How do I disable laptop battery charging while using mains without removing it?
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Hey sorry to ask this question, but i have read that recharging laptop batteries too often eventually kills the battery... Is it possible to disable battery charging while using the mains... without having the battery removed? :)
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Hey sorry to ask this question, but i have read that recharging laptop batteries too often eventually kills the battery... Is it possible to disable battery charging while using the mains... without having the battery removed? :)
You don't. It's entirely automated by the power supply. THe only way to stop charging the battery is to remove it. Though, since the charging circuitry won't overcharge the battery, I fail to see why you would have to do this.
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Hey sorry to ask this question, but i have read that recharging laptop batteries too often eventually kills the battery... Is it possible to disable battery charging while using the mains... without having the battery removed? :)
Usually there's nothing built in that allow you to do that. I wouldn't worry about the battery that much, all you have to understand is that they have a finite lifetime that is a lot shorter than that of the device, in another words, you're going to have to change it at one point or another, so stop worrying about it.
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Usually there's nothing built in that allow you to do that. I wouldn't worry about the battery that much, all you have to understand is that they have a finite lifetime that is a lot shorter than that of the device, in another words, you're going to have to change it at one point or another, so stop worrying about it.
Thanks for the answer... :laugh:
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You don't. It's entirely automated by the power supply. THe only way to stop charging the battery is to remove it. Though, since the charging circuitry won't overcharge the battery, I fail to see why you would have to do this.
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Dave KreskowiakI read that the charger will charge the battery as soon as it falls below a certain level and that can kill the battery if repeated often enough. So that's why i wanted to know how to disable charging the battery (after it is fully charged of course) while it is still attached to the laptop to avoid that "charge recharge" circle. But you have given me the answer already so thanks! :laugh:
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I read that the charger will charge the battery as soon as it falls below a certain level and that can kill the battery if repeated often enough. So that's why i wanted to know how to disable charging the battery (after it is fully charged of course) while it is still attached to the laptop to avoid that "charge recharge" circle. But you have given me the answer already so thanks! :laugh:
Sooo you down voted us for giving you the answer you didn't want to hear?? Sorry, but there is no API to call to disable charging the battery. It's that plain and simple. If you don't like it, take it up with the computer hardware industry and have them make a new standard that requires exposing an API to do this. Oh, and you better come up with a tons of GOOD reasons to want this and a bunch more explaining why it should not be considered a security risk to do this.
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Sooo you down voted us for giving you the answer you didn't want to hear?? Sorry, but there is no API to call to disable charging the battery. It's that plain and simple. If you don't like it, take it up with the computer hardware industry and have them make a new standard that requires exposing an API to do this. Oh, and you better come up with a tons of GOOD reasons to want this and a bunch more explaining why it should not be considered a security risk to do this.
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Dave KreskowiakDave Kreskowiak wrote:
Sooo you down voted us for giving you the answer you didn't want to hear??
Well now i have given you the vote you wanted... :laugh:
Dave Kreskowiak wrote:
If you don't like it, take it up with the computer hardware industry and have them make a new standard that requires exposing an API to do this.
I don't want that functionality, i was just asking if there is such a functionality.
Dave Kreskowiak wrote:
Oh, and you better come up with a tons of GOOD reasons to want this and a bunch more explaining why it should not be considered a security risk to do this.
No need to go that far! :laugh:
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Dave Kreskowiak wrote:
Sooo you down voted us for giving you the answer you didn't want to hear??
Well now i have given you the vote you wanted... :laugh:
Dave Kreskowiak wrote:
If you don't like it, take it up with the computer hardware industry and have them make a new standard that requires exposing an API to do this.
I don't want that functionality, i was just asking if there is such a functionality.
Dave Kreskowiak wrote:
Oh, and you better come up with a tons of GOOD reasons to want this and a bunch more explaining why it should not be considered a security risk to do this.
No need to go that far! :laugh:
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Well now i have given you the vote you wanted.
I don't really care about the votes I get, but I thought this one was a cheap shot. BTW, how's that vision library that "outperforms the state-of-the-art" coming? You might want to define HOW it outperforms the state of the art when you write about it.
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BupeChombaDerrick wrote:
Well now i have given you the vote you wanted.
I don't really care about the votes I get, but I thought this one was a cheap shot. BTW, how's that vision library that "outperforms the state-of-the-art" coming? You might want to define HOW it outperforms the state of the art when you write about it.
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Dave KreskowiakGlad to hear you remember the vision library. So let me take this opportunity to elaborate. First let me talk about the current systems. So far to the best of my knowledge most currently existing computer vision systems use either low or intermediate level features a good example is SIFT (Scale Invariant Feature Transform), HOG (Histogram of Oriented Gradients) both use gradient orientation information to generate sparse histograms. HOGs are usually used together with SVMs (Support Vector Machines) for classification. From what i know the animal brains builds high-level features hierarchically from center surround receptive field types (retina and Lateral Geniculate Nucleus(LGN)) through the orientation selective receptive fields (primary visual cortex) to more complex IT (Inferior Temporal) Cortex receptive fields. The use of high level features brings in more challenges. How do you effectively do that on a digital computer? I have found a way of approximating the hierarchical process by making simplifying assumptions to generate high - level features. and i have made use of the concept of foveal and peripheral vision... that is concentrating processing power on an object that appears near the foveal and less power away from the point of interest. But my system does not provide spatial information...it will recognition an object near it's fixation point irrespective of scale and orientation and moderate distortions. But it can recognize millions of objects very fast. An object can be a face,car,plants e.t.c and it can run on a conventional computer. so
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You might want to define HOW it outperforms the state of the art when you write about it.
To do that i want to use a ground truth image database and publicly make the results available. Because of it's efficiency i want to create a visual search engine to index internet based images. And will work similar to Google Goggles