I confirm that estimations given by the power-manager applet are pure
non-sense and changing all the time.
Worst : yesterday, it was telling me that there was 35minutes battery
left then, suddenly, it hibernated without even asking me or warning me.
** Summary changed:
- karmic: battery drains
My problem is (with karmic final installed), that
1. the battery does not last nearly as long as it did with jaunty a week before
2. every time i sign in a pop-up tells me that the battery's capacity is low,
so it is either old or broken (it shows some sort of percentage, which is
declining from
I seem to have the same problem, the Update to this message you've sent I
think it's because the system has to learn how long your battery lasts before
giving accurate results.
But as for the bug you posted I'm running with the same problem. I have a Dell
XPS M1530. When I unplug the AC it
Maybe it has to do with the Capacity: I right-click on the battery
icon, go to Power History and it gives me a Capacity of 53%. But I'm
pretty sure in Jaunty the battery had much more duration
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karmic: battery drains
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/434251
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Update to this:
I noticed when I unplugged the power cable, notification-osd told me I
have 8 hrs 10 mins left of battery, at 99,7% That's waaay too much.
Then, 2 minutes later, it's reporting 1 hr 15 mins, now 1 hr 45 secs
(95,9%)
With previous version of Ubuntu I had roughly 2 hours with a
