Comments on: Get Battery Time Remaining Alerts in OS X Notification Center

By: Car

Car — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 11:02:40 +0000

Please ignore my comment. I just noticed that the app is constantly “calculating” my remaining time. At least the app was free!

By: Car

Car — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 11:01:22 +0000

I just downloaded the free “Battery Time Remaining” app from the app store and so far it is working great! It doesn’t have any reviews but I figured I can always delete it if problems arise. The only weird thing is that the original battery image still appears along with another that shows the time remaining. Hope this helps.

By: Sellis

Sellis — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 23:50:05 +0000

What is the name of the app and where can I find it?

By: quax88

quax88 — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 23:40:57 +0000

probably you shouldn’t install that.. having the issue that my mac won’t get up to 100% anymore, postet that issue on the developter site:

https://github.com/codler/Battery-Time-Remaining/issues/31

“After installing Battery-Time-Remaining 1.5.1 I have problems with the complete charge of the battery!! Seems like it won’t recognize when it’s fully charged. It is always “Calculating” how long it takes until it’s 100% and stucked at 5081 of 5133 mAh.
Some more information: Cycles: 43
Temperature 30,7°C

MacBook Pro 13″ Mid 2012 – 2,5 GHz – 8Gb RAM

iStat, the Mac Os App and “SlimBatteryMonitor” having the same issue of not knowing when the battery charged to 100%.

Releasing the AC power adapter iStat changes to 100% followed by the Battery-Time-Remaining-App and SlimBatteryMonitor telling me that it full charged.

5133 of 5133 mAh and stuff.

When I plug in the power adapter again it turns green for a second and the different battery symbols show that, too. Just a second later everything turns into charging and calculating how long it takes to charge (without a result) and power adapter turns from green to orange.”

Hopefully there will someone help…

By: pinta_vodki

pinta_vodki — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 22:31:09 +0000

How come the app has notifications, even though it is not in the App Store?

By: Julio

Julio — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 19:21:49 +0000

Or you can just click on the battery icon and it will tell you how much time remains. It just doesn’t show up directly on the menu bar like before.

By: Leslie

Leslie — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 18:59:32 +0000

This is the best solution much better than Slim Battery Monitor et al, thanks!

One thing I have noticed about battery drainage in Mountain Lion is my Mac runs much warmer and the fans are always running, but no processes can be tracked down. So what is Mountain Lion doing behind the scenes? Something with iCloud? A colleague doesn’t use iCloud and he doesn’t have the battery problems, could be related.