Battery Critical Low at 100%

[Michael Buchko Jr.]

I didn't know where to report this, I went through a lot of Hell just to enable my account to be able to report a bug, then I searched all over... well long story short, I'm reporting a bug here just for the sake of it being seen (I didn't see this bug posted yet).

I just installed the new Ubuntu 10.04 yesterday when it came out, and today I went to use my laptop in the other room so I unplugged it, and as soon as I did a message popped up saying the battery is critically low with 4 minutes left on it, but it also says it's at 100%. I know this isn't a problem with my battery itself because I also have Windows 7 on this laptop and it runs for 2 hours just fine on the battery. I haven't used Ubuntu on the battery yet to see if it actually has only 4 minutes on it or if it's just an error in notifying me.

At any rate, I think it needs to be looked at and hopefully fixed.

[Konstantin Lavrov (lacosta)]

This could help:
gconftool-2 --type bool --set /apps/gnome-power-manager/general/use_time_for_policy false

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[David Tombs (dgtombs)]

I'm going to mark this as a dupe of bug 579069 since that one has more activity. Thanks for the report!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.