Questions tagged [battery]
Questions about battery usage and issues in Ubuntu.
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Ubuntu 22 LTS and HP laptop - Set maximum performances even on battery
My machine with ubuntu 22 lts throttle a lot and it's so slow when using the laptop only in battery.
On Windows I can easily set up a performance mode in battery obtaining full speed at the expenses ...
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Laptop shuts down after a random amount of time when running on battery
I just downloaded ubuntu a few days ago and I am completely new. The system works perfectly fine when dual-booting from usb, however, there is a problem when the system runs on battery. Whenever I run ...
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Intel CPU Cannot go deeper than Package C3 state in low power suspend (causing battery drain)
After digging and searching the whole web, starting with the issue regarding to battery drain while Dell XPS is in suspend to idle (s2idle, S0, S0ix, Modern Standby). This issue is persisting in ...
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Power profiles and TLP conflict
I just tried installing TLP to see if it would make my laptop more efficient and it did not. I then removed it by running sudo apt remove smartmontools sudo apt remove tlp tlp-rdw sudo add-apt-...
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Laptop battery drains if asleep for long time
I am running Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS on a Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 8.
When the laptop is asleep and unplugged for a prolonged time (i.e., days), the battery drains completely to 0%. This not only is ...
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How to disable "Radio device: rtw_8821ce"
I use usb wifi adapter on my laptop with ubuntu 23.10, but "Radio device: rtw_8821ce" keeps turning on and drains my battery, I would like to completely disable it, since I dont need it and ...
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Chuwi Corebook X 14' Intel i5-8259U Ubuntu battery support?
I have just purchased a Chuwi Corebook X 14' Intel i5-8259U I installed Ubuntu 23.10. The battery is not recognized and so the battery display icon in not in the toolbar.
It appears that this might be ...
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Charging threshold set to 55 after each suspension
a week ago I've reinstalled Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS on my Asus TUF FA507XU in dual boot with Windows.
When I did so there was the Asus battery care tool active on Windows and I think something happened ...
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Laptop turns off immediately while not on charge on ubuntu but stays on windows
I have this weird issue with my MSI GF 65 thin laptop with RTX 3060 graphic card. My laptop works properly with windows without being put on charge but turns off immediately when booting into ubuntu.
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Change battery warning thresholds in Ubuntu 23.10 on Acer laptop
I'd like to change the battery warning threshold from default values (i.e. 5%) to custom values. I've read in another question that I should edit the /etc/UPower/UPower.conf and restart the upower ...
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Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS does not boot when on laptop battery
When my laptop charger is unplugged, I can't boot Ubuntu. I can enter BIOS, so battery has charge. Ubuntu starts to load, but after few seconds it shuts down. Also I tried to load to login screen with ...
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"Not Charging" after battery replacement
So, I replaced the old battery in my Acer Aspire laptop with a new one.
And it doesn't charge.
It was like this, at 0%, when I first turned on the laptop, even though I could use the laptop for like ...
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Power management issues
I'm writing to you because I'm having problems with the battery on my computer.
Let me explain: when I plug in my computer, sometimes it recharges and the battery goes up... sometimes it stays at 0% ...
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Differentiate power modes when plugged-in vs on-battery
The native power settings on Ubuntu 22.04.3 are as follow:
Is there an easy and native way to differentiate those settings between a plugged-in mode or an on-battery mode (and especially the time ...
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laptop stays stuck at battery icon even when connected to wall plug and charging
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What is the component that displays the battery icon vs charging icon in the top right part of screen, as well as the percentage charged?
Asking, so as to determine why this part is not ...
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Extremely loud noise on ASUS E200HA
My ASUS E200HA keeps emitting a high-pitched, extremely loud noise. Sometimes this happens immediately after I pull out the charging cable, in which case the beep only persists for a few seconds. ...
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How to show low battery warning message/notification on GNOME/Wayland/Ubuntu 23.10?
On a current Ubuntu with Wayland/GNOME, when my battery is low the battery indicator on the top right goes red. On my previous laptop I had Ubuntu/X/GNOME, and a popup notification used to appear ...
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My notebook is shutting itself down randomly (not exactly)
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My Samsung ATIV Book 6 (model code: NP670Z5E-XD1BR), running Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS, is shutting down on its own "randomly" when under stress. More specifically, when ...
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How to hide wifi/Bluetooth/battery icons from top right corner in status bar/top bar?
Basically I want to hide all icons from top right bar. Whenever we enable WiFi, Bluetooth or whatever available in Ubuntu Status bar it shows an icon of that function in top right corner of the screen....
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I am running Ubuntu server off of an old laptop - if I leave it on and the battery drains to 0%, will it be able to recharge?
I have a Pentium laptop which usually overheats when I run Windows, so I got a new laptop and decided to run a cloud service from the old laptop. I installed Ubuntu Server on it, and I want to know ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 - suspend then hibernate failed with result 'dependency'
Recently the suspend-to-hibernate function stopped working reliably. It happens that my battery is drained, although it should have went into hibernation.
This is what
journalctl | grep suspend
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Stuck on Boot After Changing Suspend Behavior 22.04.3 LTS
I'm new to Linux, I have dual-booted Ubuntu 22.04.3 on Dell XPS, and everything worked great, but I found out that the battery drain was too high on suspend mode. I found some articles and made the ...
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Keyboard language change and very bad performance when booting battery
I encounter a very weird behaviour when booting Ubuntu 20.04 in battery mode.
I automount a few encrypted partitions (some from internal, some external drive) via crypttab using Veracrypt. Up until ...
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Dual boot doesn't launch after I changed my laptop battery. Windows fires up automatically
Dual boot(Windows10 and Ubuntu 20.04) was working fine on my laptop until recently when I decided to change the battery of my laptop. Now, on firing up my laptop, Windows10 boots on its own without ...
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Ubuntu Laptop Not Powering On
I have been using a Ubuntu-installed laptop for over two years now. However, recently, I have been experiencing an issue where the laptop does not turn on properly.
There has been no physical damage ...
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Ubuntu 23.10 firmware update and battery can't handle more than few minutes
After the installation of Ubuntu 23.10 I did an update of a firmware of my Lenovo YOGA 720-15IKB laptop but I am not sure that it was the firmware of the battery.
It was with this Ubuntu tool:
I don'...
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My pc switchs on from itself
I don't know how and when, but if I put the pc in standby or I switch it off without charging, when I switch it on in the morning it is already on (but with the standby screen) and without charge (...
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Shut down plasma desktop and everything to save power
My laptop, running KUbuntu23.04 have about 2 hour battery life, and some weekdays I have lecture in a roll longer than 3 hour collectively. So I've been thinking of shutting everything down and ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 laptop not charging
this is my first time posting and my first time using Linux/Ubuntu.
I recently installed Ubuntu as the OS on an Hp G3 820 and it worked completely fine for a couple of hours, but when i unplugged it ...
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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 ...