Laptop always shows "On AC Power" even when on battery? Here's one solution you can try.

Is your laptop behaving like a desktop computer? Does it show it's on AC power all the time even when you are on battery power?

If you happen to answer "yes" then ... you have the same problem as mine. The most annoying part is when you forget to turn on the power and you are running on battery but it says "on AC power" ... then all of a sudden .... without any warnings and notifications ... your laptop just goes blank .... completely shuts down without the sequence. All your unsaved work goes with it.

Been searching for quite a while on how to fix this but lots of the time I ran into a dead end. you'd be surprised of how many people have the same problem.

In my case, it seems that I'm lacking a certain driver in my system which handles the AC/DC power monitoring.

You can try searching for the solution on your own but I gotta tell you ... its not easy ... fortunately though ... I'm kind enough to share this with you so you don't have to search any further hahaha...

But first let me just credit the person who helped us .. this person's name supposedly is Davey with a nickname dOGHAIR..

LIMITATION: This method is for Windows XP only ... I havent tried on Windows Vista nor Windows 7.
DISCLAIMER: This method is pretty harmless but that been said, use this method AT YOUR OWN RISK.

You can download a zipped file which contains a batch file that will repair the missing battery icon issue. All you gotta do is extract the file then go to the extracted folder and double-click the "install.bat" file. Keep on pressing "enter' until the whole thing is finished.

When it's done .. right-click "My Computer" then click "Manage". Select "Device Manager" under the "Computer Management (Local)" tree.

Make sure you have these two items ... under "Batteries" on the right side of the panel.

1.  Microsoft AC Adapter

2.  Microsoft ACPI-Compliant Control Method Battery

* please refer to the picture

Make sure the battery icon has no question mark or exclamation mark. If for some reasons it has ... restart you laptop. When that doesn't fix the problem, uninstall them by right-clicking them and choosing "Uninstall". Then repeat the "Install.bat" process.

The next step is to enable the icon in the taskbar .... go to "Start > Run" and keyin "powercfg.cpl" .... click on the "Advance" tab and "check" the "Always show icon on taskbar"

You should also have a "Power Meter" tab next to "Advance" tab ... "check" the "Show details for each battery" ... you should see battery icon there. When you unplug the AC power, you should see the AC plug icon turns into a battery icon.

That's just about it ... hope it solves your problem.

Files to download:

http://spaz.org/~davey/battery_fix_by_dOGHAIR.zip

Credits goes to Davey a.k.a dOGHAIR

My Family Tree

Hi guys,
Its been quite a while since I updated my last post .... Now I'm back hehehe ...

Lately I've been in contact with my relatives in Philippines. They are requesting me to create a family tree that can be accessed online by other family members and can add it up or merge it up with their own family tree.

My initial plan was to host a website especially for my family in other words, family website. But then I thought there must be a cheaper way .... one that doesn't require you to fork up cash to achieve such objective. Something like this blogspot ... its free and you can post as much as you like.

So I went googling here and there and came across quite a number of websites that offer free family tree hosting. Unfortunately though .... most of these websites has limitations such as, limited number of pictures you can upload, and limited number of family members that you can add and so on. You need to buy a pro version of it in order to get rid of the limitations.

Luckily, I came across this magnificent website that so far has no limitations like I just mentioned. Well, there are actually but its quite minimal and the pro-version features which are not in the free-version are not something I really need the most. As long as I can upload any number of pictures and add family members as much as I want, its cool with me.

As of now I am the unofficial family historian and the custodian of the Datu Amirhussin Family Tree hehehe

I figured that I share with you so that you can make your own family tree and perhaps we can merge our family tree and be surprised that we are related hehehe.

Here is the website http://www.geni.com/

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Celcom = Sialcom = Totally Sucks!!!!

Good Day,

Before i begin, let me tell you why I'm a Celcom customer... I work in a rural area ... far far away from the big city. I live near a state border. Although the cellphone coverage is okay, the broadband coverage however is limited to only Celcom ... so I have no choice but to be a Celcom customer if i were to go online which I think I can't live without...

Anyway, I'm subscribing to two Celcom services ... one is a Celcom Broadband Postpaid, and the other is Celcom Blue Prepaid.... now the postpaid one is strictly for Internet, you can't make a phone call and the prepaid one is the normal SIM which you can make calls just like your normal prepaid SIM  ... however both of them i used as my means to connect to the Internet.

As you all know and for those who don't know, Celcom has a RM98 C-Broadband Advance which boast of speed up to 3.6Mbps. However it has a bandwidth limit up to 5GB of data transfer. Now whenever you exceed the limit of 5GB, they will un-throttle your speed from up to 3.6Mbps to just a mere not more than 128Kbps which is very very slow and you can't even watch your favorite YouTube clip on it.

They used to have no solution for this hence why I bought a Celcom Blue Prepaid as my substitute to the Celcom Postpaid Package. You can always use the prepaid to subscribe a RM20/Week Unlimited Broadband with a speed of up to 512Kbps.

Later on they have this service where you can buy additional bandwidth of 5GB for RM20. So i figured, why not just purchase an additional 5GB with the speed of up to 3.6Mbps instead of subscribing a RM20/Week unlimited with a speed of up to 512Kbps ...

So it became my norm coz I'm a heavy internet user so i always exceed the bandwidth limit. Overtime, I rarely use my Celcom Prepaid coz of the "purchase additional bandwidth" service. 

Up until today, I've exceeded my bandwidth once again and called the Celcom customer service for purchasing additional 5GB bandwidth ... to my surprise, the Celcom staff told me that they changed the cost of a 5GB to RM50. Its not RM20 anymore its RM50!!!! Taken aback, i canceled my purchase because i think its outrageous!!!!

So I'm back to my old norm which is, buying RM20 reload to my Prepaid and subscribe to the RM20/Week. Then while i was happily surfing the net, Celcom sent me an SMS which sounds like this ...

RM0> Langganan lagu anda tlh berjaya diperbaharui, RM1 telah dicaj ke akaun anda. Langganan lagu ini akan diperbaharui stp minggu. Tertakluk terma & syarat

Celcom call it "Call Me Ring Tone" .... The thing is I NEVER SUBSCRIBED TO ANY "CALL ME FUCKING RING TONE"!!!!!! ... So i called Celcom services AGAIN and inquired about this. It turned out that the subscription started on June and now its end of September. Imagine the horrror!!!! I've been ripped off buy Celcom within that time period RM1 a week without me even knowing it. I know if you calculate it, its not that much perhaps thats what most of you people think. Yeah it probably not that much but remember ... i wasn't the only one who was being ripped off. I bet all Celcom subscriber has been ripped off too ... they just don't know it yet or haven't realized it yet. 

The Celcom personnel explains that it was a promo. Initially it was free then they sent SMS saying that the promo period is finished and they will start charging RM1/Week ... since I didn't replied a "NO" to the SMS, they started suka suka, freely deduct RM1 from my credit. What a FUCKING LOAD OF BULLSHIT!!!!!

Firstly, you should never impose extra ordinary charges anyone without one's knowledge and consent!!!! The SMS suppose to be an "if you don't reply YES then the subscription will be stopped". I don't use my prepaid SIM card on the phone ... how was i suppose to know and receive your fucking SMS?!!!  Have you ever think of that??!!!

But alas!!! ..... The are no wireless Internet Service Provider In my place except for this thief ... like it or not i have to subscribe to their services .... but if i ever have any other option such as DiGi or Maxis, I'd pick one of them before I ever think about using Celcom. Sial punya Celcom.... they should change their logo into this!