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I'm running 11.10 on my HP DV6000 laptop and I'm having problems with
the way the battery is being managed. The capacity of the battery is not
being reported correctly. I've just fitted a new battery and it was
reading only 70% capacity so I followed the usuall charge overnight then
fully drain and recharge routine and now it is only recording caapacity
of 60.8%. I feel I have already ditched two perfectly O.K batteries due
to this incorrect information.  The research I have done seems to
suggest that the bios needs to be upgraded but as I have take out
windows and reformatted the drive that doesn't look like a good idea to
me. There don;t appear to any safe ways to do this under ubuntu. Has
anyone else had the same problem and more to the point solved it? This
is not a new problem . I'm sure it's been an issue for me since Karmic
Koala.

The battery charges OK and runs the machine OK but wants to shut down
well before the battery is flat.

** Affects: gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


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HP  DV6000 Battery capacity reporting error??
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/916942
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