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[Bug 880881] Re: Power indicator does not combine multiple battery status

 

Just installed 13.10 on my laptop with two batteries (previously running
Gentoo). Got worried when battery seemed to be draining much faster than
Gentoo/Gnome, but realised it was basing it's calculations on a single
battery. It just went from "0%" to "98%" as the laptop switched between
batteries. Both were present in the dropdown, as in the initial bug
report. Any news?

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Title:
  Power indicator does not combine multiple battery status

Status in The Power Indicator:
  Triaged
Status in “indicator-power” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  I have an EliteBook 8540w with internal and external battery running Ubuntu 11.10 (oneiric).
  Linux #### 3.0.0-12-generic #20-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 7 14:56:25 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

  The power indicator (indicator-power, version 0.9-0ubuntu2) does not combine the status of both batteries. 
  E.g. if one battery still has 1 hour left, and the other has 2 hours left, it will show 1:00 or 2:00, instead of 3:00. 
  E.g. When the external battery is almost run out (but the internal one is still charged), the indicator becomes red, instead of staying white/grey. It should only be red when both batteries are almost drained.
  E.g. when the internal one is fully charged, and the external one is discharging, the estimated time show is the estimated time that the external one will be discharged, not taking into account the internal one. see attached screenshot (total time show should be around 4 hours)

  The original applet provided by gnome (I re-enabled the notification
  area) does (still) have the behavior as I expect. In other words, this
  is a regression compared to 10.10 (pre-unity).

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