[ltp] Battery died

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:19:02 -0300


On Fri, 19 Sep 2008, Philipp Kern wrote:
> my battery died yesterday all of a sudden.  The battery LED is only
> blinking red.  tp_smapi reports a charge of 85% and gnome-power-manager
> says that the "battery is fully charged", but as soon as I pull the cord
> everything goes black.  The battery is a bit over a year old, I think.
> 
> Any ideas, if this can be solved by some EC magic?  Laptop in question
> is a Z61m.  And does anyone know what the default warranty on batteries
> is?  One year?

One year.  You are the second to report batteries that last a little more
than one year and suddenly break down like that :-(

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh