You are probably going to hate me too because I'm getting my degree in Criminal Justice and will most likely work as a cop.
But to answer your question, I think it might be 3 reasons as to why your seeing this icon.
The first as many have told you is that your battery may be out of juice and needs to be replaced. This is common for a lot of people, I personally suggest eBay.
The second reason is the A/C cord, there may be a short somewhere on the cord and you might want to manipulate the cord or putting something heavy to weigh down the connection from the end of your A/C cord to your notebook and see if it charges then. This happened to me on my old notebook.
Finally number 3, This could be the female end on your mother board going bad This is probably the worst case and you'll have to replace the whole mother board and maybe a whole bi-weekly paycheck. That is if the cops didn't take it from you already.
And finaly for your other problem, what the heck did you get a ticket for? Anyway if it's in New York I would take it to court and have it dismissed pending on what it was. Tell the judge you were suffering from emotional distress i.e. having a bad day and the arresting/ticketing officer didn't provide you with a warning - possibly for a first time offense. The key that I'm told is that if you make the effort and show up in court all pimped out in your Sunday church wear that the judge may throw it out or you'll do a day of community service.
Also have you've tried calling your phone to see who has it and to tell them to kindly send it back to you or meet them to get it back? Otherwise I'd speed dial the phone company to let them know to put a block on out going calls and not having your minutes be burned up.
Anyway you probably need this more than I do right now.
God bless ya on being a cop. Sorry i just had too many annoying experiences with those dudes in NY
. Thing is im no thug. i dont dress like one. im from the hood n all that but im the clean cut cool guy type. the rugged dirty lookin cats run all through the hood and the cops do nothin but mess with the people that are clearly livin life they way it should be. "Out of trouble".....eh anyway good luck with the schooling and being a cop tho. Just be a Good one and not a lame one. They do a service too so no disrespect to you and all since you will be one
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But um as for the Pc. yeh its the Battery. its a rap
. I have to order a new one for my sony Vaio ware lab top cuz its not up to date and i have to call in to the manufacture and have one mailed to me. My girl took me to see whats up at best buy so the tech guys there put me on.
As for that Ticket im definitely trying to see whats good on that. gettin smacked with 75 dollars just for that was like wow really?....
All i did was walk through the cars in the subway like everyday Newyorkers to get to the end. And the trrain wasnt even in motion.
Like i said i guess they really tryin to enforce that law er somethin now in NY. dunno.
The guys were transit cops (ninja cops i call em). Young cats so dunno they gotta make their lil quotas.
And The phone is gone. i lost my cell once before. This is the second time this year. Today i got a new cell and a Heavy duty clip for it this time. It looks like a cool Batman Utility pouche. Moral to that "Calling the cell" bit is i did that with the last one. a chick picks up and says "Oh im sorry i feel bad give me your address and ill mail it"....im like yes!! thank you so much!!!
maan that broad never sent crap
so once i lost the cell this time i instantly suspended my account asap
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But im good now though i got a clip and proper holder.....i never lost cells at all till this year from some reason
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sh*t happens