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tejonaco

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Registered: 2018-08-05

Posts: 37

Problem with battery remaining time

Hi everyone, I will try to sum up.
I have a laptop with arch, fully actualized (stable) and gnome in an Acer Aspire E15.
I use to disconnect and connect the battery (it's removable)
I realized that when I do this the laptop not showing the correct changes in the top bar notification, so I made a service that reloads upower service when I make changes the battery, it works, but now the remaining time is broken, and it's showing 70 or 80 hours... meaningless.

I supose that the problem is caused by upower restarting, but I don't know another way to made the computer shows the battery when I put it and the remaining time.

I will be very thanksfull if anyone knows how to repair as well the upower service to reload battery status when I plug it, or something to repair estimating time.

Lot of thanks and sorry about my english.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,076

Re: Problem with battery remaining time

Upower is currently quite broken either way, check what happens if you downgrade a version.

tejonaco

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Registered: 2018-08-05

Posts: 37

Re: Problem with battery remaining time

Upower is currently quite broken either way, check what happens if you downgrade a version.

Unfortunately that no made changes, the battery estimation is beloved by upower or any other application?
There is any alternative to upower?

tejonaco

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Registered: 2018-08-05

Posts: 37

Re: Problem with battery remaining time

UPDATE:

in 0.99.7 version from official freedesktop page the detection of battery removing and placing works correctly, but, estimated remaining time is still x10 to the logic remaining time, laptop usually last 7-8 hours and acpi it's showing 70-80 hours, but i'm refusing to think that this long and weird problem is only because someone put a zero more.

This only occurs when I remove and place the battery, if I power on with the battery placed all works fine.

Someone knows if time to empty is calculed by upower or by any other service? It may be an acpi bios error?

thanks for reading

vedavrat

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Registered: 2024-06-05

Posts: 6

Re: Problem with battery remaining time

I have the same problem.

Battery status: «Fully charged  —  2714 hours remaining»
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ArcoLinux: Linux 6.7.4-zen1-1-zen #1 ZEN SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 05 Feb 2024 x86_64 GNU/Linux.
upower:  UPower client version 1.90.4;  UPower daemon version 1.90.4
)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 73,756

Re: Problem with battery remaining time

No you don't - the thread is 6 years old.
Please don't necrobump.

But also

ArcoLinux:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/misc.php?action=rules

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V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,076

Re: Problem with battery remaining time

Closing this old thread. Also note the rules linked above.