6 Cell Battery Wont Show Status

I have a similar problem and think it may be related to the battery.

see here: viewtopic.php?f=24&t=11194

or I will just cut&paste.

got my 6 cell battery a month ago, and when I first got it, the monitor would show 5+ hours left on the battery at about 9500mah usage.

now, fully charged, it shows 3 hours remaining on the battery status in kpowersave. Same as my 3 cell normally does.

I let it go down to ZERO percent remaining, and it ran for two more hours before I shut it off to get some sleep.

The battery indicator by the power plug blinked red while it was in this "low power" state.

The battery does not seem to be defective (unless it thinks that itis a 3 cell, which is possible, I did do some swapping to compare battery life while the computer was on and plugged in)

when I shut the computer down in the "low power" state, the red light continued to blink and the computer would not boot without the power plug in.

I changed the bios from 3308 to 3309 and no change.

I went back to 3114 (and enjoying the extra low screen brightness settings BTW) and no change.

I recharged the battery and it still shows about 3 hours on a 6 cell!!!! grrrrr

But it still has 5 hours of juice...

sounds like either the battery is reporting the wrong info, or the bios is reading it wrong...

any insight into this?

Do the batteries have a type of bios or chip that could have been overwritten by swapping the 3 cell while power was on?

Any ideas on how to fix it?

I now disable auto functions on kpowersave and don't use it at all as it reports false info.

Please help :cry:

OK here is some new info:
[user@localhost ~]$ cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/info
present: yes
design capacity: 4400 mAh
last full capacity: 2954 mAh
battery technology: rechargeable
design voltage: 11100 mV
design capacity warning: 300 mAh
design capacity low: 118 mAh
capacity granularity 1: 32 mAh
capacity granularity 2: 32 mAh
model number: UM08B74
serial number: 013A
battery type: LION
OEM info: SIMPLO

So apparently my new(ish) 6 cell thinks it is a 3 cell OEM battery.

Now that my suspicions were confirmed... how to fix??

this officially sux donkey nuts.... I may just do away with kpower save, or ANY battery monitoring device. It only really serves as a distraction during school, being that I am overly concerned with how long I can make the battery last.