Questions about battery usage and issues in Ubuntu.
Questions in relation to battery issues in netbooks and laptops using Ubuntu. Can include questions about battery usage and notification icon problems.
Questions tagged [battery]
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Battery Charged at 97%
As you see Ubuntu shows that my battery is in a charged state at 97%. My laptop is almost 3 years old (battery as well). How should I understand these 97% and are they correct? Under Windows, there is a MSI tool for calibrating my MSI battery, but…
Кристиян Кацаров
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Where are the battery graphs?
Once upon a time, when I went to the battery icon on my netbook, I could get it to show me interesting graphs of the battery state, and how it had changed over time.
Nowadays, in this time of decay, all it will give me is a tooltip telling me how…
John Lawrence Aspden
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How can I find the discharge rate of the battery?
Maybe this question was made earlier but I can't find it. I want to see a terminal command or gui program that can show me the discharge rate of the battery. What hardware parts or programs are using more watts.
EDIT: Found additional information…
Luis Alvarado
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How to check the battery temperature of laptop? How do I know the normal temperature of it?
How to check battery temperature? How do I know the normal temperature of it?
My OS is Ubuntu, and my laptop is Lenovo G470.
Output of acpi -t:
Thermal 0: ok, 0.0 degrees C
pablofiumara
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Audio codec consuming high battery power
My powertop reports this for the two audio codec components.
4.85 W 100.0% Device Audio codec hwC0D3: Intel
4.85 W 100.0% Device Audio codec hwC0D0: Realtek
I think 10 W for audio is…
Vamsi Emani
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Is Ubuntu better on battery than other OS's?
nothing really to say here, except it would be cool to get some examples on what OS's might save me battery life and if you have any suggestions on apps that would save battery on ubuntu that would be awesome.
Jon
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Notebook does not power off when battery is critically low
After discharging the battery completely, my notebook suspends instead of shutting down.
That happens regardless of using intel graphics or NVIDIA graphics mode on ubuntu 15.04.
Can this issue be kernel (3.19) related? Power behavior in ubuntu…
cl-netbox
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Dual Boot: Ubuntu using 3 times more battery than Leopard?
Just a quick question: I have noticed when I boot into Ubuntu my battery goes empty faster, and checking the "time left" option in Leopard and Ubuntu it says Mac will last 3 hours where Ubuntu will last 1.
Is that normal?????
aderojas
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Battery not detected
As the title say my laptop battery is not detected in maverick.
I'm using ubuntu since ever and I've never come across this problem.
I have a msi ms-171f vr705 series and everything is working fine except for the battery.
cat:…
Px Mohamed
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Battery Indicator shows wrong percentage
Anyone have any idea what's going on with the percentage? (I wish my laptop was that awesome...)
user541686
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Battery consumption comparison of Unity, Gnome, Gnome Classic XFCE and LXDE
I would like to know what is the rank of the current LTS version in term of probable consumption of battery power -ie: for a same usage.
Is the following rank probably correct, where top of the rank means "uses the highest level of battery power",…
user301828
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Ubuntu consumes more battery's power than Windows 8.1
I have installed Ubuntu 14.10 with Windows 8.1 dual boot.
I have noticed that Ubuntu gives 3hr and Windows 4hr battery timing.
Why?
Talha Junaid
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Battery status not showing
How do I keep the battery status on as to see how much life is left in my battery? I configured this to be on all the time in the power management but it only shows the amount left when I am charging the battery. When I am unplugged, I don't get the…
Tom
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Easiest way to test battery life?
I'd like to test the battery life of my ubuntu 12.10 on my Think pad T520. Are there any scripts or tools to log to a file? I'm seeing about 3 hours of use.
user99240
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Asus Laptop Battery Health Charging support in Ubuntu
I have a Asus dual boot laptop with Ubuntu 18.10/Windows 10. In Windows 10 there is an application called Asus Battery Health which allows you to limit the charging the 60 or 80% to improve your battery life. When I have this set to 60% and if I…
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