T480s, battery state jumping from fully-charged to charging while plugged in, battery LED doesn't change

Rubin Abdi <[email protected]> Mon, 13 Jun 2022 12:55:38 -0500
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Hello.

I'm running Debian Sid 5.16.0-4-amd64 from the repo. I just did a long
needed aptitude safe-upgrade (I don't believe my kernel got upgraded).
After reboot I am seeing upower -i
/org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0 report the state of the
battery going from fully-charged to charging every few seconds (which is
throwing up notifications in KDE every few seconds). The charging indicator
LED on the machine is maintaining white for fully charged (yes I know this
is subjective). Battery percent is maintained at 99%.

Additionally about a month ago I replaced the battery in this machine to a
new generic one off of Amazon, after install and discharge/recharging the
thing a couple of times upower reported about a 94% battery capacity (which
I feel like is typical of generic replacement batteries). Today it's at
93.1404%.

I looked through the "Battery recalibration" thread from April, I could
have sworn linux these days (along with the bios) manage recalibration on
their own, but I suppose I'm mistaken.

So at this point I don't know if the issue is something got tweaked on this
last apt upgrade, or a recalibration needs to happen. Any advice would be
appreciated.

Thanks.

-- 
Rubin (he/him <https://pronoun.is/he/him>)
[email protected]

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cator LED on the machine is maintaining white for fully charged (yes I know=
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/div><div>Additionally about a month ago I replaced the battery in this mac=
hine to a new generic one off of Amazon, after install and discharge/rechar=
ging the thing a couple of times upower reported about a 94% battery capaci=
ty (which I feel like is typical of generic replacement batteries). Today i=
t&#39;s at 93.1404%.</div><div><br></div><div>I looked through the &quot;Ba=
ttery recalibration&quot; thread from April, I could have sworn linux these=
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e I&#39;m mistaken.</div><div><br></div><div>So at this point I don&#39;t k=
now if the issue is something got tweaked on this last apt upgrade, or a re=
calibration needs to happen. Any advice would be appreciated.</div><div><br=
></div><div>Thanks.</div><div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir=3D"ltr" class=
=3D"gmail_signature" data-smartmail=3D"gmail_signature"><div dir=3D"ltr">Ru=
bin (<a href=3D"https://pronoun.is/he/him" target=3D"_blank">he/him</a>)<br=
><a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]" target=3D"_blank">[email protected]</=
a><br></div></div></div></div>

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