Persistent "laptop battery critically low"
Hello! I've noticed a frustrating issue where the low battery notification will pop up once every few seconds while charging my laptop (and on low battery). It repeatedly says "the battery is below the critical level and about to shut down" even though the battery charge percentage is continuously increasing. I can close the notification, but another one appears in its place within a few seconds.
My only workaround is to keep my laptop reasonably charged, but unfortunately as a human I'm not very good at that. Is there any info I can supply to make debugging easier?
$ uname -a
Linux samus 4.18.12-arch1-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Oct 4 01:01:27 UTC 2018 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ pacman -Qs gnome-shell
local/gnome-shell 3.30.0+37+g969eecb88-1 (gnome)
Next generation desktop shell
local/gnome-shell-extensions 3.30.0-1 (gnome)
Extensions for GNOME shell, including classic mode
$ upower -i $(upower -e batt | grep BAT)
native-path: BAT0
vendor: SMP-ATL
model: A55
serial: 00EF
power supply: yes
updated: Sat 06 Oct 2018 08:44:58 AM PDT (22 seconds ago)
has history: yes
has statistics: yes
battery
present: yes
rechargeable: yes
state: charging
warning-level: none
energy: 1.4592 Wh
energy-empty: 0 Wh
energy-full: 63.2396 Wh
energy-full-design: 72.314 Wh
energy-rate: 1.0336 W
voltage: 7.339 V
percentage: 2%
capacity: 87.4514%
technology: lithium-ion
icon-name: 'battery-caution-charging-symbolic'
History (charge):
1538840628 2.000 discharging
History (rate):
1538840698 1.034 unknown
1538840697 5.176 discharging
1538840694 10.982 charging
1538840693 3.975 charging
1538840692 4.226 discharging
1538840687 12.692 charging
1538840642 2.706 charging
1538840634 4.851 discharging
1538840611 7.456 charging
1538840609 0.289 discharging