I confirm that estimations given by the power-manager applet are pure
non-sense and changing all the time.
Worst : yesterday, it was telling me that there was 35minutes battery
left then, suddenly, it hibernated without even asking me or warning me.
** Summary changed:
- karmic: battery drains
+
My problem is (with karmic final installed), that
1. the battery does not last nearly as long as it did with jaunty a week before
2. every time i sign in a pop-up tells me that the battery's capacity is low,
so it is either old or broken (it shows some sort of percentage, which is
declining from
Maybe it has to do with the "Capacity": I right-click on the battery
icon, go to "Power History" and it gives me a "Capacity" of 53%. But I'm
pretty sure in Jaunty the battery had much more duration
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karmic: battery drains
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/434251
You received this bug notificatio
I seem to have the same problem, the "Update to this" message you've sent I
think it's because the system has to learn how long your battery lasts before
giving accurate results.
But as for the bug you posted I'm running with the same problem. I have a Dell
XPS M1530. When I unplug the AC it go
Update to this:
I noticed when I unplugged the power cable, notification-osd told me I
have 8 hrs 10 mins left of battery, at 99,7% That's waaay too much.
Then, 2 minutes later, it's reporting 1 hr 15 mins, now 1 hr 45 secs
(95,9%)
With previous version of Ubuntu I had roughly 2 hours with a full
