Hi, I had the same issue: I've always been setting it to 1 and recently (with vanilla sony-laptop module) it ended up at 50 which is 50%.
Try setting it to 80, that should work :-) Best regards, Joël -- Sent from my Android phone. Please excuse my brevity. On Sep 27, 2012 8:17 AM, "Flavio" <fbcyb...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 26 September 2012 22:46, vick <weasalan...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > I've never touched that file and mine is set to 0 (which is 100%) > Me too actually. I've never touched it. Or even better, I was used to > start an initscript > at boot time, that modifies the battery_care_limiter file content to > "1". This worked > with the sony-laptop-z-series launchpad module. It doesn't work with > the bundled kernel module. > It seems this file to be always under write protection from the module > itself. > The strange thing I cannot explain is why it has been set to 50. (I > was expecting > a value such as 0, 1 or 2. Actually the battery charging level doesn't > overcome 50%). > > > Are you using sudo or su to write to that file as root? It's only > writable for root. > I don't use sudo, and I also tried to change such value with the root > user. No way! > > On 26 September 2012 22:55, Silverrocker <silverroc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi > > > > I just noticed the same a few days ago! > > its either 0 or 50 but can't be set to 80 which is what was originally > > possible on windows. > Well... This seems to be a bug then. > I was wandering if it would be possible to change the sony-laptop.c source > code > in order to set the default value to 80%. I've seen the code and the > function that > is related to this feature, but I don't like this solution too much, > since I would have > to patch the kernel source code every time. > > Suggestions? > > -- > Flavio > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~sony-vaio-z-series > Post to : sony-vaio-z-series@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~sony-vaio-z-series > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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