My laptop's battery is bigger than yours

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On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Sam Varshavchik <mrsam at courier-mta.com> wrote:
> Somehow, since a few weeks ago, occasionally gnome power manager loses its
> mind and starts telling me that my laptop battery's "last full charge" is
> 946.0 watt-hours of juice. Which makes the battery percentage indicator
> pretty much meaningless.
>
> I can usually set things back to normal by charging up the battery to its
> true max capacity, 63 watt-hours, and rebooting. After the reboot,
> gnome-power-manager gains back its sanity, and usually continues to behave
> itself, for several cycle charges and reboots. But, invariably, after a few
> days gnome-power-manager once again becomes convinced that my laptop's got a
> nuclear-powered battery.
>
> It's beginning to get rather old, and annoying. It looks to me like somehow,
> somewhere, gnome-power-manager saved an erroneous power reading, once upon a
> time, and keeps going back to it. I tried looking in gconf, trying to
> figured out where gnome-power-manager saves the last full charge reading,
> but had no luck. Anyone knows?

similar problem to me too. after wake-up from suspend/hibernate, gnome
power manager shows 5% remaining, in fact there is still about 2 hours
battery. hope some one offers a fix.



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