[ltp] Has my battery failed?

[Dan Sawyer]

Tony,

My experience is the failior is gradual, however the charging and 
discharging develops 'gaps'. Mine started failing by falling from 60% to 
5%. It then took less and less. Finally it was like yours and reported 
an error.

Dan

Tony Willoughby wrote:

>My 390E has stopped detecting/using the battery.  
>
>My typical practice when leaving work for the day is to run "shutdown"
>and then pull the power cord to to pack it up.  The system continues to
>shutdown on battery power.
>
>One day last week I did this and the system powered off immediately. 
>Since then it will not power up unless connected to the AC.  "apm"
>reports: "AC on-line", it used to report the % charge of the battery. 
>Reseating the battery hasn't helped.  
>
>apm reports the following when started..
>
>Nov 26 09:06:39 localhost apmd: apmd startup succeeded
>Nov 26 09:06:39 localhost apmd[1845]: Version 3.0.2 (APM BIOS 1.2, Linux
>driver 1.16)
>Nov 26 09:06:40 localhost apmd[1845]: Charge: * * * (-1% unknown)
>
>I always assumed that battery failures would be gradual, not sudden like
>this.  Has my battery failed or is something else wrong?
>
>  
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