On Mon, 17 Feb 2014 13:01:18 +0000 Mick <[email protected]> said:
> 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? it's your battery, not the gadget. the gadget is pretty dumb. it reads some numbers (current charge vs max charge) and displays them proportionally. it still does so for me - no jumping. nothing has changed in the gadget to make it work differently. you can check the git logs for the battery module code if you want to be sure. :) -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Managing the Performance of Cloud-Based Applications Take advantage of what the Cloud has to offer - Avoid Common Pitfalls. Read the Whitepaper. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=121054471&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
