[SOLVED] Re: battery state - hw.acpi.battery.life goes only down

[Michael Schuh]

sorry for the buzz...

2012/9/26 Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com>

> 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.
>>
>
>
Yes you are right with that point.

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).
>

Yesi agree, this is the most logic explanation in our fantastic world.


>
>
>> 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.
>

No idea why that box didn't showed that behaviour earlier.
i am fully sure that i made the same tests before and the charger did jump
in much time earlier.
may be, i was a bit impatient for now.

>
many thanks again.

cheers

m.



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