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wrong battery report on asus k45dr
I bought new asus laptop with series k45dr and there is something wrong the battery, it always show that it fully charged , even though i have used my computer for more than an hour then without ...
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Change brightness automatically depending on power source in 12.04
I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 on a HP G61. When I used to use Windows in this machine, my screen to autodimmed when unplugging AC (i.e. running on battery), and brightness was restored when plugged again. ...
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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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fan noise and high battery consumption with AMD hybrid graphics
as described here dell 7520 (inspiron 15R SE), fan on full speed on 12.04, 12.10, 13.04, i still have problems with my energy comsumption and fan noise under ubuntu 13.04.
i could reduce it to a ...
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Laptop running Ubuntu battery management issues
I am a newbie to Ubuntu (after dumping 3 other distros) and have seen a terrible battery management from Ubuntu.
I use a HP DV7 17" 8 gb ram beast with about 30 minutes of battery power since I ...
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Ubuntu crashes when on battery power
I've got an HP 2510p (with a mic problem..) with Ubuntu 13.04. When I use it plugged in to the A.C. supply, so far so good. When I disconnect the A.C. supply, Ubuntu crashes. Same thing happens when I ...
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Low battery life on ubuntu 13.04 [duplicate]
Config: laptop MSI CR650 - 229XBY
AMD E-450
Radeon HD 6320 (512mb) - Proprietary driver
HDD: 500Gb
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (x64) and Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail (x64)
Steps:
1.Clear Install ...
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My ubuntu 13.04 x64 cann't do cold boot in battery?
I am using HP-Pavilion G6-2005ax, powered by AMD APU A8-4500M, 4GB RAM, 500 GB HDD and AMD Radeon HD7670M 1GB. I am using Ubuntu 13.04-amd64 version. While I am doing cold boot on battery, the Lap ...
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Jupiter or similar power saving app for 13.04?
I have installed the 13.04 final release and so far I am loving it more 12.10. I'm trying to install the Jupiter power settings app but, I read it is no longer compatible with the new kernel. Is there ...
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Extremely short battery life in Ubuntu 12.10
I have dual operating systems on my laptop. While I am using Win7 I work 3-3.5 hours on balanced mode. Unfortunately with Ubuntu the lifetime declined to 1.2 hours. How can I achieve the same battery ...
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Message: “Battery dies in few seconds” -Bad battery-status or problem with power management?
I'm still a beginner, but I have used Ubuntu and other distros before. I run a German setup so I'm not shure about the correct words.
So here's the problem: My netbook (ASUS X201E) with fresh Ubuntu ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 is draining my battery really fast [duplicate]
I'm new to Ubuntu and I'm not a developer to know how to write codes. I downloaded it couple of days ago but it is killing my battery, it almost lasts an hour and couple of minutes while it holds for ...
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Laptop charging speed reduced after installing Ubuntu 12.04
I recently installed Ubuntu 12.04 in my laptop, previously running Windows 7. After the battery is out, I charges my laptop, then the battery have been full next day.
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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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Much lower battery life on Ubuntu and laptop heating up badly
I have the following config laptop:
System model: HP Pavilion g6 Notebook PC
Processor: AMD A8-4500 APU with Radeon HD Graphics (Quadcore 1.9Ghz)
Memory: 6Gb RAM
Graphics:AMD Radeon HD 7640G+7600M ...
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Battery design capacity lower than actual
Hi i have been having some problems with battery.
It is 48 Wh battery for Lenovo Ideapad and ubuntu is still telling me it design capacity is 38 Wh and also i doesnt charge it more than this value.
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What tool to use to log battery status in Ubuntu 12.10
What daemon-like tool use to log battery status (to get real time of work on battery) in Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal?
I have tried to use battery-stats-collector but it doesn't work: ...
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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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How to prevent battery charging unless dips below 95%? on an Asus U31SD-XH51
I have an Asus U31SD-XH51 laptop running latest Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and I want to know if there is a way to prevent the system from charging the battery unless its charged level dips below 95%?
This is ...
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How can I increase battery life in Ubuntu?
I really like Ubuntu, and I want to work with it always instead of windows. But the problem I find is that the battery runs out very fast (< 2 hours) when I use Ubuntu. It would have been great if ...
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Loud fan and very hot pc
I know, that you don't like when someone ask same question as is answered but I try a lot of solutions and nothing helped...
I installed Ubuntu 12.10, everything is good but fan is very noise and ...
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What are the different power modes in xfce?
I use xubuntu on a small netbook. I want to conserve the maximum amount of battery. I have turned down the brightness, but what is the difference between 'normal' and 'presentation' power modes in the ...
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Battery charging/discharging state Ubuntu 12.04.2
My laptop show that i'm running on battery even when i'm connected to a power outlet. The charger is working fine. Double checked the charger on Windows and on another laptop of same model.
Looking ...
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Integrated webcam on a Dell V131 drains the battery when not used. How to turn it off?
After using the integrated webcam, it never fully turns off and keeps hogging the battery. From powertop:
The battery reports a discharge rate of 22.6 W
The estimated remaining time is 0 hours, 41 ...
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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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Battery Symbol shows no charge when plugged in and charging
I have recently switched out windows for ubuntu 12.10. I am now having an issue where my computer is plugged in and charging and my computer light says it's charging, but the battery symbol at the top ...
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Boot without X, impact on battery?
I am not too happy with my laptop's battery life and my work consists mostly of text editing so I could do it from a command line.
I am considering booting to text mode, as explained in the accepted ...
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Battery life: 90 min on Acer ultrabook / 12.10
i usually work on my Acer M5-481TG with Windows 8 x64 and recently installed Ubuntu 12.10 (x64) alongside with it.
Unfortunately, the battery-life is roughly one and a half hour - which apparently is ...
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High discharge rate, Ubuntu 13.4 gnome 3.6 [duplicate]
I have Dell Inspiron N5010 Core i5 with ATI Radeon 5xxx and 4 GB RAM
I have installed Ubuntu 12.10 with Windows 7 and updated to gnome 3.6 then updated to Ubuntu 13.4
And I'm using the default driver ...
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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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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS drains my Samsung Series 9 900X3C ultrabook's battery extremely fast. Is there anything I can do to fix that?
The title basically says it all. My Samsung Series 9 900X3C ultrabook's battery is in the deep red around barely three hours after disconnecting it from the power - and during most of that time the ...
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Why is Power Statistics showing grossly incorrect battery power? [closed]
Energy when full - 231.7 Wh
Energy(design) - 81.2 Wh
This also results in an incorrect value for Percentage - 31.3%
This also conflicts with Time to full field (Thankfully !)
I have never seen ...
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I need help with the battery Icon
I have a Toshiba Satellite L645D running Ubuntu 12.10 and it seems like Ubuntu like some other distros (Nadia, Debian) won't recognize my battery and I don't know the reason for that, it won't show ...
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how to decrease wakeups from touchpad
I had a battery problem on my Dell Inspiron N5010
I used powertop and I found out that my touchpad driver has most of wakeups and consumes battery
I had this from powertop
Wakeups-from-idle per ...
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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 ...
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how to enable laptop mode tools in ubuntu 12.10
I have a Lenovo z570 running ubuntu 12.10 with a battery life approximately 1hr 30 min. Please help me maximize the battery life of my lenovo
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Connecting Power or removing it causes Ubuntu 12.10 to Hang and Crash
When I boot my machine on battery and later connect the power supply Ubuntu just hangs and crashes and vice verse.
I run Jupiter 0.1.9 it never gave me any issue but yesterday I updated ubuntu there ...
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How to improve battery life on a HP Pavilion dv6?
I apologise if this question is too similar to the numerous others already asked, but I'm a beginner and I really need your help.
So...I've installed Ubuntu 12.10 a few days ago and I have only been ...
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Battery life starts at 2:30 hrs (99%), but less than 1 minute later is only 1:30 hrs (99%)
After searching this and other forums, I haven't seen this same issue listed anywhere for Ubuntu 12.
Prior to installing Ubuntu 12.10, my Netbook (Acer AspireOne D250, SATA HDD) was consistently ...
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Bluetooth mouse disconnects but only when on battery
I use a Lenovo Thinkpad Bluetooth Laser Mouse with my Thinkpad x130e and Quantal. It works without problems as long as the notebook is on AC-Power. When it runs on battery the mouse works for some ...
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How reliable is the battery data in ubuntu the power statistics?
Right now the power statistics show that:
Energy when full: 25.5 Wh
Energy (design): 93.2 Wh
And indeed the battery doesn't seem to be lasting as long as it used too.
My question:
Is this data ...
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Power & Sleep Management
I'm running 12.10 with xmonad.
Trying to ensure that the right things happen when I close laptop lid, etc. I see Internet search results for similar issues that mostly point towards ...
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How to control of battery charging/discharging limits?
I'm running HP 530 laptop and Ubuntu 10.04. My old battery is died some times ago, so I have got the new one.
I'd like to get possibility to change the limits when the charger starts to charge ...
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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 ...
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Poor battery life in Ubuntu 12.10 on Toshiba p755-s5215, how can i manage background applications?
I have a dual-booted laptop, where windows gives a good 3.5 hours on battery, while on Ubuntu 12.10 my laptops runs only for 2 hours.
I heard about powertop and laptop-tools, but after installing ...
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High power consumption on latest versions of Linux distributions
I have a Sony Vaio E series and I installed both Ubuntu 12.04 and 12.10. In every case, my battery life is reduced of almost a half with respect to Windows 7. The power consumption with no program ...
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How do you force the power management (battery icon) to stay in the top bar?
Changing the power options doesn't seem to work - No matter what I change the option to, the power management refuses to show in the top bar.
Using Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS, upgraded from 11.10.
Is ...
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ubuntu 12.04: Why my laptop is consuming more power than 11.10?
I had 11.10 X86 on my Asus laptop (sandybridge, Nvidia 520M). I had 8 hours' battery life with Bumblebee and Jupiter. Average battery discharge rate was around 10w.
Later I changed, not upgraded, to ...
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Reducing power consumption of Intel chipset
I've just installed Xubuntu on my Samsung 530U (SSD version) and everything works find, but the battery life is dramatically lower comparing to Win7. Full battery is able to work about ten hours ...
