-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/10/2012 07:19 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Lenovo x120 running FC16. > > 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???? > > > 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.) Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk9cAqoACgkQqbQrVW3JyMQBvACfTvXIPgKFgPmZM9HPkbIyoj6l Nc4An3PnN83ZL9GlMtxAhIVy0MZotxCu =8Ma9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
