Battery problems

[Robert Moskowitz]

IBM is UPSing me a new battery to my hotel.  I should have it by 
wednesday.  We shall see how this one works...

On 03/10/2012 04:31 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> On 03/10/2012 08:41 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
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>> On 03/10/2012 07:19 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>>> Lenovo x120 running FC16.
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>>> 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????
>>>
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>> 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.)
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> How do I get the battery to cycle?  It HAS been a long time since a 
> REAL poweroff (number of reboots).  Also I have not run the battery 
> down for a long time.  Really not since I got the system back in 
> Jan...  I bet I am past my 90 day warranty...
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