Power management tips notifications

Hi guys,
Had my Z1 since release and loving it however one small thing that I would like to turn off is the power management tip notifications.
I regularly get several notifications at a time telling me that I haven't used the application for some time, which I can understand why it would be useful for some people but I don't need them and would like them disabled. Just want the power management 'tips' disabled if possible.
I am new to android having moved from IPhone (don't worry I'm not going back!) and checked in the power management menus and can't see anywhere to disable the tips and cannot find them in the apps menu to tick the disable notification box although wondering if they are labelled as something different in there?
Any help would be much appreciated!
Thanks in advance

I can't believe this isn't an option. Sony can't really think everyone wants this message from every single app. Every morning I have about 10 of these. And there is a tick box that says OK No longer notfy, but initially tapping these, the message would accept and go away, now, tapping it does nothing since the last update. Grrr....
I just want the Power Management Tips gone! I know I haven't used an app for awhile. There may well be a good reason.
At least the_savage is not alone, and nor am I!!
Thanks guys, Colin.

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Hi All,
I've decied to try and put Windows 8 on a new SSD and try using it in my Idepad y460 (0633).
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I have a Lenovo Thinkpad X220 which is about 19 months old. When at work, the computer is in a Lenovo docking station. At the end of the day, it is removed and any further evening use is typically on the battery.
Yesterday, the battery symbol in the tray at the bottom of the screen displayed a red X on it and indicated that there was an "error". I presume from this that that battery is dead and needs to be replaced. I am surprised by the comparatively short life of this battery.
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Hi,
Welcome to Lenovo Community Forums!
I’m sorry to hear that battery of your Lenovo ThinkPad X220 had undergone wear and tear and has to be replaced.
Capacity of a battery declines as the battery ages, with the number of charge cycles and time at high temperature. Under average usage patterns your battery maintains approximately 70% of its power capacity after the first year of operation.
Most laptops today use lithium Ion (Li-ion) batteries. Overcharging Li-ion batteries is not a problem and does not affect the battery life span. These batteries have an internal circuit to stop the charging process at full charge. This is why the Li-ion batteries are more expensive. The only way for the Li-ion battery to overcharge is if the charging system malfunctions, and then the battery will heat up while in the charger. Older laptops use Nickel-cadmium (Ni-Cd) and Nickel Metal Hydride (Ni-MH) batteries. They require more maintenance than Lithium Ion batteries. They must be fully discharged and then fully recharged so that they don't lose battery life.
Refer this document to see the tips on how to increase the battery life.
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Thinkpad Power manager causing problems in Vista

Hi,
We have been having problems with the Thinkpad power manager (all versions that we've tried) on Vista with T400, T500, and T60 series laptops. These problems range from the program crashing to blue screens and reboots. If we remove the software and use Vista's built in power manager, the battery life gets cut in half but we do not have any problems. Has anyone else had these problems? Is there a way to reliably increase the battery life using Vista's built in power manager? If not, how can we get the thinkpad power manager working correctly?
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Brandon

Hello Brandon,
please tell us which version of PM and OS 32 or 64 do you use.
That´ll help us to help you.
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R61 power manager doesn't display power schemes nor allow me to change them

Power manager installed on my computer does not allow me to change the power schemes nor does it even display preinstalled power schemes. I assume it is currently using the default power scheme. I do not have a password for windows nor for client security solution software. So i thought that is not why it is preventing me from access.
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[SOLVED] Double Icon, xfce4-power-manager - Ideas?

Hey all,
Recently I've had this little launcher-like icon beside my power manager icon in xfce4. I can't seem to get rid of it...and when you right-click on it, it's the exact same thing as the xfce4-power-manager icon. If I try to click the "quit" option, it closes itself and the xfce4-power-manager. It's like a double-icon for xfce4-power-manager that I can't seem to get rid of.
So far I've tried deleting all of my xfce configs (rm -rf /home/<user>/.config/{xfce4,xfce4-session}) and it still shows up. I've looked at the .xml files and they look fine. So...I settled on just hiding the icon(s)...it only shows up as one icon to hide in the notification area preferences.
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By jazzplayerl9 at 2011-10-19
Last edited by JazzplayerL9 (2011-10-21 18:14:39)

The only other thing I can think of is you either have 2 instances of xfce4-power-manager running, or gnome-power-manager is trying to launch.
Have you previously or are you currently starting gnome services at start up (Settings >> Session and Startup - Advanced tab)? If so, check the Application Autostart tab to see if you have both gnome-power-manager and xfce4-power-manager selected.
Otherwise check to see if more than 1 instance of xfce4-power-manager is running:
$ ps aux | grep xfce4-power-manager
there should be too lines similar to the following:
padfoot 2586 0.1 1.2 177036 12500 ? Ssl 16:51 0:03 xfce4-power-manager --restart --sm-client-id 263cc3d4b-0aaa-48ba-9bfe-14697576ae9f
padfoot 2615 0.0 0.2 16680 2848 ? Ss 16:51 0:00 xfce4-power-manager
Any more than that and you have more than 1 instance.
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Gnome Power Manager Applet

Hi all,
since the last update, the gnome power manager applet is gone. I can change the preferences with the gnome-power-preferences tool, but the applet in the system bar is gone... Any idea?
Acker

Master One wrote:
So what's going on?
I do not assume, that users of other distros have such problems, at least in Foresight Linux the applet is working as supposed to, which confirms that it's not an upstream problem. There is a bug open, but no info about any progress.
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Hello parise,
please tell us your operating system and used powermanager version.
That´ll help us, to help you.
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Power-manager applet: wrong alerts

I have Gnome and I use power-manager-applet in the taskbar to check the life of the battery.
I noticed this strange problem... When I use the laptop with batteris and I connect the power cable, the applet displays a popup alerting me that the power cable has been disconnected! But the icon shows the right image with the plug over the battery. And if I put the mouse on it, a tooltip says that the battery is charging...
If I disconnect the cable, the applet doesn't display no alters and an OSD popup with a stylized gear appears in the middle-botton of the monitor....
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I've noticed that it is also slower than gnome-power-manager in refreshing its state: if I disconnect the power cable, it pops up the notification after 5-10 seconds...
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Nm-applet,power-manager ....disappeared from panel after "pacman -Syu

i use gnome-shell ............nm-applet,power-manager ....disappeared from panel after "pacman -Syu............in pacman -Syu.... dbus was updated..............now when i type nm-applet in the panel i get :
nm-applet
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earlier before upgrade it was working perfectly ......please help

i use gnome-shell ............nm-applet,power-manager ....disappeared from panel after "pacman -Syu............in pacman -Syu.... dbus was updated..............now when i type nm-applet in the panel i get :
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earlier before upgrade it was working perfectly ......please help

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I have used System Update which tells me Power Manager is availa ble for install. I install and its says it is successful and asks me to reboot.
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Hello,
that´s bad, i would try a system restore, and when your system then runs satisfactionally, don´t Update!
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Like showing of how much "watt" the system needs in DC mode.
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URGENT: Need older Power Manager Drivers.

HI,
I've recently been having problems with the Power Manager software.
I updated to 1.51, and liked the new graphical improvments. But I started experiencing "hardware interrupts" CPU usage problems.
Now the problem is more apparent with v1.52. Now, on top of the hardware interrupts issues, my brightness keeps changing (about every 5 seconds, it changes from full to low).
I don't know what is causing the issue, but running the laptop on battery doesn't seem very safe right now.
If someone could point me to older drivers that would be great.
Thanks

Hello coBra2168,
please refer to this thread.
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Battery Error after Power Manager Update

ThinkPad T520, Win7 Pro 64.
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Power Manager 3.48 no longer has switchable graphics option

I ran Active Update yesterday and the Power Manager is now upgraded to version 3.48. It appears that there is no longer an option to switch between high performance and energy saving graphics. How is the graphics mode supposed to be switched now that this menu option has been removed from the right mouse button menu on the Power manager? Do I need to downgrade to a previous version?
In case it matters, I'm running a W500 with Windows 7 Professional 64-bit.
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@ersiles,
I have the T400 with switchable, I just updated it to PM 3.64 and it does swtich. What I notice earlier when I wasn't able to switch the graphic was due to BIOS settings.
Check BIOS settings if you have it on switchable graphic mode and check if BIOS detect is enabled.
Once that is done, boot into Windows, uninstall all the video drivers, reboot. then install the drivers again.
Windows would try to install their version of the driver, click "Reboot later" when Windows prompt a reboot. Reboot only when ATi manager prompt the reboot.
I was having issue too on the T400 not being able to switch. It definitely helped me ..
Let me know.
//JameZ
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Latest versions of Power Manager and Access Connections got borked.

I have a T60p running a fully patched XP SP2, model 2007CS3, and I work for IBM. I'm posting this because our internal IT support team has no clue how to fix this.
I updated Power Manager to 1.52 when it had initially released, and since then it always fails with an error in pwmuictl.dll, however the taskbar indicator is working properly. So I have to rely on Windows' built in power management only.
Couple of days back I updated the ethernet drivers to 9.12.41.1001 as in the latest package listed on the site.
After that Access Connections 5.2 stopped working- the AcSvc service would fail on startup and subsequent restarts.
I rolled back the ethernet driver to the previous version- uninstalled the device and reinstalled specifying the older drivers- to no avail.
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Hello Martin,
you have AC 5.02 instead 4.52 installed, like your screenshot shows.
Some user have been experienced problems with this version and the version of new Powermanager.
So if your system runs satisfactionally then there is no need to update.
I would roll back and see if your program became operationally again.
Kind regards
Andreas
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