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The percentage charge remaining on my battery appears to show my battery emptying fairly predictably (graph #1). However, the very important Time to Empty statistic fluctuates quite a lot (graph #2). Certainly more than the charge remaining graph suggests it should. I believe this is because of the rate of power consumption (graph #3). I believe that the Time to Empty statistic should be refined to take into account a longer period of time previously. Clearly the statistic needs to change if more power demanding activities are being carried out. However, it shouldn't change so rapidly - brief fluctuates should effectively be ignored. The Time to Empty number is incredibly important to users' use of portable devices. Note: this may be something that needs addressing in one of gnome-power- manager's dependencies, I don't know the stack well enough. So please reassign if necessary. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: gnome-power-manager 3.4.0-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-27.43-generic 3.2.21 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-27-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu11 Architecture: amd64 CheckboxSubmission: 346c69198d9a34d2dea85736f0dd6571 CheckboxSystem: b633b4f40868d491c2ae5b50030ce6f3 Date: Thu Jul 26 10:24:45 2012 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425) ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_GB:en PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: gnome-power-manager UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) ** Affects: gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug precise running-unity -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-power-manager in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1029339 Title: Battery time remaining fluctuates wildly, despite charge declining predictably To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-power-manager/+bug/1029339/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs