audio01 Posted March 28, 2008 Share Posted March 28, 2008 Hi, I installed the Power Management Bundle v1.37 correctly, with the right ACPI kext, etc. for using the built-in OS X battery meter on an Acer Aspire 4310 notebook. Running Kalyway 10.5.1. Everything is ok except that the battery metter briefly appears at finder's startup (you can see it appear in the menu bar) but automatically disappears. I can see that the meter is showing the icon of running with the power supply attached, even when the notebook is working on battery. I think that maybe the problem is that this particular notebook doesn't presents as such, i.e. as a notebook, to OS X. If i go to System Preferences / Energy Saver I can't see no option for permanently showing the battery meter or anything related. It just act like a normal desktop. My question is: Is there any way to force OS X to detect my computer as a notebook and show the battery meter correctly? Thank you! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/96243-force-battery-detection-on-a-notebook/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
zik_man Posted March 28, 2008 Share Posted March 28, 2008 Do you have try this : Problems: Battery meter does not show: check your AppleACPIPlatform version: kextstat | grep ACPI - Battery meter does not show while using AppleACPIPlatform v 1.1.0 (KALYWAY) ( -> to fix KALYWAY AppleACPIPlatform: edit /System/Library/Extensions/AppleACPIPlatform.kext/Contents/Plugins/AppleACPIPowerSource.kext/Contents/Info.plist file and change: <key>OSBundleLibraries</key> <dict> <key>com.apple.driver.AppleACPIPlatform</key> <string>1.0.5</string> to: <string>1.1.0</string> (then reboot or sudo kextload -t /System/Library/Extensions/AppleACPIPlatform.kext/Contents/Plugins/AppleACPIPowerSource.kext ..) - Battery meter shows OK with AppleACPIPlatform v 1.0.5 (iATKOS?) - I do not think it will work with vanilla AppleACPIPlatform ... (vanilla does not have ACPIPowerSource PlugIn ..) ??? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/96243-force-battery-detection-on-a-notebook/#findComment-687001 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomasdev Posted June 1, 2009 Share Posted June 1, 2009 I dont have AppleACPIPowerSource.kext in my appleACPI kext contents... Running Mac OSX Kalyway 10.5.3 on Dell Inspiron 1525 without battery meter :$ I wanna have it. Tried to find where is an step by step method, but tried a lot of things and none worked. The thing is I dont have the "show in menu bar" option... !!!! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/96243-force-battery-detection-on-a-notebook/#findComment-1167438 Share on other sites More sharing options...
riws Posted June 1, 2009 Share Posted June 1, 2009 Just install VoodooBattery Didn't do that the trick? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/96243-force-battery-detection-on-a-notebook/#findComment-1167443 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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