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Re: battery drain rate always 0

 

I think battery drain rate is not present in HP batteries. It never worked
on windows for me. (dm4t-1000 & even an old dv5-1070ee)

Regards,
Ranuka Perera



On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 4:00 AM, Anton Velo <avelo@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Same with HP Pavilion dv3-4070ss (i5 450; Intel/Ati 5450)
> Tried with some kernel up to 2.6.38-rc3 with no luck in battery rate.
>
>
>
> On 13/02/11 20:55, Vangel V. Ajanovski wrote:
>
>> What can one do in order to see the rate the battery is drained if it
>> always shows 0?
>> I have Ubuntu 10.10 - HP Pavilion dm4t-1100 (i5 460; Intel/Ati 5470)
>>
>> For example:
>> $ acpi -i
>> Battery 0: Discharging, 99%, discharging at zero rate - will never fully
>> discharge.
>> Battery 0: design capacity 4944 mAh, last full capacity 4944 mAh = 100%
>>
>> The only way I can see if the rate has changed if I look at the graph
>> after 15 minutes in the battery panel indicator and the angle of the line
>> showing the current charge will change. But this is too long time to wait
>> for doing experiments.
>>
>> $ cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state
>> present:                 yes
>> capacity state:          ok
>> charging state:          discharging
>> present rate:            0 mA
>> remaining capacity:      4690 mAh
>> present voltage:         12074 mV
>>
>> $ cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info
>> present:                 yes
>> design capacity:         4944 mAh
>> last full capacity:      4944 mAh
>> battery technology:      rechargeable
>> design voltage:          10800 mV
>> design capacity warning: 500 mAh
>> design capacity low:     100 mAh
>> cycle count:          0
>> capacity granularity 1:  100 mAh
>> capacity granularity 2:  100 mAh
>> model number:            Primary
>> serial number:           02142 2010/10/27
>> battery type:            LIon
>> OEM info:                Hewlett-Packard
>>
>>
>>
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