[ltp] battery electronics

[Macskasi Csaba]

On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 14:18:18 +0100, Michael Gaber <Michael.Gaber@gmx.net>  
wrote:

> i would try to call lenovo support. they might tell you that it's not a
> warranty-issue and blablabla but might have a idea what to do

Thanks for the idea, but the battery is in battery-heaven now. I wonder  
what used lithium-cells are good for... ;-)


>
> Macskasi Csaba schrieb:
>> Hey list!
>>
>> A friend of mine shot the electronics of the battery of my thinkpad by
>> charging the battery with an external charger. The cells are ok, the
>> voltage is correct, but the laptop doesn't work unplugged. I can read
>> battery information from /proc/acpi/battery successfully. Also if I plug
>> in the battery to the thinkpad it is beeing  charged.
>> Is there any way to reset the electronics in the battery manually?
>> (Perhaps removing the cells and not giving the electronics power for
>> some time?)
>>
>> The picture of the opened battery can be viewed here:
>> http://tuxworld.homelinux.org/misc/skh/accu_small.jpg
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Csaba
>>
>>



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