Weird Battery Charge Indicator Issue

Sat Dec 25 14:37:51 UTC 2004

On Sat, 2004-12-25 at 14:18 +0000, Lalit Dhiri wrote:

> my ThinkPad X31s battery is not being indicated properly in GNOME. It
> only gets to 99% never to 100% even though I know it's fully charged
> from Windows. I am a little worried that the charging is not stooping
> since it's not reaching 100%. Does anyone know of a fix or should I not
> worry?

Over time, batteries lose capacity. The usual way to recalibrate them is
to do a full discharge and then charge it again. This should result in
it reaching 100%.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org