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"service battery" warning appears to have shortened the battery life on 10v. #366

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago
What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. fresh install of 10.6.7
2.

What netbook are you using this on?
Dell 10v, 2gb RAM

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
no "service battery" warning and the previous battery life of 2.5h.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
NBI 0.8.4 rc1

Please provide any additional information below.
I accidentally ran Software Update, when the machine was working perfectly 
which, of course caused some issues with 10.6.8. I was forced to reinstall from 
scratch, which took some fiddling. I found that NBI 0.8.5 Pre did not give me 
audio nor wifi, so reinstalled 0.8.4. All hardware working correctly, and OS 
seems stable again. Hibernation working.
Before my hiccup, the 3 cell battery gave over two hours of working time, but 
since this install, the "service battery" warning is visible, and the battery 
life seems to have dropped to under an hour. Since there is no PMU, that I am 
aware of, on the 10v, I am lost for ways to rectify the issue.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by feltusfe...@gmail.com on 15 Jan 2012 at 12:27