part 2 - laptop battery and... ubuntu?

[helane]

even more interesting now...

installed kpowersave - after unplugging
regular battery indicator shows 90% charged - 1h 5m remaining
kpowersave shows 90% charged - 4 h 05 m remaining

out of curiosity plugged the old "broken" battery

regular battery indicator - your battery has very low capacity (49%) 
which means that it may be old - shows 99% - 1h 10m remaining
kpowersave shows 98% charged - 1h 25m remaining

which means the battery is bad... but also means the regular indicator 
is bad...? now the default indicator controls power management... can i 
turn it off and replace with kpoversave?

i am a bit lost.


helane wrote:
> i have laptop compaq presario v3000. just a couple of weeks ago i 
> switched to new ubuntu, and then last week my battery started showing as 
> "old/broken". it would charge but would not give me only about an hour 
> on it. i used the laptop extensively in the last year so thought it was 
> an old battery. i bought a new certified one - 12 cell, hoping it would 
> give me even more time than the last one. i plugged it in, it came 50% 
> charged showing 50 minutes. it charges fast... it went to 77% in 20 
> minutes but now shows again 55 minutes on 77%. the percentage seem to go 
> up the time does not as fast... now it went to 80% still showing 55 min. 
> on the old battery i used to get 2.5 hrs on the new one i was supposed 
> to ~5 hrs. not sure if something else is broken, or the linux shows 
> wrong time... any ideas? i really appreciate it. spend a lot of money on 
> a new battery... no happy about it.
>
> thanks
> helane.
>
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