Battery problems

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

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On 03/10/2012 07:19 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> Lenovo x120 running FC16.
>
> I just noticed friday when I unplugged to go into suspend for the
sabbath, that the system was reporting only 1 hour on my battery,
and then only 30 min,,,, so I plugged back in and suspended without
turnning off the powerstrip (so that the battery was on charge). The
system light went orange, then very quickly to green.
>
> This evening, I took it out of suspend and tried unplugging and
again right away it showed only an hour. So I plugged it back in.
The battery icon reported 4% available and the system light was
orange. When the system light turned green, the battery icon reports
70% charged, and still does.
>
> I am traveling tomorrow morning to IEEE 802 meeting so I have no
time to take this to a repair place of contact the mailorder (B&H)
where I got it.....
>
> Is this the sight of a bad battery, or is fc16all hosed wrt the
battery level????
>
>
>
It sounds like a bad battery. At least I have had the same thing
happen in both Linux and Windows when a battery was going bad. Also,
if you do not cycle the battery, the chip that monitors battery life
in the battery does not get updated to the current battery life, so
it ends up reporting the battery state incorrectly. (The chip is in
the battery, not the computer.)

Mikkel
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