upower reports wrong battery info

Bug #1465033 reported by Nikke
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Bug Description

Since some time (while running 14.10) I get strange estimates of remaining battery time, and the laptop dies with about 50-60% remaining.
I think the problem is related to the huge difference between energy-full and enegry-full-design (see attached upower.dump). The same numbers are reported by acpi -V.

The battery is a 55Wh (7300mAh) in a Samsung Ativ9 940X3G laptop (productID: AA-PLVN4AR).

I've:
- Tried booting a live-usb with an old ubunut (14.04) with the same result
- Run the "Smart battery calibration" from BIOS with no difference

Thanks,
Niklas

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
Package: upower 0.99.2-2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.19.0-20.20-generic 3.19.8
Uname: Linux 3.19.0-20-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.17.2-0ubuntu1.1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Sun Jun 14 18:34:00 2015
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-04-24 (51 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" - Release amd64 (20150422)
SourcePackage: upower
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Nikke (nmellegard) wrote :
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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu.
Ubuntu 15.04 (vivid) reached end-of-life on February 4, 2016.

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Changed in upower (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
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