Battery indicator turns red when charged second battery is inserted

[zwigno]

This is on a Lenovo T410s, Natty, 64-bit. I have the second battery goes in the cd-rom drive slot. If the laptop is plugged in, and both batteries are charged, the battery indicator will turn red with the empty battery icon. Clicking on the icon will show 3 batteries "waiting to charge". However, when I click on the "waiting to charge" text the Power Statistics menu shows everything correctly.

Additionally, the time remaining only shows the time remaining of the current battery, not the total of both.

If I only have one battery in everything seems to detect correctly.

I'll attach screenshots. Thank you.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: gnome-power-manager 2.32.0-2ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-10.46-generic 2.6.38.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-10-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Jul 14 10:25:30 2011
GnomeSessionIdleInhibited: No
GnomeSessionInhibitors: None
GnomeSessionSuspendInhibited: No
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
MachineType: LENOVO 2901CTO
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-2.6.38-10-generic root=UUID=4749b9a8-2362-4989-9472-650d92a7bbe7 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: gnome-power-manager
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 10/27/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.bios.version: 6UET61WW (1.41 )
dmi.board.name: 2901CTO
dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.board.version: Not Available
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.chassis.version: Not Available
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvr6UET61WW(1.41):bd10/27/2010:svnLENOVO:pn2901CTO:pvrThinkPadT410s:rvnLENOVO:rn2901CTO:rvrNotAvailable:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
dmi.product.name: 2901CTO
dmi.product.version: ThinkPad T410s
dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO

[zwigno (zwigno)]

$ acpitool -B
  Battery #1 : present
    Remaining capacity : 3875 mAh, 97.61%
    Design capacity : 4329 mAh
    Last full capacity : 3970 mAh, 91.71% of design capacity
    Capacity loss : 8.293%
    Present rate : 0 mA
    Charging state : charged
    Battery type : rechargeable
    Model number : 1 mAh
    Serial number : 42T4832
  Battery #2 : present
    Remaining capacity : 3052 mAh, 97.45%
    Design capacity : 3132 mAh
    Last full capacity : 3132 mAh
    Present rate : 0 mA
    Charging state : charged
    Battery type : rechargeable
    Model number : 1 mAh
    Serial number : 51J0508

[Anthony Russello (arussello)]

This also happens on an HP Elitebook 8440w with the extended life battery connected.

  Battery #1 : present
    Remaining capacity : 8604 mAh, 100.0%
    Design capacity : 8604 mAh
    Last full capacity : 8604 mAh
    Present rate : 0 mA
    Charging state : charged
    Battery type : rechargeable
    Model number : 100 mAh
    Serial number : Primary
  Battery #2 : present
    Remaining capacity : 5692 mAh, 94.60%, 00:16:52
    Design capacity : 6017 mAh
    Last full capacity : 6017 mAh
    Present rate : 1156 mA
    Charging state : charged
    Battery type : rechargeable
    Model number : 100 mAh
    Serial number : Travel

This was working fine on Ubuntu 9.10, 10.04, 10.10, but is now broken on Ubuntu 11.04.

[zwigno (zwigno)]

I did an upgrade to 11.10 and it seems to be showing correctly in Unity. I haven't looked in gnome classic.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Patrick Brueckner (madmuffin)]

Still same problem with Ubuntu 12.10 amd64 on Thinkpad T61 with Battery in Ultrabay.
Also: Remaining time will not show the sum of the two batteries but just the one that it is currently discharging.

[zwigno (zwigno)]

I'm running a different laptop now with only one battery so I'm going to unsubscribe to this.