battery not fully charging

[Al Johnson]

On Monday 27 July 2009, pike wrote:
> Hi
>
> >>>> Since this week, my battery isnt charging to the fullest anymore.
> >>>
> >>> mdbus -s org.freesmartphone.odeviced \
> >>>       /org/freesmartphone/Device/PowerSupply/battery \
> >>>       org.freesmartphone.Device.PowerSupply.GetInfo
> >>
> >> after loading a full night:
> >>> {   'capacity': '96',
> >>>     'charge_full': '1121337',
> >>>     'current_now': '29437',
> >>>     'health': 'Good',
> >>>     'online': '1',
> >>>     'present': '1',
> >>>     'status': 'Charging',
> >>>     'technology': 'Li-ion',
> >>>     'temp': '313',
> >>>     'time_to_empty_now': '138840',
> >>>     'time_to_full_now': '3932100',
> >>>     'type': 'Battery',
> >>>     'voltage_now': '4128000'}
> >
> > Your battery is ok, it reports 96% of charge ('capacity').
>
> is it charged ? the icons say its at about 50% ?
> its been on juice for near 12 hours.

You didn't mention the distro (or I missed it), but the illume battery icon 
has been known to report wrong values. IIRC this is because it gets the battey 
info via HAL, and reports the average if more than one battery is found. HAL 
sometimes reports the USB connection as an empty battery, effectively halving 
the charge level shown by the battery icon.