Laptop battery charging capacity reduced to 52%
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I have been using Ubuntu 11.04 on DELL Inspiron 14R (N5010) laptop for last three months. Before I switch to ubuntu my laptop battery used to give 2.5 hrs to 3 hrs back-up. But since I have been using ubuntu, it has been reduced to 1hr to 1.5 hrs at max. I tried following commands:
$ cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state
which gave result as
present: yes
capacity state: ok
charging state: charged
present rate: 1 mA
remaining capacity: 4400 mAh
present voltage: 12407 mV
then I tried $ acpi -b
the result was..
Battery 0: Unknown, 100%
when I gave command as $ upower -i /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0
the result was..
native-path: /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0C0A:00/power_supply/BAT0
model: DELL W7H3N08
serial: 7114
power supply: yes
updated: Sat Nov 24 11:25:34 2012 (21 seconds ago)
has history: yes
has statistics: yes
battery
present:             yes
rechargeable:        yes
state:               fully-charged
energy:              48.4748 Wh
energy-empty:        0 Wh
energy-full:         48.4748 Wh
energy-full-design:  48.9595 Wh
energy-rate:         0.011017 W
voltage:             12.408 V
percentage:          100%
**capacity:            52.9253%**
technology:          lithium-ion
Someone please let me know, what is going wrong with my laptop? How can I get charging with full capacity?
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