to get more tech savvy here.

  Check number of the tab of the battery for the ability to design and the full Charge capacity. By dividing by the former gives you your current battery health.

  I never got a notification until the battery was severely degraded, which could well be a good sign.

  Some Subforums get more attention than others. =/

• Reset function missing in 3.00.0014 Power Manager battery meter

  Hello

  I have a Thinkpad Edge 14 that I have upgraded to Windows 8.  Having battery problems (says it does not load), and before I go buy a new one, we'd like to do some other tests. So I am trying to perform the reset of battery meter, but the current power manager doesn't have a 'Battery' tab to do so.  Someone has already tried this on Windows 8, or is it a new utility, that I don't know?

  Thank you!

  A

  Well, I did some research and played around with the BIOS, to the moment that it is not a battery meter Reset (and even less a true indicator of battery) in Windows 8. I really thought there was a setting in the BIOS, but I gave myself wrong.

  In addition, I came across this thread, which is also linked to another thread on the other elements of Windows 8 is missing.

• Satellite L650-I5310: Ubuntu power management can't see the battery option

  I installed ubuntu 10.04 version.
  On the power management, I don't see battery option.

  on the ac power and General option screen sees but can't see 'on battery '.
  I think that the battery is unable to detect.
  How can I solve this?

  also in the Panel, I see an indication of battery. from there, I couldn't get any information.
  I want to show the current battery level, loading or unloading. ?

  my system is L650-I5310

  Please help me.

  Hello

  Maybe your problem is related to the Ubuntu bug as described in the Ubuntu forum:
  https://bugs.Launchpad.NET/Ubuntu/+source/Gnome-Power-Manager/+bug/646405

  It seems so this isn't question for Toshiba laptop, so it looks like, you should visit the Linux forums for more information about this

• M30X 129: problem of battery or power management road

  Hi all

  I had a lot of trouble with my laptop recently; When using just the battery I can watch it unloads and a minute, he can read about 30% or more, depending on the laptop will be beep like crazy and then go into hibernation. I put it to Hibernate at 5%. I find it incredible that the battery can lose about a quarter of its power in less than 60 seconds.

  I've updated the utility of power management using the Toshiba site, but it has not changed anything. The only time that I have the AC adapter and battery at the same time is when I charge the battery, if I'm near a power outlet and there is no need to reload, I always remove the battery.

  I read on these forums somewhere on the withdrawal of the Toshiba power management and just using windows, but I prefer not to change anything like that, as far as I'm concerned the Toshiba it should do the job! The laptop is still under warranty but my nearest authorized repair center is more than 200 miles away, so, does anyone have any ideas of what I can do or try next? I'm out of ideas...

  Cheers in advance,
  Colin

  Hi Colin,

  You don't say how old is your battery, but it is more likely to be a hardware problem with your battery rather than a problem with the Toshiba power utility.

  It seems that if one or more of the cells in your battery cannot hold its charge properly, and once the remaining cells the battery power exhaustion will fall suddenly.

  HTH

• Power Manager says: no battery is installed

  Hey there!

  I had a little problem with my sl500 battery / power Manager:

  There is a battery inside the laptop and it works but the power manager does not recognize--all it says is: battery not installed.

  any ideas how to solve this problem?

  Thanks in advance.

  
  

• Lenovo V570 - Power Manager question WITHOUT BATTERY IS INSTALLED?

  Hey guys...

  I have a problem with my lenovo v570 model

  I installed an App... I think it was called

  Power Manager version 3.65

  but the main problem is, it says battery is not installed...

  It's all in the original packaging.

  and I have installed energy management and it recognize it on their...

  So how is it, I'm having a problem with the power manager?

  I did as the basic step, for example uninstall, reinstall...

  someone has an idea?

  Let me to Rodez them here.

  See this thread:

  http://Forum.Lenovo.com/T5/IdeaPad-Y-U-V-and-Z-series/LTT-Power-Manager-or-Lenovo-energy-management-...

  You "pouvez" install programs LTT, but you "shouldn't" install the Manager feature of power, after the installation of main programs. Use the management of energy on your 570.

  DragonRider

• X61s maintenance manager/battery power and win 7 power management

  I know that my beloved Thinkpad is almost an antique, but I was struggling with the Lenovo Power Manager utility, after a fresh install of Win 7 Home Premium.

  First, it seems like the Lenovo's PM and the management of Aboriginal food Win 7 can have values in conflict for similar parameters (such as low and critical battery levels, for example).

  Most importantly, I can't get the battery maintenance functions in the Lenovo PM to do anything. If I say to manage the level of load to the maximum lifetime, battery charging to 100% and just stay there. If I use the laptop on battery and put back in charge, same thing - it costs just 100% and stays there.

  In addition, reset battery does not seem to do anything either. It is pretty hard to tell if it is still running. What seems to happen, is that I'll go through the steps, and the large button flashes slowly. That means it is running? But in any case, nothing happens. The battery is just sitting there fully charged.

  Thanks in advance for any help!

  I have no advice to give, but I can confirm that my X61s with Win7-64 and PM v6.64.2 seems to work very well. I have thresholds of 30% battery charge / 80% of the value. PM keeps the battery charged within this range.

• Battery drains Lenovo x 230 quickly in mode "ensure"; Power management centre does not work

  I have my laptop lenovo x 230 put to sleep when I close the lid. When I close the lid of the icon of 'sleep' on the back of the screen lights up. But the dough will not last all night on mode 'sleep'. In about five hours, the battery is completely flat, and I have to plug it in and start the system. I've never seen this run poor dough in mode 'sleep' on any laptop I've ever owned.

  Another thread in this forum blame the USB port can charge mobile phones, etc. at low specific power and recommend to disable the "always on" option fo this USB port in the Bios settings. I then either it seems to have contributed. At least my laptop still not succeed overnight in mode 'sleep'.

  At this point, it seems my ownly option is to use the "sleep mode" only when the laptop is plugged in and the focus mode standby extended when the power of dough, which is disappointing. I've never had to worry about this in the past with other laptops.

  Maybe / probably related is the fact that the lenovo ThinkVantage Power Manager (v. 7.16) hangs at the splash screen when I try to open it, so I tried to manage the power through the Windows Control Panel power settings.

  Use powercfg in the cmd window (run it with administrator rights) to verify the effectiveness of power.
  powercfg-energy
  powercfg - devicequery wake_armed

• automatically optimize for costs of life battery batt to 100% within the parameters of the power manager

  In the settings of my ThinkPad Power Manager W530, I chose the option "automatically optimize for life battery" (battery-> maintenance-> Mode of Charge of the battery). Nevertheless, he always fresh and keeps the battery at 100%. Is it normal for a battery 9 cells?

  Link to photo

  But many articles and discussions here at the forum State, actually in charge at 100% is not tor good battery life (see for example this article http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Welcome-FAQs-Knowledge-Base/How-can-I-increase-battery-life-ThinkPad/ta-... ). Do not miss anything?

  Thank you!

  Note of the moderator; image (s) for a total of > 50 K converted for the programming of the Forum rules

  No matter how many charge cycles the battery on it, just the time where you change the batteries maintenance mode. If you have configured to maximize battery life, the battery may charge at a lower percentage (somewhere around 90%, more or less a few percentage points), but will show this figure as "integral" or 100% for the system. If you change the mode to load completely, then the maximum capacity will change to read the actual capacity of the battery.

  The only way your situation would be a concern if, after setting the battery in order to maximize the battery life, then using the system on battery and load up once again, the battery always charged up to the full 94 w/h instead of reducing the number.

• Cannot save the T61p XP/SP3 - Power Manager problems, programs, limited systems available

  Hi all - when I got this - Rockin '-mobile initially I could put my own power plans without problem.  Now it won't save my new powerschemes.  I try to create one, to complete the last step, and then the power mode is not in the drop-down list.  I read somewhere on the Web that this may be due to SP3.

  Also, the only one I have access to power management are reading video and performance.  I tried to uninstall the power manager and the DLL associated with and then put it back, but that did not help.  Also, I don't see any reference to this problem to be solved.  Thanks in advance.  This gets really annoying as I like to use as little energy as possible since I quite often use the computer on battery power.

  Thank you!  g-

  Bravo - who did it! Thank you!

  Here is the solution to save the future of research some time:

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  Method 1: Use the Powercfg.exe utility to restore the default power mode

  loadTOCNode (2, 'resolution'); You can use the Powercfg.exe utility to copy the power mode of the user by defaultto the currently logged user profile. You can do this because eating patterns are only related to individual user accounts. To copy the default user schema using the Powercfg.exe utility, follow these steps:

  1. click on Start, click run, type cmdand then click OK. 2. at the command prompt, type the following command and press ENTER: powercfg /RestoreDefaultPolicies

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• switch power automatically when you change or battery power management

  in windows xp, he was smart enough to understand that when I was on the battery, it should run in powersaver and when I plugged in, it should work on high performance.

  I don't see a setting to make windows 7 this and must ensure that I click on power options and select the schema each time.

  This is made more annoying because the quick menu shows only balanced + powersaver or balanced + high performance. so I have to click 3 or 4 times just to change the power mode.

  frustrating that it does not by itself when she used to. I do not understand why common sense as this functionality has been removed. also limiting the CPU doesn't seem to work at all, as it shows 1.6 ghz instead of 800 mhz when the powersaver, and this feature worked fine in windows XP.

  If these two things have been fixed, I find windows 7 usable.

  Hello

  Welcome to the Microsoft Answers site!

  In Windows 7, we have three parameters of plan of different power, you can choose according to your convenience. You can also customize power management and also to create a new power plan according to your need.

  To create a new power plan:

  1. open the power supply Options by clicking the Start button, click Control Panel, clicking system and security, and then clicking Power Options.

  2. in the left pane, click create a power plan.

  3. on the create a power plan page, select the plan that is closest to the type of plan you want to create.

  4. in the Plan name box, enter a name for the plan, such as "give a presentation", and then click Next.

  5. on the change settings for the plan page, choose the display settings and the sleep that you want to use when your computer is running on battery and when it is plugged.

  To keep your screen on during presentations

  ·         Change the turn off the display of setting to never on the battery and plugged in.

  To keep your laptop awake during presentations

  ·         Change the setting to put the computer to sleep forever on battery and plugged in.

  6. click on create.

  If you are using a portable computer, your plan appears under Plans shown on the battery meter. If you are using a desktop computer, your plan appears under Preferred Plans of. The plan that you based your new plan is moved and appears under additional plans

  For more details on the parameters of plan to follow the links below

  Power plans: frequently asked questions

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/power-plans-frequently-asked-questions

  Change, create, or delete a power plan (scheme)

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/change-create-or-delete-a-power-plan-scheme

  Unleash the power of your laptop

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/unleash-the-power-of-your-laptop

  Hope this information is useful.

  Amrita M

  Microsoft Answers Support Engineer
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• Edge 14. Battery not charging after the Power Manager Update to 6.07 and resetting the battery.

  My battery will do not, at all.

  The gauge was obviously wrong to happen very quickly after reaching 20%, so I've updated the power to 6.07 Manager and then perform a reset of the battery (I'm sure it's in that order, perhaps first reset).

  After resetting the battery charged to 100% back, but as it is discharged, the charger was not.  With the power, the battery is located just at the same percentage and descends very slowly (about 1% in two days).

  I tried to play with the parameters of maintenance battery, the meter then said that charge will begin less than 80%, but the battery is already on the 20%.  I checked the firmware in the Manager of power and with the stand-alone program but apparently no update is necessary and T 42, 4755 FRU part number is not listed as needing an update.

  Current version of the firmware: 3f98-0004-0160-0130

  I tried uninstalling and reinstalling Power Manager.  The power windows manager also seems to have the same problem.

  I just baught the laptop last year, is a month out of warranty; I need it to be portable to work.

  I thought about buying a new battery, but it seems to be the charge function is not working, and the battery was working fine before the reset and the update, apart from the loss of certain abilities and the inaccurate meter.

  Product: 0578CTO Thinkpad Edge 14

  BIOS: 80ET61WW (2.01)

  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

  Nathan

  19% and declining

  Hi NINE.

  Thank you for hospitality, the effort and the answer.  Greatly appreciated.

  I tried this and just tried to reinstall the firmware of power management.

  I finally solved the problem after reading this post by:

  1 shut down the computer.

  2. unplug the power supply cord (and everything - usb and monitor cables).

  3 remove the battery.

  4. play with the spring on the battery switches and shake threatening (probably unnecessary, but you may want to give it 10 to 15 seconds on the laptop).

  5. replace the battery in the laptop.

  6. connect the power cord.

  7. start the laptop and connect.

  Thanks again.

  Nathan

  48% and load

• T500 annoying beep! (the cause is not battery power management and no BEEP in Device Manager)

  I have ThinkPad T500, 2241, CTO. Whenever laptop starts, there's an annoying beep. It is not a signal that can be had when the power state changes. BIP is both in power and disabled Manager in the power management BIOS section. In addition, in the Device Manager in the list of non-plug-and-play, I disabled the BEEP. This noise is still there. Update BIOS. However, there is no other section in the BIOS where I can disable the beep. Help, please!

  There's nothing there. I contacted Lenovo support center - they said a beep at the beginning is fine and standard, nothing to worry.

• Power Manager Vista icon has no color

  This is a new installation of Vista Ultimate on a T61p 6459 - CTO, after all the Windows updates and Lenovo system update, the Power Manager icon that sits next to the Notification area is white and battery life remaining text is pale, blue and very difficult to read, instead of the usual black on green background text. Anyone seen this before? Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

  Solved! This is the Aero scheme. The task bar is semi-transparent, and it affects the color of the icon!