Upgraded to AMI BIOS 217 with saucy, and the battery issues I've seen has
disappeared.
Battery is now charging correctly to full, not discharging when charger is
connected.
And the battery LED Seem to behave correctly now, previously I had the blinking
red all the time.
Keyboard lights can not be altered anymore via Fn-F2/F3 but thats a good
tradeoff.
# dmidecode 2.12
SMBIOS 2.7 present.
23 structures occupying 1690 bytes.
Table at 0x000EBA70.
Handle 0x0000, DMI type 0, 24 bytes
BIOS Information
Vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
Version: N56VZ.217
Release Date: 05/22/2013
Address: 0xF0000
Runtime Size: 64 kB
ROM Size: 6144 kB
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1088146
Title:
Asus n56vz battery state is wrong or battery not charging at all.
Status in “upower” package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
I have an ASUS N56VZ notebook. There are some bugs I have mentioned and they
are known on ubuntu forums.
Sometimes I am getting strange results in battery power state, that are not
even close to be accurate.
So bugs are:
1) Then I am turning on the notebok with not enough power (3% for example)
the fan is going to it`s full speed (no CPU loading at all) and the power
indicator shows that power is insufficient. Plugging the power adapter didn`t
solved the problem - it was not charging and notebook soon turns off.
2) As I described above, I can`t feed the notebook sometimes (especially on
low battery level).
3) I am getting the strange battery state result: sometimes it looks, that
it`s charging very slow. Am am working about a hour and my power level just
rised from 30 minutes to 40 minutes.
4) I am not sure about this bug, may be it`s a hardware one, but then I
turned notebook off with plugged in power adapter, it was not charged at all
for the whole night!
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2084696 - here is a proof, that I am
not alone )))
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: upower 0.9.17-1build1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-19.30-generic 3.5.7
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-19-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu6
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Dec 9 13:18:17 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/upower/upowerd
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-11-30 (8 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.5)
MarkForUpload: True
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SourcePackage: upower
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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