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Weird battery result!
« on: September 23, 2011, 03:33:33 AM »
My output from acpi -V:
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Battery 0: Full, 100%
Battery 0: design capacity 3794 mAh, last full capacity 4228 mAh = 100%
Adapter 0: on-line
Thermal 0: ok, 44.8 degrees C
Thermal 0: trip point 0 switches to mode critical at temperature 108.8 degrees C
Thermal 0: trip point 1 switches to mode passive at temperature 73.8 degrees C
Thermal 0: trip point 2 switches to mode active at temperature 67.3 degrees C
Thermal 0: trip point 3 switches to mode active at temperature 57.3 degrees C
Cooling 0: Fan 0 of 1
Cooling 1: Fan 0 of 1
Cooling 2: Processor 0 of 3
Cooling 3: Processor 0 of 3
Cooling 4: LCD 0 of 7
My output from cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info:
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present:                 yes
design capacity:         47730 mWh
last full capacity:      53200 mWh
battery technology:      rechargeable
design voltage:          11100 mV
design capacity warning: 309 mWh
design capacity low:     5 mWh
cycle count:              0
capacity granularity 1:  266 mWh
capacity granularity 2:  266 mWh
model number:            CEX-PTB50SN6
serial number:
battery type:            Lion
OEM info:                CEX
My output from uname -r:
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2.6.38.8-pclos3.a64

* Same result with bfs. Same kernel but with bfs I could not even suspend,  with a64 suspend works.  a64 seems to work better for me.

My output from lshw:
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*-battery
       description: Lithium Ion Battery
       vendor: Samsung
       physical id: 1
       version: Sanyo
       serial: 52CA5/CCKS
       slot: main
       capacity: 47730mWh
       configuration: voltage=11,1V
I do not know if this is a acpi bug or something else. If  its wrong part of the forum, I hope moderator can change it to the right section.

Thanks!
« Last Edit: September 23, 2011, 04:11:41 AM by Kurdistan »
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Re: Weird battery result!
« Reply #1 on: September 23, 2011, 04:18:30 AM »
Notes:
I have the latest BIOS driver for my laptop.

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description: Notebook
    product: AMILO Pa 1538 ()
    vendor: FUJITSU SIEMENS
    version: REFERENCE

description: Motherboard
       product: PTB50
       vendor: FUJITSU SIEMENS
       physical id: 0
       version: 0.6
description: BIOS
          vendor: Phoenix
          physical id: 0
          version: 1.1Q-5821-8A20
          date: 10/24/08
          size: 64KiB
          capabilities: pci pnp apm upgrade shadowing escd cdboot bootselect edd int13floppy360 int13floppy1200 int13floppy720 int13floppy2880 int5printscreen int9keyboard int14serial int17printer int10video acpi usb ls120boot

description: CPU
          product: AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-50
          vendor: Hynix Semiconductor (Hyundai Electronics)

I have also looked on Bios-setting there is nothing there with battery information/settings.
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Re: Weird battery result!
« Reply #2 on: September 23, 2011, 05:48:59 AM »
More information:

Output from dmesg|grep ACPI:
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BIOS-e820: 000000007ff60000 - 000000007ff6a000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 000000007ff6a000 - 000000007ff80000 (ACPI NVS)
ACPI: RSDP 000f89d0 00014 (v00 PTLTD )
ACPI: RSDT 7ff650d7 0003C (v01 FSC    PC       06040000  LTP 00000000)
ACPI: FACP 7ff69d10 00074 (v01 NVIDIA MCP51M   06040000 PTL_ 000F4240)
ACPI: DSDT 7ff65113 04BFD (v01 FIC    PTB50    06040000 MSFT 0100000E)
ACPI: FACS 7ff6afc0 00040
ACPI: SSDT 7ff69d84 00182 (v01 PTLTD  POWERNOW 06040000  LTP 00000001)
ACPI: MCFG 7ff69f06 0003C (v01 PTLTD    MCFG   06040000  LTP 00000000)
ACPI: HPET 7ff69f42 00038 (v01 PTLTD  HPETTBL  06040000  LTP 00000001)
ACPI: APIC 7ff69f7a 0005E (v01 PTLTD  ? APIC   06040000  LTP 00000000)
ACPI: BOOT 7ff69fd8 00028 (v01 PTLTD  $SBFTBL$ 06040000  LTP 00000001)
ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x1008
ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x01] enabled)
ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] high edge lint[0x1])
ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x01] high edge lint[0x1])
ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x02] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl)
ACPI: IRQ0 used by override.
ACPI: IRQ2 used by override.
ACPI: IRQ9 used by override.
Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
ACPI: HPET id: 0x10de8201 base: 0xfed00000
ACPI: Checking initramfs for custom DSDT
ACPI: Core revision 20110112
ACPI: bus type pci registered
ACPI: EC: Look up EC in DSDT
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: (supports S0 S3 S4 S5)
ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
[Firmware Bug]: ACPI: No _BQC method, cannot determine initial brightness
ACPI: Power Resource [FN10] (off)
ACPI: Power Resource [FN11] (off)
ACPI: No dock devices found.
PCI: Using host bridge windows from ACPI; if necessary, use "pci=nocrs" and report a bug
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (domain 0000 [bus 00-ff])
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.P2P0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.XVR0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.XVR1._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.XVR2._PRT]
 pci0000:00: Requesting ACPI _OSC control (0x1d)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK1] (IRQs 5 7 10 11 14 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK2] (IRQs 5 7 10 *11 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK3] (IRQs 5 7 *10 11 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK4] (IRQs 5 7 10 11 14 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LK1E] (IRQs 16) *5
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LK2E] (IRQs 17) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LK3E] (IRQs 16) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LK4E] (IRQs 19) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LSMB] (IRQs 20) *10
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LPMU] (IRQs 21) *10
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LUS0] (IRQs 22) *11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LUS2] (IRQs 23) *5
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LMAC] (IRQs 17) *11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LAZA] (IRQs 19) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LPID] (IRQs 20) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LTID] (IRQs 20) *7
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LSI1] (IRQs 16) *0, disabled.
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
pnp: PnP ACPI init
ACPI: bus type pnp registered
system 00:00: Plug and Play ACPI device, IDs PNP0c01 (active)
pnp 00:01: Plug and Play ACPI device, IDs PNP0a03 (active)
system 00:02: Plug and Play ACPI device, IDs PNP0c02 (active)
system 00:03: Plug and Play ACPI device, IDs PNP0c02 (active)
pnp 00:04: Plug and Play ACPI device, IDs PNP0303 (active)
pnp 00:05: Plug and Play ACPI device, IDs STL3842 PNP0f13 (active)
pnp 00:06: Plug and Play ACPI device, IDs PNP0200 (active)
pnp 00:07: Plug and Play ACPI device, IDs PNP0800 (active)
pnp 00:08: Plug and Play ACPI device, IDs PNP0c04 (active)
pnp 00:09: Plug and Play ACPI device, IDs PNP0b00 (active)
pnp 00:0a: Plug and Play ACPI device, IDs PNP0103 (active)
system 00:0b: Plug and Play ACPI device, IDs PNP0c02 (active)
pnp: PnP ACPI: found 12 devices
ACPI: ACPI bus type pnp unregistered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LTID] enabled at IRQ 20
ata3: nv_mode_filter: 0x739f&0x739f->0x739f, BIOS=0x7000 (0xc000c700) ACPI=0x701f (60:600:0x13)
ACPI: acpi_idle registered with cpuidle
ACPI: processor limited to max C-state 1
[Firmware Bug]: ACPI(VGA) defines _DOD but not _DOS
[Firmware Bug]: ACPI: No _BQC method, cannot determine initial brightness
ACPI: Video Device [VGA] (multi-head: yes  rom: no  post: no)
ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRM] (39 C)
ACPI: Fan [FN1] (off)
ACPI: Fan [FN2] (off)
ACPI: Deprecated procfs I/F for AC is loaded, please retry with CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS_POWER cleared
ACPI: AC Adapter [ACAD] (on-line)
ACPI: Power Button [PWRB]
ACPI: Deprecated procfs I/F for battery is loaded, please retry with CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS_POWER cleared
ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT0] (battery present)
ACPI: Lid Switch [LID]
ACPI: Power Button [PWRF]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LUS0] enabled at IRQ 22
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LUS2] enabled at IRQ 23
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK1] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LK1E] enabled at IRQ 16
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LMAC] enabled at IRQ 17
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LK3E] enabled at IRQ 16
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LAZA] enabled at IRQ 19

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Re: Weird battery result!
« Reply #3 on: September 24, 2011, 01:36:48 AM »
I have now tried different things:
Different kernel parameter (example):
acpi=force (Did not work)

Instead of bfs kernel I switched to .a64 and also installed  powernowd  (Not any effect on this).

I unplugged the charger and let the laptop be on battery-mode. I unchecked the option to suspend when the battery level is low. After all power from the battery was gone, I plugged the charges and let the battery load when laptop was close. This I did because I hoped it maybe would calibre correct afterwards. No effect.

I am running out on any ideas for a solutionen. One weird thing was when the power was at  0 % it was still running for several minutes. Normally when the laptop is on battery-mode and I am surfing the battery will last in 20 minutes (max). Suspend will take place when it reaches 5 %. This time, I could get 36 minutes (remember I unchecked option to Suspend even if the level was 0 %). 

Either this is a acpi bug or the bios driver is buggy. The laptop is running the latest bios driver. Like I pointed it out before.

Any solution, or any thoughts on this?

Thanks!
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Re: Weird battery result!
« Reply #4 on: September 24, 2011, 07:11:39 AM »
the info from the battery seems right to me, extensive maybe and i don't know what to look at?

are you running kde4?

my netbook responds to what i configure in the battery monitor

your battery, how old is it? seems to be a year old battery
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Re: Weird battery result!
« Reply #5 on: September 24, 2011, 08:43:07 AM »
Quote from: T6 on September 24, 2011, 07:11:39 AM
the info from the battery seems right to me, extensive maybe and i don't know what to look at?

are you running kde4?

my netbook responds to what i configure in the battery monitor

your battery, how old is it? seems to be a year old battery

Hey!

I am running the latest PCLinuxOS with KDE. If you read more careful you will understand something is wrong. Example:
Battery 0: design capacity 3794 mAh, last full capacity 4228 mAh = 100%

The configuration is not the issue and yes I have configured it right. The last full capacity should not be higher then design capacity. If it is, something is wrong; either with acpi, bios or the battery. My laptop is over 4 years old, but I rarely use my battery. I most of the time take it out from the laptop.

Thanks anyway!
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Re: Weird battery result!
« Reply #6 on: September 24, 2011, 08:51:17 AM »
i was reading the second value, the 47000mhw but yes, it says it had more than that last time  ;D

i wasn't using my glasses, a case where nothing looks wrong because you can't see a thing  :D

yes, it is giving higher results than it should give

since this a 4 year old battery, it already should have lost 30% of the maximum capacity or more

acpi depends on the kernel to read the values, if no driver on kernel, no reading

please try this command  acpitool -B
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Re: Weird battery result!
« Reply #7 on: September 24, 2011, 09:37:31 AM »
Quote from: T6 on September 24, 2011, 08:51:17 AM
i was reading the second value, the 47000mhw but yes, it says it had more than that last time  ;D

i wasn't using my glasses, a case where nothing looks wrong because you can't see a thing  :D

yes, it is giving higher results than it should give

since this a 4 year old battery, it already should have lost 30% of the maximum capacity or more

acpi depends on the kernel to read the values, if no driver on kernel, no reading

please try this command  acpitool -B

No problem T6, we all do mistakes.  :)

The CLI-output:
bash: acpitool: kommandot finns inte (no such command)

Are you sure about the CLI?  ;D
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« Reply #8 on: September 24, 2011, 09:50:42 AM »
sorry, i must have installed acpitools and forgot i did, i assumed it was on the standard install, please open synaptic, press reload, mark and apply all updates and then search for acpitool

it is a very small app, after installed please try again acpitool -B
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Re: Weird battery result!
« Reply #9 on: September 24, 2011, 09:55:48 AM »
Quote from: T6 on September 24, 2011, 09:50:42 AM
sorry, i must have installed acpitools and forgot i did, i assumed it was on the standard install, please open synaptic, press reload, mark and apply all updates and then search for acpitool

it is a very small app, after installed please try again acpitool -B

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acpitool -B
  Battery #1     : present
    Remaining capacity : 53200 mWh, 100.0%
    Design capacity    : 47730 mWh
    Last full capacity : 53200 mWh
    Present rate       : 0 mW
    Charging state     : charged
    Battery type       : rechargeable
    Model number       : 266 mWh
    Serial number      : CEX-PTB50SN6

Thanks for your time.  ;)
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Re: Weird battery result!
« Reply #10 on: September 24, 2011, 10:04:22 AM »
same weird results

the module used is the problem

do you have windows installed on that machine?  there is a app called hwmonitor, free and can be downloaded form this link

http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmonitor.html

it offers similar results so it can be used for comparison purposes
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Re: Weird battery result!
« Reply #11 on: September 24, 2011, 10:33:38 AM »
Quote from: T6 on September 24, 2011, 10:04:22 AM
same weird results

the module used is the problem

do you have windows installed on that machine?  there is a app called hwmonitor, free and can be downloaded form this link

http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmonitor.html

it offers similar results so it can be used for comparison purposes


I only use PCLinuxOS for now. I am not much of dual-boot. I have not used Windows for about 2 years. Removed it and replaced it with my first Linux Distro (Buntu).  :)
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« Reply #12 on: September 24, 2011, 10:42:31 AM »
i wish i could do that but i need it for work and other stuff

well, about acpi, not sure how to edit it or do anything else mere
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Re: Weird battery result!
« Reply #13 on: September 24, 2011, 10:46:10 AM »
Quote from: T6 on September 24, 2011, 10:42:31 AM
i wish i could do that but i need it for work and other stuff

well, about acpi, not sure how to edit it or do anything else mere

Then I hope other users have any idea. Thanks for your time.  :)
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