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I know there are similar posts (I even post this question two months ago with no replies) but I could not figure out a solution. Also, searching in Internet did not give anything useful.

I am not able to see the battery indicator on the panel in my Ubuntu 14.04 installation. I changed the power setting to 'When battery is present', used dconf-editor to check if the power-daemon was active, also purged and installed 'indicator-power' to no effect. I spent a lot of time reading various relevant threads in Internet but still no result. Anything else that I can try to get it back? Is this a bug?

I even followed the instructions: here . I can check e.g. the temprature by

$ acpi -t

but 

$ acpi

does not produce a result.

(AMD A6-3400M APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics × 4 )

PS.

A colleague of mine recently purchased a Dell laptop with the same version of Ubuntu preinstalled. In his laptop there is battery indication!

Dimitris
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  • Is your laptop the same model as your colleague's? – TheWanderer Sep 01 '15 at 11:28
  • No. Mine one is a Toshiba Satelite originally coming with Windows 7 and installing Ubuntu as dualbooting (sorry for possibe improper use of terms). – Dimitris Sep 01 '15 at 11:36
  • It kind of made it seem like you had a Dell as well. A different model could make a difference, but a completely different brand shouldn't be compared. Now, you can try this, but since it's for 11.04, there's no guarantee it'll work: http://askubuntu.com/questions/68445/no-battery-status-icon – TheWanderer Sep 01 '15 at 11:41
  • Thanks for your replies. I have already tried it; no results! Do you think it is really a bug or it has to do with my pc or even with the pc's battery? Showing the related posts I am very puzzled! – Dimitris Sep 01 '15 at 11:45
  • I'm not sure. You could try going to 15.04 – TheWanderer Sep 01 '15 at 11:46
  • I tried 15.04, following http://releases.ubuntu.com/15.04/ . No workaround. It may be a problem of my hardware but there are 9 similar posts in the forum. Quite strange... – Dimitris Sep 01 '15 at 13:59
  • So many similar posts actually points to it being a hardware issue. Ubuntu probably doesn't work with your battery controller. – TheWanderer Sep 01 '15 at 14:13
  • Is there workaround for it? (except for getting rid of my laptop:-)!) – Dimitris Sep 01 '15 at 14:25
  • You might be able to get some sort of third party hardware/battery monitoring app. – TheWanderer Sep 01 '15 at 14:29
  • Ok, this has become like chat...but do you have sth to propose? – Dimitris Sep 01 '15 at 14:30
  • Just search battery monitor or hardware monitor in the software center – TheWanderer Sep 01 '15 at 14:32

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