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[Colin Downs <916942@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have traced the problem to the gnome-power-manger (power statistics).
which is causing the system to shut down with a reasonably full battery.
I have now flahed the bios which has improved the recording of battery
capacity. The problem seems to occur when the laptop is booted in
battery and before the discharge rate has stabilised.

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Title:
  HP  DV6000 Battery capacity reporting error??

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

Bug description:
  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.

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