Laptop battery going flat when shutdown

[Marcelo Magno T. Sales]

Em Quinta-feira 08 Julho 2010, Mark Greenwood escreveu:
> Hi all,
> 
> Anybody else noticed their laptop battery going flat when they have
> shut down? It's as if it isn't properly shutting down at all.
> 
> I'm running Lucid on a Sony VAIO. I usually don't disconnect it from
> mains power, but last night I shut the laptop down, unplugged the
> mains adaptor and left the laptop on a shelf. When I came to it this
> morning the battery was totally flat.
> 
> I thought it might be just my Sony, but I tried it with my Acer
> Aspire One (running Ubuntu Lucid Netbook Edition) and that did the
> same thing. I'm not yet ready to accept the "amazing
> battery-draining shelf" explanation :-)
> 
> Mark

I have two VAIOs and I know they drain battery even when shut down, but 
not as fast as you are experiencing. Mine drain about 10% of the battery 
power each day, so batteries go flat after about 11-12 days. It seems it 
is a known problem with VAIOs, at least I found several other people 
with this problem on the net. I have to remove the batteries if I'm not 
going to use the VAIOs for a few days.

[]'s
Marcelo