[ltp] Battery dying

[Madhusudan Singh]

I think I mentioned that it is *not* a hardware problem apparently.

When I reboot with the power supply disconnected, the charge is up to 96 %
even after it had forced me to reboot after giving me a 0 % charge
notification.

I am quite certain that there is no "ghost" recharging it from 0 % to 96
% in the 1-2 minutes it takes to reboot, without a power supply connected :)




On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, George Staikos wrote:

> On Wednesday 07 November 2001 20:12, Thomas Hood wrote:
> >  --- Madhusudan Singh <chhabra@eecs.umich.edu> wrote:
> > > I have an i1300 series Thinkpad. It exhibits some extremely funny battery
> > > (?) / apm (likely) problems.
> > >
> > > Sometimes, while the power supply is plugged in, the battery charge shown
> > > (I use KDE charge monitor - results are similar with the GNOME applet, in
> > > any case /proc/apm ... shows the same result) plunges to zero, forcing me
> > > to reboot (if I don't, then the whole thing freezes after some time).
> >
> > Might there be a loose connection in there somewhere?
>
>    I saw something like this as well.  The battery was apparently charging
> but actually didn't, and eventually the machine would just shut off, even
> though it was plugged in.  This started around a week after the warranty
> expired on my i series thinkpad.   What happened was that a solder joint in
> the power connector went cold on me.  I managed to wiggle it around and get
> it to "stick" for a while but after a few months I couldn't deal with it
> anymore.  I took the time to disassemble the notebook and found the joint.
> It was resoldered and I haven't seen the problem since.
>
>


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