Dell Vostro 1520 Battery Meter

[indianajones]

Hi,

 

I originally posted this under the hardware->other peripherals, but got no responses. I’m hoping somebody here might be able to help me before I nuke my OS X drive.

 

I have a dell Vostro 1520 laptop with a recently replaced 6 cell 2200 mAh, which until a couple of days ago worked perfectly. For no apparent reason, my system now thinks that the battery has a capacity of 40,000+ mAh! IORegistryExplorer reports the same value even when I unplugged the battery, which leads me to believe that I might have corrupted the registery.

 

I’d appreciate if somebody here could help me or point me in the right direction. I’m completely lost with this!!

 

 

 

Indiana

 

PS: I have 10.6.3 which was updated several weeks ago without any issues.

 

I thought I might add that I am running the Vanilla 10.6 updated to 10.6.3. The battery meter runs courtsey of VoodooBattery kext, version 1.3. Here's a screen shot of the problem.

Thanks

 

Indiana

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[indianajones]

Could somebody tell me where OS X stores the battery information. It's doesn't seem to change with or without the abttery plugged in. I tried changing the value through IORegisteryExplorer but did not succeed.

If you're wondering why I'm worried about the battery charge time... I can't work without the power adapter, everytime I disconnect it, I get an alarm saying I have low battery, even though the battery is obviously full.

[indianajones]

SOLVED!

No wonder no one could help me, I needed the Master himself to solve this mystery. It appears that the VoodooBattery kext did not expect the battery to report a charge value greater than the design charge. There were a couple of other issues that Superhai fixed, in the latest version released today. If anyone here is having similar issues, try the latest verion of the kext.