battery state - hw.acpi.battery.life goes only down

[Brandon Allbery]

On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 8:10 PM, Michael Schuh <michael.schuh at gmail.com>wrote:

> hmm, may be.
> i didn't thinked about that lithium charging feature.
> you may right with that.
>

I have watched batteries cycle like that on OS X, Linux, and FreeBSD, and
some versions of Windows; possibly more recent versions try to hide it.
 It's also possible the ACPI BIOS normally hides it but needs some
recalibration step (on Macs, for example, you need to fully charge then
fully discharge then fully charge again to recalibrate it; I think that's
common).


> but one point, this behaviour is new.
> i made some tests to check if my conkyrc is right and there i haven't wait
> that the battery is gone under 90%
> for checking this. after i could confirm that the conkyrc is syntactically
> correct, the battery reached 100% again.
>

That sounds like it is normal cycling then.

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