Hi,
I'm writing about my packard bell laptop (dot M/U, model number ZH7), on which I am running Ubuntu 12.04. For some time now, I held its battery for dead, but since it works fine with the AC power plugged in, I didn't pay too much attention to it (I had other projects to look after). Now I wanted to finally find out if I should get a new battery, and what's up with the old one. I checked the power statistics, and I realised it won't charge beyond 3%.....of its 'energy when full', or 30% of its 'energy (design)' (??!!!?). In particular the power statistics show the following:
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native-path: /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0C0A:00/power_supply/BAT1
vendor: SIMPLO
model: UM09E71
serial: 0027
power supply: yes
updated: Mon 15 Sep 2014 10:07:38 CEST (7 seconds ago)
has history: yes
has statistics: yes
battery
present: yes
rechargeable: yes
state: charging
energy: 19.0809 Wh
energy-empty: 0 Wh
energy-full: 584.659 Wh
energy-full-design: 48.84 Wh
energy-rate: 1.24753 W
voltage: 11.434 V
percentage: 3.26359%
capacity: 100%
technology: lithium-ion
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What surprises me is that "energy-full" is so much more than "energy-full-design". In all the questions about battery problems I have seen so far, this was never the case, and these values where either equal or the "energy-full" was less than "energy-full-design". What is going on here?
The laptop powers off instantly when I unplug the AC power, and I have tried taking the battery out and putting it in carefully again.
when I type
it gives me:
I have tried installing powertop and running it with the autotune option:
Code:
sudo powertop --auto-tune
The overview says:
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Summary: 242.4 wakeups/second, 0.0 GPU ops/second and 0.0 VFS ops/sec
Usage Events/s Category Description
1.3 ms/s 140.6 Timer hrtimer_wakeup
100.0% Device Audio codec hwC0D0: Realtek
100.0% Device Audio codec hwC0D1: Intel
10.1 ms/s 43.4 Process /usr/lib/firefox/firefox
460.0 µs/s 24.0 Interrupt [43] i915
306.0 µs/s 12.2 Timer tick_sched_timer
101.6 µs/s 7.3 kWork ieee80211_iface_work
442.2 µs/s 6.2 Interrupt [6] tasklet(softirq)
60.8 µs/s 1.7 Process nautilus -n
499.1 µs/s 0.9 Process compiz
51.2 µs/s 0.9 Process syndaemon -i 2.0 -K -R -t
465.4 µs/s 0.6 kWork acer_rfkill_update
3.8 µs/s 0.7 kWork ath_tx_complete_poll_work
48.4 µs/s 0.6 Interrupt [9] acpi
11.8 µs/s 0.6 Interrupt [4] block(softirq)
429.1 µs/s 0.3 Process gnome-terminal
403.8 µs/s 0.3 Process /usr/bin/X :0 -auth /var/run/lightdm/root/:0 -nolisten tcp vt7 -novtswitch -background none
0.4 µs/s 0.3 kWork blk_delay_work
1.5 µs/s 0.2 kWork i915_gem_retire_work_handler
368.2 µs/s 0.1 Process powertop --auto-tune
387.2 µs/s 0.0 Interrupt [0] timer/0
30.4 µs/s 0.1 Process /home/i/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86-2.10.27/dropbox /newerversion
4.3 µs/s 0.1 Interrupt [3] net_rx(softirq)
3.5 µs/s 0.1 Interrupt [1] i8042
2.1 µs/s 0.1 Timer watchdog_timer_fn
1.7 µs/s 0.1 kWork console_callback
1.7 µs/s 0.1 kWork rfkill_poll
1.6 µs/s 0.1 Timer sched_rt_period_timer
1.3 µs/s 0.1 kWork neigh_periodic_work
194.8 µs/s 0.0 Interrupt [19] ath9k
46.2 µs/s 0.0 Interrupt [9] RCU(softirq)
22.9 µs/s 0.0 Process /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-settings-daemon
17.1 µs/s 0.0 Process /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/landscape-broker --ignore-sigint --quiet
7.0 µs/s 0.0 Process [jbd2/sda1-8]
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The Idle Stats say:
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Package | CPU 0
POLL 0.0% | POLL 0.0% 0.0 ms
C1 0.1% | C1 0.1% 0.1 ms
C2 74.1% | C2 74.1% 2.0 ms
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The Frequency Stats:
Quote:
Package | CPU 0
Idle 100.0% | Idle 100.0%
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The Device Stats:
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Usage Device name
3.5% CPU use
100.0% Audio codec hwC0D0: Realtek
100.0% Audio codec hwC0D1: Intel
60.0% Display backlight
55.6% Display backlight
100.0% Radio device: acer-wmi
100.0% Radio device: ath9k
100.0% PCI Device: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub
100.0% USB device: EHCI Host Controller
100.0% PCI Device: Qualcomm Atheros AR8131 Gigabit Ethernet
100.0% USB device: CNF9011 (Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd.)
100.0% USB device: UHCI Host Controller
100.0% USB device: UHCI Host Controller
100.0% USB device: UHCI Host Controller
100.0% USB device: UHCI Host Controller
100.0% PCI Device: Qualcomm Atheros AR928X Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express)
100.0% PCI Device: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller
100.0% PCI Device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2
100.0% PCI Device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 4
100.0% PCI Device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1
100.0% PCI Device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller
100.0% PCI Device: Intel Corporation ICH9M-E LPC Interface Controller
100.0% PCI Device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1
100.0% PCI Device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3
100.0% PCI Device: Intel Corporation 82801IBM/IEM (ICH9M/ICH9M-E) 4 port SATA Controller [AHCI mode]
100.0% PCI Device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1
100.0% PCI Device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4
100.0% PCI Device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2
100.0% USB device: EHCI Host Controller
9.7 pkts/s Network interface: wlan0 (ath9k)
0.0% PCI Device: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller
0.0 pkts/s Network interface: eth0 (atl1c)
0.0% PCI Device: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge
0.0% PCI Device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller
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And (strangely) the Tunables tab gives:
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>> Bad Wireless Power Saving for interface wlan0
Bad Enable SATA link power management for /dev/sda
Bad NMI watchdog should be turned off
Bad VM writeback timeout
Bad Enable Audio codec power management
Bad Autosuspend for USB device UHCI Host Controller [usb3]
Bad Autosuspend for USB device UHCI Host Controller [usb4]
Bad Autosuspend for USB device CNF9011 (Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd.)
Bad Autosuspend for USB device EHCI Host Controller [usb1]
Bad Autosuspend for USB device EHCI Host Controller [usb2]
Bad Autosuspend for USB device UHCI Host Controller [usb5]
Bad Autosuspend for USB device UHCI Host Controller [usb6]
Bad Runtime PM for PCI Device Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller
Bad Runtime PM for PCI Device Qualcomm Atheros AR8131 Gigabit Ethernet
Bad Runtime PM for PCI Device Qualcomm Atheros AR928X Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express)
Bad Runtime PM for PCI Device Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub
Good Runtime PM for PCI Device Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge
Good Runtime PM for PCI Device Intel Corporation 82801IBM/IEM (ICH9M/ICH9M-E) 4 port SATA Controller [AHCI mode]
Good Runtime PM for PCI Device Intel Corporation ICH9M-E LPC Interface Controller
Good Runtime PM for PCI Device Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1
Good Runtime PM for PCI Device Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller
Good Runtime PM for PCI Device Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller
Good Runtime PM for PCI Device Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller
Good Runtime PM for PCI Device Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4
Good Runtime PM for PCI Device Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1
Good Runtime PM for PCI Device Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3
Good Runtime PM for PCI Device Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 4
Good Runtime PM for PCI Device Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2
Good Runtime PM for PCI Device Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2
Good Runtime PM for PCI Device Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1
Good Wake-on-lan status for device wlan0
Good Wake-on-lan status for device eth0
Good Using 'ondemand' cpufreq governor
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The reason I say strangely is that yesterday I clicked on all the items that said "Bad", which turned them into "Good", apart from the first one which wouldn't change. Today that I ran it again to copy paste the output here, they all returned back to "Bad".
I am a newbie and I have no idea what all this means, and how come my Energy (full) is so much more than my Energy (design). The battery won't charge beyond this "3%", no matter how long I leave it plugged in and shut down.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Ioanna
Battery's energy when full is way more than energy (design)
