Bug 830046

Summary:	Mouse's battery taken as computer's battery
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Mikel P. <mikeloco14>
Component:	upower	Assignee:	Richard Hughes <hughsient>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	unspecified
Version:	17	CC:	beland, dantti12, hughsient, ikke
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OS:	Linux
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Last Closed:	2013-02-20 20:22:50 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Description Mikel P. 2012-06-08 04:52:30 UTC

Description of problem:
Fedora thinks my Magic Mouse's batteries are my computer's (an iMac)
When my mouse batteries are low, it shows a message that the computer's batteries are low and that it's about to hibernate (and it does.)

How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Connect Magic Mouse with low batteries 
2. Watch GNOME show an alert about low batteries.
3. Watch the computer hibernate.
  
Actual results:
Computer hibernates.

Expected results:
Computer shows the battery level for the mouse as the mouse's battery level (not the computer's) and does not hibernate when the mouse battery is low, instead showing an alert that the mouse might turn off at any moment soon.

Additional info:
The iMac has no internal battery as it is a desktop computer. I guess this applies to other PCs too and not just the iMac, but I could be wrong.

Comment 1 Mikel P. 2012-06-08 07:43:34 UTC

It seems the problem went away. I updated some packages (among them was the kernel) but I didn't pay attention to it after I rebooted into the new kernel.

Guessing it was fixed in kernel 3.4.0, I'd say it's fixed...

Comment 2 Ilkka Tengvall 2012-10-22 09:47:41 UTC

no it's not:

I get the very same on fedora 17 on my PC. I believe it's caused by incorrect polling of the apple bt keyboard and bt touchpad (tragic mackpad) mouse. It's trashing the logs with this:

[349847.631435] power_supply hid-7C:C3:A1:XX:XX:XX-battery: driver failed to report `capacity' property: -5
[349877.481202] power_supply hid-7C:C3:A1:XX:XX:XX-battery: driver failed to report `capacity' property: -5
[349907.431923] power_supply hid-7C:C3:A1:XX:XX:XX-battery: driver failed to report `capacity' property: -5



upower-0.9.17-1.fc17.x86_64
kernel-3.6.2-4.fc17.x86_64

Comment 3 Ilkka Tengvall 2012-10-22 10:04:26 UTC

It seems there are several tickets open related to the same issue. At least:

812625, 830046, 845770, 806295, 863524

Comment 4 Daniel Nicoletti 2012-10-22 12:41:24 UTC

No kernel 3.4 can actually fix his problem, at that version was added an option to tell the battery is now a power supply.
@Ilkka your problem is not correctly getting the battery status.
This bug should be closed.

Comment 5 Christopher Beland 2013-02-20 20:22:50 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 816775 ***