Questions tagged [battery]
Questions about battery usage and issues in Ubuntu.
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Linux drawing too much power
I have a Asus FX505DY laptop with AMD Ryzen 5 3550H and Radeon RX560X. I recently dual booted Ubuntu and found out that I am getting very less battery life as compared to Windows(Ubuntu: 4-5 hrs, ...
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My pc shut down automatically when I unplug the charger on ubuntu 18.04
I have Ubuntu 18.04 on an Asus x541u with 8 GB of RAM, and the NVIDIA Geforce Gt920m graphics adapter.
Recently, the PC shuts down when I unplug the charger, even though the battery does not show as ...
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Getting rid of irritating dead battery notification
My laptop battery is dead forever. It needs to be replaced. Since it is not working anymore, GNOME detects it as low battery and keeps popping up as notification on notification area. A screenshot for ...
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Computer shutting down as if the adapter was unplugged
I'm using ubuntu 16.04 with dual boot. Recently, I've noticed that my laptop would just power off suddenly as if you had a desktop computer that was unplugged. No, it doesn't go through the proper ...
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Save more energy on Ubuntu + XPS13 in Standby mode
I remember on my old Macbook, when I closed the lid, I could open it one week later and it lost a few percentage points of energy over the week (about 10%).
When I do this with my xps13, the first ...
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acpi thinks I have two batteries in my laptop?
While I was debugging my i3blocks battery monitor, I found that acpi says I have two batteries, when I only have one.
>acpi
Battery 0: Discharging, 95%, 10:27:32 remaining
Battery 1: Discharging, ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 huge battery drain from network interfaces wlp3s0 (iwlwifi)
Im quite new to linux. I bought a new laptop (Aero 15x w/ Intel 7th gen and GTX 1070 MaxQ) and made a fresh Ubuntu 18.04 install.
Now I was trying to increase battery life as i get just around 3 hours ...
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Lenovo ideapad 320 15IKB Intel i5-8250U consumes more battery on Linux
Lenovo ideapad 320 15IKB, intel i5-8250U consumes more battery (almost double) on Linux compared to Windows 10 while performing similar tasks.
I have tried updating the Kernel to latest version using ...
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Armoury Crate - Asus Laptop
So I made the grave mistake of buying an Asus laptop to have Ubuntu on.
The laptop comes with an app called Armoury Crate, which is used to change the back light of the keys and OC the CPU/GPU when ...
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Lubuntu 19.04 Battery Icon unchanged
The battery icon often remains unchanged as I plug and unplug my laptop. Also, the low battery indication does not work at all. I'm running Lubuntu 19.04. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I ...
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Ubuntu 19.04 high power consumption with intel integrated graphics
Aero 17 laptop w/ 9750H processor, nvidia gtx 1660ti, 1080P 144hz monitor
Windows 10 reports 8 hours of battery life
Ubuntu 19.04 reports 2 hours
In Ubuntu 19.04, reporting sky-high 30-40 watt ...
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Battery overheating and drain while suspended! [duplicate]
I have a new ASUS ZenBook UX533F with Ubuntu 19.04. Initially, battery life was excellent, heat was low and suspend worked properly.
I was trying to find a way to limit the battery charge to 80% to ...
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Icorect battery stats Wh instead mAh
I am looking for changes in formulas. which read info from battery. and cant find solution.
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How can I make UPower and the power subsystem recognize that the power supply is plugged in?
I'm using Xfce4, and it has the xfce4-power-manager for visual cues and upower as one of the core support packages (and I see an /usr/lib/upower/upowerd running in ps aux output). Besides that there's ...
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Suspend fails to resume on Dell XPS 15 7590 on battery power only
I set my Dell XPS 7590 to use deep suspend, and it works fine when the laptop is plugged in to AC power, but fails on battery power.
When attempting to suspend and resume on battery, the syslog shows ...
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Laptop hibernates as soon as power cord disconnected
On an Asus K550 laptop, when I remove the power cable, Ubuntu claims the power is critically low and starts to hibernate. The battery was fully charged and before going into hibernation, I did see I ...
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Extremely bad battery time on Ubuntu 19.04 (even with TLP and powertop)
I've just bought a new laptop and installed Ubuntu 19.04 on it. According to the seller the laptop should have a battery life of about 9 hours, however I've only been able to get about 1,5 hours. I ...
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no battery monitor
I just installed Lubuntu in dualboot with Win10 on a HP x2 tablet pc.
I didn't have much trouble to install it, only had to disable the drive encryption on Win10 to resize the partition first.
But I'...
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Power Profile (Kubuntu)
I was wondering if there any way to add power profile in KUbuntu?
I know it's available on Ubuntu(GNOME) As an extension but i want it on KDE.
Gnome extension : https://extensions.gnome.org/...
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Battery recalibration - 18.04
Ok, so I'm not fully understanding how to recalibrate my batter. I followed How to calibrate the laptop battery on 12.04 and so I ran the following:
xxx:~ $ power-calibrate -R -r 120 -d 5 -s 21 -n 0 -...
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Ubuntu 18.04, battery indicator not displaying as well as system saying no battery
I'm on Ubuntu 18.04, I originally had Windows 10 running on a microsoft surfacebook 2 and since then have completely wiped windows. Since then I can't find a battery indicator anywhere. Even in my ...
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Terrible Battery Life
I have an Acer Aspire One AO722 netbook that was getting ~7-8+ hours of battery life when using Windows 7 Home Premium.
I figured, heck if I put Ubuntu and an SSD on this thing, I'd be able beat ...
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No battery indications!
I have recently installed Ubuntu 13.04 on to a Toshiba Satellite. However I have no indications of the battery level in the top menu or anywhere.
I have reinstalled the battery indicator through the ...
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Laptop battery life decreased compared to Windows 7
I'm new to linux and few days ago i installed it on my laptop. I have windows 7 64-bit in one partition and on other partitions the ubuntu 12.10(6gb), swap partition(8gb) and /home partition about ...
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How do I make the Battery notification more obvious?
Can the low battery notification's look and feel be made clearer? The default notification is very small. So sometimes, we do not even notice that notification and the laptop shuts down.
So, how can ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 Battery issue
I am having Acer machine currently installed Ubuntu 18.04.
After I fully charge battery it works fine till around 45 - 50 % but after that it suddenly drops down to 1 - 2 % and notification popups of ...
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GRUB menu not showing up on boot after replacing battery
I have an Asus F555L model with dual boot (Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Windows 10).
On starting my computer, I always get the option to choose between OS from the GRUB loader. However, my battery was ...
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Does installing themes affect the battery life of laptop? [closed]
I am getting poor battery performance on my laptop. Is it because I've installed new themes and icons?
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Battery information is wrong
I have replaced the battery in my laptop with a lower capacity battery than what was previously inserted.
Ubuntu hasn't calibrated the battery metering system, and so the statistics & percentages ...
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Poor battery life and performance due to incorrect CPU frequency scaling
lscpu shows a minimum CPU speed of 1600MHz, rather than 400MHz as the actual minimum. This is absolutely killing my battery life (I get about 2-3 hours rather than the 8-10 I get under Windows on the ...
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Mains powered mini-pc (18.04) shows battery but none is present
My Minix Z83-4U runs 18.04.1 LTS fine but for some weird reason in Settings and in the Gnome menu bar it shows that it runs on battery (constant 94% charged). This mini-pc is mains powered and does ...
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Automatically dim brightness if battery is low (command fail)
I was trying to apply these instructions on how to automatically dim brightness when battery is low, but in the answer, this command didn't work with me
> percent_left=$((100 * `cat /sys/class/...
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Short battery life of the laptop from ubuntu 18.04
In July this year I bought the Asus VivoBook Pro 15 laptop. I installed the Ubuntu 18.04 linux operating system.
My problem is that the battery life is only 1.5 hours, while the reviews and ...
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Short battery X1C6 Ubuntu 18.04
I have a new Lenovo x1c6 which is reported to have 12+ hours battery life by some users.
Mine drains after 4-5 hours, which is roughly the same time I got on my previous 2 y/o $800 Acer laptop with ...
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Ideapad 330-15IKB Ubuntu 18.04 overheat and battery problems
we have about 50 ideapad 330-15IKB with ubuntu 18.04 lts installed ... we face multiproblems :
1- overheat a lot even if nothing working on it
2- battery drops quickly caused of overheat
3- system ...
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No low battery notification appears before premature low battery shutdown on Ubuntu 18.04
I was getting low battery notifications earlier when I installed initially, but it seems to broken now, my laptop (Asus) shuts down without any warning at 20% remaining battery.
I tried sudo apt-get ...
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New laptop runs hot and has low battery life
my Asus laptop runs super hot on ubuntu 18.4, all iam doing is some simple coding and web browsing (not even watching movies).
My laptop always gets hot as if iam gaming on it on windows (duel boot)....
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TLP trouble with udev events. Ubuntu 19.04
My installation of TLP on Ubuntu 19.04 does not automatically change status when charging status changes.
Output from
sudo tlp-stat -s
--- TLP 1.1 ------------------------------------------...
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Ubuntu 18.04 - Show Bluetooth connected device battery status
I am using Ubuntu 18.04 with the latest update.
Can you tell me how can I find or get Bluetooth speaker battery level.?
As like If I connect the speaker to the iPhone it shows a connected device with ...
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No battery indicator on Ubuntu 18.04
I seem to have lost my battery indicator. Purging and reinstalling battery-indicator hasn't helped. I see suggestions of a UEFI update fixing this, but it seems highly unlikely that this can only be ...
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Battery stops charging after 64% percent, HP Pavilion 14
I am a noob to Linux. I just changed from Windows to Linux. How can I solve this battery issue?
I think battery seems good.
$ upower -i /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0
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How do I measure battery life?
So, I am rather happy with my battery life. I just want to know how I can measure how much time I actually get out of it. All the posts about battery life and Linux/Ubuntu/etc seem to be about ...
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High power consumption from network driver Atheros Communications
I am running Ubuntu 16.04 on a Dell XPS 15 9560.
Kernel:
Linux XPS 4.9.10-040910-generic #201702141931 SMP Wed Feb 15 00:33:24 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
In powertop it shows that two ...
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Battery drains even while laptop lid closed (Ubuntu 19.04 & Thinkpad X1 Carbon 6th gen)
Any other thinkpad x1 carbon users on ubuntu 19.04 notice that the battery still drains even while the laptop lid is closed & suspended?
I updated from 18.10 to 19.04 about two weeks ago, and ...
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Battery indicator has disappeared from Gnome panel
I'm using Gnome Flashback (still the best!) on Ubuntu 14.04. In the Indicator app, it used to always show the battery level indicator. Now, it's missing entirely:
I've looked in the power settings to ...
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[TLP]-error: "tp-smapi = inactive (kernel module 'tp_smapi' not installed)" on thinkpad t460s
when I ask tlp for my battery status via
sudo tlp stat -b
I get the following status:
+++ ThinkPad Extended Battery Functions
tp-smapi = inactive (kernel module 'tp_smapi' not installed)
tpacpi-...
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Sleep mode drains battery very fast
Battery drains in about 10 hours when the computer is asleep with Ubuntu 18.04, it is a lenovo y520 (7700hq, 1060 with bumblebee).
When I tested no USB devices were plugged in, actually nothing was ...
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Laptop battery critically low cannot remove notification [duplicate]
I installed and used Linux for the first time - Ubuntu 18.04.01 LTS. My laptop's battery is almost dead sitting on 0% and the notification keeps popping every 5 minutes.
Is there any way to disable ...
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Wired connection only available when charging
Why does my ethernet stop working when I'm on battery power? I'd like to connect full time when I'm utilizing my battery, but I'm unable to. It was working just fine before. This is the output of sudo ...
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Battery Not charging fully on Sony Vaio
I recently purchased a new battery for my Sony Vaio VPCEH25EN running Ubuntu 15.04, and I noticed that it only charges to 40%. When I checked the power statistics I noticed the following -
Percentage ...
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