works great thank you.

i have been having this problem also.

leave tablet on, fully charge around midnight

use it for a little wlan, a little tethering, battery low indicator at 7pm that day.

it NEVER used to do this.

thoughts?

One thing I noticed after every upgrade is there is an hidden alarm that is enabled for early morning. This will drain your battery when the machine wakes up in the early morning. Run this command to check for hidden alarms:

/mnt/initfs/usr/bin/retutime -a

Oh man, the battery status indicator is truly hopeless... in the last few minutes I've been listening to FM radion on my 4.2007 device with 3 battery bars left. Via an ssh session (which I'd had open for about 3 hours over WiFi) I more'd the first ten lines of a text file and instantly the "Battery low" warning sounded and I'm now staring at 0 bars left and almost constant "Battery low" warnings (every minute or so).

I don't know if the ssh activity had anything to do with the sudden depletion of battery capacity but really, it can't get much worse than this. The accuracy of the remaining power is woeful and such a vital monitoring feature is in danger of becoming yet another gimmick on this platform.

where do i enter that command?

You need osso-xterm package

osso-xterm-advanced

or basic

osso-xterm

Although i entered this command and it said "not found" on my device. I didn't investigate as i don't really have battery problems.

In xterm, and you must enter it as root.

Execute the command

to disable any alarms (where '' is two apostrophes, and again you must be root).

"you must be root to access CALRTC config block was not found or invalid
Alarm off"

Ok so you need the becomeroot package as well
HowTo_EASILY_BecomeRoot
careful tho root is dangerous
ya i wasnt root the first time i tried it. works good thanks

You're running the command as the unpriviliged user, however even though you get the error/warning message (which is why you should run it as root to avoid that message) the response is correct/accurate - you have no alarms set.