Battery Power Status Not Reliably Detected
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Ubuntu 10.10, 64bit
Dell E5410
Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager
The battery indicator is not reliably responding to changes in charger connection/battery status. This started happening recently (within last month). Strange behavior is that in Virtualbox the guest OS (Win 7 in this case) does pick up the power status correctly and quickly.
The other strange behavior is that the battery meter is unresponsive when left-clicked and then select the status (i.e. "Laptop battery is charged").
This is critical because it's also affecting the standby/hibernate functionality.
I tried restarting gnome-power-manager but it was unresponsive.
On an interesting note, gnome-power-
| Tomás Gutiérrez (tomas-gutierrez) wrote | #1 |
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| Tomás Gutiérrez (tomas-gutierrez) wrote | #2 |
Interesting development - This only happens when I plug my iPhone 4 via USB to the computer. When it's plugged in the gnome-power-manager ceases to work correctly, even after the iPhone is disconnected. The only way to fix it is to bounce the gnome-power-manager process after disconnecting the device.
Please let me know what kind of logs/traces I should get in order to help resolve this issue.