Smarter Battery |
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A battery monitoring utility
for notebooks and tablets
Smarter Battery is a
battery monitoring utility for portable computers, intended to provide
all the data of your battery, to help prolong its life and
save its energy. It shows you the evolution of the battery's
capacity during the charge / discharge cycles and computes a
few important battery parameters, such as the wear level and
discharge cycles count. This program
continuously reads the battery data, making a prediction for
the time remaining; it also features two alarms, for low and
critical battery capacity, triggered by either the
time remaining or the capacity percentage.
The evolution of battery capacity
is graphically displayed for a longer period of time,
up to 16 hours, so the complete charge or discharge cycles can be
easily visualized and analyzed. Both Calibration and Fast
Discharge procedures were updated to perform better on
Windows laptops or tablets. Moreover, a battery gadget can be
displayed by this utility; it has many format options and
offers you a fast, clear view on the current battery state
of charge.
What's new in this
version?
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Up to four batteries can be registered
at a time (four serial numbers);
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Redesigned Calibration and
Fast Discharge procedures;
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Optimized code for Windows 8 and 10, either
laptop or tablet use;
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A new ergonomic design, more information
on each page;
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Accurate
computing for the battery wear level and discharge cycles;
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Larger
period of time (up to 16 hours) for the graph of capacity vs. time;
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Brightness control and Restart commands were added to the
battery menu.
The Information page
is automatically displayed when this utility is launched
and maximized. In the left side fields are displayed a
few important parameters of the system battery (this is
now common to all pages), while
the right side ones contain if fact the general and
model information. Above the left panel, there is the
Battery # link; the # number, if it is displayed,
indicates which battery is currently selected. A click
on this link changes the selected pack and all the other
information will be updated accordingly. When the
application starts, first battery found in your system
becomes the current one and it will be used as
reference.

The Graph
page offers you an easy way to see and understand the
evolution of the battery capacity over time. A thick orange line
is drawn in a capacity (percentage) vs. time coordinate system
for a default interval of 60 minutes. This graph can be saved as
jpg picture (automatically named and numbered SBshot1, 2 and so
on) by using the Save button. If the battery Mode is
Discharging, a thin red line will be displayed in
addition; it represents a possible path followed by the
battery power, a path which has resulted from the time
remaining or which is estimated by the software. For a
good battery, this red line should remain parallel with
the orange one most of the time, having no big angle
changes (drops in capacity).

The
Settings page contains all the program options. If a
certain option is modified here, it is instantly executed;
however, if you want to keep that change in the future sessions,
you must save the settings using the Save button from the
upper-left side.

The
Alerts page contains two customizable battery level
alerts (Warning and Critical), both of them being independent
from the Windows' ones. If an option is modified here, it is
instantly executed; you can save all these alert settings by
using the Save button from the upper-left side.

Calibrate page: Under the
Calibration title, there are a few statistical
information of the first system battery, such as: the Wear
Levels, Full Discharge Cycles, Usage Time and other calibration
values; they give you the complete picture of your battery state
and life. In order to keep all these data accurate, this utility
must be kept running all the time on your computer, having the
first battery selected. A Fast Discharge option is also
present on this page.

The Home Page shows
several buttons that directly connect you to the Home, Download
and Purchase Pages of the program, as well as the customer's
Registration data. There is also a button facilitating the
e-mail communication with us; it automatically launches your
default e-mail software, if installed, allowing you to send us the Battery
Code.

This program is a
demo version. You can test it ten times, each
time for
15 minutes; to continue monitoring your battery after
this period, you have to buy it. Once you made the online payment, send
us an e-mail containing your notebook's battery code(s). The program license allows you to use Smarter
Battery on a single computer, for an unlimited period of
time. We will send you a second registration, for
free, in case you change the notebook battery
within five years.
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