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I have an Ideapad Touch u430 that came with AOE licence. As it was recommanded, I used the Energy Manager to enable the Economy mode (I don't remember the exact name) that makes your battery stop charging at 59% for a long battery life. It's a Lenovo proprietary software. I installed Ubuntu and deleted windows for good. I didn't disable the Economy mode before making the switch. Ubuntu is working fine, but the battery still stops charging at 59%. It must be something in the bios. But I cannot find it. Since the Lenovo Energy Manager is a proprietary software (a blotware that comes with the computer), I cannot study its code or show it to more experienced developers to reverse this very annoying action. I checked every available solution, they all involve going back to win8/Energy Manager. I cannot go back to Windows, I have no licence now. Even if I install it again, there is no chance to get the Lenovo softwares back.

Neaman
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    I'd try to go back to windows (perhaps with a someone elses licence, you'll only use it for a few minutes anyway), and download the software from http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/downloads/ds031269 – Jonas Czech May 04 '15 at 20:19
  • Can I get it done using windows in a virtual machine ? – Neaman May 04 '15 at 20:31
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    No, I don't think so. – Jonas Czech May 04 '15 at 20:45
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    Have you tried Fred Schoen solution from this post? – VRR May 05 '15 at 17:49
  • The only other thing I can think of is possibly running it from a live session of msdos or from a windows installation or rescue disk. – mchid May 20 '15 at 15:59
  • also, https://askubuntu.com/a/562525/167115 – mchid May 20 '15 at 16:08
  • @mchid That wouldn't work because a piece of software like this would require direct hardware access AFAIK as per here. – RPiAwesomeness May 22 '15 at 12:25
  • @RPiAwesomeness yes the OP already tried wine and it didn't work, however I believe the package tp-smapi-dkms provides the capability to interact with the same settings and the windows software may not actually be needed see https://askubuntu.com/questions/34452/how-can-i-limit-battery-charging-to-80-capacity – mchid May 22 '15 at 13:48

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