what to do when gnome power manager shows wrong battery capacity?

Valent Turkovic valent.turkovic at gmail.com
Fri Oct 19 06:47:05 UTC 2007


I found out why I got mixed up... I'm not an idiot after all :)

I have fedora core 6 system that I use for work - and on FC6 GPM shows
only W (not Wh or Ah) and it should be Wh as the number are the same
as from /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info

Here it is:

Laptop IBM Lenovo Thinkpad R52

cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info
present:                 yes
design capacity:         47520 mWh
last full capacity:      47690 mWh
battery technology:      rechargeable
design voltage:          10800 mV
design capacity warning: 2384 mWh
design capacity low:     200 mWh
capacity granularity 1:  1 mWh
capacity granularity 2:  1 mWh
model number:            IBM-92P1071
serial number:            7721
battery type:            LION
OEM info:                SONY



Gnome Power Manager:
Serial Number:     7721
Model:             IBM-92P1071
Capacity:          100%
Current charge:    47.7 W
Last full charge:  47.7 W
Design charge:     47.5 W

So in 1.5 years this old battery even got better :)

Why in Gnome Power Manager 2.16.3 the capacity is in W and not in Wh?

Thank you,
Valent.


On 10/18/07, Valent Turkovic <valent.turkovic at gmail.com> wrote:
> Upps :) my bad... I mixed my units. I saw mAh but I read it mWh :(
>
> On 10/18/07, Christoph Höger <choeger at cs.tu-berlin.de> wrote:
> > Well, if my physics teacher was right then no application shows wrong
> > values. 6000mAh and 148000mV compute to 88.8Wh.
> > So either the battery gives wrong values via acpi or the kernel reads
> > them wrong (which is very unlikely because 6000mAh seem to be a too
> > normal value for a read error)
> >
> > Am Donnerstag, den 18.10.2007, 16:17 +0200 schrieb Valent Turkovic:
> > > Here is the info from 2 year oly HP Compaq nx9030:
> > >
> > > # cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info
> > > present:                 yes
> > > design capacity:         6000 mAh
> > > last full capacity:      2784 mAh
> > > battery technology:      rechargeable
> > > design voltage:          14800 mV
> > > design capacity warning: 250 mAh
> > > design capacity low:     150 mAh
> > > capacity granularity 1:  10 mAh
> > > capacity granularity 2:  25 mAh
> > > model number:            JM-6
> > > serial number:           4063
> > > battery type:            LION
> > > OEM info:                Hewlett-Packard
> > >
> > >
> > > and GPM says this:
> > >
> > > Vendor: Hewlett-Packard
> > > Serial Number: 4063
> > > Model: JM-6
> > > Current charge: 34.6 Wh
> > > Design charge: 88 Wh
> > >
> > > Who is showing wrong info?
> > >
> > > On 10/18/07, seth vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 15:35 +0200, Valent Turkovic wrote:
> > > > > Sorry for long subject, but what to do when gnome power manager shows
> > > > > wrong battery capacity?
> > > > >
> > > > > I have two laptops for who I see that battery capacity is stated as
> > > > > 88.8Wh but it is not! So when gnome starts I get an error message
> > > > > saying I have a faulty battery. What do I need to do? Submit a bug? To
> > > > > what component? Send an email? To whom?
> > > > >
> > > > > Thank you,
> > > > > Valent.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > how old are the batteries?
> > > >
> > > > If they're more than say, a year old, it's probably true. battery charge
> > > > life declines. Get the info on your battery by clicking on the
> > > > gnome-power-manager icon and you can find out the info on your battery.
> > > >
> > > > -sv
> > > >
> > > >
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