Smart Battery Workshop

- Version 1.3

"Smart Battery Workshop" is a package of software
tools, which are useful in a process of notebook
battery repair. It uses Philips Standard I2C Parallel
Port Adapter that can be assembled in one hour by
person with no electronics skills and dose not require
any hard-to-find components. Total components cost is
around $1.

# Smart Battery Workshop provides read-only access to
all the data listed in Smart Battery DataSpecification
Revision 1.1. via LPT/SMBus adapter directly from
battery terminals (57 parameters). All the BitFlags are
decoded into human readable clear text.

# Allows user to reset Smart Battery EEPROM to its
initial values (this will erase all tracks of previous
battery usage) except for ManufactureDate, which will
be changed to current system date. All the Permanent
Failure Flags if such will be found will be cleared
(this will unlock the battery if it is locked) . So
user will have a "brand new" battery after repacking.
Electronics skills are also not needed. Everything
works automatically. No editable fields. Just one
button - "Reset". For safety reasons the original
memory dump is saved as a binary file each time the
"Reset" button is pressed.

Currently supported chipsets:
# BQ2040/24C01
# BQ2060/24C01
# BQ2063/24C01
# M37515/ S29L220 (SL220)
# PIC16C63A/24C01 (used in COMPAQ Armada M300, E500,
M700 and some other models) Not SMBus battery.
# M37516/AK6480A (80AF)
# AS355D/S29L394A (SL394)
# AS358D/S29L394A (SL394)

Will be added soon:
# M37516/S29L220 (SL220)

The chipsets listed above cover a grate variety of
notebook batteries such as used in IBM ThinkPad, DELL,
Toshiba, HP etc.

Adapter must be connected to LPT1 with the following
settings in BIOS: address - 378, modes - EPP or ECP.
Supported: Win95/Win98/WinME/Win2000/Win2003/WinXP.
If you work under Win95/98/ME then go to "My
Computer/Propeties/Perfomance/File
System/Troubleshooting/" and check "Disable all 32-bit
protected-mode disk drivers " checkbox.