| philipballew | What would cause a battery to work, but not be recognized? | 02:48 |
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| philipballew | as in not show up in the panel or power settings? | 02:48 |
| akk | Laptop? Some laptop batteries (esp. Dell) have circuitry that identify them, and non brand name batteries lack that circuit. | 02:53 |
| izdubar | Has it been working? | 02:53 |
| izdubar | Is it a change- as in battery dying? | 02:54 |
| izdubar | http://sudoroom.org/wiki/Today_I_Learned What is Linux class #TIL in Oakland | 02:54 |
| darthrobot | [R: sudoroom.org] Title: [Today I Learned - Sudoroom.org] | 02:54 |
| philipballew | izdubar, akk My battery that came with the laptop died and I got a used dell brand one for free. | 03:01 |
| akk | It's possible that it's not really a Dell, but a Chinese/ebay imitation that doesn't have the Dell circuitry. | 03:02 |
| philipballew | I'm tempted to open both up and see what the difference between them is. | 03:02 |
| akk | There are a lot of those. | 03:02 |
| philipballew | It says "Made in Japan", but people might lie about that... | 03:03 |
| akk | Yeah, a lot of fake Chinese Arduinos say Made in Italy, Arduino.cc etc. | 03:03 |
| izdubar | Sometimes power part of GUI is smoke/mirrors/duct tape too. Counterfeits exist | 03:03 |
| akk | They lie. | 03:03 |
| izdubar | akk is *as always* correct :) | 03:04 |
| akk | d had a fake Dell battery (from ebay) for his Dell Mini 9 and he never figured out a way to get it recognized. | 03:04 |
| akk | He contacted the seller who said it wasn't worth sending it back, they just refunded the money. | 03:04 |
| akk | So he still has it, it works but doesn't show up right in battery/acpi stats. | 03:04 |
| izdubar | !addfact R2Pi2 akk is always correct (on major issues) | 03:04 |
| EureCA | izdubar: Error: I am only a bot, please don't think I'm intelligent :) | 03:04 |
| darthrobot | izdubar: Error: "addfact" is not a valid command. | 03:04 |
| philipballew | I got the battery for free so I am not mad about much. Though having a laptop die without me knowing might be annoying. | 03:05 |
| akk | yeah | 03:05 |
| akk | You might just have to keep track of running time yourself (or use uptime or something) | 03:05 |
| philipballew | I might be able to use spare parts lying around to put a meeter on the battery connection to display the battery strength. I have too many parts lying around to ever find things do with... | 03:07 |
| philipballew | I might be able to use spare parts lying around to put a meeter on the battery connection to display the battery strength. I have too many parts lying around to ever find things do with...'"ive with it" | 03:08 |
| philipballew | *Live | 03:08 |
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