battery power applet 45%

[victim]

I use an ACER Travelmate 4050, I installed Xubuntu 8.04.
The battery power applet shows me that the battery is 45% and discharging
while the AC adapter is inserted and battery charging LED is on. Also the
time remaining is unknown.

I used feisty, gutsy and ubuntustudio and there was never a problem with this applet before.

Description: Ubuntu 8.04
Release: 8.04

WM_CLASS(STRING) = "xfce4-panel", "Xfce4-panel"

[Michael Casadevall (mcasadevall)]

Can you please confirm that this bug is still an issue in Intrepid, or if there are any workarounds in Hardy?

[victim (tim-mertens)]

At the moment i'm using Ubuntu Desktop Hardy 8.04 and the problem still
remains. I will move to Intrepid when it's finally released.

Thanks, Tim

On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 20:27 +0000, Michael Casadevall wrote:
> Can you please confirm that this bug is still an issue in Intrepid, or
> if there are any workarounds in Hardy?
>
> ** Changed in: xfce4-battery-plugin (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided => Wishlist
> Status: New => Incomplete
>

[Michael Casadevall (mcasadevall)]

I use xfce4-battery-plugin and can not reproduce. Can you install gnome-battery-monitor or another such application and see if the same behavior exists? (its possible that you are having a HAL problem instead of something Xfce specific).

[victim (tim-mertens)]

I'm having this problem since 8.04 ubuntu (desktop & xubuntu)

I can't find gnome-battery-monitor in synaptic
the gnome-power-manager is installed

i found this command, here is the result:

while charging
:~$ sudo cat /proc/acpi/battery//BAT*/*

alarm: unsupported
present: yes
design capacity: 4300 mAh
last full capacity: 4300 mAh
battery technology: rechargeable
design voltage: 14800 mV
design capacity warning: 430 mAh
design capacity low: 129 mAh
capacity granularity 1: 264 mAh
capacity granularity 2: 3780 mAh
model number: Li_Ion 4300mA
serial number:
battery type: LiON
OEM info: COMPAL
present: yes
capacity state: ok
charging state: charging
present rate: 0 mA
remaining capacity: 1830 mAh
present voltage: 16751 mV

1 minute after disconnecting the charger (battery is full):
alarm: unsupported
present: yes
design capacity: 4300 mAh
last full capacity: 4300 mAh
battery technology: rechargeable
design voltage: 14800 mV
design capacity warning: 430 mAh
design capacity low: 129 mAh
capacity granularity 1: 264 mAh
capacity granularity 2: 3780 mAh
model number: Li_Ion 4300mA
serial number:
battery type: LiON
OEM info: COMPAL
present: yes
capacity state: ok
charging state: discharging
present rate: 0 mA
remaining capacity: 1811 mAh
present voltage: 16017 mV

the applet shows 42%

Can you explain about the HAL problem?

thanks,tim

On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 17:10 +0000, Michael Casadevall wrote:
> I use xfce4-battery-plugin and can not reproduce. Can you install gnome-
> battery-monitor or another such application and see if the same behavior
> exists? (its possible that you are having a HAL problem instead of
> something Xfce specific).
>

[Michael Casadevall (mcasadevall)]

Hrm. Curious. So the bar never goes higher than 43%, but it will show the battery discharging from that point on?

This *might* be a bug in the applet, or a bug in HAL. Can you please grab an Xubuntu and Ubuntu live CD, and see if the battery gage works right in either. The Xubuntu LiveCD will test if its a problem with your configuration/installation, the Ubuntu LiveCD will see if its a bug in xfce4-battery-plugin, or somewhere else.

[Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit)]

Xfce4-battery-plugin does not use HAL (it only reads /sys or /proc "manually").
If you still have this issue, could you provide /sys/class/power_supply/BAT*/* and /proc/acpi/battery/BAT*/*?
Thanks.

[DaleEMoore (daleemoore)]

9.04 was working fine. I upgraded to pre-release 9.10 and 45.6% is th constant display on the system tray. But when I click on the system tray icon, then click on "Laptop battery (45.6%) Device information says it's charged at 100.0%.

FYI.

[DaleEMoore (daleemoore)]

Actually I'm happy to discover that I can select and copy everything in the Device information box:

Product: Laptop battery
Status: Charged
Percentage charge: 100.0%
Vendor: Samsung SDI
Technology: Lithium Ion
Serial number: 20938
Model: DELL PW7738
Capacity: 96.0% (Good)
Current charge: 83.1 Wh
Last full charge: 83.1 Wh
Design charge: 86.6 Wh
Charge rate: 0.0 W

[Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit)]

Can someone reproduce with the 1.0.0 version? Thanks.