[Lucid] EEEPC Battery Estimate time is way off being close to accurate

[Ed Hewitt]

Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager

This has been a problem since Jaunty, however was not an issue in Intrepid.

The battery estimated time is way off being close to accurate, 20% = 20hours!!!!!!. It doesn't even display a time until 20%.

See screenshot for proof.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Dec 11 11:23:06 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-power-manager
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha i386 (20091209)
Package: gnome-power-manager 2.28.1-0ubuntu3
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-7.10-generic
SourcePackage: gnome-power-manager
Tags: lucid
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-7-generic i686

[Scott Howard (showard314)]

Thanks for your report and helping make ubuntu better!

from the devkitpower dump:

DeviceKit data:
Device: /org/freedesktop/DeviceKit/Power/devices/battery_BAT0
  native-path: /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0A08:00/PNP0C0A:00/power_supply/BAT0
  vendor: ASUS
  model: 900
  power supply: yes
  updated: Fri Dec 11 11:22:48 2009 (22 seconds ago)
  has history: yes
  has statistics: yes
  battery
    present: yes
    rechargeable: yes
    state: discharging
    energy: 0.168 Wh
    energy-empty: 0 Wh
    energy-full: 0.84 Wh
    energy-full-design: 43.68 Wh
    energy-rate: 0.0084 W
    voltage: 7.216 V
    time to empty: 20.0 hours
    percentage: 20%
    capacity: 1.92308%
    technology: lithium-ion

GPM is reporting what devkitpower is giving it, either the eee pc isn't sending the information the

[Raoul Verveer (lazy-r)]

I have the same problem since I've upgraded from Jaunty to Karmic.

[RagTimE (cragtime)]

Hello same here on lucid final @ eeepc 701

[TheRitz (m-polak)]

Same here on a Eee PC 900 (Celeron-M) and 10.04. After logging in the battery indicator says there's only 1.9% left but the indicator itself shows the battery is full. Then the indicator reflects the drainage of the battery until it's about at 55-60%, then it suddenly drops to 20% (red indicator). I never actually saw it make the sudden drop but it always happens suddenly but at about the same interval (after an hour or so). It then stays at 20% for at least one hour, then it drops to 10% and after 30 minutes it's all over and done with.

After plugging it into the socket I noticed when starting up the BIOS asks for the time again. No relation with the Ubuntu battery indicator I guess but I thought I'd just mention it.