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Toshiba SATELLITE L500D-11D

battery critically low popup - computer halts sometimes and need hard
reset.

Windows 7 install gives normal battery life

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/881750

Title:
  ubuntu 11.10 unity hibernate when battery full

Status in “gnome-power-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  in Ubuntu 10.04 gnome had a bug that was worked around but cannot be done in Unity in 11.10
  IN GNOME:
  Whenever I unplug my laptop from AC power, I get a window popping up that says "Laptop battery critically low. Computer will hibernate very soon unless it is plugged in." And a little notification pops up that says that the laptop has 5 minutes until the power drains.

  But when I click on the battery icon, it says that I have 4 hours of
  battery time remaining. My battery is a six cell battery with 97.1%
  charge capacity. I have no idea why it's saying that it's almost out
  of power. That doesn't come up if I turn on my laptop after I unplug
  it.

  Does anyone know why it's coming up or how I can disable it?

  WORKAROUND:

  If you open up a terminal and run gconf-editor, go to apps, navigate
  to gnome-power-manager, click on general, and then uncheck
  "use_time_for_policy", it will fix the warning messages. Some people
  (myself included) were also having trouble with it automatically
  hibernating/suspending when unplugged, and this fixes that issue also.

  IN UNITY THERE IS NO GNOME-POWER-MANAGEMENT SO HOW DO WE STOP THIS?

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