[ltp] Battery died

Damjan linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Fri, 19 Sep 2008 22:52:06 +0200


> > 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 :-(

The exact thing happened a month ago to my 8cell x60s battery, and to my friends T60
9cell.

I have the laptop for a year and 6 months.


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