Battery applet shows full charge when battery is not fully charged

[Michael Doube]

Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager

Somewhat reminiscent of a few releases ago, gpm is showing that my battery is fully charged when it is not and shows that it is charging when it is discharging. This seems to be intermittent, possibly relating to state changes around suspend-resume.

Power Statistics history shows me there is no data to display.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Oct 12 17:18:24 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: gnome-power-manager 2.28.0-0ubuntu3
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-13.44-generic
SourcePackage: gnome-power-manager
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-13-generic x86_64

[Michael Doube (michael-doube)]

Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: gnome-power-manager 2.28.0-0ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-13.44-generic
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-13-generic x86_64
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip fax fuse lpadmin netdev plugdev root sambashare tape video

[Michael Doube (michael-doube)]

AC is plugged in for first set of attachments and is unplugged (running on battery) for the second set of attachments.

[Scott Howard (showard314)]

Devicekit-power is reporting that the battery is in an identical state for both sets of attachments. It seems that GPM is reporting what DKP is telling it, so I'm labeling this bug for devicekit-power.

[Michael Doube (michael-doube)]

Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: devicekit-power 011-1
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-13.44-generic
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-13-generic x86_64
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip fax fuse lpadmin netdev plugdev root sambashare tape video

[Michael Doube (michael-doube)]

OK, have apport-collected again for devicekit-power.

[Michael Doube (michael-doube)]

Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: devicekit-power 011-1
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-13.44-generic
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-13-generic x86_64
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip fax fuse lpadmin netdev plugdev root sambashare tape video

[Michael Doube (michael-doube)]

gpm is giving correct information today after this morning's resume from suspend, and I can see historical charge statistics for the last week.

[Michael Doube (michael-doube)]

But again it's not working; seems to break when I leave my notebook charging to full capacity then remove AC.

[Dagon_ (fredde-sephoria)]

My AAO A150 doesn't even charge my battery and gpm is showing (on mouseover) "Battery if fully charged" but on mouseclick is shows "Battery in laptop: 0.0%".

The led that indicates the power just keeps blinking orange, no stable light at all. Never reaches green either.
Worked like a charm in hardy (8.04).

[Gytis Raciukaitis (noxxious)]

Mine battery also stopped charging:

# devkit-power -d
Device: /org/freedesktop/DeviceKit/Power/devices/line_power_AC
  native-path: /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0A08:00/device:01/PNP0C09:00/ACPI0003:00/power_supply/AC
  power supply: yes
  updated: Wed Nov 18 08:58:50 2009 (3332 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/PNP0A08:00/device:01/PNP0C09:00/PNP0C0A:00/power_supply/BAT0
  vendor: SANYO
  model: 42T4644
  serial: 13109
  power supply: yes
  updated: Wed Nov 18 09:53:54 2009 (28 seconds ago)
  has history: yes
  has statistics: yes
  battery
    present: yes
    rechargeable: yes
    state: fully-charged
    energy: 35.39 Wh
    energy-empty: 0 Wh
    energy-full: 88.69 Wh
    energy-full-design: 84.24 Wh
    energy-rate: 0 W
    voltage: 11.445 V
    percentage: 39.903%
    capacity: 100%
    technology: lithium-ion

Daemon:
  daemon-version: 011
  can-suspend: yes
  can-hibernate yes
  on-battery: no
  on-low-battery: no
  lid-is-closed: no
  lid-is-present: yes

[Lê Hoàng Phương (herophuong93)]

So, after a very long time search for solutions, I think this is a problem for almost ***Acer*** laptops. Hmm, hope Ubuntu dev team should consider this is a serious problem. It prevents your people to use Ubuntu on an Acer machine.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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