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[Marcello <971061@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,
   I am affected by this bug since, a couple of years (same laptop here,
530U). I have personally experienced it on my laptop on multiple Linux
distributions (including Debian and Arch).

I perfectly understand your policies, but I do not really see the
rationale behind closing the bug with WONTFIX and asking a lot of people
to open a lot of new bugs to signal the very same thing.

For me, the bug is indeed solved by the juanmanuel's userspace program
(thanks a lot!!!!!!!!!) I've been running that program since it was
posted on this thread, and it works like a charm.

The bug is also clearly described upstream on the kernel Bugzilla, where
juanmanuel's solution is being turned into a kernel patch, so an
upstream fix is likely to be on the way.

I hope you'll find a way to put in evidence the relevant information,
especially when there will be 100 opened issues for this SINGLE problem
(or 100 issues immediately closed as duplicates???): this is clearly a
SINGLE bug with a SINGLE reference to a SINGLE upstream issue.

>From my side, I am *not* going to open another bug just to increase the
Internet entropy (and reduce the likelihood for someone searching about
the problem to find the workaround)...

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Title:
  acpi reports battery state incorrectly

Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  I have a new Samsung 9-series laptop (NP900X3B) and the battery state
  is detected incorrectly. Basically the state what was at the time of
  boot stays active all the time - regardless of the ac-adapter state.

  Here is output from "acpitool -a -b" in various situations:

  When booted with charger connected and charger is still connected:
    Battery #1     : charging, 47.00%, 01:00:43
    AC adapter     : on-line 
   
  When booted with charger connected and charger is now disconnected:
    Battery #1     : charging, 47.00%, 01:36:59
    AC adapter     : off-line 
  [The battery couldn't possibly be charging when the AC adapter is offline!]

  When booted with charger disconnected and charger is still disconnected:
    Battery #1     : discharging, 47.00%, 01:39:44
    AC adapter     : off-line 

  When booted with charger disconnected and charger is now connected:
    Battery #1     : discharging, 47.00%, 00:53:43
    AC adapter     : on-line 
  [The battery is actually charging as the AC adapter is online]

  The percentage and time are correctly updated when the battery is
  actually charging or discharging - regardless of the reported state.
  So the state is the only thing that is incorrect. However a number of
  applications make their decisions based on this state (battery
  monitor, jupiter, etc.) and therefore behave incorrectly.

  "lshal -m" doesn't report anything when I plug the charger in or out.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: acpi (not installed)
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-21.34-generic 3.2.13
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-21-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.0-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sun Apr  1 22:50:35 2012
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta amd64 (20120328)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: acpi
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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