Battery indicator not working - linuxmint 20.1 Cinnamon

[m7usien]

Hello Experts,

I'm completely new with linux generally and linuxmint especially, i installed it since around week and loved it so much, i found alternatives for everything on windows and i found solutions for everything except one thing.

The battery indicator that appear at the right down corner always show that battery is Fully Charged and also show it is connected to the charger although the charger is not connected since long time and the battery for sure is not 100%, i didn't find any solution to this issue till now. hope to find it through you.

Thanks in advance.

Mo.

[shockedquartz]

If you're talking about a UPS and not a laptop..

I'm using a UPS and the Cinnamon Power Manager is not super great.
It's polling is pretty slow. I changed to a newer UPS model but the applet didn't discover the new device name and I had to edit it.
The good news is if you're using Cyberpower, they support software for Linux and you can use that. But it's propitiatory.

I found the built-in applet Ok enough for my needs and didn't install the 3rd party app because my USP has a screen on it I can check.
I'm not sure about APC.

[m7usien]

Hello shockedquartz,

No i'm not using UPS, just using laptop plugging charger into it directly from the electricity source.

[mikeflan]

I usually recommend using as few applets as possible, but in your case I suggest you install the 'Power Manager' applet (Menu - Applets).

Also please give us info on your system. Type this in a terminal:

Code: Select all

inxi -Fxxxrz

Post the output in "Code" tags. The button that inserts these tags is marked </>

[m7usien]

Hello Mikeflan,

Thanks for your reply.... i already used applets but it is also gave me the same result, battery indicator of the applet also hanged on status charging with percentage 100% and not changing whatever i did plugged or unplugged the adaptor.

Code: Select all

CPU:
  Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Core i5-1035G1 bits: 64 type: MT MCP 
  arch: Ice Lake rev: 5 L2 cache: 6144 KiB bogomips: 19046 
  Speed: 2762 MHz min/max: 400/3600 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 3344 2: 3260 
  3: 3522 4: 3464 5: 3327 6: 3438 7: 3380 8: 3286 
  Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm acpi adx aes aperfmperf apic arat 
  arch_capabilities arch_perfmon art avx avx2 avx512_bitalg avx512_vbmi2 
  avx512_vnni avx512_vpopcntdq avx512bw avx512cd avx512dq avx512f avx512ifma 
  avx512vbmi avx512vl bmi1 bmi2 bts clflush clflushopt cmov constant_tsc 
  cpuid cpuid_fault cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts epb ept ept_ad erms 
  est f16c flexpriority flush_l1d fma fpu fsgsbase fxsr gfni ht hwp 
  hwp_act_window hwp_epp hwp_notify hwp_pkg_req ibpb ibrs ibrs_enhanced ida 
  intel_pt invpcid invpcid_single lahf_lm lm mca mce md_clear mmx monitor 
  movbe msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx ospke pae pat pbe pcid pclmulqdq pdcm 
  pdpe1gb pebs pge pku pln pni popcnt pse pse36 pts rdpid rdrand rdseed 
  rdtscp rep_good sdbg sep sha_ni smap smep ss ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 
  ssse3 stibp syscall tm tm2 tpr_shadow tsc tsc_adjust tsc_deadline_timer 
  tsc_known_freq umip vaes vme vmx vnmi vpclmulqdq vpid x2apic xgetbv1 xsave 
  xsavec xsaveopt xsaves xtopology xtpr 
Repos:
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list 
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list 
  1: deb http://packages.linuxmint.com ulyssa main upstream import backport #id:linuxmint_main
  2: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal main restricted universe multiverse
  3: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates main restricted universe multiverse
  4: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports main restricted universe multiverse
  5: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal-security main restricted universe multiverse
  6: deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ focal partner

Thanks in advance.

[mikeflan]

I won't be able to help. We'll see if others can make sense of the info supplied.