Also had this issue on an N550JV with Ubuntu 12.04LTS. When booting
into Win8 via grub the issue remained - battery would not charge,
flashing amber light. Returned the machine.
I'm considering getting N56JR, at least that model has easy access to
the battery compartment. I'm a Linux noob - what's the prognosis for a
complete fix on a hardware compatibility issue like this?
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1088146
Title:
Asus n56vz battery state is wrong or battery not charging at all.
Status in “upower” package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
I have an ASUS N56VZ notebook. There are some bugs I have mentioned and they
are known on ubuntu forums.
Sometimes I am getting strange results in battery power state, that are not
even close to be accurate.
So bugs are:
1) Then I am turning on the notebok with not enough power (3% for example)
the fan is going to it`s full speed (no CPU loading at all) and the power
indicator shows that power is insufficient. Plugging the power adapter didn`t
solved the problem - it was not charging and notebook soon turns off.
2) As I described above, I can`t feed the notebook sometimes (especially on
low battery level).
3) I am getting the strange battery state result: sometimes it looks, that
it`s charging very slow. Am am working about a hour and my power level just
rised from 30 minutes to 40 minutes.
4) I am not sure about this bug, may be it`s a hardware one, but then I
turned notebook off with plugged in power adapter, it was not charged at all
for the whole night!
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2084696 - here is a proof, that I am
not alone )))
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: upower 0.9.17-1build1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-19.30-generic 3.5.7
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-19-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu6
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Dec 9 13:18:17 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/upower/upowerd
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-11-30 (8 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal - Release amd64 (20121017.5)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
SourcePackage: upower
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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