On Friday 17 June 2005 11:04, you wrote: > OoO En cette matinée pluvieuse du vendredi 17 juin 2005, vers 10:16, > > Benedek Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: > > My Sony Vaio got a new (non-OEM) battery. It works good, gives me a > > little over 2 hours of battery time. However, when I charge it up and > > leave the laptop plugged in for days, it will start to loose its charge. > > About 1% in two days. This goes as follows: > > > > I charge it, it is 100%. Two days later, it will show only 99%, even > > though in this 2 days, the AC adapter wasnt unplugged, not even for a > > second. Then, 2 days later it will be 98%. Now 98% for me. Before a week > > ago, when it happened the same way, at 99% I tok it off the AC, let it > > use the battery completely around 2 and half hours, and then recharged > > it. It was 100 and then it went down to 99 again in 2 days. Why is that? > > To avoid premature death of your battery, the system does not charge > battery when it is charged above 95% (or a different number, you may > wait a few more days to see when it starts charging again). It means > that when your battery is charged and your laptop on AC, the battery > starts discharging as if it was unplugged (at a very low rate). I have never noticed it on any of my laptops, but if it is fine, I am happy with it, just I thought my aftermarket battery might be bad. Also as I pasted on of my /proc/ files
present: yes design capacity: 18850 mWh last full capacity: 18850 mWh battery technology: non-rechargeable , it says this battery is not-rechargable. What is that mean? Is that a bug in ACPI or my battery is malfunctioning? THanks Bence
