Questions tagged [battery]
Questions about battery usage and issues in Ubuntu.
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USB-C charging issues - ASUS Q325UA
Linux 4.15.0-23-generic x86_64
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Charging works... but certain conditions leads to difficulty getting it registered as plugged in to charge. I think I narrowed it down to one ...
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Will the fast battery drain on Ubuntu damage my battery? [closed]
The battery life of Ubuntu is horrible compared to windows, 1 hour vs 5 hours. I am sure it is because the Nvidia drivers and the hardware running full speed all the time (yes, I know you can switch ...
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Excessive power consumption in suspend mode
When I put my laptop into suspend mode it consumes around half of the battery in around 8 hours. This is pretty higher when comparing the previous versions of Xubuntu that I've used.
Any idea how to ...
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Battery not charging but detected
my Lenovo N581 detects the battery, but it doesn't charge it (as soon as I unplug the AC, it turns off).
When i type upower -i /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0 into the terminal I get:
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TLP will not let my battery charge
I am running Ubuntu 17.10 on Lenovo Thinkpad w540. I have installed TLP and played with the battery charge thresholds. I have installed the acpi-call-dkms package to support the charging thresholds. ...
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battery caliberation
I am using HP 15 R 074TU laptop.
Laptop is not getting charged continuously, charging is getting disconnected for every 1 minute and getting connected again for another minute.
If I remove the ...
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Insane battery drain compared to Windows
I have a Lenovo Y720 laptop. On Windows I get up to 5 hours battery life, while on Linux I get 1 hour maximum. Fresh install, nothing installed, brightness half way down.
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Why is Ubuntu 18.04 battery life superior to Lubuntu 18.04 in a Dell 7577
I'm struggling with the battery life of this laptop while running Lubuntu. In Windows 10 I'm able to get up to 9.5 hours of life in power save mode. But in Lubuntu 100% charge lasts about 2.5 hours.
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How do you make your battery indicator more detailed in GNOME Shell?
I'm using Ubuntu 17.10 with GNOME 3. I would like to have a battery indicator that changed in more than 3 steps.
The current icon goes from one to three bars. If you look at most phones, the battery ...
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Battery showing charging when not plugged in on 2011 Macbook air Ubuntu 18.04
So I just installed Ubuntu 18.04 on my 2011 Macbook Air and it's saying it's charging when I'm running off battery and vise versa. I don't know if this is a driver issue or what.
EDIT: Sometimes it ...
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NVidia GPU power management with 18.04
On a previous laptop, the performance/powersave mode under 16.04 worked exceedingly well. I had an ASUS RoG 17.3" with two HDD and GTX 860m running at 9-11w while running office applications. This ...
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Power setting shows 194 hours and 37 minutes remaining, how?
The image shows my laptop battery charged to 99% but the power setting shows 194 hours and 37 minutes remaining - is it possible using Ubuntu? If yes then how?
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Power consumption - Matebook X Pro
Edit: Based on a suggestion in the comments, I Switched from Nvidia-390 driver to Nouveau and discharge rate went from ~10w to ~5w.
I have a core i7 Matebook X Pro.
It lasts about 6 hours on battery....
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How to I check the battery level on a Microsoft Surface from a WSL Ubuntu shell?
There are plenty of tutorials online for checking your battery level in a ubuntu terminal. The most common solution seems to be to use upower. However, when I run upower in a WSL Ubuntu shell in ...
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Very high power demand after upgrading to 18.04
I upgraded to Ubuntu 18.04 (from 17.10) yesterday and am currently still running the Unity desktop (same problem in Gnome desktop though).
My problem: I now have a power demand that is about 100% ...
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Battery life decreased drastically after upgrading to Ubuntu 18.04
I had been using only Ubuntu in my laptop for nearly two years, and the battery life with Ubuntu 16.04 was pretty long. It would last for nearly 10-12 hours. But after upgrading to Ubuntu 18.04, it ...
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How to get the current (in mA) laptop battery is draining from the charger?
I bought a new battery and a new charger recently, and since then the charger has been constantly overheating. I wonder if there is a way to figure out the current battery is trying to get from the ...
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Bionic: Block Notification: laptop Battery Critically Low
Problem: My laptop battery is broken, it never charges. I have to use it at 0% battery and on AC power. Ubuntu 18.04, keeps giving me annoying notification every 5 seconds:
I know several questions ...
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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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Battery draining rapidly
I've recently switched From windows 10 to Linux. I am using Ubuntu 18 as primary OS on my Dell Inspiron 3542, battery drains so rapidly. I've used tlp and other battery optimization features. What ...
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Battery icon not showing in Ubuntu 18.04
I have just installed Ubuntu 18.04 along with Windows on my Dell Inspiron 7000 Gaming Laptop. My problem is that the battery icon does not show.
When using upower -i /org/freedesktop/uPower/devices/...
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Kubuntu 18.04 LTS named Ubuntu in GRUB and tlp-stat
In GRUB Kubuntu 18.04 LTS is named just "Ubuntu".
Here's part of tlp-stat output (Kubuntu 18.04 LTS is named here "Ubuntu 18.04 LTS"):
+++ System Info
System = LENOVO ThinkPad X200s 7470BB1
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Problem with Lenovo battery threshold
I recently installed Linux on my Lenovo Ideapad 320, but I forgot to disable conservation mode from Lenovo vantage with Windows 10. The problem is that now my PC doesn't charge over 60%. I already ...
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AC power adapter wattage and type cannot be determined - battery won't charge
I am currently living in Japan but using a Dell XPS 13 bought in the U.S but with a Swedish charger, I thus have to use a power converter in order to fit my charger into the Japanese plugs. In the ...
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Is there an app to lower the battery charge max?
I use a Lenovo ThinkPad T420. Is there an app to limit what level the battery charges to, or to notify me when the charge reaches 70%?
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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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Laptop battery died, many desktop settings seem to have disappeared
My laptop battery died as I was logging into my laptop this morning. I plugged it in and booted back up. Now I notice that my icon theme has changed, and my application bar on the left is missing a ...
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Battery care function for sony laptop platform
Is there anyone installed Ubuntu 18.04 on Sony Vaio E Series laptop? Is there any /sys/devices/platform/sony-laptop directory and files in this location?
Please someone please confirm ASAP. I really ...
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Firefox draining my PC all of a sudden
I have heat and loud fan problems since installing Ubuntu (16.04) but I used to manage those somehow, I have a CPU indicator near the WiFi signal, and it pretty much tells when the CPU is experiencing ...
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mate-power-manager not showing battery tray icon after ubuntu 18.04 upgrade
After upgrading to 18.04, the battery tray icon from mate-power-manager simply disappeared
As everyone can imagine, a tray icon showing the battery load level is extremely important on laptops
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Is there any way to only give power to my SSD (not HDD) [duplicate]
I have a laptop with two drives: an SSD and an HDD.
For battery-saving purposes, I'd like to only supply the SSD with power (since I only use the HDD when I'm using Windows).
Is there any simple ...
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How to get battery icon to match percentage?
I have added the "show battery percentage" feature within the gnome tweak tool menu, but my battery icon does not mirror this and my OCD is getting the best of me.
Is there a way to change the ...
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Why is my battery's "Energy when full" so much lower than "Energy (design)"
My laptop's battery life dropped from several hours in Windows 7, to just a few minutes long on my first Ubuntu bootup.
The power statistics are telling me (with backlight on full):
Energy when full:...
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Battery drain when HP laptop is shut down from Ubuntu, but not from Windows
I have a dual-boot setup with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Windows 10 on an HP Pavilion 15-CC508NF. When I shutdown from Windows 10, my battery remains as it is, no discharge. But when I shutdown from Ubuntu, ...
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SOLVED - Lenovo ideapad-100 17.10 lost wifi and battery support
after an update I rebooted only to find out that I lost some kernel module, wl is no longer there (meaning I no longer have wifi) also my battery is acting up because acpi no longer find my battery... ...
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Make systray battery icon turn red when battery low
April 14, 2018 update
Seemingly the problem went away on it's own:
power -d relevant snippet:
Device: /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/keyboard_0003o046Do2010x0009
native-path: /sys/devices/...
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CPU load affecting power adapter on HP ProBook 4510a
The battery on my HP Probook 4510a is taking a long time to charge - currently 3% per day. it's got a proprietary battery and charger, and I'd like to know what terminal commands I can use to ...
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Can't power on if once after battery drains the last drop
It has happened three times.
I put my computer here and go to sleep. When I get up, the battery drains the last drop. So I connect the power cord. And restart computer, but the screen just turns full ...
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17.10 Frequent Mouse Battery Low Notifications [duplicate]
For more than 3 months now I get frequent notifications stating:
Mouse battery low
Wireless mouse is low in power (10%)
I use a Logitech M705 mouse with Unifying Receiver in my living room with ...
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Thinkpad Battery drops at 40%
Recently I observed the following on my Thinkpad X230 with Ubuntu 16.04 on it:
When I use the Laptop and the charger is not plugged in, I observe battery drops from around 40% to 5%. It seems like I ...
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Under Gnome Shell (17.10 or 18.04), how do I control automatic poweroff on low battery?
I'm unclear on the way automatic actions (eg shutdown) are taken under systemd / gnome shell, and the way o configure them.
How do UPower / systemd-logind / tlp / ??? work together, and how do I set ...
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Thinkpad W540: high power consumption (even when idle)
I use Ubuntu 16.04 with kernel 4.4.0-53-generic and i3-wm on my
Thinkpad W540 20BH with i7-4600M and Nvidia Quadro K2100
I disabled the discrete GPU via acpi_call to save battery
However the ...
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Why doesn't Ubuntu vary the CPU speed?
I got a new laptop and I did a clean install of Ubuntu 17.10. One of the things I checked was to see whether or not Ubuntu was varying the clock speed of the CPU (It varies the clock speed of the cpu ...
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Battery Not Detected - Acer Aspire Switch v11 SW5
I have looked everywhere and while I've found some similar issues, I have yet to see an actual solution.
I installed Ubuntu on an Acer Aspire Switch V11, which works just fine except for one thing: ...
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Help Removing Battery notification sound [16.04]
First, some relavent information:
I'm running Ubuntu 16.04 on a Microsoft Surface Book, using an awesome, reliable, custom kernel from this repository. The Surface Book has 2 batteries. One battery in ...
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Laptop battery drains while asleep
Currently running Ubuntu 17.10 on an Acer Aspire V5-591G-56AS with Gnome 3.
Just in the past day, my laptop's battery has been draining unusually quickly while asleep. Yesterday the laptop went to ...
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Screen tearing only while on battery
I have finally decided to start using Linux on my np355v5c laptop which has AMD HD 7660G & HD 7670M, everything works (almost) perfectly, except that when I unplug the cable, the screen starts to ...
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Set battery thresholds on Ubuntu (ASUS)
I've recently switched from Windows to Ubuntu, and I was kind of frustrated when I found out that there was no way to set battery thresholds on Linux. On Windows, I can choose to limit charge to 60% (...
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Remove battery notifications in Gnome 3.20
My battery is dead and it is always %0. I want to disable/remove battery notifications in GNOME which pops up every minute but couldn't manage to do it.
I tried every solution in the internet but ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 Gnome battery indicator is showing just a box
My battery indicator in the menu bar is showing just a box for an icon in place of the battery icon - this is the case in the drop down menu too.
I have tried doing this:
sudo apt-get remove --...
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