Battery status indicator blinking when near fully charged

[Bracken]

As you should expect by now, I have no idea if gnome-power-manager is the package used by unity.

I'm using a Lenovo W510 notebook, when the battery is nearly fully charged the battery status indicator flips between a battery graphic alone and a battery graphic displaying a charge percentage which is wider. This leads to a nagging sense that I'm receiving an email and general feeling of discontent, much like looting the north west airfield in DayZ.

I suspect the cause is that the battery pulse charges up the last 5% or so and the monitor is seeing the charging status changing from idle to charging repeatedly. Perhaps there should be a ride-through period, only change the displayed status if it remains stable for 1 minute.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: gnome-power-manager 3.6.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-23.35-generic 3.5.7.2
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-23-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: symap_custom_3.5.0_23_generic_x86_64 symev_custom_3.5.0_23_generic_x86_64 nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Feb 18 10:34:35 2013
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.5)
SourcePackage: gnome-power-manager
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Oskar Wallgren (oskar.wallgren)]

Hi!

This is an info page on running Debian on a Lenovo W510
http://math.umons.ac.be/an/W510/

It recommends the tp-smapi-dkms package for increased battery life and the Ubuntu package is the same version.
http://packages.ubuntu.com/quantal/tp-smapi-dkms
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Tp_smapi#Battery_charge_control_features