[Bug 1813496] [NEW] powertop does not accurately determine battery discharge rate on HP Elitebook 850 G5

[Phil Grohe]

Public bug reported:

### Summary: powertop does not accurately determine battery discharge
rate on HP Elitebook 850 G5  ###


### Description ###
On an HP Elitebook 850 G5 running Ubuntu 18.10 powertop does not accurately report the battery discharge rate.

The reported discharge rate & estimated remaining time are always
impossibly low / high respectively. See example snippet from powertop
header below.

### Configuration ###

HP Elitebook 850 G5
Ubunutu 18.10, 4.18.0-13-generic
powertop v2.9
tlp w/default settings

### Example ###

The battery reports a discharge rate of 366 mW
The power consumed was 0.00 J
The estimated remaining time is 49 hours, 2 minutes

### Package Version ###
powertop:
  Installed: 2.9-0ubuntu2
  Candidate: 2.9-0ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 2.9-0ubuntu2 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu cosmic/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status


### Steps to Reproduce ###
1. Install Ubuntu 18.10 on HP Elitebook 850 G5
2. Install tlp from repos
3. Install powertop from repos
4. Run powertop while running on battery
5. Examine header info while in the Overview tab

** Affects: powertop (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  powertop does not accurately determine battery discharge rate on HP
  Elitebook 850 G5

Status in powertop package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  ### Summary: powertop does not accurately determine battery discharge
  rate on HP Elitebook 850 G5  ###

  
  ### Description ###
  On an HP Elitebook 850 G5 running Ubuntu 18.10 powertop does not accurately report the battery discharge rate.

  The reported discharge rate & estimated remaining time are always
  impossibly low / high respectively. See example snippet from powertop
  header below.

  ### Configuration ###

  HP Elitebook 850 G5
  Ubunutu 18.10, 4.18.0-13-generic
  powertop v2.9
  tlp w/default settings

  ### Example ###

  The battery reports a discharge rate of 366 mW
  The power consumed was 0.00 J
  The estimated remaining time is 49 hours, 2 minutes

  ### Package Version ###
  powertop:
    Installed: 2.9-0ubuntu2
    Candidate: 2.9-0ubuntu2
    Version table:
   *** 2.9-0ubuntu2 500
          500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu cosmic/main amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

  
  ### Steps to Reproduce ###
  1. Install Ubuntu 18.10 on HP Elitebook 850 G5
  2. Install tlp from repos
  3. Install powertop from repos
  4. Run powertop while running on battery
  5. Examine header info while in the Overview tab

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