unreliable detection of battery state on Toshiba Satellite M70CL3

[Zack Weinberg]

Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager

The battery status icon in the GNOME toolbar does not reliably detect the current battery state. It got a lot better in Edgy compared to Dapper, but it still sometimes mis-detects whether the system is running on external AC power, and its estimates of remaining battery lifetime are just garbage (one moment 26 hours, the next 37 minutes). Sometimes suspending (to disk) and resuming will cause the state to ungarble if it was garbled -- or garble it if it wasn't.

[Luka Renko (lure)]

May be related to issues discussed in bug 60442. It looks like that remaining_time property cannot be trusted.

[Zack Weinberg (zackw)]

On 10/21/06, Luka Renko <email address hidden> wrote:
> May be related to issues discussed in bug 60442. It looks like that
> remaining_time property cannot be trusted.

I can confirm that the percentage remaining is nice and reliable.

zw

[Lucas Arruda (lucasarruda)]

I am having the same problem on Edgy Eft. The time left for the battery to charge isn`t displayed right on my Acer Aspire 5672WMLi and also isn`t the time lefting. It just displays 75%, 50%, 25% and 0% and the time left is also wrong.
It seems this bugs the automatically shutdown after the battery empts.

[binyamin (bgmarx2)]

I have a toshiba satellite M35x-329 and with Edgy the battery mysteriously disappears and reappears; in the same session, the battery will disappear and even with the AC adapter plugged in, ubuntu will shut down because it says there is no other power source. I never had any problems with dapper.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

I had a vaguely similar issue with unreliable remaining time properties in bug 120258. I was able resolve it by doing this:
In gconf-editor, set apps->gnome-power-manager->use_profile_time to FALSE (unchecked).

Perhaps that would be worth testing for this bug too?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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