unreliable detection of battery state on Toshiba Satellite M70CL3
Bug #64936 reported by
Zack Weinberg
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager
The battery status icon in the GNOME toolbar does not reliably detect the current battery state. It got a lot better in Edgy compared to Dapper, but it still sometimes mis-detects whether the system is running on external AC power, and its estimates of remaining battery lifetime are just garbage (one moment 26 hours, the next 37 minutes). Sometimes suspending (to disk) and resuming will cause the state to ungarble if it was garbled -- or garble it if it wasn't.
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May be related to issues discussed in bug 60442. It looks like that remaining_time property cannot be trusted.