Bug 340153

Summary:	Battery monitor does not see the charger cable
Product:	[Plasma] Powerdevil	Reporter:	leon pollak <leonp>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Plasma Development Mailing List <plasma-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	kde, simonandric5
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Fedora RPMs
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description leon pollak 2014-10-20 11:47:09 UTC

BatMon works according to "On Battery" profile and writes "Battery not charging" at left click on the icon in the System Tray, BUT:
1. The charger is connected and charging.
2. The icon of BatMon shows the charging picture.
 
Also when I extract the power connector, the BatMon icon changes to that without charger connected and the display brightness goes at about 70%, while  one click on BatMon shows that "Display Brightness" is at 100%.

Reproducible: Always


Actual Results:  
This happens at some moment and I am not able to get rid off it. The reboot also does not help.

Comment 1 Kai Uwe Broulik 2014-11-02 18:38:45 UTC

Note that the battery not neccessarily charges just because the AC is plugged in.
It might already be full or a charge lock in place - the 4.x series does not distinguish full and not charging and just displays "Not charging".

Comment 2 leon pollak 2014-11-02 18:52:29 UTC

Yes, I understand.
But in this state it switches my laptop to the power saving modes and even forces it to sleep! And this goes against the settings which say no screen deeming and no sleeps while on charger.
This behavior became very insistent after some updated of my Fedora, I did not payed attention when. But this was not more than a month ago...

Comment 3 Kai Uwe Broulik 2014-11-02 19:06:45 UTC

Re-assigning to PowerDevil since it handles the standby stuff, it should stay in "On AC" mode as long as the cable is plugged in, regardless of any battery state.

Comment 4 Andrew Crouthamel 2018-11-12 02:50:03 UTC

Dear Bug Submitter,

This bug has been stagnant for a long time. Could you help us out and re-test if the bug is valid in the latest version? I am setting the status to NEEDSINFO pending your response, please change the Status back to REPORTED when you respond.

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