Questions tagged [battery]
Questions about battery usage and issues in Ubuntu.
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Power mode Ubuntu 23.04 (lobster)
Whenever i check my laptop battery mode is on power saver mode. I change it performance or balanced then after several minutes it goes back to power saver mode even battery is 100% or plugged in to ...
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Lenovo Carbon X1 with empty battery
When booting Ubuntu on the laptop the battery appears correct (ca 80%). After a couple of minutes that battery jumps to 0; I receive a hibernation warning and the laptop turns off.
I have unplugged ...
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howto force flash bios when a battery is not present
I have an old dell xps 15 9550 laptop, with the type of battery that inflated and can no longer be replaced. I just installed a fresh ubuntu 22.04 on it, and it notifies me that there is a critical ...
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After Upgrade to Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS, Laptop No Longer Shows When Plugged In
I recently updated to Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS, from 18 with a brief time on 20. I don't recall if this problem showed up under 20 but I only noticed it under 22.
I have noticed that the indicator in the ...
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Laptop charges normally on windows but inconsistently on Ubuntu
I recently installed Ubuntu on my HP Envy laptop and for whatever reason, it charges completely normally on Windows but when I switch to Ubuntu, the charging becomes very sporadic. It randomly starts ...
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Macbook 2010 running Ubuntu - no battery - how do I have it automatically restart after a power failure?
I have a Macbook Pro running Ubuntu from 2010. Since its Lithium Ion battery was swollen, I removed the battery and now have it running from a UPS - uninterrupted power supply.
Sometimes, the power ...
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Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS : Failed to update on reboot
I have Ubuntu 22.04 on Lenovo ThinkPad T14 Gen2i. There was recent update that got installed, but while rebooting the battery died and I had to restart it again instead of letting the system boot ...
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Heating and battery Drain issue in ubuntu 22
I recently updated my system from Ubuntu 20 to Ubuntu 22, and I’ve been experiencing significant heating problems and rapid battery drain since the update. This issue is affecting the usability and ...
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Why does sleep mode revert to s2idle when I set it to deep?
My laptop's battery drains very quickly from time to time. I found out that it was due to the sleep mode that was set to s2idle instead of deep:
$ sudo cat /sys/power/mem_sleep
[s2idle] deep
I then ...
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How to remove settings of TLP?
I haven't yet figured out how to get TLP working nicely on my Ubuntu Thinkpad, as I had to scrap the broken battery the other day and replace it with a new one.
I've got my new battery in place now, ...
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Obtaining current total power consumption
I am running Ubuntu 20.04 on ARM board (aarch64). I want to log total power consumption every 5 seconds. I tried several tools.
Powertop
I tried running powertop command. It outputs something like ...
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How to solve battery power only updated on boot
I use Lenovo Yoga and installed Ubuntu. So I find that my laptop battery isn't accurate. I have used it for some times and it show 95%. But when i reboot it, it shows 60%. I put it on charge and it ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 usb not working (when running on battery)
This is an extension of my earlier question. There I thought tlp was the culprit and stopped the service and it worked. But when I try to run my laptop on battery, again USB devices are not working. ...
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Fan working non stop on Ubuntu 23.04
Before doing the 23.04 update (Lunar Lobster), fan on my laptop were loud, but they stopped sometimes...
After the OS update, they run non stop and they are loud, even during light work overload like ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 crashes when laptop is on battery power
I have recently installed Ubuntu 22.04 alongside my original Windows 11 in my Dell laptop. Ubuntu runs fine when my laptop is plugged in, but it keeps on freezing when on battery power. This happens ...
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laptop gets power off when unplugged and not charging
Some days ago i just turn the Lid down on my hp laptop after work and after two days i tried to power on my laptop, then i saw laptop was completely discharged. After that i just plugged in the AC ...
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The battery drains when the laptop is turned off
When I turn off my laptop using the terminal with the command sudo poweroff -f there are no battery discharge issues. When I turn off my laptop using GUI the laptop battery continues to drain.
HP ...
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battery not showing on laptop
Hello i have a problem where i cant find my laptop battery anywhere in the system. I looked for a lot of fixes but at the end i have a problem where acpi and upower doesn't give any output. My laptop ...
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TLP Charge Threshold Configuration on Lenovo IdeaPad
Kubuntu 23.04
Lenovo IdeaPad (not ThinkPad) 3 15ALC6
Hey, I'm trying to configure TLP to start charging when the battery reaches 50% and stop when it reaches 80%. I just want to make sure I'm doing ...
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Which package or packages are needed to charge a laptop battery?
I have an Ubuntu 22.04 system on an HP 17 laptop. When the laptop is plugged into the charger, it does not charge (nor does it discharge). When I mouse over the battery indicator in the system tray, ...
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Hibernation not working and excessive battery drain on suspend on Ubuntu 22.04 with DELL XPS 15
I recently installed Ubuntu 22.04 on my DELL XPS 15, and I'm facing two related issues: hibernation doesn't work, and the suspend feature drains a significant amount of battery power. I would ...
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How do I disable my laptop battery?
I got a look at my laptop battery when it was opened for service and it was dangerously swollen. I didn't know the reason for the crack near my touch pad until I saw the battery. I don't want to ...
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When the Ubuntu laptop is turned off, the battery drains
When I turn off Ubuntu, the laptop battery continues to drain. I didn't have this issue when I had Windows installed. The problem arose when I installed Ubuntu. I've tried various troubleshooting ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 laptop sudden shutdown after full charge
So I recently removed windows 11 and installed ubuntu 22.04 on my laptop (lenovo ideapad flex 5 with amd ryzen 7) after i had sudden shutdown issues even though battery was full at times. Now this ...
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Battery problem not charging but detected charger(pending-charge state)
I am using ubuntu 22.04 LTS. Battery charging percentage is showing 21% still when I am connecting with charger it is not showing charging instead of that it's showing not charging. Here is the output ...
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Lenovo ThinkPad X1 - Ubuntu 22.04 LTS - Battery not charging
I have a Lenovo ThinkPad X1 with Ubuntu 22.04. Battery is not charging.
upower -i /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0
native-path: BAT0
power supply: yes
updated: ...
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Battery drain in Dell 5420 Ubuntu 20.04
I am using a Dell Latitude 5420 laptop with ubuntu 20.04 for a year. The battery drains out in around an hour or so. Most of the time I have to restart the laptop because power runs out very quickly. ...
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Device turns off when not plugged in?
The Laptop only turns on when plugged in,
always shows 0% and turns off when I pull out the power plug. No matter how much time I charge, It always shows 0%.
It shows "Estimating..." instead ...
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Manually block sleep and screen locking - Suspend Problem
On Kubuntu 22.04
In the Battery and Brightness settings in the taskbar I have the following options and wonder what is the purpose:
(unticked): “Manually block sleep and screen locking.”
“Activity ...
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Laptop battery toggles between not charging (0%) and fully charged (100%)
I'm using a Lenovo ThinkPad W520 and Ubuntu 22.04. By mistake it got to 0% and now it shuts down whenever the charger is plugged off, thus I can only work with it plugged in. In addition, the battery ...
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Battery drain when lid closed. Two lenovo thinkpads, nearly identical. One is fine the other not. How to diff/debug?
These are both Thinkpad Carbon X1 nearly identical. I've changed the BIOS, done some grub twiddle etc.
cat /sys/power/mem_sleep
[s2idle] deep
This should be correct I think?
The thing is I have ...
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Ubuntu device battery update causing laptop to not charge
Have a thinkpad P15 running ubuntu 22.04. I recently selected an update provided in the ubuntu software for a battery update.
Now the battery won’t charge. On restart it now reads the “The connected ...
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charge_control_end_threshold not writable
I was trying to put a charging threshold on my laptop (Huawei matebook 13), this functionality works on windows and worked on my previous linux install (Ubuntu 22.04 LTS).
I tried doing the same stuff ...
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I want to turn off "Blutooth" HP-EliteBook-Folio-9480m TO save power consume
When I give this command sudo service bluetooth status, it gives this output:
[sudo] password for v:
● bluetooth.service - Bluetooth service
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service;...
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Ubuntu 22.04, “battery plugged in” icon suddenly disappeared
Newbie here.
I’m running up to date Ubuntu 22.04 ext4 Gnome Wayland on a MSI Bravo 15 AMD Ryzen 7 4800H laptop. Earlier today the little “battery plugged in” icon suddenly disappeared from my little ...
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upower battery with pending-change and won't start charging
I have installed Ubuntu (version 23.04) last week on my laptop (Dell Inspiron N5010), and since then my battery isn't charging.
Previously on Windows it did recognize and charged the battery.
When I ...
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Battery charging status not showing
I've just installed Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS which was working fine but after the update the charging status is not showing.
The battery status shows Not Charging though its connected and charging. The ...
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Hp Zbook 15 g3 laptop ubuntu 22.04.2 Battery not charging
I have a problem changing my laptop (hp zbook 15 g3) on ubuntu
When the battery reach 95% or sometimes between (91%/97%) the battery stops charging and says (not charging)
I also tried pop os and i ...
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On 22.04, laptop screen dims to 0 when unplugging power cable. With my old eyes, I can't see the screen to increase brightness again
Searched for answers, and there were very old posts that gave solutions that haven't worked now for many years. I'm using Ubuntu 22.04 on a Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 14-API.
When the screen dims to its ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS consuming high CPU and RAM on HP EliteBook x360 1040 G7
I am experiencing an issue with my HP EliteBook x360 1040 G7 that's running Ubuntu 22.04. For the past few days my PC has been consuming high amounts of CPU and RAM, causing it to overheat and display ...
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Quick Battery Drain in Suspend Mode
I am using Ubuntu 22.10 and my laptop is a Dell XPS 13 9365. When I check my suspend type by typing
cat /sys/power/mem_sleep
it returns
s2idle [deep]
which I believe should save the most power. ...
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High CPU used and battery drain First tracker and now Isolate+. What is happening?
I have an HP Elitebook. Few weeks ago I started to hear the fan working often. Using top I noticed that "tracker" was using almost all of the CPU. I fixed with a solution someone posted here:...
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22.04, battery reading is occasionally very off after a sleep
Laptop is MacBook Pro 13 early 2015. When just booted, its fine, battery percentage shows accuratelly. But after a sleep it occasionally (like 80% of time) goes wrong, showing 4-10% left, while in ...
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Battery percentage issue
My laptop battery stays at 99% for long although I am using the laptop continuously. Once the charge decreases to 98%, it goes on decreasing at a faster rate.
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Ubuntu thinks battery has no change, but windows detects it as fully charged
I have Windows and Ubuntu (20.04.6, kernel 5.4.0-144-generic) dual boot on an HP Spectre x360 laptop. A couple of months ago I replaced the battery with a non-official one as the old battery had lost ...
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Battery problems with Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS
I am having little issue with battery or UI. I am having dual boot Windows/Ubuntu on my HP Elitebook. On UI it shows me that battery isn't charging but its on 98% for 5 hours now.
When I run: upower -...
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Battery icon (and everything related to battery) missing, upower solutions not working
After a recent update (and more probable after trying a few battery Gnome extensions) I lost my battery icon in the tray and found that actually I have nothing related to my battery in settings, ...
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Battery in ubuntu is draining very fast (Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS x86_64 )
Some things I noticed and want to share with you before you see pictures :
The battery reports a discharge rate of 32.8 mW
In just 2 hrs battery decreased from 98% to 66%.
Not doing any heavy task ...
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Upower (or DBUS) doesn't recognize some of my BT devices on my desktop pc
Reading this thread I could capture the battery level of my bt devices on my laptop. But is not working on my desktop with the same devices, because upower (and/or DBUS I suppose) doesn't recognize ...
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How can I get unattended-upgrades to work reliably on my laptops?
For months, I’ve been having issues with unattended-upgrades not running every day, or thereabouts, with logs often empty for a week or so, or with it not working at all.
I’ve amended the relevant ...
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