In my experience that is exactly how depleted batteries behave, they no longer report a nice predictable or linear charge/discharge curve. And they start to do this suddenly - usually related to partial or complete failure of one of the cells.
Modern batteries are smart - the system asks them how much charge they have and they answer up. That is what battery gadgets display. If the battery reports garbage, so will the gadget. Various hacky dodges could be dreamed up to try fudge around this, but why? You have an old battery, replace it. It's no longer working as designed, and it took 5 years to get there :-) On 17/02/2014 15:01, Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > My laptop and its battery are approaching 5 years old and therefore the end > of > the latter's useful life. Its charge has been reducing noticeably over time. > > Recently, while running on battery it suddenly died on me. I was surprised > that it didn't go on hibernation @3%, as I had set it up in the Settings. > > Ever since that event the battery gadget takes forever to go down from 100 to > 95% and then suddenly shows 6%, when previously the gadget indication of > remaining battery capacity was much more gradual. When charging the reverse > is true. It takes forever to climb up to 8% and then it suddenly shows 100% > > This makes it difficult to use the laptop on battery without keeping a > paranoid eye on the gadget at all times, not knowing how close it is to > shutting down the machine. > > Can you please confirm if this change in behaviour is due to the battery or > battery controller playing up, as opposed to the gadget? Could it be that > the > forced shutdown corrupted some configuration file, which I should now delete > manually? > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Android apps run on BlackBerry 10 > Introducing the new BlackBerry 10.2.1 Runtime for Android apps. > Now with support for Jelly Bean, Bluetooth, Mapview and more. > Get your Android app in front of a whole new audience. Start now. > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=124407151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > > > > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users > -- Alan McKinnon [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Android apps run on BlackBerry 10 Introducing the new BlackBerry 10.2.1 Runtime for Android apps. Now with support for Jelly Bean, Bluetooth, Mapview and more. Get your Android app in front of a whole new audience. Start now. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=124407151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
