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gnome-applets package

Battery Charge Monitor -- time to charge estimates incorrect

Bug #39103 reported by Dave Butcher
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gnome-applets (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Medium
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

I'm running Dapper on Toshiba Satellite Pro 4300. I usually run the Battery Charge Monitor in compact view. "About" reports "legacy (non-HAL) backend enabled."
The monitor (2.14.1) works perfectly when running on battery. Battery life as both percentage and time remaining appears accurate.
When I plug into AC, the applet correctly reports "System is running on AC power" and "charging". However, the time remaining till fully charged is really the battery life remaining. The time remaining till fully charged grows as the battery approaches full charge.
For example, as I am writing this the applet is reporting:"35 minutes until fully charged (20%)"
A few minutes later: " 39 minutes until fully charged (22%). This trend will continue until it reads something like "2 hours 36 minutes until charged (99%)."
I believe the battery monitor worked properly for me in Breezy.

Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
Changed in gnome-applets:
assignee: nobody → dholbach
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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote :

Thanks for your bug report. Can you attach the info in /proc/acpi/battery/BAT*/* and the output of lshal?

Changed in gnome-applets:
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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Dave Butcher (dbutcher) wrote : lshal listing

lshal listing as requested

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Dave Butcher (dbutcher) wrote :

Hi Daniel,
see lshal info above.
I have no /proc/acpi/ directory, but cat /proc/apm returns:
1.16ac 1.2 0x02 0x01 0x03 0x09 93% 188 min

Cheers,
Dave

Matthew Lange (matthewlange)
Changed in gnome-applets:
status: Needs Info → Confirmed
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Duncan Lithgow (duncan-lithgow) wrote :

Thanks for your bug report, could you please try the latest version of Ubuntu and update this bug?

Daniel Holbach (dholbach)
Changed in gnome-applets:
assignee: dholbach → desktop-bugs
status: Confirmed → Needs Info
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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote :

As described in the previous comments, your report lacks the information we need to investigate the problem further. We'll close this report for now - please reopen it if you can give us the missing information.

Changed in gnome-applets:
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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