Battery indicator after upgrade to 17.2

[harlekein]

Today I upgraded my two laptops to 17.2 with Cinnamon 2.6 and on both I have the same problem: The battery indicator in the Gnome panel does not display the percentage. It does display being drained somewhat after a while, but then it becomes full again randomly.

It is not display the status correctly or consistently. Battery readouts through other means is just fine.

Any advice?

[harlekein]

Going into Settings > Applets > Power I was able to display the percentage in the tray. The battery icon is pretty much useless now, but at least I can see the status of my battery without having to hover over it.

[openfred]

Previously, in the Power Management Applet, it was possible to add Percentage, but also Time remaining
Would it be possible to get this feature back ?
Of course, Time remaining is available when overing the applet, but it should be possible to get is along the percentage, in the applet..

[messo8080]

+1
need this future...

[phydeaux]

+1
I was disappointed to see that time remaining has been removed. This was a really useful feature not available in other desktops. OK so it was not always completely accurate but as a guideline it was very useful.

[UberPanda]

Kinda ugly kludge, but it works if yout can't wait for the cinnamon guys to fix this :

https://github.com/numian/cinnamon-power-applet

[harlekein]

I found this bug is posted on the repo at Github. I did some digging around and found the problem was introducted in 2.4.1.

I solved it by using the applet from 2.4.0 again. (Mint 17.1)

https://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon/issues/4329

In short:

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cd /usr/share/cinnamon/applets/power@cinnamon.org
sudo wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon/2.4.0/files/usr/share/cinnamon/applets/power%40cinnamon.org/applet.js
sudo wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon/2.4.0/files/usr/share/cinnamon/applets/power%40cinnamon.org/settings-schema.json

The last two commands just gets files as they were in 2.4.0 and saves it to your current path. Sudo is required because it is a system directory.

[magnon]

Thanks for that, I have a HP Pavilion DV5 and it's battery indicator also stopped working (always showed full, but showed correct percentage when clicking on it)

I first had the problem in Linux Mint 17.2 Xfce, then did a fresh install of Linux Mint 17.2 Cinnamon (for a different reason), and was surprised to see the same problem.

Running your 3 commands & a restart has restored it to working like I've gotten used it.

[rbarron]

Just do right click on battery applet and click configure and select battery percentage.This work for me on Linux Mint 17.2.

[messo8080]

Display brightness not working after downgrade.

[messo8080]

Applet is fully working on new Cinnamon 2.8.2. (romeo repository)