BattStat - Battery Status monitor and power management freeware for Windows 7/Vista/XP/2000 x86/x64
Updated June 5, 2010 - new version 0.99 Download version 0.99b
When I first got my Fujitsu T90D (P5010-equivalent), I moved away from using Sony 505 and Z505 models. The only thing I missed was PowerPanel, their semi-proprietary Phoenix-based power app. The single most useful thing that program does is to monitor battery usage and make a true estimate of runtime. The second most useful thing is to select power profiles, and control things like CPU speed and screen brightness.
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The Fujitsu provided functions which, to me, were a shade of this formerly essential support. The battery, while accurate, basically provided fixed runtime estimates, which were not adaptive in any meaningful way. The Hotkey utility dimmed the screen, but did little else in the way of power management. I missed PowerPanel!
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So, as a hobby I decided to code up a replacement. It's not perfect but I'm rather proud of it, and I'm experimenting with sharing it by making it available for download as freeware.
I call it 'BattStat', and it's a systray application which uses the smart battery support in Windows 7, Vista, XP and 2000 to monitor power usage, battery charge, CPU speed, CPU usage, and power events such as standby/hibernate/resume, battery events, etc. Additionally, it's capable of monitoring CPU temperature (via Intel Core internal sensors, or ACPI thermal sensors), hard drive temperature (if the drive supports it), and even control traditional hard drive APM/AAM/spindown settings, like the Hitachi PowerBooster does. The binary is about 320KB and though it comes with an installer, it requires no special installation, dll's, etc. It can be autorun from the registry with a checkbox. It can run with or without administrator privileges, though certain functions will be disabled without it.
The systray icon resembles PowerPanel rather strongly, but integrates battery capacity, AC power status, and CPU speed in a single icon. It has a graphical display window that can be popped up on-demand, which graphs up to 8 parameters over a several hour period, and shows instantaneous status in a window (which is also available in a systray tooltip). It estimates runtime when discharging, and charge time when charging. It displays instantaneous and long-term average power usage.
In addition to the systray and main window graph, it has a toolbar-style window that can float anywhere on the screen which compactly integrates the systray icon, a charge meter and summary of runtime.
It has a programmable hotkey to turn off the screen, which can be used to save significant power when running on battery if you need to turn away for a short time, it's also nice as a 'privacy key' if you need to blank your screen instantly. The program can run a program or batch file any time the system switches power source, or resumes from standby or hibernation, something I find useful to perform certain checks automatically to recover state that many programs blissfully ignore.
There's a detailed battery display for up to two batteries, with names, voltages, temperature, design capacities, wear percentages, etc, as provided by the batteries themselves.
Finally, it can switch Win7/Vista power plans and XP/2000 power schemes with a single click, as well as standby and hibernate the system.
Discussion and support for the program happens on the most excellent 'Ultra-portables Forum' hosted by LeoG. This forum is highly recommended for any mobile notebook user, including Fujitsu, Sony, Panasonic, PortableOne and many other brands. It's a great resource for support, tips, and information sharing.
Click here for the Battery Status thread
Click here to go to the download page...
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Revision History:
Version 0.99b (June 5, 2010) - Supports Windows 7 - Supports 32-bit and 64-bit systems - Installer/uninstaller and Start Menu icon - Improved power and runtime estimation techniques - Long-term power estimate gathering and display - Aero-off and screen dim control to save power under 7/Vista - Toolbar transparency and mouseover control - ACPI temperature zone polling - Support SATA drives - Support reading temperature on AMD CPUs
Beta 0.98 (February 17, 2008) - New autostart works with Vista Defender - Improve CPU temperature driver start, stop and cleanup (works with encrypted temp directory too) - Improve drive temperature and APM/AAM compatibility with SATA drives, others - Options to display temperatures in Fahrenheit/Celsius, and to select tray icon and/or toolbar - Don't enable Standby and Hibernate if not supported by system - Enhanced installer
Beta 0.97 (October 20, 2007) - Add 'running time on battery' summary to detail display - Don't include the capacity of offline or unused batteries - Improved cleanup on program exit/terminate
Beta 0.96 (October 20, 2007) - Fix detail status report for 2 batteries when one not active - Fix screen-off hotkey repeat issue
Beta 0.95 (August 25, 2007) - Windows Vista full support: - - power plans - - admin privs (needed for certain settings) - - display more accurate cpu speed - Intel Core/Core2 on-chip CPU temperature supported - Run a program on resume, AC and DC power status change - Bugfixes and settings/display window cleanup - Streamlined install, with uninstall support
Beta 0.9 (March 6, 2007) - CPU speed report fixes - Battery status/capacity fixed - Support drive AAM/APM control - Support CPU temperature reporting on ACPI machines
Beta 0.8a (April 23, 2006) - Re-corrected fix for conflict with Drive Image 2002.
Beta 0.8 (April 22, 2006) - Enable drive APM/AAM/spindown control - Improve CPU speed reporting high/mid/low - Fix capacity estimate problem when swapping secondary battery - Correct conflict with Drive Image 2002 (hopefully)
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Beta 0.7 (September 7, 2005) - Avoid need to install libraries on certain systems - Fix problem with multibyte power scheme names.
Beta 0.6 (August 28, 2005) - Initial revision
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Battery Meter displays your battery status with icons, percentage remaining, time remaining, current voltage, charge rate, discharge rate, current charge capacity, and maximum charge capacity. Flyout features can be shown by clicking on the icon or title to display the following information: manufacturer name of your battery, device name, unique ID, serial number, chemistry, retain capacity, maximum charge capacity, designed capacity, and designed voltage. In settings you can change the gadget size up to 400%, fixed unit to watt hour (Wh) ampere-hour (mAh), adjust the color of the gadget’s background and text, and set auto update notifications.
Last updated: 25-Aug-2013
Version: 2.3
File size: 148.09 KB
Price: Free
Support operating system: Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008
Support: Notebook*, Netbook* and laptop*.
* Some of Vendor is not supported.
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Release history
Version: 2.3 - Added show total number of charge in flyout.
- Fixed alert full charged bug.
- Fixed display charging bug.
Version: 2.2 - Added ability to change flyout background and text color.
- Added digital signature.
Version: 2.1 - Fixed white box with the < problem.
Version: 2.0 - Added sound alert when low battery.
- Added sound alert when full changed.
- Added alert icon notification.
- Fixed bugs.
Version: 1.2 - Fixed bug.
Version: 1.1 - Fixed bug and added default setting button.
Version: 1.0 - Initial release.
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Ananda 22-Jul-2013 4:16 pm
Battery meter It's very important because now i can get every details of battery, thanks a lot.
James Libron 26-Jun-2013 12:41 pm
Battery Meter v2.2 The gadget is really amazing. Thanks to author. However it does not work perfectly. It alarms only when the battery is low but when the battery is 100% full, it does not really alert. I hope you would make a version that has a fix to this problem and makes it work perfectly.
Alwan 20-Mar-2013 5:18 pm
Amazing Wow..... it's amazing Gadget. thank god i found it ... thanks a lot!
Kyle Jones 6-Mar-2013 10:49 pm
Battery Meter, Plus World Clock The Battery Meter is the best. It keeps me up to date with were my Battery usage is up to and everything. I m only 14 years old and I am just loving it, please keep me up to date with all the new updates with all your gadgets and please just thanks again.
Bill 6-Mar-2013 04:43 pm
Good Gadget thanks Works exactly as described on my Windows 7 x64 and Windows 2008 Server R2 x64 machines.
Aldrin Ngoma 6-Mar-2013 06:50 am
Battery Meter These gadgets are just awesome! can't wait to to see the new ones! Good job guys. . . keep it up!
Michael 22-Feb-2013 08:29 am
Battery Meter This app works great. I bring my laptop with me almost everywhere. so this is great so i know how many mah im using based on looking at my cpu its great to use all the apps you need as they work toghether well. This app is great and very accurate. shows full batt info.
Compost Steve 16-Feb-2013 11:53 am
Battery Meter This Gadget is just what I needed. It doesn't fill the desktop with extra menu's. Works brilliantly. The download was very quick and simple. Thanks folks.
Jimdesigner 9-Feb-2013 4:17 pm
Good Gadget thanks Thank you a lot for the software this is a good gadget. Wish i could help you for more developing like this one but i'm also a developer which i couldn't feed all my needs any way thank you a lot and wish you all the best my friend.
Nancy 5-Feb-2013 11:38 pm
Battery Meter The Battery Meter does what is was meant to do and I like very much! Also am very impressed with all the gadgets that are available too!!!
Philip Smith 30-Jan-2013 2:57 am
Battery Meter Works exactly as described on my Windows 7 x64 and Windows 2008 Server R2 x64 machines.
Bill Braski 22-Jan-2013 3:37 am
New and improved Really like the version 2 with audible alerts for low/full battery charge. Use it on my netbook computer. Nice!
Merlin 19-Jan-2013 4:23 pm
Addgadgets Battery Meter Addgadgets Battery Meter is probably the most important and useful feature that a person can add to their laptop. It gives you total knowledge of what the realtime status of your battery is as every moment. You can keep it in the corner of your desktop and know at a glance there your charge level is at any moment. Therefore you can plan your useage with total confidence that your battery will serve you well. The design of this app is by far the portable users best friend. A shear stroke of genius.
HIGW65 6-Jan-2013 4:23 pm
Good Very good Gadget, but it can only display one Battery. If it can display two or more Batterys then it was the best.
Carmelo Contrino 5-Jan-2013 3:58 am
Battery Meter Version 2.1 Great Gadget, It does what it was made to do, monitor your battery functions, keep up the great work guys, I am sure that I speak for everyone that these are the best out there, Thank You, Carmen
shakeel 21-Dec-2012 11:32 pm
Awesome Gadget Its really very Awesome Gadget i have ever seen, thanks to your team to give that gadget online for free! Really it is very cool to see every thing on your desktop with out any extra efforts.
David 13-Dec-2012 10:39 am
The best gadget! One of the best ones I've found! favorite 100%
Mike 7-Dec-2012 5:09 pm
THANK YOU for keeping gadgets alive! Your gadgets are the only ones I use. They actually work, are informative, and are USEFUL. I was very sad to see support for gadgets quickly fade and die. Thank you for keeping them alive. I am a software developer, and keep Battery meter, CPU Meter, Top Processes (one for memory and another for I/O), and Network Meter on my desktop at all times. These things are important to monitor, when writing software. It is nice to see resources at a glance, instead of running PerfMon all the time.
Abin Abraham 5-Dec-2012 6:51 pm
so much thank you so much for this gadget , i've been searching for this type so long time and today only i found you dear. really very helpful with the alert sound for both low battery and 100%. keep going.
Rainn 29-Nov-2012 7:04 pm
Love the Gadgets!! I first discovered gadgets with Vista and fell in love with the ease of use and viewing information right from my desktop. I recommend them to everyone. Thank you for making my life a lil easier!!
manu 22-Nov-2012 6:06 pm
MANU ROCKSTAR I Think this is a great gadget, I use it on my laptop and gave me a lot of convenience.
khalid shams 22-Nov-2012 6:06 pm
SAHIL G Hawesome gadgetry. keep the nice work continued. thanks alot.
Bill Braski 14-Oct-2012 5:06 pm
Nice Gadget Highly useful on Net/Notebook computer. Better than tiny battery indicator in Win taskbar tray. Very cool. Looking at more of your gadgets.
JesterEE 30-Sep-2012 10:58 pm
Great Gadget missing One Key Feature I exclusively use addgadgets.com gadgets on my Windows 7 PCs. This one is a favorite of mine for my notebook for obvious reasons. I do think it could benefit from one feature I have seen in other battery gadgets ... the ability to view and swap power profiles. Now I know it's not a big deal to press Win+X to see the mobility center and change the profile, but it would be nice if this information were displayed on this gadget since that setting will dictate how fast the battery will drain. Other than that, stellar gadget!
Roco Cardenas 18-Jul-2012 2:09 pm
thanks for gadget Your gadgets are just great, Very useful!
Lexi 15-Jul-2012 6:14 am
Cool Gadget I have been using alot of these gadgets and this one is the best one.
Edwij 1-Jul-2012 5:46 pm
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Good Gadget I Think this is a great gadget, I use it on my laptop and gave me a lot of convenience.
Henry 21-Jun-2012 9:56 pm
Great! Your gadgets are just great! I've been using few of them for awhile now, and they are just essential for me! Thanks!
Fiona 19-Jun-2012 6:26 pm
Very useful! This is one of the best gadgets ever, i definitely recommend it.
Dick 15-Jun-2012 8:06 am
awesome gadget a must have gadget for every notebook.
Shelton 10-Jun-2012 2:40 am
Works fine Hi, I have just installed this thing on my computer and... It’s perfect!! I’m very like it. Great gadget and look forward to the updates and features.
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