I thought that battery-status by Andrey Gubarev displayed the % charge?

http://nitapps.com/

Steve

You just openned a can of worm, or a can of battery worm
I do not have an answer for 'true' battery as it depends on the moment of measurement.

In practical use, I settled with battery status, http://nitapps.com/.

bun

Yup i would recomend battery-status too. Does the job even without root access.

More than that, it outputs to a text file for you to check things if the need arise. Of course, this feature is nothing if you are a Linux guru

bun

How do you view it with out root access? I just installed it, but how do I access it?

crabolsky just type battery-status in xterm...not root
and this puts a file out...change the 10 to whatever...for logging the consumption outputs a log file...

battery-status -d 10 > /media/mmc1/battery.log &
heres the output
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[Jun 22 21:20][00:00] 78.4%
[Jun 22 21:30][00:10] 78.4%
[Jun 22 21:40][00:20] 78.4%
[Jun 22 21:50][00:30] 78.0%
[Jun 22 22:00][00:40] 78.0%
[Jun 22 22:10][00:50] 77.6%
[Jun 22 22:20][01:00] 77.6%
[Jun 22 22:30][01:10] 77.6%
[Jun 22 22:40][01:20] 77.6%
[Jun 22 22:50][01:30] 77.6%
[Jun 22 23:00][01:40] 77.2%
[Jun 22 23:10][01:50] 77.2%
[Jun 22 23:20] Charging
[Jun 22 23:30] Charging
[Jun 22 23:40] Charging
[Jun 22 23:50] Charging
[Jun 23 00:00] Charging
[Jun 23 00:10] Charging
[Jun 23 00:20] Charging
[Jun 23 00:30] Charging
[Jun 23 00:40] Charging
[Jun 23 00:50] Charging
[Jun 23 01:00] Charging
[Jun 23 01:10] Charging
[Jun 23 01:20] Charging
[Jun 23 01:30] Charging
[Jun 23 01:40] Charging
[Jun 23 01:50] Charging
[Jun 23 02:00] Charging
[Jun 23 02:10] Charging
[Jun 23 02:20] Charging
[Jun 23 02:30] Charging
[Jun 23 02:40] Charging
[Jun 23 02:50] Charging
[Jun 23 03:00] Charging
[Jun 23 03:10] Charging
[Jun 23 03:20] Charging
[Jun 23 03:30] Charging
[Jun 23 03:40] Charging
[Jun 23 03:50] Charging
[Jun 23 04:00] Charging
[Jun 23 04:10] Charging
[Jun 23 04:20] Charging
[Jun 23 04:30] Charging
[Jun 23 04:40] Charging
[Jun 23 04:50] Charging
[Jun 23 05:00] Charging
[Jun 23 05:10] Charging
[Jun 23 05:20] Charging
[Jun 23 05:30] Charging
[Jun 23 05:40] Charging
[Jun 23 05:50][08:30] 97.2%
[Jun 23 06:00][08:40] 97.2%
[Jun 23 06:10][08:50] 96.8%
[Jun 23 06:20][09:00] 96.8%
[Jun 23 06:30][09:10] 96.8%
[Jun 23 06:40][09:20] 96.8%
[Jun 23 06:50][09:30] 96.8%
[Jun 23 07:00][09:40] 96.8%
[Jun 23 07:10][09:50] 96.8%
[Jun 23 07:20][10:00] 96.8%
[Jun 23 07:30][10:10] 96.8%
[Jun 23 07:40][10:20] 96.8%
[Jun 23 07:50][10:30] 96.8%
[Jun 23 08:00][10:40] 96.8%
[Jun 23 08:10][10:50] 96.8%
[Jun 23 08:20][11:00] 96.8%
[Jun 23 08:30][11:10] 96.8%
[Jun 23 08:40][11:20] 96.8%
[Jun 23 08:50][11:30] 96.8%
[Jun 23 09:00][11:40] 96.8%
[Jun 23 09:10][11:50] 96.8%
[Jun 23 09:20][12:00] 96.8%
[Jun 23 09:30][12:10] 96.8%
[Jun 23 09:40][12:20] 96.8%
[Jun 23 09:50][12:30] 96.8%
.8%
[Jun 23 09:54][12:40] 96.8%

Thanks Joe...That was easy.

I am doing another battery usage test with Om weather right now. I've found that there is something draining my battery pretty consistently.
Fresh charge results in empty battery within 24 hours, regardless of usage. Even if I close all programs and switch to offline mode.

Iam going to just trouble shoot programs one by one.

You can check how much cpu/memory processes use with the 'top' command. It would be better if there would be some mechanism that warns for backgound processes taking up too much resources. I'm using the Powerlaunch app to put the device into 'softpoweroff' (sleep) mode as alternative to 'lock screen and keys'. I'm not sure if this is 'suspend to ram' but if it is then any runaway processes should be paused as well.

ok...something definately something going on here.

~ $ battery-status
~ $ [Jun 23 11:25] 94.4%
battery-status
~ $ [Jun 23 11:30] 94.0%
~ $ battery-status
~ $ [Jun 23 13:19] 68.8%
~ $ battery-status
~ $ [Jun 23 13:45] 58.4%

the only thing that I had open was xterm.
And the only new updates to my system before this was grandcentral dialer and the python launcher.

I wonder if having the contacts applet on my desktop is contributing? Does everyone else use this applet...because I love it . Yet every one that have submited screenshots seem to not have it enabled.

I can remember some posts here about faulty wireless routers that can cause power drainage.