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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How do I check the battery's status via the terminal?
I would like a command that displays the battery status in the terminal.
Joe
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Tips to extend battery life for laptops and notebooks
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Is it possible…
Niall Murphy
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How can I limit battery charging to 80% capacity?
I just learned that some Lenovo laptops include a utility that offers to limit battery charging capacity to within 0–80% in order to slow the attenuation of the battery lifespan:
How can I do this in Ubuntu?
ændrük
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Disable "Mouse battery low" spam notification
Countless times over the past few weeks I have been notified about the low battery in my wireless mouse. Every time it wakes up from sleeping mode and reconnects over Bluetooth I get a notification. I have gotten hundreds of notifications. I do not…
domo
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Check Bluetooth headphones battery status in Linux
Is it possible to get the battery status of Bluetooth headphones connected to Linux? Android shows it so I was wondering if it was possible.
gabs1bb3
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How to change critically low battery value?
I would like my laptop to hibernate itself when the battery level is 10% to be sure it has enough power to complete the operation properly. Actually if I don't pay attention my laptop informs me it will hibernate when it's too late, so instead it…
oidualc
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Why does my computer get less battery life with Ubuntu compared to Windows?
Last year I purchased a Dell Inspiron 5315 laptop shipping with Windows 7 preinstalled. I installed Ubuntu 10.10 alongside it with dual-booting. On upgrading to Ubuntu 11.10, I was upset to find I now get less than one hour of battery life! Windows…
Rajesh Pantula
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Battery Monitor for Ubuntu 20.04
Just yesterday I migrated from Ubuntu 18.04 to Ubuntu 20.04.
In 18.04 there was a software called "Battery Monitor" that monitors your battery percentage and notifies you when your battery percentage as reached low level.
I tried to install it in…
Abdullah Omar
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How can I optimize Ubuntu for minimal energy usage?
How can I optimize Ubuntu for minimal energy usage? I use my laptop for development, but also for writing. I have a 9 hour flight coming up and a 6 hour battery life when already using
limited screen brightness
no usb devices
no…
don.joey
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How can I see the battery status of my Logitech wireless mouse?
Is there a way to monitor the mouse's battery status in Kubuntu? I have a Logitech Wireless Mouse M510 and in Windows I can use the default software (from official site) to monitor battery status and do other things like editing some mouse buttons…
Frank
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Battery not charging but detected
my Lenovo N581 detects the battery, but it doesn't charge it (as soon as I unplug the AC, it turns off).
When i type upower -i /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0 into the terminal I get:
native-path: BAT1
vendor: …
gxor
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Ubuntu 18.04 battery life
I know there are many questions on this argument, but I want to be sure that the answer for old ubuntu version can be used for this version, so this is the question, how can I improve my battery life on ubuntu 18.04? I installed ubuntu in dual boot…
Andrea Bellizzi
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Sleep mode drains battery very fast
Battery drains in about 10 hours when the computer is asleep with Ubuntu 18.04, it is a lenovo y520 (7700hq, 1060 with bumblebee).
When I tested no USB devices were plugged in, actually nothing was plugged in.
The sleep mode is s2 - deep. I am not…
George
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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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