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When I plug the charger in, os reports battery as empty.

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When I plug the charger in, os reports battery as empty.

#1 Post by carbontwelve »

I am having a rather odd issue, this week I installed Debian latest on to an old Acer Aspire 3810TZ; everything runs smoothly enough and I spent a good number of hours using the laptop on battery (about two or three, the battery is checked and in good enough condition given its age) then as the desktop widget reported the battery as being 22% or so full I decided to plug in the charger at which point the os reported the battery as being 0% and issued an immediate hibernation.

I have done a fair bit of searching for others whom have had the same problem, as I am sure its not a new one. But the majority of what I have read revolves around batteries not charging and mine certainly does, I just have to have the laptop switched off while I do so (unless its booted into windows, in which case its fine.)

Below is the output of acpi and upower.

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simon@DLC:~$ acpi -b
Battery 0: Discharging, 96%, 05:47:01 remaining
simon@DLC:~$ upower -d
Device: /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/line_power_ADP1
  native-path:          ADP1
  power supply:         yes
  updated:              Thu 04 Feb 2016 13:01:30 GMT (81 seconds ago)
  has history:          no
  has statistics:       no
  line-power
    warning-level:       none
    online:              no
    icon-name:          'ac-adapter-symbolic'

Device: /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0
  native-path:          BAT0
  vendor:               SSANY
  model:                AS09D36
  serial:               3842
  power supply:         yes
  updated:              Thu 04 Feb 2016 13:01:30 GMT (81 seconds ago)
  has history:          yes
  has statistics:       yes
  battery
    present:             yes
    rechargeable:        yes
    state:               discharging
    warning-level:       none
    energy:              41.7138 Wh
    energy-empty:        0 Wh
    energy-full:         43.1457 Wh
    energy-full-design:  62.16 Wh
    energy-rate:         10.9557 W
    voltage:             12.186 V
    time to empty:       3.8 hours
    percentage:          96%
    capacity:            69.4107%
    technology:          lithium-ion
    icon-name:          'battery-full-symbolic'
  History (charge):
    1454590890	0.000	unknown
  History (rate):
    1454590890	0.000	unknown

Device: /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/DisplayDevice
  power supply:         yes
  updated:              Thu 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 BST (1454590971 seconds ago)
  has history:          no
  has statistics:       no
  battery
    present:             yes
    state:               discharging
    warning-level:       none
    energy:              41.7138 Wh
    energy-full:         43.1457 Wh
    energy-rate:         10.9557 W
    time to empty:       3.8 hours
    percentage:          96%
    icon-name:          'battery-full-symbolic'

Daemon:
  daemon-version:  0.99.1
  on-battery:      yes
  lid-is-closed:   no
  lid-is-present:  yes
  critical-action: HybridSleep
I am using the Cinnamon desktop environment if that helps.

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