Comment 19 for bug 838543

I do NOT think they are duplicates - or at least, the issue I am having is not a duplicate. I am not having any issues whatsoever with it registering a nonexistent battery, or this happening after I come back from suspend. Firstly, my laptop never goes into suspend mode, and second this happens to me CONSTANTLY.

It even does this directly after starting up and loading Oneiric, if my power cord gets unplugged. It doesn't do it every single time, but 9 out of 10 times that my cord gets pulled from or falls out of the port, my laptop goes into hibernate (that is my power setting for low battery, rather than standby) or shuts down completely. I have a dell laptop and the plug does NOT like to stay in, so my laptop ends up completely shutting down from this issue at least twice a day, and going into hibernate around six or eight times as much. Earlier today my power cord unplugged five times in thirty minutes, two times of which it immediately shut down. It is ridiculously frustrating.

And yes, I HAVE enabled -proposed, installed all the new updates and things that enabling it gave me, and no, it has not fixed the issue. I've been keeping tabs on the other bug report despite the fact that I do not believe they are duplicates, and I was really hoping that it would fix the issue, but it seems to have made it both worse and slightly better simultaneously.

I have a marginally better chance of my laptop not hibernating/shutting down if I press cancel and get my laptop plugged back in fast enough, and the first time or two it happens directly after I start up, there is an even chance of getting no warning or anything. But now a whole new issue has cropped up, which is that my battery life indicator is futzing up the percentage or time of battery life I have left. This was not happening before. So whereas before, it would tell me I had 2:05 and 100% left on my battery when it was unplugged, and I would get the warning, now it'll tell me I have 6:00 or 0:15 or 10% left. On a fully charged battery.

Plus, the original problem still exists: if my charger falls out of the port on my laptop or gets unplugged, even on a full battery, a warning pops up, tells me my battery is about to die, and then my laptop goes into hibernate, or worse, shuts down completely. Unless I start my laptop up unplugged my battery life has essentially been reduced to a minute or less.