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To control battery at a certain capacity (for ex.20%) then the laptop will be automatically standby or hibernate for long-lasting the battery
I would like to control for setting my battery at a certain capacity (for ex.20%) then the laptop will be automatically standby or hibernate for long-lasting the battery.
Is there any solution, ...
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How does 13.04 stack up to 12.04 in terms of battery life?
I've been having some issues with battery life, perhaps due in part to the age of the battery, but I'd like to squeeze out every last minute I can. I've heard that 13.04 is developed with mobile ...
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Ultrabook or Thin Laptop with great battery life for Ubuntu [closed]
Any recommendations on a great ultrabook or thin-enough laptop with great battery life for running Ubuntu?
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New battery installed but Ubuntu only recognizes 2.5 hours of life
I'm having an issue in which I have installed a new battery that will not charge to it's full capacity. I'm looking for a manner to change some setting in which Ubuntu will allow a full charge. After ...
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Wrong battery state reading cause brutal shutdown
I have an Asus Zenbook UX31A, the Asus 13" unit from first generation ultrabooks. I run Ubuntu 12.10 up to date on it.
Before a week or two I used to enjoy more that 5 hours of battery life, ...
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Creating scripts
I'm following advice from LessWatts to lower battery drain with the following commands:
mount -o remount,noatime /
hdparm -B 1 -S 12 /dev/sda
echo 3000 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs
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HP G6 laptop will not suspend when on battery
I have an HP G6 laptop with 12.10 installed. When running on Battery power it never suspends and the screen never dims. When the AC adapter is plugged in it will dim and eventually suspend just fine. ...
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Screen not turning on after closing and opening lid
I've got Ubuntu 12.10 installed on my laptop (Acer Aspire One KAV60) and set the Power Options to do nothing when closing the lid when the charger is plugged in, but when I close it and reopen the ...
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Ubuntu 12.04-no password screen when opening laptop lid
I am currently using an HP Pavilion dv6t. In case it matters, my Linux kernel version is 3.3.6-030306-generic. In my battery settings, I have it set to "Do Nothing" when the lid is closed (for both ...
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Mode “extended life” battery on 80% - Ubuntu 12.04
Well, I have a laptop Lenovo G460L, which has a battery with two options: maximum service life and maximum performance ... with Maximum Performance up to 100% but maximum life only load up to 80% and ...
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Why does udev not see the switch ac<->battery ?
When i plug in the ac adapter the battery applet status switches to "charging" and this is ok but when i unplug the ac adapter the battery applet always shows "charging" and i always have to do: sudo ...
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Black screen when trying to play video games
I run a wined version of steam (mostly because most of my steam games aren't avaible on the steam beta yet) and I had problems in the past with this black screen/dim screen but I fixed it, the problem ...
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Inspiron 14R energy
The battery of my notebook is ending very quickly when I use ubuntu. I have a Dell Inspiron 14R with 6 gb memory, 1tb and NVDIA gt630m hd. Someone can tell me what I can do to improve it?
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Remaining time for laptop battery in system tray with xfce4-power-manager?
I'm using xubuntu on my laptop, and I wonder if there's a way to have the remaining time of my battery displayed in the system tray with the xfce power manager? It tells me how much time I got left ...
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OUCH! Laptop running SUPER HOT after 12.10 upgrade!
I was running 12.04 with Unity 3D for 6 months; my laptop ran almost silently and cool enough to hold on my lap with ~4 hours of battery life. I updated to 12.10 and switched to the Gnome 3 Shell. Now ...
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How to tweak Powertop to reduce power consumption?
I am a completely new user to Linux/Ubuntu. I looked through tips on battery issues and PowerTOP but failed to find clear tips on how to tweak PowerTOP except for Toggle Tunable.
Could someone look ...
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Laptop battery charging capacity reduced to 52%
I have been using Ubuntu 11.04 on DELL Inspiron 14R (N5010) laptop for last three months. Before I switch to ubuntu my laptop battery used to give 2.5 hrs to 3 hrs back-up. But since I have been using ...
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Laptop drains of quickly with battery
I am a user since years in ubuntu and I have not come across this problem with ubuntu till date.
My battery drains off immediately after I unplug my AC power.
The options I tried:
1) checked the ...
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My TOSHIBA L655 S5144 Battery is not Detected on Ubuntu 12.10 [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Battery not detected
i used toshiba l655 S5144 and when i installed Ubuntu 12.10 gnome "no battery" present
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My battery drains really fast and my laptop gets really hot, What do I do?
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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What should VM writeback timeout be set to for a laptop?
I am using powertop to check that my machine is setup in a way that will give me good battery life. After installing laptop-mode-tools all of the "Tunables" section shows "Good" except VM writeback ...
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How to enable laptop-mode?
Laptop-mode is said to be one of the energy efficiency boosters for Linux. Now, sources I found say that to activate you need to:
install laptop-mode-tools
append LAPTOP_MODE_ENABLED=true (if it ...
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ubuntu 12.04 laptop battery isnt charging
I got fujitsu siemens amilo pa1510 laptop. I thought the battery in it was dead so i bought a new one. When the battery reached 4%, i plugged in the adapter and wanted to charge it. It said that ...
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How to analysis the output of powertop to increase battery lifetime
I'm new to ubuntu using 12.04LTS .Please help me by steps.Thanks all.
anoy@ubuntu:~$ cat /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode
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PowerTOP 1.97 Overview Idle stats Frequency stats Device stats ...
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Battery information on Fluxbox
How can I get my battery info (percentages) on Fluxbox?
I've heard of the gnome-power-manager, and wanted to use that, but there seems to be a problem...
$ gnome-power-manager
gnome-power-manager: ...
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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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4answers
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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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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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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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1answer
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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 ...
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Battery time decreased on an HP ProBook 4530s
I have HP ProBook 4530s. In Windows 7 after installing all HP drivers the 6-Cell battery works perfectly for 2+ hours but in Ubuntu 11.10 and now in 12.04 the battery time is not sufficient. It works ...
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Which powerful laptop, with UK keyboard and 8gb ram [closed]
I've been searching high and low for high spec laptops compatible with Ubuntu. The lack of coherent information on the topic is high (considering the number of people who apparently want a good laptop ...
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Maximum 5 minute battery life with Ubuntu 11.10 on HP laptop
I apologise if this question is too similar to the numerous others already asked, but it seems that my difference in battery life is significantly more noticeable than others that have been reported.
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How do i manage my battery more efficiently?
My computer:
Dell XPS | i7-2630QM 2.2-2.9 GHz | 4GB DDR3 1333Mhz | 2 GB Nvidia Optimus
And, is there a way to use Intel's Turboboost?
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Why does my computer get less battery life with Ubuntu compared to Windows?
Last year I purchased a Dell Inspiron 5315 laptop shipping with Windows 7 preinstalled. I installed Ubuntu 10.10 alongside it with dual-booting. On upgrading to Ubuntu 11.10, I was upset to find I now ...
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Why is Ubuntu so power-inefficient? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Battery drain on ubuntu is fast
I'm currently getting 7–8 hours of battery life whilst using Windows, but I only get about 3 hours in Ubuntu? Why the big gap?
Some ...
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Why is my laptop cutting out after installing a larger battery? [closed]
This is a recurring problem I have had for some time.
Around a year ago I installed a larger capacity battery (the kind that sticks out the back), on my HP 6715b laptop. When running on battery power ...
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Why does my laptop think my battery is dead?
I've got about a 3 or 4 hour battery life on my laptop. I've had Ubuntu 11.04 on it for a week or so now, and yesterday, it started telling my I had a critically low battery (.3%), and suspends. When ...
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how can I run my script automatically on ac switching
So, I wan't to run it when start work on AC and this or better other script when start work from battery
I tried
/etc/acpi/power.sh
adding symlink to /etc/laptop-mode/battery-start
It seems to ...
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How can I increase time of working from my battery?
Usually I am not even able to watch film from start to end.
I use Acer Aspire 5930
OS is Ubuntu 11.04
I use Classic Ubuntu desktop (AFAIK it really means GNOME2)
I know, that:
I can decrease ...
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Laptop Battery message estimating forever or appears twice [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Battery indicator is stuck on “estimating”?
My Dell stays at estimating forever and sometimes appears twice mentioning the same problem!. It does not change ...
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1answer
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Does using Screenlets affect battery life on a notebook?
I just read about Screenlets.
I was wondering if using Screenlets will affect the battery life of my notebook?
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1answer
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'No Battery Present' on a Toshiba Satellite L655
I use toshiba satellite L655 laptop, I recently installed Ubuntu 10.10. In gnome-power-manager there is no tap for 'On Battery'. When I run the command: dmesg | grep batt it returns:
[ 0.752856] ...
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Battery not recognized on my laptop (and it recognizes my laptop as a desktop)
I have installed Ubuntu (both 10.10 and 11.04 pre-release) on my laptop but my battery is not recognized and it is detected as a desktop system rather than a laptop.
I have tried to get the output ...
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How can I limit battery charging to 80% capacity?
I just learned that some Lenovo laptops include a utility that offers to limit battery charging capacity to within 0–80% in order to slow the attenuation of the battery lifespan:
How can I do this ...
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Low-battery-power action without gnome-power-manager
I'm running the openbox WM and would like to avoid loading the gnome stack. One of the lingering issues I have to resolve is avoiding abrupt system crashes due to depleted battery power.
Is there a ...
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ext[34] `commit` option and filesystem integrity
I'm running a fairly fresh and vanilla 10.10 install, built from scratch about a month ago on an Acer Aspire 5742 laptop. I use openbox as my window manager and run neither the KDE nor Gnome desktop ...
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laptop-mode-tools and harddrive spinoff
So I wanted to extend my laptop battery life. After googleing a lot I found many tips and tricks. Some even in this site as well. Then I found this package in synaptic as well laptop-mode-tools. Now I ...
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Brand new battery is 100% charged but at 0% capacity
I just bought a brand new battery to replace one that had seemingly died. I followed the instructions that came with the battery and charged it overnight, then ran my computer on battery until it was ...
