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Battery status always "Charging" - dabigjhall - 02-14-2022
I'm currently on PostmarketOS with Phosh, and the battery indicator always says it is "charging", even when it's unplugged. I believe this was also happening on the Manjaro ARM+Plasma Mobile image that shipped on the device, but I didn't check it out in detail.
`/sys/class/battery/status` always says "Charging" too, which I'm guessing is closer to the root cause, but `/sys/class/rk818-charger/status` does update correctly.
Is there a kernel module known to be incomplete here that I could look into? I'm an experienced software engineer but have not had to dive into this sort of thing in the past, so a starting point would save me a lot of time
This is probably worth a separate post, but the phone is consistently pretty warm when off the charger and drains the battery pretty quickly. I'm hoping that maybe the "charging" indication is related; maybe it's not managing power as intended just because it thinks it's plugged in. At any rate, seems worth getting the charging state to work before trying to work around it in power management.
Thanks!
RE: Battery status always "Charging" - FrozenPine - 03-15-2022
I have the same issue: battery indicator shows charging at all times. I have tried Manjaro Plasma and Posh, and see it in both.
RE: Battery status always "Charging" - maltee - 03-16-2022
using manjaro's unstable branch fixed this for me.