[Bug 1909133] Re: HP laptop battery is not recognized or correctly managed

2021-01-06 Thread Rob Nickmans
UPDATE: after committing some further research, I discovered other Linux distro's also suffer from this bug. Turns out HP's BIOS is locked and users are unable to let it report battery statuses to non-Windows operating systems. A possible solution is using the distro without the battery indicator,

[Bug 1909133] [NEW] HP laptop battery is not recognized or correctly managed

2020-12-23 Thread Rob Nickmans
Public bug reported: Ubuntu doesn't detect a battery. At upstream kernel 5.4, the battery got detected but never went under 100%. If the laptop was booted plugged in to the adapter, a lightning symbol was displayed next to the battery, but when disconnected from the charger, I won't disappear. App