Questions tagged [battery]
Questions about the battery life on elementary OS
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Power issue on Hp 15
This is what my nav bar looks, I don't know what that turbo like icon is, but once I disconnect my power cable, the laptop shots off. Does anyone know of a fix to this please?
Thank you.
Here is the ...
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Elementary OS on Macbook 6.1 - big loss of battery energy
I've installed Elementary OS on a Macbook late 2009 in place of the High Sierra that had issues (sudden and frequent reboots), Now it works well, I like the look, but the battery that previously had ...
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Elementary OS claiming my battery is seven percent yet mag-safe charger says it's full
Just installed Elementary OS on my Macbook pro (2010) with the battery on full charge. I boot up elementary and suddenly I'm told it's on 7%. Granted, my battery is horrendously weak (1hr to reach 0% ...
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5.1.7 Hera - awful battery performance
Hi I just installed elementary OS 5.1.7 Hera, and my battery lasts 10min.
My laptop:
Dual-Core Intel® Core™ i5-7200U CPU @ 2.50GHz
Intel Corporation HD Graphics 620 (rev 02)
NVIDIA Corporation GP108M [...
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Better energy management
I'm using elementary OS since the 0.2, on different machines, and I really enjoy see this project grow bigger and bigger every year. My current machine is a ryzen laptop, and elementary runs really ...
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Booting to blank screen eOS 5.1
When booting up my laptop from power off or hibernated state I am booted into a black screen with a small white under-score in the top left.
Nothing proceeds to happen.
To work around this I power ...
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EOS won't shut down [SOLVED]
Edit : For clarification, the issue is EOS not shutting down (both restart and shut down stay hanging with a black screen and no possible interaction). Following is the original question with the ...
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Is it possible to improve Battery life & Overheat?
I am concerned and really disappointed because battery consumption is much more higher than Windows 10 and heat from processor area is worrying and disturbing, same usage, web browsing.
Elementary OS "...
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No keyboard if I unplug the charger on my netbook
when I unplug my netbook, I can use my keyboard.
I can write my password on login screen, but nothing on the softwares (firefox, mail etc...)
I must close and open the session for my keyboard is OK
I'...
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Screensaver in Elementary OS - how to disable it?
I cannot find any information about disabling screensaver in Elementary OS. It is possible that it is connected to another app installed on my computer?
Best regards,
Matthew
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Undervolting XPS 13 9360
I have just installed eOS on my Dell xps 9360 and I'm hoping to get a bit more juice out of the aging battery. I see people on win10 undervolting the CPU/GPU to get more battery life and I bumped into ...
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Could terminal transparency be causing battery drain in Hera?
My previous experiences with using transparency (on Windows) have indicated it causes serious battery drain. I'm loving Hera, but the battery usage is very poor and I'm wondering if it has to do (at ...
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My Laptop suddenly shuts down when the battery is on 75%
I have an ASUS A455LB laptop, recently i replaced the battery bcs it broke. But after i replaced it with new battery, and run on Battery Mode, my laptop suddenly shut down completely.
The battery ...
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Battery Indicator not working
I am having problems with the battery indicator. If i have no moes plugged i, it does not even appear on the top bar. When i connect a mouse, it appears, but the icon never changes, and the percentage ...
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Battery low and full nothing notification
How to make notification when battery is low 15%-10% and how to make notification when battery already full in charge?
Thanks in advance.
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Battery not detected on Live Juno
I would love to switch to elementaryOS Juno, so I tried a live version on USB.
Unfortunately, it seems like eOS doesn't detect my battery, so I don't have a battery icon and I don't have battery ...
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Battery consumption
Elementary OS is installed on my hard disk drive.
All the Debian based Linux distros I have tried out, including Elementary have one common issue - the battery consumption is huge, compared to the ...
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Battery percentage not accurate at all [closed]
I've recently installed elementary OS Juno on a laptop and it seems like the way it discharges (according to Elementary) is extremely inaccurate. I'll charge the laptop, unplug it, it'll go alright ...
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Unexpected Shutdown
Today and before have encountered unexpected shutdown. My laptop have a new battery, because the old one died, but this also happened to me with this.
I see that this happen to me when the system ...
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Power usage NVIDIA on Juno
I noticed that after upgrading from Loki to Juno my battery life was severally decreased.
I have a Dell XPS 9550 with a NVIDI GeForce(R) GTX 960M.
I've installed tlp and tlp-rdw
I've addded the ...
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Battery draining faster after installing Juno
Since I've upgraded to Juno. My battery is draining faster than ever.
Usually, my laptop stays on for 4 hrs with 100% Charge now it's reduced to 2 hrs.
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elementary OS Loki - Horrible battery life
Well, I have to say, the battery life from my Acer laptop while using the elementary OS is horrible, while on a full charge, it says it has around 2~3h to discharge while using Debian without tlp, ...
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Gala and Xorg high CPU usage on Lenovo X220 [closed]
Gala and Xorg are always above 13%, even if there are no other windows except Terminator. It drains the laptop's battery and keeps the laptop's cooler always on.
I can't remember when I first noticed ...
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Why my laptop battery is discharged so fast with Elementary OS?
I constantly have problems with my battery because it discharges very fast. This problem only occurs in elementary OS. In Windows 8 the management of the battery is much better. I have already ...
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Poor battery life on ThinkPad T420
I recently tried to use elementary OS on my ThinkPad T420. Most of the hardware worked just fine out of the box: wifi, sound, graphics, etc.
However, battery life on elementary OS has been very, very ...
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How to improve battery life on MBP 2015?
I really like elementary os, i installed it on my 15" MBP 2015 -- however the battery life is pretty bad. I get about 3 hours maximum if i'm lucky -- this is much less than the 10 hours i'm used to on ...
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How To Improve Laptop Power Efficiency
I wondering what commands can be used to make the system as smooth and battery saving as possible. Similar to how XFCE is in Antergos or Manjaro.
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Any app to turn off screen of a laptop?
Complete newbie here, just installed EOS for its aesthetics, it's one great looking OS,
I have always been using the screen off software to turn off my screen in windows os, is there a app like that ...
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Battery icon is missing from top wingpanel
Just like what the title said.
I dual booted elementary OS Loki and realized that the battery icon has gone missing...
I've tried reinstalling everything, but it still does not show up.
I'm using a ...
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elementary OS doesn't reconize my computer as Laptop. OS thinks I have a Desktop
I've recently install elementary OS Loki. In general it works fine except for one major thing. OS is not recognizing my computer as laptop, it recognizes my computer as desktop. For instance, I doesn'...
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Elementary OS is draining my battery
I have a Lenovo Thinkpad T430, and I just installed Elementary OS a week ago.
Since I've been trying it with no charger I've seen how my battery level is reducing almost every three minutes.
I ...
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Power Settings limited
Elementary OS is better than sliced bread but there are just a few small niggles one of them is that the power settings are consistent between charge and battery when it would make sense to separate ...
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Why not create a battery manager? [closed]
Why not create a battery manager? The battery with the elementary lasts half as long as with Windows 10. create a battery manager like Windows, to save battery ... would be the first linux to do thiss....
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Is it possible to show both percentage and remaining battery life on wingpanel?
In Freya it is possible to show either remaining battery life (in hours:minutes) or percentage. How to do the same thing (show both percentage and remaining time) in Loki?
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Battery information in Loki?
In Freya there was a pretty good battery manager, is it possible to use the same program in Loki?
UPD: the question is about this program (screenshot from home PC with UPS):
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Battery always says 0% [closed]
I'm using a fresh install of Loki 64bit on an Asus UX32VD. The battery always shows 0% and I get a "find your charger now!" message when I disconnect the laptop from the charger. WHen I click the ...
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How to increase battery performance? [duplicate]
I am using elementary OS 0.4 Loki on my LENOVO ThinkPad Edge E125. Everything is fine except battery performance. The battery lasts hardly 1 hour what was previously almost 3 hours. What should I do?
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Battery life Loki [duplicate]
I just installed Elementary OS Loki on my laptop. I love the OS, however my battery drains very fast. On a full charge, I only have have an hour of 3 to go. My previous installation of Elementary (...
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Suspend instead of shutdown on critical battery level?
By default, the battery notification says that shutdown is imminent at about 3% .
Can the laptop be made to suspend at this point instead of shutting down?
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After finding this answer, I see ...
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Set level of battery notification in Loki
By default the notification for low battery is at 10%
The critically low notification is at about 3% and the imminent shutdown notification comes immediately after. I find these levels to be too low....
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no battery indicator in my statue bar and also there is no battery folder [closed]
greetings from China.I am using Hasee K540D i5-D2 which includes
i5-4210M
nVidia GT940M/Intel® HD Graphics 4600
Mobile Intel® HM86 Chipset
I've install elemntary OS freya for a while and ...
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How to make elementary OS use less battery? [duplicate]
I have a Dell Inspiron 15R 5520 laptop, with
Intel Core i5 3210m
AMD Radeon HD 7670 graphics
SSD drive
I remember from the times I still dual booted Windows 7 that the battery life sometimes ...
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My laptop not charging after 60% [duplicate]
Recently i installed freya.
my laptop (Lenovo G50-80) is not charging after 60%. Then i installed windows But in windows working fine without any power management s/w.
Then i again install freya (...
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How can I make the panel display a battery estimate for both batteries?
Is there a way to detect whether the internal battery or the external battery is being used first? How do I force elementary OS to use external battery first? I don't want the internal battery to be ...
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Battery icon not updating [closed]
The battery icon on the panel only changes when I restart or log-out then log back in. For example, my battery is low at 15%, however, the icon indicates its at 79%, which was the percentage when I ...
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Dim screen with battery indicator and mousewheel on elementary os
I know that on my other ubuntu installations (kubuntu, lubuntu, xubuntu and mint) there was this neat little tweak on by default where when my cursor is hovering the battery indicator icon, i could ...
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Wireless not working on Lenovo G50-45
Primeramente los felicito en la realización de gran SO. He instalado en una portátil (laptop) lenovo G50-45 de un amigo, y tengo problema con el wireless, conecto el wiffi y dura como máximo 15 ...
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elementary OS Freya System Crashes [closed]
My computer is running elementary OS freya , but after working for some time my computer freezes. I can move the cursor all right but when I click on anything it does not respond. if i shut down my ...
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How can I fix the battery icon? [closed]
The battery icon doesn't change with the time. I never know when my battery is near to finish. Even if I plug in the energy, the icon doesn't change.
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Says laptop battery is 100% but its not completely
Hi the wingpanel indicator says the battery is 100% charged. When i click on to the battery statistics it shows that it is just shy of being full but is no longer charging and is labeled as charged.
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