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USB mouse cuts out on battery power

I'm using Ubuntu 11.04 64 bit laptop, and I have a Microsoft mouse. When I'm on the battery power the mouse cuts in and out, I have full battery power so it's not because of low power. It never does ...
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Is there a power saving application similar to Jupiter?

I'm trying to install the Jupiter power settings app but, I read it is no longer compatible with the new kernel. Is there a similar program or a way to manage the power settings on 13.04?
Michael Scott's user avatar
17 votes
4 answers
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Laptop battery life drastically decreased compared to Windows 7 [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Why does my computer get less battery life with Ubuntu compared to Windows? I am running Ubuntu 10.10 on my Dell Studio XPS 1640 and have about one hour of battery life in it, ...
Aron Rotteveel's user avatar
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Why does battery power drain quicker in Ubuntu compared to WIndows in Dell Inspiron? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Why does my computer get less battery life with Ubuntu compared to Windows? When I used Windows 7 with Dell Inspiron, I got a battery life of 2 hours. But ever since I ...
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Why does my laptop overheat and discharge faster in Ubuntu than Windows? [duplicate]

I am new to Linux. I have a Dell Inspiron 15 with a 1st generation Intel Core i3 and Ubuntu 12.10. My laptop gets heated quickly which doesn't happen on Windows. Also the battery is discharged faster ...
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Does Ubuntu rapidly decrease the lifespan of my battery?

Okay this seems very silly but i feel like Ubuntu is just destroying the battery of my PC. It started about an year ago when i switched to Ubuntu, within 1-2 months the battery died. It was working ...
Jatin Katyal's user avatar
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How to run Ubuntu 12.10 on a Laptop with maximum power saving? [duplicate]

I have a Toshiba L500-21T with Intel core I3 M330 2.13GHZ having 4 cores with Amd Mobility Rdeon 4500 Graphic card, 360Gb HD and 6GB DDR3 RAM. How can I run my lappy smoothly while giving me ...
Zohaib Asif's user avatar
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1 answer
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Can my settings be customized automatically when I boot on battery power?

Is it possible to tweak settings if and only if the computer starts on battery power? Why? I usually work without battery, but when I use a battery I want it to last as long as possible. For that ...
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how to power save and lookup power usage in terminal [duplicate]

I have already installed powertop , pm-utils , laptop-mode-tool , jupitor , also power save with jupitor , cpu-frequency skilling powersave , pm-powersave true but power usage are 1 hour and 20 ...
Wai Htut Paing's user avatar
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1 answer
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How to fix overheating and battery low life on ASUS K56CM? [duplicate]

I have an ASUS K56CM ubuntu 12.04 runs well, but the temperature in idle is about 55-65 °C. And also my battery have a half less life then on windows7. I tried Jupiter but it doesn't work. Should I ...
Michael Balucha's user avatar
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why ubuntu uses more battery power?

Why ubuntu uses more battery power than windows? When I use windows, my battery lasts for 2 hours But when I use ubuntu, the battery decreases so quickly. hardly I can use for only 1 hour. ...
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I had trouble with charging netbook Lenovo x140e

I bought an old netbook. Windows 8 was installed on the netbook. The battery charge was a maximum of 39%. Working time was 1.5-2 hours. I reinstalled xubuntu 18.04 and it was 17%. Working time 20 ...
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1 answer
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Does Ubuntu reduce battery life? [duplicate]

In this this page of the Ubuntu help it says that using Ubuntu reduces battery life than compared to using Mac/Windows. What does that exactly mean? Does "battery life" mean here the number of hours ...
mrghofrani's user avatar
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Laptop battery drains faster in Ubuntu 16.04 when compared to other OS [duplicate]

The battery backup of my Lenovo G50-45 laptop is very low of around 3hrs on full charge. This was approximately double when I was working with Windows 8.1. Can you please suggest the possible fixes ...
Veeresh H R's user avatar
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1 answer
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why does Ubuntu on my hp pavilion laptop's battery is draining very fast? [duplicate]

i have install ubuntu 14.04 on my hp pavilion laptop initially when i was using windows 8.1 my battery use to be 2.30 hours to 3.00 hours but when i installed ubuntu 14.04 it started draining very ...
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Battery Drains very fast

I am using hp pavillion notebok with windows and ubuntu dual boot, whenver i shutdown my laptop and start the ubuntu after some time, i founds that the charging is reduced very much. I have tried the ...
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Laptop battery doesn't last that long compared to Windows [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Why does my computer get less battery life with Ubuntu compared to Windows? I'm using Ubuntu 12.10 with Gnome 3.6 on a Dell Inspiron N5010 laptop, but I have a problem with ...
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1 answer
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Battery on Ubuntu 12.10 is less compared to win7! [duplicate]

I installed ubuntu 12.10 alongside win7 ultimate on my lenovo ultrabook U410, but the problem is I get 6 hours with win7 while only 3.30 hours on Ubuntu. I installed PowerTop but It does not provide ...
vishUltra's user avatar
18 votes
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Battery life decreased after upgrade to 11.04 [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Why does my computer get less battery life with Ubuntu compared to Windows? After upgrading from Ubuntu 10.10, my battery life has decreased dramatically. There was a bug in ...
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Ubuntu battery performance is very low and more heating?

I am new to the linux world. I recently installed ubuntu 16.04.1 in my Lenovo Yoga 500 laptop. Now my laptop's battery backup become very low. it only give me 1.5 hours to 2 hours backup. In windows ...
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Fan noise and decresed Battary Lifetime after Ubuntu install

I have a fresh Ubuntu 17.10.1 installation on my Lenovo Thinkpad e470 with the following specs: CPU i7 7500U with Intel® HD Graphics 620 GPU Nvidia Geforce 940MX 16GB Ram and 256GB SSD The OS is ...
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Battery efficiency issue in Ubuntu 14.04

I have an HP Probook 440 G2, with an intel core i5-4210U processor. I have dual boot windows 8.1 installation. I get approx 5+ hours of battery backup in Windows 8.1 and approx 2+ hours in Ubuntu. My ...
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My battery drains really fast and my laptop gets really hot, What do I do? [duplicate]

I just installed Ubuntu on my HP Pavilion dv6-6c50ca, and I noticed that every time that I start my laptop with Ubuntu the fan runs really fast and the laptop produces a lot of heat. When I run ...
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