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Understanding battery information

Fresh7 days ago
Mar 15, 20262287 views
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Problem

My laptop is Lenovo T400 and OS is Ubuntu 10.10. Here is information about my battery: I was wondering if is the current charged percentage of the battery? Since is 0 mW, does it mean that the battery is currently not charging nor discharging? Is the present voltage (11390 mV) being bigger than the…

Error Output

$ cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state 
present:                 yes
capacity state:          ok
charging state:          charged
present rate:         …

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Fix for: Understanding battery information

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Yes and no - it depends on the tool that would calculate the percentage. Probably the more common interpretation is 1-(remaining capacity/last full capacity) - this is because the last full capacity indicates how far the battery can be currently cha…

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