Questions about battery usage and issues in Ubuntu.
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Satellite L640 Battery Applet Problem
Hayy guy i got a satellite l640 and i installed ubuntu 12.04 on it and i dont get the battery percentage ive tried a fair bit but this is my first time using linux.
Ive gone into the power option and ...
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Is it possible to have Orca speak the laptop battery status?
I have been studying Ubuntu 12.04 for a while. If everything works fine, I would like to switch to it from Windows 7. I have searched the net on the way to check battery status with Orca but i not yet ...
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Is my battery really near the point of dead?
If my battery is 100% I only have 30mins left.
This are my stats:
Energy : 17,6Wh
Energy when empty : 0,0Wh
Energy when full : 19,3Wh
Energy design : 48,8Wh
Rate: 34,6W
Voltage: 11,0V
Time to ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 doesn't know there's a battery [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
The battery indicator in Unity panel not showing up
I've just installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my Acer Aspire 5553. It's the first time I've used Linux for more than 4 years so ...
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Unity 3D vs Unity 2D vs Gnome shell for battery life (resource use)
I'm currently trying to choose between Gnome shell and Unity 2D/3D for my Ubuntu installation on my laptop (I don't really like the dull look of some environments like xfce). Of the three, which uses ...
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Looking for a decent looking, battery-oriented desktop environment, with transparent panel
I have Ubuntu running on my laptop, and (especially since my laptop specs are a tad bit higher than budget machines) I need to optimize Ubuntu as much as possible to maximize my battery life.
I've ...
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MSI Wind U100 locks up shortly after unplugging and running on battery [closed]
I've got a new install of 12.04 and I've been having lock ups with my MSI U100 whenever I unplug the power cord and run on battery. I've tried out a solution to a similar problem but to no avail. ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 Battery problem
I have my laptop ( Dell Inspiron 14R) on dual boot with Ubuntu 12.04 and Windows 7. While using Windows 7, I used to get about 2.5-3 hours on battery fully charged (with my cellphone connected for 3g ...
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Is virtualization in Windows less battery intensive than Wubi? Than a disk install?
I read that running Ubuntu through a virtual machine such as VMware Player or VirtualBox is actually less costly on a laptop's battery than Wubi because it utilizes Windows' drivers, which are ...
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Why does my computer go blank after plugging it in?
After permanently switching to Integrated Graphics (Intel) my computer will just have a black screen when I plug it in but it works fine on battery or if it was plugged in when I turned it on. In ...
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Battery Life on a Lenovo ideapad u410 ultrabook
I have bought a Lenovo Ideapad u410 last week. Normally I only use Ubuntu, so I tried to install it. After a few (or a few more ;) ) hours I got it working. I used both systems, Ubuntu and Windows, ...
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Notebook just died when battery was empty
I have Kubuntu 12.04 installed on my ThinkPad X220. Today, I just tried to see what happens when the battery runs low. It went steadily down to 0% and then just died. This is what I have set up:
Is ...
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Energy saving with two batteries (Gigabyte S1080 and similar)
my today question is: how do I manage a tablet (Gigabyte 1080) with an additional battery in Ubuntu ? The control bar shows two separate batteries but starts to suck all the energy from the secundary ...
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How can I radically mimimize power usage when I need to conserve battery? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Laptop minimal power consumption tweaks
I often work from locations where I don't have a way to plug in my laptop and I need to get some single thing done. I'm looking ...
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Do 'Tunables' in 'PowerTop' help on battery life?
I installed PowerTOP 1.97 and i got many Bad in Tunables, I know i can press enter to toggle but does it really change anything? and if it does will it still be changed when i reboot? If i get ...
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Network Shutdown when Low Battery on Now-Break
i have two ubuntu computers connected to a single APC no-break. One of them is connected to the No-Break USB port. Amazingly, ubuntu is able, without the need of any third-party software, to handle ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 login hangs on “Checking Battery” or “SANED,” then returns to login screen
Working earlier tonight, my mouse froze in the middle of the screen, and so I restarted my system. Upon trying to log back in, the screen flashes black, and something along the lines of saned: edit ...
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Slice battery causing suspend and power issues on Lenovo X1
I have a Lenovo X1 i5vPro 2.50Gh x 4, which works fine with 12.04 LTS 64.... except the right click on the touch-pad, which I can live with.. However, I have just bought a Genuine Lenovo 39+ slice ...
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Can I stop battery charging at say 80% and switch to AC?
While I was looking for a battery management utility for my Dell E5420, I came to read this post - How can I limit battery charging to 80% capacity? . Sofar, I haven't found one that relates to my ...
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Problems with secondary battery
I have a problem with my secondary battery. Just ago, I closed my notebook (a HP Probook 6450b) and when i opened it again, it didn't wake up from standby mode because my first battery was running ...
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No Battery Indicator in panel 12.04
On ac power or battery power, I cannot get a battery status indicator to show in the 12.04 panel.
I have tried:
1) Checked the Power Settings and battery is set to show all the time.
2) sudo ...
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How to reduce the fan noise and how to increase battery life?
I have a brand new Sony Vaio S series laptop.(VPCSA2DGX) It came factory installed with Windows 7 professional Edition 64bit. Runs Intel core i5, 500 GB HDD , 4GB Ram. First I installed ubuntu 11.10 ...
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Laptop Battery problem
My Compaq Presario CQ42 laptop battery is not working well with Ubuntu 12.04. But there is no problem in Ubuntu 10.04. Sometimes it shows percentage, sometimes remaining time, but charge reduces ...
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Battery indicator shows the wrong battery
I recently bought a secondary battery for my Dell Latitude D620 that fits into the CD drive. There are a couple problems:
First, it drains the secondary battery first. I'm OK with that, but when it ...
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Empathy endless “loading” and higher CPU consumption
When I start empathy, or wake up my laptop, empathy usually has an endless loading indicator to the right of the status bar that only goes away when i set my state to offline and then online again. ...
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How can I disable asus-nb-wmi when using battery power mode?
I'm trying to improve the battery life of my Asus U32U notebook. I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 64bit and using powertop it shows the following:
PowerTOP 1.97 Overview Idle stats Frequency stats ...
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“Battery not present” on Toshiba Satellite L500D
I bought a new battery for my laptop a week ago and it worked fine up until last night when it wouldn't boot up. I plugged in the power lead and it booted but upon booting the battery status indicator ...
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Second battery getting ignored once primary batt drained
If I leave my laptop (HP Elitebook 6930p) running on both batteries, Ubuntu (12.04 but problem existed on 11.10) does a fine and dandy job of using them both up. Watching movies, it stays running for ...
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Battery indicator missing, ubuntu 12.04 [duplicate]
There is a closed , question at Battery Indicator Missing.
But I have the problem and have not found any solution yet.
Also asked a question about it on Launchpad but no replies again. ...
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What is an ACPI GPE storm?
Just experienced a system freeze (no touchpad, no keyboard, screen looked normal), Alt/SysRq/REISUB didn't work, had to press the start button.
In var/log/kern.log I find "ACPI: EC: GPE storm ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 laptop battery isn't charging?
My HP EliteBook charged perfectly when Windows 7 was installed. 8560p. I wiped the drive, installed 12.04. For a little while, I could suspend the laptop, and it would charge when the lid was closed. ...
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Is there a similar application to blackout for the mac?
In mac os x there is an app called blackout that can help you focus (and in the process preserve battery power). By dimming the lights around the selected windows (and some other features)
is there ...
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Better Battery Life improvements
I know there are some tweaks and tips to increase like
laptop-mode-tools
the Jupiter applet.
or this tips
But is there a plan or work to actually increase the battery life out of the box of ...
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battery icon / power indicator not shown in menu bar after upgrade to 12.04
Since the upgrade from 11.10 to 12.04 the battery icon / power indicator is not shown any more in the menu bar.
I went to 'system settings'-->'power' and tried to set 'show battery status in menu ...
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Battery charging is flickering [closed]
A few days ago my notebook started to bug around with charging the battery. When the battery is not absent notebook runs smoothly. Until I plug in the battery.
Then it starts to charge but ...
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Installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my laptop, Cpu usage is spiking, system is slow and the battery consuption is high [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Ubuntu 11 and 12 initially fast but later bogs down, CPU pegged
My laptop is an E-machines E430, AMD Sempron processor M100,1 GB Ram, 160 GB Harddisk (140+40Swap).
This ...
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Dell Inspiron N5110 Battery lasts only for 1.5 hours as opposed to 4 hours on Windows 7
I've a Dell Inspiron N5110 laptop with the following specs:
i5 processor
4 GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GT540M
Ubuntu 12.04LTS
My laptop is overheating and the battery is lasting for only about 1.5 ...
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Where is the gnome-power-manager binary in 12.04?
Using a tiling window manager, I called gnome-power-manager in earlier Ubuntu versions to get the battery tray icon.
In 12.04, the gnome-power-manager package is still there, but the binary is gone.
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acer travelmate 8371 doesn't charge battery since ubuntu 12.04
Since the Update to 12.04 my battery won't charge - it says it's charged to 51% - when i disconnect the powercable thee is no energy supply at all.
How can i figure out if it's a hardware problem or ...
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how can I reset the battery statistics for the powermanager?
I changed my batteries and the battery statistics of the GNOME manager got skewed. Where would the files having the battery statistics be?
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Why can't I poweroff my computer if it isn't connected to a power supply?
When my computer is not plugged in the poweroff function doesn't work. It just boots up after poweroff. Whenever I poweroff by the way of GUI clicking or typing command "poweroff" or "halt" , my ...
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Ubuntu Black screen crash [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How well do laptops with Nvidia Optimus work?
Alright so I've been using Ubuntu for about 4 months now and I was quite happy with it. I installed it through windows by ...
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Battery icon changed?
I don't know what happened, but today when I logged in to Ubuntu 12.04, the battery icon looked strange (when unplugged):
When it's plugged, the icon looks as always been, the problem is when it's ...
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Acer Aspire heats up in Ubuntu 10.10
I have an Acer Aspire 4820TG. It heats up in Ubuntu while remains cool in Windows 7. Consequently, the battery backup in Ubuntu is very low.
Why is it so? I have ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650 ...
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Is Ubuntu Battery Management Better Than Windows?
Is Ubuntu battery management better than Windows ?
I have noticed that in Windows 7 a fully charged battery shows 3:30 minutes but in Ubuntu it shows 2:00 hours ... !!!
so what is the power ...
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Checking battery status using other that acpi
Is there any way to get the battery status without acpi? I'm using U 11.10 and I needed to install acpi via apt-get. So I guess there's another command that is used to check battery status rather that ...
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How can I make my Ubuntu 12.04 auto-shutdown when battery is fully charged?
I would love if someone could give me a script or something like that to make it do what I describe in the title...
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Bootup hangs on “Checking battery state..” after after 12.04 upgrade [closed]
I have scanned thru all the posts on this issue. But I have not been able to get a resolution. Has anyone applied a clean fix to this issue?
I had 11.10 on Lenovo Thinkpad T60 and upgraded to 12.04 ...
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HP 620 Notebook makes noise when run on battery
This is seems strange but it's true when i use my Hp Notebook 620 on battery it makes strange noise , I cant describe it exactly but it sounds like a clock ticking every 5 or 10 second ( maybe more) ...
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The battery indicator in Unity panel not showing up
I installed Ubuntu 12.04 with Wubi. Well after being completely dazzled with the amount of free content in the Software Centre, I decided to go deeper and start messing with settings. Well after ...
