How to see how full my battery is?

Andy Green andy at openmoko.com
Thu Aug 7 08:54:17 CEST 2008


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Somebody in the thread at some point said:
| On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 18:20 +0300, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote:
|> Hi,
|>
|> kazaam <kazaam at oleco.net> writes:
|>> There's some symbol in the try looking a bit like a black battery
|>> with a lightning symbol in it. Is this meaning it's loading? And
|>> where do I see how full it is? I tried acpi -v in the terminal but
|>> it seems openmoko is running without acpi.
|> Try "apm" to see current charge and "cat
|> /sys/devices/platform/bq2700-battery.0/power_supply/bat/current_now"
|> to see power consumption.
|>
| What units is this in? - I get a slightly varying "505500"

uA... that's a lot of power you're sucking there?  Normally Freerunner
is around 190mA with backlight on full or 90mA idle with backlight down.

Negative numbers from that is charging current again in uA.

- -Andy
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