indicator-power

At 2% charge, battery icon is nearly half full

Bug #1317848 reported by Michael Zanetti on 2014-05-09

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #1186181: [Indicator] battery icon unreliable at low battery levels. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	indicator-power	Confirmed	Critical	Unassigned

Bug Description

See attached image.

I think at 2% remaining battery its really about time to switch over to the red icon :) Actually that should probably already happen at around 10% I guess.

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Michael Zanetti (mzanetti) wrote on 2014-05-09:

image20140509_0001.jpg Edit (989.0 KiB, image/jpeg)

Michał Sawicz (saviq) on 2014-05-09

affects:

unity8 → indicator-power

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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote on 2014-05-09:

Its critical because it can fool a phone user into believing they have enough battery.

Changed in indicator-power:
importance:	Undecided → Critical
status:	New → Confirmed

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Oliver Grawert (ogra) wrote on 2014-05-09:

android pops up a warning as soon as you drop below 15% ... i think we should use that threshold for the red icon too (and once have such a warning pop up as well indeed alongside)

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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote on 2014-05-12:

Oliver, showing a warning is bug 1317858. This report, meanwhile, is a duplicate of bug 1186181.

summary:

- battery indicator is too optimistic
+ At 2% charge, battery icon is nearly half full