g-p-m ignores the last full capacity when calculating battery life remaining: $ cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT*/info present: yes design capacity: 2800 mAh last full capacity: 1316 mAh It seems design capacity is used instead of last full capacity.
What's "upower --dump" say?
$ upower --dump Device: /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/line_power_AC native-path: /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/ACPI0003:00/power_supply/AC power supply: yes updated: Thu Aug 25 19:15:49 2011 (348 seconds ago) has history: no has statistics: no line-power online: yes Device: /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0 native-path: /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0C0A:00/power_supply/BAT0 vendor: Hewlett-Packard model: Primary serial: 59264 2009/09/10 power supply: yes updated: Thu Aug 25 19:21:22 2011 (15 seconds ago) has history: yes has statistics: yes battery present: yes rechargeable: yes state: charging energy: 17.4196 Wh energy-empty: 0 Wh energy-full: 18.5296 Wh energy-full-design: 41.44 Wh energy-rate: 3.7592 W voltage: 16.631 V time to full: 17.7 minutes percentage: 94.0096% capacity: 44.7143% technology: lithium-ion History (charge): 1314292791 94.010 charging History (rate): 1314292791 3.759 charging Daemon: daemon-version: 0.9.12 can-suspend: yes can-hibernate yes on-battery: no on-low-battery: no lid-is-closed: no lid-is-present: yes is-docked: no
This problem has caused me to lose my work several times. I still experience it regularly.
Does this still happen in F16? Thanks.
The problem still exists in F16.
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