[ltp] Battery went nuts...

[Patrick Huber]

Hi

Thanks for the quick response.

I just did what you suggested. A halt, then remove the battery and try again 
but it's still blinking. I also hit the power button while the battery was 
removed to be sure no electricity remained in the system.

We've then tried my battery in a friends T41p and it's blinking there too. So 
it's now clear that it's the battery.

I guess it's now a case for IBM support.


Am Freitag, 05. November 2004 10.22 schrieb Osho GG:
> I have happenned this to me too. What I have found is that the battery
> simply refuses to recharge even if it is powerd with AC or docked and
> powered with the huge dock power. The only way to get the battery out
> of this is to perform a complete shutdown remove the battery out of
> the notebook shell and reinsert.
>
> It is a huge pain and has happened couple of times with my T42p.
>
> Osho
>
>
> On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 10:06:51 +0100, Patrick Huber
>
> <linux-thinkpad@thunderchick.com> wrote:
> > Hi all
> >
> > I just resumed my T41p from hibernation and the battery symbol keeps
> > blinking. I sent it into hibernation and resumed again but still.
> >
> > $ acpi -V
> >      Battery 1: discharging, 0%, 00:00:41 remaining
> >      Thermal 1: ok, 34.0 degrees C
> >   AC Adapter 1: off-line
> >
> > I just know this: When I'm at a desk, the tp is on ac. Yesterday evening,
> > before I sent it to hibernation, it was on ac.
> >
> > So I guess the battery just 'thinks' it's empty because it should be full
> > and I don't see a possibility for it to drain the complete battery during
> > the night while it's off. Also, I'm writing this on the tp I switched on
> > about 20mins ago and it still keeps telling me I've got like 40sec left.
> >
> > What am I supposed to do? I don't want to hook it on ac because when the
> > system thinks the battery is empty it's gonna charge a near-full battery
> > until it thinks it's full. And in the end, the battery's overgarged with
> > something like 60Wh (capacity is 70Wh).
> >
> > Any experiences? Ideas?
> >
> > TIA
> > Patrick
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> --
> Osho

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