laptop battery life

[Ralph Pichie]

It's always helpful to check for extra services that may be running and
accessing your hard disk or other devices. That will kill battery life. Make
sure that your wireless connection (ath0) and Bluetooth are deactivated,
unless you need them. Reduce your screen brightness, when possible. That
should stretch your battery life considerably.

On 10/31/07, ubuntu-ca-request at lists.ubuntu.com <
ubuntu-ca-request at lists.ubuntu.com> On Tue, 2007-30-10 at 22:44 -0700,
helane wrote:
> i have laptop compaq presario v3000. just a couple of weeks ago i
> switched to new ubuntu, and then last week my battery started showing as
> "old/broken". it would charge but would not give me only about an hour
> on it. i used the laptop extensively in the last year so thought it was
> an old battery. i bought a new certified one - 12 cell, hoping it would
> give me even more time than the last one. i plugged it in, it came 50%
> charged showing 50 minutes. it charges fast... it went to 77% in 20
> minutes but now shows again 55 minutes on 77%. the percentage seem to go
> up the time does not as fast... now it went to 80% still showing 55 min.
> on the old battery i used to get 2.5 hrs on the new one i was supposed
> to ~5 hrs. not sure if something else is broken, or the linux shows
> wrong time... any ideas? i really appreciate it. spend a lot of money on
> a new battery... no happy about it.
>
> thanks
> helane.
>
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