battery,motorola-droid-razr,overheating,download-managerRelated issues-Collection of common programming errors
quack quixote
laptop battery power ups lifespan
I recently bought a new Vaio laptop which has a 4400 mAh battery. I will use it at home most of the time, and I have an unused uninterruptible power supply (UPS). Should I remove the battery and connect my laptop to UPS? If I do that, how much does it effect the battery’s life? I know that batteries stand longer when kept in half-charged in a cool place, but their lifespan decreases in time due to age effect as well.So is it worth to keep the battery out of my laptop, use a UPS instead and mount
PrincessPooleRulz
windows-vista laptop battery control-panel warning
I use Vista, on a laptop, but when the battery is low or critical it doesn’t display a message or a sound, it just craps out.I read somewhere that the whole not-sound-playing is by design!?!? http://support.microsoft.com/kb/950161/en-us#appliesto which seems utterly lame to me, but that’s just me.edit: actually, none of the system sounds are playing, like Windows start up and shutdown. I usually turn these off, cos they’re incredibly annoying. I’ve noticed it now, cos now i’ve been testing vari
studiohack
power-supply battery dell-inspiron
If you remove the battery from the 1525 and use only the power adapter, will the laptop work? Or does it need the battery in there for it to turn on?I’m looking for authoritative answers with some explanation, practical experience, or a reference.
8088
macbook battery
Can I use my MacBook (13 inch aluminum late ’08) without the battery and only plugged in?
p.campbell
macbook-pro battery
The new battery is an A1175 on a MacBook Pro (2008). The specs are that this battery should hold a capacity of 5600 mAh.OSX Lion System Information reports:Full Charge Capacity: 4936 mAhManufacturer: SonyCycle Count: 6Condition: NormalWhen fully charged/overnight, the OS will report that the battery is ~97% full. If it’s taken off AC power, the OS will report ~4:00 time remaining. The system will sit idle for maybe 2 hours, and will turn off due to battery drain around 90 minutes. It can’t be po
Michael
android battery
I want to periodically log the battery level in percent. I am only concerned with obtaining the actual battery level, not with graphing it. I have found the APIs to register an intent to receive Intent.ACTION_BATTERY_CHANGED, using BatteryManager.EXTRA_LEVEL and BatteryManager.EXTRA_SCALE.However, my problem is, this only gives me increments of 10%, which is not fine-grained enough. I have the SystemPanel App from the Android Market, and it plots percentage versus time on a much finer scale,
Talvi Watia
windows-7 battery power-management
I have completely followed this walkthrough, but my computer is still shutting down at 3%. The advanced setting for critical battery level refuses to allow me to set this under 3%. My laptop battery is getting a memory and is losing 1% total every recharge. My BIOS does not have any settings for this/is not configurable. Any solutions?UPDATEI decided to test how bad it is to fully discharge a Lion battery that can “get no memory” on a previous laptop I was using last year that would only charge
quack quixote
windows-7 laptop battery thinkpad battery-life
I have a new ThinkPad W500 laptop (w/ 9 cell battery) running Windows 7 RTM 64-bit. All drivers* and BIOS are the latest. Battery life appeared poor so I performed several tests under the following conditions:Battery starts with 100% charge Screen on minimum brightness Screen saver running Wifi n enabled and active “Normal” set of programs running including Outlook 2007, FeedDemon, TweetDeck and antivirus Laptop left untouched during testsUnder the above conditions, I clocked under 2 hours of
Mikhail
windows-8 battery-life battery
On Windows 7 a Vostro 3500 laptop shows the battery life remaining, while on Windows 8 this information appears to be missing. The percentage is still available, but the life remaining is missing. How is battery life remaining calculated and does this require some level of driver support? Is it a standardized interface? Does anybody know which driver is responsible for handling this feature?I want to force the old Windows 7 driver, but I don’t know which driver does battery remaining.
Simon Sheehan
home-networking battery ups
After a recent power outage I realized that while all our main computers are laptops with battery power, the WiFi and modem are not. Cable service to the area continued working fine, but without power to my modem I couldn’t get online.All the guides and ratings I’ve seen for UPSs are for powering a PC. A modem and WiFi base consume significantly less power, does that mean that a UPS rated at 20 minutes for a computer would power the network equipment much longer?I would like to find out how to
eldarerathis
4.0-ice-cream-sandwich sms motorola-droid-razr
I have a Droid RAZR and the stock messaging app just keeps loading forever and Handcent SMS crashes when I access it. I have tried to leave it be and let it load but nothing happens.I would use SMS Backup & Restore (or another backup app) like I have in the past but since the messages don’t load the progress bar just says “NaN 0/0? and does nothing. This is the only thing preventing me from doing a factory reset/clear data since I have lots of messages on this baby that I need to keep.I’m no
Flow
battery motorola-droid-razr overheating download-manager
My Razr (Stock ROM 4.0) is very very hot. After some research I found com.android.providers.downloads is responsible, since it’s using about 60% of CPU.I have tried killing it, and it respawns, however what I found to work (for two hours) is clearing the cache and data of the process, and killing it, however something is triggering again.P.S. I’m not downloading anything, and all my apps are updated (so Play Store is not trying to download updates).If I freeze this process, the Gmail app crashes
Joe King
hardware-failure shutdown overheating
Yesterday I was given my brother’s old laptop – core i7, 2.67GHz, 8GB RAM, 128GB SSD, Win7 64 bit. It’s a Sony Vaio Z11. Approx 18 months old.When running something computationally intensive, the fan starts up and after about 30 secs it just powers itself down with no warning. I guess it is overheating. There is nothing in the event logs to suggest what is causing it – the only thing I see is “the last system shutdown was unexpected” or something similar. This is a problem for me because I use a
karel
13.04 overheating
After an update my laptop is extremely hot. Normally I let it run for a couple of days without a single problem, but suddenly it is starting to feel very hot, and the fan is blowing like hell, but I didn’t do anything weird
Kitizl
13.04 power-management battery acer overheating
I’m using both windows 7 and ubuntu-13.04 in my acer aspire 5738g notebook.I get 3 hrs battery backup in windows 7.But in ubuntu it shows only 1.30 hours but as it goes on to ( it shows 1.30 but within 10 min it shows 1hr ) 0.59 hours suddenly it goes off.Even though battery is fully charged and if I unplug the chord that time, the system will also go off.It takes hardly 1 hour to get charge (in Win7), but in ubuntu it takes around 3 hours and the level will be fluctuating.Also,the system heats
Kartoch
11.10 12.04 thinkpad overheating
Symptoms are high temperature when high usage of CPU, with reboot when more than 100°C (information extract from ACPITZ/1 entry). I found a bug entry in launchpad about wrong fan speed but even if I force the fan to max (see the bug description of the launchpad entry) the computer is still rebooting after one minute of high CPU usage.But I’m starting to suspect several bugs in my case. My battery has a lifetime of 2 to 3 hours, half of what I had before ubuntu 11.10 (~5 hours). So it maybe relat
jwarner112
graphics-card fan cooling nvidia-geforce overheating
My hardware profile:Case: APEX PC-389-C Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case Mobo: Gigabyte GA-MA785G-UD3H PSU: Antec Neo Eco 400W CPU: AMD Athlon II X4 640 RAM: 5GB Dual-Channel DDR2 (I later bought an extra 1GB stick of this)GPU: 1024MB GeForce GTX 550TI (and pics with accurate cooling fan)VID: E390-A1 Vizio 39″ LED TV, 1920×1080 resolution HDD: WD 320GB SATA – WD3200AAKSHDD: SG 2TB SATA – ST2000DL004DVD: LiteOn iHAS222 DVD R/W SATAOS: Windows 7 (x64) and Ubuntu 13.04 (x64)My situation:I’m
Mechanical snail
gpu overheating
About a year ago, I added a 9800GT (1 GB version) and a Corsair CX500 PSU to an HP M8000N computer. A few weeks ago, the HDD overheated and I decided to transfer the GPU & PSU to a new build, which consists of:i3 @ 3.3Ghz Gigabyte H61 Micro ATX Mobo 4GB RAM 500GB WD HDD DVD RW Drive Cooler Master Elite 430 TowerOnce I had Win7 up and running, I installed all the essential drivers that came with the Gigabyte Mobo CD. However, whenever I tried installing the Graphics Media Accelerator driver,
Journeyman Geek
windows ubuntu overheating
I use 2 operating systems in my laptop. I am using Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04 When I use Ubuntu, it often makes my laptop overheat and sometimes turn off suddenly. Why does it happen? Is it because of damage to my hardware or because I am using 2 OSs?My laptop’s specificationsProcessor : Intel(R)Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T6600 @ 2.20Ghz RAM : 2 GB System type : 64-bit Operating System
techturtle
cpu overheating damage cpu-cooler
I have an older PC with an Phenom II processor that we use as a kids’ computer. It’s been running fine until about a week ago when it randomly shut down and would not get past the Windows load screen before powering off again. The kids tried several times to boot it, and finally I got involved and tried a couple times before deciding that it must be the power supply. However, when I opened the case I found that the power supply was fine, but the CPU cooling fan mounting bracket had cracked and
KronoS
cpu cooling overheating
My friend had a problem with his computer a while back. His games were crashing, even within the menus. He was stumped as to what the problem was, so I posted on here requesting help. He found out the day later, when his computer would start up but wouldn’t display anything on the screen. His video card must have came screwed up. So, he got a replacement.Now, there’s a new problem. His temperatures, which were acceptable before, are now insanely high. His GPU temperature runs 70-80c, which is un
Jeff Fry
cpu overheating
I & my father just recently put together a new PC. Specs below. From the very beginning, on boot it will often complain that the CPU is too hot. If I sit in BIOS and watch the CPU, it’ll drop back down from red to blue (<72C), at which point I’ve tended to just boot into Windows…and haven’t had any problems. In fact, I’ve played a couple hours straight of Skyrim at max settings, and not had any visible issues.That said, I’ve occasionally walked away & come back to find that it’s cra
Gaurav Agarwal
android download-manager
Trying to use DownloadManager like soDownloadManager.Request request = new DownloadManager.Request(uri).setAllowedNetworkTypes(DownloadManager.Request.NETWORK_MOBILE).setAllowedNetworkTypes(DownloadManager.Request.NETWORK_WIFI).setAllowedOverRoaming(true).setDestinationInExternalFilesDir(this, null,String.valueOf(mPathAndFolder)).setVisibleInDownloadsUi(false).setNotificationVisibility(DownloadManager.Request.VISIBILITY_HIDDEN);long downloadID = downloadManager.enqueue(request);Added the followi
Flow
battery motorola-droid-razr overheating download-manager
My Razr (Stock ROM 4.0) is very very hot. After some research I found com.android.providers.downloads is responsible, since it’s using about 60% of CPU.I have tried killing it, and it respawns, however what I found to work (for two hours) is clearing the cache and data of the process, and killing it, however something is triggering again.P.S. I’m not downloading anything, and all my apps are updated (so Play Store is not trying to download updates).If I freeze this process, the Gmail app crashes
cipricus
gui download-manager downloaders axel
In order to enjoy my maximum download speed, I use and like Axel very much, but from time to time I download multiple files and having so many windows opened has some disadvantages.I use Axel with FlashGot in Firefox (Seamonkey etc) but I would like to add a GUI for that, and possibly have multiple downloads in a nice list as in any civil downloader. I am not aware of a GUI for Axel that works. Axel-kapt crashes. (A question on how to use it properly in Ubuntu got only one somewhat dismissive an
aplavin
android download-manager
I’m trying to use Android DownloadManager class this way:super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);setContentView(R.layout.main);Request r = new Request(Uri.parse(“http://url”)); r.setDestinationInExternalPublicDir(Environment.DIRECTORY_DOWNLOADS, “file.ext”); // also tried all other possible ways to set up destination DownloadManager dm = (DownloadManager) getSystemService(DOWNLOAD_SERVICE); dm.enqueue(r);On the last line, dm.enqueue(r) the application crashes. Logcat error:05-12 13:53:55.408: E/JavaB
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