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License need to be enabled

Sun, 05 May 2013 21:27:36 +0000

Hello,
I bought the license for battery bar a long time ago.

Today I re-installed the software and when I insert the license, it shows the MESSAGE: contact the developer because the license has not been activated.

How can I fix the problem?

thanks

Is Time Remaining "0:00" a Bug or a Feature?

Wed, 01 May 2013 18:55:32 +0000

I am a paid "Pro" customer.

I upgraded to v3.5.6 yesterday, and now my BatteryBar in the System Tray shows 0:00 whenever the Dell Latitude is plugged into its' docking station. It does show a proper average of the two batteries when I change the display. The legend "A/C" does not appear except fleetingly when the product is first launched.

So, is this a bug, or a feature? Why not show "A/C" when on AC? How is "O:00" informative?

This is on a Windows XP Pro SP3 system with all updates-to-date.

--cao

battery estimation?

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 23:59:58 +0000

what is the statistical time estimate? should i use the statistical time estimate or not? and why? i have the pro version.

BatteryBar 3.5.6 Beta

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 07:26:31 +0000

Download BatteryBar 3.5.6 beta

Quote:FIX: Attempted fix for the taskbar occasionally freezing up for some users.
FIX: Fix for an issue with some batteries that report bad values occasionally

If anyone has been having issues with the taskbar freezing, please try this beta release and let me know if it resolves the issue.

Brand New Battery Showing 2.3% Wear

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 10:04:43 +0000

Hi I have a brand new Dell Inspiron 15R SE running Windows 8 64 bit. When I installed battery bar v3.5.5, the battery is showing 2.3% wear already. After a few days without change, I tried putting another new battery in the laptop, but battery bar is still showing 2.3% wear. Is there a bug in the program? What is causing the incorrect reporting of the battery wear?

Battery Bar Pro erases profile data

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 03:10:01 +0000

Profile data (all data points for all profiles) is erased whenever I:
1. close the toolbar
2. change from charging to discharging

Log file attached. Please fix this.
Times:
19:36 - restart toolbar
19:55 - unplug AC to discharge
20:00 - plugin AC to charge

In all 3 cases, the newly saved data points were already written to BatteryBar.Profiles.xml and then erased.

BatteryBar.log (Size: 823.58 KB / Downloads: 17)

Bug since pro

Sat, 23 Mar 2013 08:26:44 +0000

I love batterbar but since upgrading to pro my startbar freezes after a certain time

Pro status lost

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 03:31:57 +0000

Hi, my computer system crashed recently and after a recovery and start, when I wasn't connected to internet, Baterry Bar showed a message that it couldn't verify my licence. What can I do to have Pro version again?

Higher capaticy cells in an old battery

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 08:30:08 +0000

The battery of my Thinkpad x61 recently died and I had it re-packed with higher capacity cells.
The old cells were 2.6Ah and the new cells are 3.1Ah.

The battery controller didn’t take that well.
Now when Lenovo Power Manager shows 1% remaining battery and 0 minutes runtime left (reported battery voltage at that point is 13.33V), the laptop keeps working for another 40 minutes and then dies completely without warning (reported voltage at that point is 12,15V - got this value using a battery voltage logger.

Of course, all Windows critical alarms/actions are turned off, or Windows would shutdown or put the laptop into a standby mode at 3% or so.

Will BatteryBar Pro be able to predict the actual battery capacity/runtime accurately (well, more or less) or does it estimate these values based on what the battery "tells" Windows?

BatteryBar 3.5.5 Problem when starting 30 days trial version (win 7 64bit)

Sun, 03 Mar 2013 14:16:48 +0000

Hello,

I have the latest version of BatteryBar (3.5.5) installed. Everything works fine until I want to try the Pro version and start the 30 days trial.

Whenever I do a right click on it, I get this error:

Code:

See the end of this message for details on invoking 

just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box.

************** Exception Text **************

System.ArgumentException: Setting 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 was not found for scheme a1841308-3541-4fab-bc81-f71556f20b4a.

   at #=qVofzZTZeCSs3f4HYNc3EBZ5S53kkXRshaKnhxs9rJoy0B9XNB04jmVhXGJAB_RvkNqi8jzZn2kbN8​sU0r3NE_w==.#=qS_cVwPewo7VofQhpbIQyFw==[T](Guid #=qnPcv1Rgn2TQ3X6r1KTvFZw==, Guid #=qaXzkZXMvWU_fUVkOrxI76A==, Guid #=q59ymbXVHezdA9VabfaME_g==, #=qu8$IhhxhjLn3oHVxVtOYbpL8WQMpuaGHMJfXdf8C$Q$SzwL5ZHx4dD5wB2eQUoh2BNpOARObanPNE​PPstu1p$A== #=qEjXvdvMMBMDXttYYi$tiHg==)

   at BatteryBar.Utilities.PowerSchemes.PowerScheme.#=q6pcyTByDPYr0mGn$AZBguA==(Guid #=qwebORUClEH7UwoHdVgN2lw==, Int32 #=qveksDq8FnitLkcpacKmhbw==)

   at BatteryBar.Utilities.PowerSchemes.PowerScheme.GetPowerSchemes()

   at BatteryBar.Utilities.Controls.BatteryBarContextMenu.UpdateContextMenu()

   at System.EventHandler.Invoke(Object sender, EventArgs e)

   at System.Windows.Forms.ContextMenu.OnPopup(EventArgs e)

   at System.Windows.Forms.ContextMenu.Show(Control control, Point pos, Int32 flags)

   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmContextMenu(Message& m, Control sourceControl)

   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)

   at BatteryBar.BatteryBar.WndProc(Message& m)

   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)

   at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)

************** Loaded Assemblies **************

mscorlib

    Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0

    Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.5466 (Win7SP1GDR.050727-5400)

    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.NET/Framework64/v2.0.50727/mscorlib.dll

----------------------------------------

BatteryBar

    Assembly Version: 3.5.0.0

    Win32 Version: 3.5.0.0

    CodeBase: file:///C:/Program%20Files/BatteryBar/BatteryBar.dll

----------------------------------------

System.Windows.Forms

    Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0

    Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.5468 (Win7SP1GDR.050727-5400)

    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Windows.Forms/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Windows.Forms.dll

----------------------------------------

System

    Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0

    Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.5467 (Win7SP1GDR.050727-5400)

    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.dll

----------------------------------------

System.Drawing

    Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0

    Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.5467 (Win7SP1GDR.050727-5400)

    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Drawing/2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Drawing.dll

----------------------------------------

BatteryBar.Utilities

    Assembly Version: 3.5.5.2507

    Win32 Version: 3.5.5.2507

    CodeBase: file:///C:/Program%20Files/BatteryBar/BatteryBar.Utilities.DLL

----------------------------------------

System.Xml

    Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0

    Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.5420 (Win7SP1.050727-5400)

    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Xml/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Xml.dll

----------------------------------------

System.Configuration

    Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0

    Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.5420 (Win7SP1.050727-5400)

    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Configuration/2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Configuration.dll

----------------------------------------

yyweqizo

    Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0

    Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.5467 (Win7SP1GDR.050727-5400)

    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.dll

----------------------------------------

Accessibility

    Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0

    Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.4927 (NetFXspW7.050727-4900)

    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/Accessibility/2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/Accessibility.dll

----------------------------------------

System.Web.Services

    Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0

    Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.5420 (Win7SP1.050727-5400)

    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Web.Services/2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Web.Services.dll

----------------------------------------

7gucxp65

    Assembly Version: 3.5.5.2507

    Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.5467 (Win7SP1GDR.050727-5400)

    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.dll

----------------------------------------

System.Management

    Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0

    Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.5420 (Win7SP1.050727-5400)

    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Management/2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Management.dll

----------------------------------------

_iunurd7

    Assembly Version: 3.5.5.2507

    Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.5467 (Win7SP1GDR.050727-5400)

    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.dll

----------------------------------------

sruty2lt

    Assembly Version: 3.5.5.2507

    Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.5467 (Win7SP1GDR.050727-5400)

    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.dll

----------------------------------------

************** JIT Debugging **************

To enable just-in-time (JIT) debugging, the .config file for this

application or computer (machine.config) must have the

jitDebugging value set in the system.windows.forms section.

The application must also be compiled with debugging

enabled.

For example:

When JIT debugging is enabled, any unhandled exception

will be sent to the JIT debugger registered on the computer

rather than be handled by this dialog box.

Sometimes the program even crashes my Windows Explorer.

What can I do?

Thanks for the info, I'd really like to try the program.

Thank you

Free Version Use

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 21:51:35 +0000

I would like to install Battery Bar Free on all of the computers we use for out customers (we provide IT needs to facilities). But before I could do that I need to confirm that that is OK with the licencing, I did not see this as an Open Source project, so my feeling would be no, but I figured I would check as the functions that this tool adds (most notably the wear measurement) would be extremely helpful.

I of course cannot install it until I get an answer.

Request help/Solicito ayuda.

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 07:45:42 +0000

Translation made by Google:
Mr. Chris, encouraged by the good reviews I've read online, about your BatteryBar, I downloaded the free version to try before you buy and what was my surprise that, after installing it on my laptop Acer Aspire 3630, with Windows Home SP3, shows me a bar with black background, which puts an "Without Bat", as seen in the screenshot. As the battery if it is connected and the corresponding LED lights up, I researched a little and I checked in the device manager, the battery was disabled. Thinking he had found the cause of "No Bat", I've enabled and at that time, my pc has become unstable. With great difficulty I managed to restart in "Safe Mode" and went back to disable it, so blocking is resolved. Not so the message of BatteryBar, which remains "No Bat".
As a clue to try to solve this problem, I can tell you, by chance, I discovered that BatteryBar, was installed as a toolbar in my browser extensions and Internet Explorer, as shown in the screenshot.
I would appreciate your feedback to fix this annoying situation.
With thanks in advance, Yours faithfully.

PD) had previously tried putting this message, without success, so I have sent an email to you with this issue, which you can ignore.
It seems the problem to put the message in the Forum, was that I had not registered but who wrote bad Pach, that was the answer I got, to send the message to the forum. Perhaps this should be corrected.
Thanks for your time.
Greetings.

Fernando

Sr. Chris, animado por las buenas críticas que he leído en Internet, acerca de su BatteryBar, he descargado la versión gratuita, para probarlo antes de comprarlo y cual ha sido mi sorpresa que, despues de instalarlo en mi portátil Acer Aspire 3630, con Windows Home SP3, me muestra una barra, con fondo negro, an la que pone "Sin Bat", tal como se ve en la Captura de Pantalla. Como la batería SI está conectada y luce el led correspondiente, he investigado levemente y he comprobado que en el Administrador de Dispositivos, la batería estaba deshabilitada. Pensando que había encontrado la causa del "Sin Bat", la he habilitado y en ese momento, mi pc se ha vuelto inestable. A duras penas he logrado reiniciarlo en "Modo Seguro" y he vuelto a deshabilitarla, con lo que se ha solucionado el bloqueo. No así el mensaje del BatteryBar, que sigue siendo "Sin Bat".
Como pista, para tratar de solucionar este problema, puedo decirle que, casualmente, he descubierto que BatteryBar, se ha instalado como una barra de herramientas y extensiones en mi navegador Internet Explorer, tal como se ve en la Captura de Pantalla.
Le agradecería mucho su colaboración para arreglar esta enojosa situación.
Con gracias anticipadas, le saluda atentamente.

PD) Con anterioridad había intentado poner este mensaje, sin conseguirlo, por lo que le he enviado un eMail a Vd. con este tema, que puede ignorar.
Parece que el problema para poner el mensaje en el Foro, era que no me había registrado y NO, que escribía mal el Pach, que era la respuesta que obtenía, al enviar el mensaje al foro. Quizás esto también se debería de corregir.
GRACIAS por su tiempo.
Saludos.

Asus Vivotab estimate varying wildly

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 02:07:31 +0000

Hi there,

I'm not sure if it's something I'm doing wrong, or there's an issue with BatteryBar... I installed BatteryBar Pro on my Windows 8 based Asus Vivotab (with a secondary battery in the keyboard dock) and I find that the estimated time remaining varies wildly between sleeps, anywhere from around 18 hours, right down to being warned I only had a few minutes of power left at 80% charge!

On a full charge, Asus reckons you can get around 19 hours (10 from the tablet plus 9 from the dock). My tablet is currently fully charged, with the dock attached and BatteryBar is reporting 5 hours and 30 minutes of charge remaining.

I appreciate that this is a relatively new architecture which features the low power sleep whereby the system remains active to receive emails etc, so I'm wondering if it's simply a case of BB needing an update to handle this, or whether there's something I can do such as recalibrate or set a particular option somewhere.

There were also a couple of issues which have been recently patched; one whereby the dock battery was being drained particularly quickly, and another that held the CPU at around 30% usage even when asleep. I'm wondering if these have skewed the estimations somewhat and how I could fix it.

Oh, and while we're on the subject of Windows 8, how about a version that has a live tile with battery stats?

Anyway, thanks for reading and thanks for any info you can supply!

How to disable time estimate toggle on icon click?

Fri, 15 Feb 2013 19:43:51 +0000

When I click on the BatteryBar icon, it toggles the display between percentage and estimated time left. How do I disable that?

I find the estimate gets skewed when I run a CPU intensive task that runs for a while. I ran the last task a few days ago.

License Problems

Fri, 15 Feb 2013 02:28:33 +0000

I bought a License for Batterybar pro ages ago and recently had to reinstall the program, I think becuase I had .NET Framework problems. When I go to put in my license key the window freezes up and a pop up says to report this to you but when I click on that, it freezes up and and I have to resart explorer.

Any Suggestions,

Thanks

Lenovo X1 Carbon: Wrong Full Runtime

Fri, 15 Feb 2013 00:18:32 +0000

Hey there!
I have a Lenovo X1 Carbon ultrabook and BatteryBar constantly (e.g. not sometimes, always) displays incorrect Full Runtime (remaining time), which it puts at 3:52/54. In reality the notebook usually lasts around 7-8 hours or so.
Also, this notebook is the first (if I'm not mistaken) to support Lenovo's RapidCharge technology, which charges a notebook to 80% of its capacity in 30 minutes. I'm not sure it's related, but I figured it might be worth mentioned this as well.
I did not check whether BatteryBar displays other battery-related parameters incorrectly, but that also might be the case and hence IF it's possible it might make sense to have a look at other things as well.

Anyhow, would it be possible to somehow look into why the time is displayed incorrectly? I would be happy to provide whatever information necessary (logs, debug info, etc.) from my side or to help in any other way(s) to get this thing fixed up.

[NOW RE-SOLVED][PARTLY][SOLVED] Can't see Battery Bar toolbar option in Windows 8.

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 02:31:10 +0000

Hi,

I downloaded and installed Battery Bar today under Windows 8, and the Battery Bar toolbar option does not appear when I right-click on the taskbar and select Toolbars...

Is the a way I can get it to appear?

Battery Bar Stalls Windows 8 Startup

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 20:02:25 +0000

Chris, thanks for getting Battery Bar working in Windows 8..

But, it has a bug still.. or it might be considered a nusance..

After BB is installed, BB appears on the tool bar (good) and can be in Hide or Show mode.

If in Show mode, and then a Restart or boot.. then the Windows start-up will stall with (showing) a partially activated desktop with the BB icon shown. Then, I must use the Windows start charm to get to the normal start app tile window, from which.. when the desktop tile is selected the fully initialized desktop will appear and be proper.

If the BB toolbar is not shown at shutdown, then when the next Windows start-up is done. there is no such pause.. and the startup progresses to the proper/normal initial Win8 "start" view. I must remember to put the BB icon in hide mode prior to shutdown. So, the next boot does not stall.

Using Win 8 Pro on a Lenovo Thinkpad Tablet 2. getting 10+ hrs of runtime from fully charged state.

Hope this includes enough info to diagnose and fix the problem.. feel free to contact me directly .. or to test any potential fix..

btw.. using the BB 3.5.5 infree mode.

Thanks for you efforts.

Give aways?

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 18:01:51 +0000

Are there people that don't need BatteryBar anymore
You can write me in a priyate message if you like

Update of the display during charge

Sat, 19 Jan 2013 07:38:06 +0000

I install the last version of battery bar 3.5.5 on w8 Fujitsu T900.

The installation seems OK but I notice that the display (time, %) doesn't update during the charge.
To force the update i have to enter preference menu and just click on save.

Can you help me.