Comment 109 for bug 439448

@Chris: Will try what you have suggested and will report back.

@Märt: The problems you have mentioned with the battery applet are actually two separate problems. The phantom icon is due to this bug. The incorrect battery charge information shown is a separate problem. It shows what upower reports. I have filed a separate bug report for that as bug #574756.

I have experienced double battery icons in the default configuration of the icon's visibility: System, Preferences, Power Management, General, Notification Area, Only display an icon when charging or discharging. On changing that setting to 'Always display an icon,' at least the problem of the double battery icon gets resolved, although the whole thing may still sometimes get corrupted as a consequence of the bug we are tracking here.

Saurav