laptop indicates critical battery and suspends. why is it lying to me?

[pieisgood4589]

Maybe this will help?

The problem isn't with the physical machine, only with Ubuntu misdiagnosing the battery condition.

I'm going to assume that you checked the MD5 on your .iso and burned it properly.

A bit of Googling brought me to this thread which could shed light on your issue-
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1543467

Have you checked out these two forum links yet? They might provide you with an answer.

[SebSmith]

The problem isn't with the physical machine, only with Ubuntu misdiagnosing the battery condition.

I'm going to assume that you checked the MD5 on your .iso and burned it properly.

A bit of Googling brought me to this thread which could shed light on your issue-
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1543467

as i have indicated, i am a novice so i dont know what md5 is.

perhaps i am describing the issue wrong.

HERE: my battery charges and discharges fine. however, everytime i plug in my ac adapter (regardless of battery level) i get a pop up saying the battery is at a critical level as is suspending. this causes me to have to close the lid and unsuspend every single time i decide to recharge my battery (even if the level is at lets say 80%).

[SebSmith]

Have you checked out these two forum links yet? They might provide you with an answer.

the first one is a completely a different issue and helps me in a different way.

the second is an issue that i am not having.

[pieisgood4589]

Ah, after describing the issue again, I think I understand.

I had a client with a MSI Wind u100 netbook loaded with Ubuntu that had this exact problem. Even with a fully charged battery, once you unplug it from the power source, Ubuntu displays a popup warning that the battery level is critical, and the computer suspends/hibernates.

If you want to circumvent the problem for now, you can run System->Preferences->Power Management and go to the On Battery Power tab.

The entry for 'When laptop lid is closed' is the behaviour that gets acted when you remove your AC cable. I've changed it to 'Blank Screen' for now, as I can live with that. It seems that to my knowledge and to Google's that this is a bug that is currently being worked on.

Some reported success with updating the GNOME Power Manager tool, but that was around 8.04, and might not work with the newer versions of Ubuntu.

[SebSmith]

the problem is when is that ubuntu gives a pop up message that battery level is critical when i PLUG-IN the ac adapter. unplugging doesnt give me a problem. everytime i PLUG IN to recharge, my computer suspends. how can i fix this?

[SebSmith]

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problem is still persisting