i have uploaded upower with your patch to my ppa
https://launchpad.net/~om26er/+archive/test it will take a few hours
to build as launchpad builders are quite busy. Anyone facing the issue
plz test it and report if it fixes the issue. Its only packaged for
Ubuntu 11.04 for now

On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 1:48 AM, Mikael Hjelm <email address hidden> wrote:
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> Title:
>  Battery state always "fully charged"
>
> Status in Gnome Powermanager:
>  New
> Status in “upower” package in Ubuntu:
>  Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
>  Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager
>
>  gnome-power-manager always detects my battery state as "fully charged"
>  in karmic. (on 9.04 it detected the battery state correctly.) - this
>  ends up in data loss because my machine does not perform any shutdown
>  tasks when the it runs out of battery.
>
>  The output of acpi -V says:
>
>  $ acpi -V
>  Battery 0: Charging, 22%, rate information unavailable
>  Battery 0: design capacity 4000 mAh, last full capacity 2980 mAh = 74%
>  Adapter 0: on-line
>  Thermal 0: ok, 68.8 degrees C
>  Thermal 0: trip point 0 switches to mode critical at temperature 104.8 degrees C
>  Thermal 0: trip point 1 switches to mode passive at temperature 88.8 degrees C
>  Cooling 0: Processor 0 of 7
>
>  "Charging, 22%".
>
>  The output of devkit-power says:
>
>  $ devkit-power -d
>  Device: /org/freedesktop/DeviceKit/Power/devices/line_power_AC
>    native-path:          /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/ACPI0003:00/power_supply/AC
>    power supply:         yes
>    updated:              Sat Oct 31 23:31:03 2009 (14629 seconds ago)
>    has history:          no
>    has statistics:       no
>    line-power
>      online:             yes
>
>  Device: /org/freedesktop/DeviceKit/Power/devices/battery_BAT0
>    native-path:          /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0C0A:00/power_supply/BAT0
>    vendor:               NOTEBOOK
>    model:                BAT1
>    serial:               0001
>    power supply:         yes
>    updated:              Sat Oct 31 23:31:03 2009 (14629 seconds ago)
>    has history:          yes
>    has statistics:       yes
>    battery
>      present:             yes
>      rechargeable:        yes
>      state:               fully-charged
>      energy:              32.184 Wh
>      energy-empty:        0 Wh
>      energy-full:         32.184 Wh
>      energy-full-design:  43.2 Wh
>      energy-rate:         0.0108 W
>      percentage:          100%
>      capacity:            74.5%
>      technology:          lithium-ion
>
>  Daemon:
>    daemon-version:  011
>    can-suspend:     yes
>    can-hibernate    yes
>    on-battery:      no
>    on-low-battery:  no
>    lid-is-closed:   yes
>    lid-is-present:   yes
>
>  "fully-charged".
>
>  This might be a devkit-power-bug, though.
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