This is especially annoying since unplugging the laptop from power results in "battery critically low, hibernating now!". with the 9 cell battery, OTOH, it just says things like "Laptop battery low. Approximately 7 minutes remaining (92%)" followed instants later by the indicator claiming 3+ hours remaining.
perhaps not being so quick to believe itself would be in order. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-power-manager in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/120258 Title: Laptop Battery Time Remaining Outrageously Inaccurate Status in Gnome Powermanager: New Status in “gnome-power-manager” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn Hardware is HP Pavilion DV1000 series (specific DV1588EA) Battery monitor when running on battery reports percentage of battery remaining correctly, but the corresponding remaining time is often fabulously wrong (and can swing between e.g a few minutes to tens of hours in the blink of an eye). /* What I wouldn't give for batteries that can last 14 hours between charges... */ It looks for all the world like the underlying values are being held in storage classes which are too small or where value-wrapping is not being handled quite right... BTW UBUNTU is fantastic; I'm a convert! Keep up the good work! To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-power/+bug/120258/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
