Ubuntu
gnome-power-manager package

The battery lifetime isn't functioning well

Bug #73472 reported by Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
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GNOME Applets
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gnome-power
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gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Hi.

I'm using Feisty Fawn up-to-date.
I have an Acer Aspire 1642wlmi laptop.

In the system tray, I have the gnome-power-manager, and I have added the battery charge monitor applet to the gnome panel.

My problem is that both of them don't display correctly the battery lifetime. They say my battery is 100% charge when it is, and that it is connected to the power. But when I disconnect the laptop from the power, and the battery isn't charged 100%, the gnome-power-manager and the battery charge monitor says it is 100%, or 67%, or 33%, or critical. And sometimes my laptop hibernates because the battery is critical, and it isn't!

However, the acpi command works fine, so I don't know where is the problem:
pochu@kiko:~$ acpi -basc
     Battery 1: discharging, 81%, 01:30:20 remaining
  AC Adapter 1: off-line

If seen this tutorial to fix this
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=604504&postcount=72
but I would like this bug to be solved on Ubuntu, and not only on my laptop.

Please let me know if I can help with something else.

Regards
Pochu

Stéphane Graber (stgraber)
Changed in gnome-applets:
status: Unconfirmed → Rejected
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Nicolas DERIVE (kalon33) wrote :

It seems to be a duplicate of bug #49661.

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Nicolas DERIVE (kalon33) wrote :

Sorry, my mistake, yours has a level and not a time problem. I continue to search anything similar...

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Nicolas DERIVE (kalon33) wrote :

I found it ! Global incorrect battery status on Acer laptops in Edgy, but according to your experience, seems to appear in Feisty too.

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Julius (j-willem) wrote :

Well I have the same laptop on Edgy and I have almost the same problem (the charge is ok but when its discharging it shows 0% or 100% but nothing in the middle)

What i'd like to add is that the widget "psi-battery" include in gdesklets seem to work correctly !!!! If it can help.... ;-)

(ps : when it is in charge, gnome-power-manager tell me there's 66% of battery and psi-battery says 79%. I don't know who's write !)

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Julius (j-willem) wrote :

My god ! I correct my sentence : "I don't know who's RIGHT" !!!!!

We tried to apply your patch on Edgy with Aspire 1642 WLMi ===> doesn't work ! But if Nicolas Derive found what's wrong I suppose it is not necessary to report this experience :)

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Nicolas DERIVE (kalon33) wrote :

Julius, I haven't found a patch, just saw that the bug occurs with a few Acer laptops, and thought that it could be useful to try a common patch. If this patch doesn't work, well, we should find and try another one.

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