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[Joël Bourquard <joel.bourquard@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I had the same issue: I've always been setting it to 1 and recently (with
vanilla sony-laptop module) it ended up at 50 which is 50%.

Try setting it to 80, that should work :-)

Best regards,

Joël

-- Sent from my Android phone. Please excuse my brevity.
On Sep 27, 2012 8:17 AM, "Flavio" <fbcyborg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 26 September 2012 22:46, vick <weasalandme@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I've never touched that file and mine is set to 0 (which is 100%)
> Me too actually. I've never touched it. Or even better, I was used to
> start an initscript
> at boot time, that modifies the battery_care_limiter file content to
> "1". This worked
> with the sony-laptop-z-series launchpad module. It doesn't work with
> the bundled kernel module.
> It seems this file to be always under write protection from the module
> itself.
> The strange thing I cannot explain is why it has been set to 50. (I
> was expecting
> a value such as 0, 1 or 2. Actually the battery charging level doesn't
> overcome 50%).
>
> > Are you using sudo or su to write to that file as root? It's only
> writable for root.
> I don't use sudo, and I also tried to change such value with the root
> user. No way!
>
> On 26 September 2012 22:55, Silverrocker <silverrocker@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I just noticed the same a few days ago!
> > its either 0 or 50 but can't be set to 80 which is what was originally
> > possible on windows.
> Well... This seems to be a bug then.
> I was wandering if it would be possible to change the sony-laptop.c source
> code
> in order to set the default value to 80%. I've seen the code and the
> function that
> is related to this feature, but I don't like this solution too much,
> since I would have
> to patch the kernel source code every time.
>
> Suggestions?
>
> --
> Flavio
>
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