It shows radical changes in readings.

When AC is plugged reading goes up fast (70% full - 30 mins until charged >> few seconds pass >> 80% full - 20 mins until charged)

When running on battery (3 hours remaining >> after few seconds >> 2 hours remaining)

Is it my battery or the readings?

how accurate is the battery life meter?

Pretty bad, like most similar tools.

Comment by Tails Sat 30 Mar 2013 07:03:45 PM CET

@ OP:

Applications which attempt to guess how long you can run off your battery before you will need to recharge try to use some current readings and a history of past readings to make some educated guesses. In my experience, they don't always work every well even for a laptop on which the operating system is a Linux booted from a hard drive (thus with persistence), but if you lack persistence (e.g. if you boot Tails from a live DVD), you probably shouldn't expect this kind of application to work reliably.

Comment by Anonymous Sun 31 Mar 2013 07:19:00 PM CEST