battery status applet thinks there's 1200+ hours until charge when battery is full

[Jamie Wilkinson]

The battery is fully charged on my Powerbook at the moment, and so the power
plug is lit green to show that. The PMU must be reporting full battery too,
because the icon is not flashing the little lightning bolt. however, the applet
says it's 99% charged, and when I hover the mouse over the icon the tooltip
reads: "1260 hours 57 minutes till charged (99%)"

if the battery says it's charged the tooltip shouldn't be assuming that the 99%
means it isn't charged.

Thanks.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=163151: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=163151

[Jon Masters (jcm)]

(In reply to comment #0)
> The battery is fully charged on my Powerbook at the moment

Oh no it isn't.

The PMU must employ some guesswork to decide when it's fully charged - and if
you check /proc/pmu for the charge count I bet you'll find it's a couple of
points off being at full charge. You could try recalibrating the PMU if really
necessary, but I wouldn't bother. I do not bother with the few percentage points
occasionally missing on mine.

> if the battery says it's charged the tooltip shouldn't be assuming that the 99%
> means it isn't charged.

That might be a valid bug, but I don't think it's something you can easily fix -
technically it's not incorrect, since the battery is not at its full capacity of
reported charge.

This should be passed on the the GNOME developers directly if needed.

Cheers,

Jon.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for the details. I've opened a bug upstream about them:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=163151

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

This is fixed with gnome-applets 2.11.2/2.11.91 which uses hal now, I'm closing
the bug. Feel free to reopen if you get the issue again.