Battery info shows hex bytes for vendor/model: vendor: 0x53 0x4D 0x50 0x00 0x32 0x30 0x31 0x39 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 model: 0x4C 0x31 0x39 0x4D 0x33 0x50 0x46 0x34 UPower doesn't decode SBS battery strings properly - null bytes and raw hex are shown as the device name in the Power Manager applet.