I think there are actually two sides to this bug. On the one hand, I occasionally get the warning that my battery's old or broken and only has 36-25% maximum capacity left. (Not, this is not the charge of the battery, but the maximum charge.) I don't know how it estimates it (presumably from some battery self-description), but (a) it's vastly inaccurate, as my charge couldn't have decreased that much without me noticing, and (b) it decreased by about seven percent in the two weeks since I upgraded. I didn't notice the warning in a while, but I might have pressed the "don't warn me anymore" button, I'm not sure.
On the other hand, it's the estimation of _current_ charge that's the problem. After I upgraded to Gutsy, the new estimator became active. The problem is that it was convinced that power was critically low when the battery was at around 50% charge (and it's weird, it _told_ me I had 50% charge, but only five minutes left...) And since the computer was set to shut down on critically low power, it _could_not_ learn that the charge was enough for 40 more minutes, because it was shut down. I had to manually disable the automatic shutdown (and risk data corruption) to get it to learn it was safe to stay up until about 5% of the charge. -- power manager insists batter is broken https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/119318 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
