System never recognises charged battery

neroux · 07-25-2016, 03:03 AM

Hi,

I recently installed Mint 18 and it does not seem to recognise when the battery is fully charged, but always displays "Using battery power".
I already found a few related discussions at

http://askubuntu.com/questions/58706...lugged-in-asus
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=222503

My biggest concern is not what the status text says, but that the system might actually use the battery and constantly dis- and re-charge it.

Any ideas?

Mitt Green · 07-25-2016, 03:07 PM

I'd check the status in the command line with acpi. For example, right now I'm using power source and it says

Code:

Battery 0: Full, 100%, rate information unavailable

So, check yours and let us know.

Welcome here, by the way.

neroux · 07-26-2016, 04:24 AM

Thanks for the welcome Mitt

.

acpi was a very good hint, I will look into it, thanks a lot.

aragorn2101 · 08-14-2016, 04:51 AM

Hi,

If your problem is not solved yet, you can try

Code:

> upower -d

neroux · 08-14-2016, 07:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by aragorn2101

Hi,

If your problem is not solved yet, you can try

Code:

> upower -d

Thanks for the suggestion, due to Wifi issues I had to revert back to Windows meanwhile though.