I’ve installed a new battery on my laptop, but to my surprise, the percentage of charge in the battery is at 0. Here’s the upower
diagnostics:
$ upower -i /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0
native-path: BAT0
serial: 0
power supply: yes
updated: Thursday 11 July 2024 09:54:55 PM (16 seconds ago)
has history: yes
has statistics: yes
battery
present: yes
rechargeable: yes
state: pending-charge
warning-level: none
energy: 0 Wh
energy-empty: 0 Wh
energy-full: 0 Wh
energy-full-design: 0 Wh
energy-rate: 0 W
charge-cycles: 100
percentage: 0%
technology: lithium-ion
icon-name: 'battery-caution-charging-symbolic'
The “energy-full-design” capacity of the battery should be 70Wh, but here it is, at 0Wh. None of the statistics above (except date and time) have updated, and it’s been two days already. How do I calibrate this battery?
Hmm possibly a connector from the battery to motherboard that didn’t fully seat?
Or if it’s an aftermarket battery maybe it doesn’t have the right hardware in it to talk to the computer or something.