FWIW, I second what Alan said - i have the same problem with an old netbook battery, and I think it is a problem with what the battery is reporting, because sometimes the bios pauses before start up and complains about how the battery won't take a charge or has low capacity or something, and other times it goes on its way. E also has trouble reporting the status, and often times the only way it gets semi accurate is after i accidentally let it die - something about that sudden seems to get things in the battery recallibrated, at least for a short time.
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 10:05 AM, Alan McKinnon <[email protected]>wrote: > In my experience that is exactly how depleted batteries behave, they no > longer report a nice predictable or linear charge/discharge curve. And > they start to do this suddenly - usually related to partial or complete > failure of one of the cells. > > Modern batteries are smart - the system asks them how much charge they > have and they answer up. That is what battery gadgets display. If the > battery reports garbage, so will the gadget. > > Various hacky dodges could be dreamed up to try fudge around this, but > why? You have an old battery, replace it. It's no longer working as > designed, and it took 5 years to get there :-) > > > On 17/02/2014 15:01, Mick wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > My laptop and its battery are approaching 5 years old and therefore the > end of > > the latter's useful life. Its charge has been reducing noticeably over > time. > > Recently, while running on battery it suddenly died on me. I was > surprised > > that it didn't go on hibernation @3%, as I had set it up in the Settings. > > > > Ever since that event the battery gadget takes forever to go down from > 100 to > > 95% and then suddenly shows 6%, when previously the gadget indication of > > remaining battery capacity was much more gradual. When charging the > reverse > > is true. It takes forever to climb up to 8% and then it suddenly shows > 100% > > > > This makes it difficult to use the laptop on battery without keeping a > > paranoid eye on the gadget at all times, not knowing how close it is to > > shutting down the machine. > > > > Can you please confirm if this change in behaviour is due to the battery > or > > battery controller playing up, as opposed to the gadget? Could it be > that the > > forced shutdown corrupted some configuration file, which I should now > delete > > manually? > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Android apps run on BlackBerry 10 > > Introducing the new BlackBerry 10.2.1 Runtime for Android apps. > > Now with support for Jelly Bean, Bluetooth, Mapview and more. > > Get your Android app in front of a whole new audience. Start now. > > > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=124407151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > enlightenment-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users > > > > > -- > Alan McKinnon > [email protected] > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Android apps run on BlackBerry 10 > Introducing the new BlackBerry 10.2.1 Runtime for Android apps. > Now with support for Jelly Bean, Bluetooth, Mapview and more. > Get your Android app in front of a whole new audience. Start now. > > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=124407151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Android apps run on BlackBerry 10 Introducing the new BlackBerry 10.2.1 Runtime for Android apps. Now with support for Jelly Bean, Bluetooth, Mapview and more. Get your Android app in front of a whole new audience. Start now. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=124407151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
