[ale] laptop battery life [maybe OT]

[Christopher Fowler]

How old is the battery?  What is your usage of the battery?  Batteries
will go bad.  I have a ZE1250 that I bought in 2003 and I'm on my 3rd
one.  What I did was buy the PSP from BB and then went in every time I
saw this problem and got a new battery.  That fixed my problems :)
  
On Sun, 2006-07-02 at 22:16 +0200, joh6nn wrote:
> i've got Kubuntu 6.06 (Dapper) installed on my IBM thinkpad.  the battery 
> charge isn't being properly reported, though.  If i start with a full charge, 
> the battery shows as full with about 2 hours before it runs down.  Inside of 
> half an hour, though, the battery will report as near empty, with about 5-10 
> minutes left before it dies.  If i ignore the warning, i can run for another 
> 1-1.5 hours before the battery does actually completely use up its charge.
> 
> It doesn't make a difference which app i use to check the battery's remaining 
> charge, and it also reports the incorrect charge in Windows (where you can 
> also get another hour out of it if you ignore the warning).
> 
> googling has turned up all sorts of information about how to deal with 
> batteries that don't hold a charge, but very little that sounds similar to 
> what i'm seeing.  i did see one post that suggested using the "battery sync" 
> option in the BIOS, but my BIOS doesn't have that option.  there is indeed a 
> newer BIOS available, but this laptop is mission critical for another 5-6 
> weeks, and i'd prefer not to flash the BIOS until then.
> 
> any thoughts at all are welcome
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