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Questions tagged [battery-charging-threshold]

Questions about the lower battery charge threshold to start charging and higher battery charge threshold to stop battery charging.

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Battery Full Indicator 22.04

It is really helpful that there is a low battery warning, which can be customised. But there is no warning when the battery is full. If left unattended, it will cause battery wear. Is there any method to get a warning when the battery charge has…
user227495
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Set low battery percentage to 15% in 22.04

I am glad that the low battery notification now shows at 20% than the previous 10%. Will it be possible to get a notification at 15% or change the warning to 15% of battery? That is a figure which is working for me. So I would prefer to plug in at…
user227495
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How do I limit battery charging to 80% on Ubuntu?

I'm using a Dell XPS 13 7390 and am wondering if this is possible. I can do this in Windows but the Dell power management app doesn't seem to be available for Ubuntu.
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What is difference between 'charge_start_threshold' and 'charge_control_start_threshold'

When working to configure battery charge threshold behavior, running ls /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0 produces two pairs of entries that seem to have the same function: 'charge_start_threshold' and…
G.W.
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How do I change battery charge thresholds (on a newer ThinkPad model)?

I'm trying to conserve my new laptop's battery for many years to come. Can you help me set this up optimally (probably a way to have it automatically stop charging the battery after it reaches some value between 60 to 85%)? I have read a fair bit…
dcpetit
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Missing Power Option in control panel & Settings | Help Me

After watching some video I decided to use Auto Cpufreq https://github.com/AdnanHodzic/auto-cpufreq.git . It not working as i want , so after removing this , the power mode disappeared , then i installed power-profiles-daemon , it also not working…
Plabon
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Battery showing "not charging" and status showing "pending-charge"

I am new to Ubuntu and I installed Ubuntu as standalone OS on my brand-new Lenovo laptop and using it for past 3 months. To check if my adapter has problem, I plugged in another adapter, but same problem persist. This issue has started today, before…
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What do the "charge_..." files do in "/sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/" and can I turn one of them from 100 to 80 without any problems?

I am trying to preserve long-term battery life by capping my laptop's charging behavior so that the battery doesn't go beyond 80% (or maybe 60) charged. I've been reading several posts and threads, but have not found an ideal solution for my setup…
dcpetit
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charge_control_end_threshold not writable

I was trying to put a charging threshold on my laptop (Huawei matebook 13), this functionality works on windows and worked on my previous linux install (Ubuntu 22.04 LTS). I tried doing the same stuff specified here, but I encountered the problem…
user1695193
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Battery charged percentage not increasing on Lenovo Legion 5 15ACH6

I have recently shifted from Windows 10 to Ubuntu on a Lenovo legion 5 5-15ACH6 with ryzen 7 5800 H and RTX 3050 GPU. In Windows, I used the Lenovo vantage to limit my charging up to 60%. But after I switched to Ubuntu 20.04, the laptop battery…
Gourav Chakraborty
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Limit charging threshold in ASUS laptop in Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS?

I'm currently using a dual-booted ASUS laptop (Windows and ubuntu). In windows, Asus has a feature to limit the charging threshold up to 60%. But when I log into ubuntu it starts to charge up to 100%. Is there any way to limit the charging threshold…
zacknight95
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HP ProBook 455 G3 Notebook PC Battery Doesn't Charge

I have an HP ProBook 455 G3 Notebook PC, and I just installed ubuntu 22 (it's the install disk that I have, and I haven't bothered updating it yet), and then upgraded to 24.04. When I open settings, it shows that the battery is present, and at 76%,…
GarThor
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Ubuntu in MacBook Pro 13 2011 battery icon disappearw

I have Ubuntu in my old MacBook Pro 13 2011. The only problem is now that the battery is not working I have to use a cable to turn on the computer and the battery icon disappears.
Sandy E. Quintero
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Battery icon stuck randomly and won't update until reboot

I have a Lenovo Ideapad 3 and Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS. At random times, the battery icon gets stuck, even if I connect/disconnect the charger (and it won't show charging or no charging), and I have to force reboot the system( because it won't power off)…
tsmtsm
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Charger issue after hibernate or running somethigng using NVIDIA GPU

my machine is presenting a very weird issue which only sometimes happens and also, stops happening suddenly too; Today, I left my machine and pressed window+L to lock the screen... When I back, I did note that the laptop was hibernating; After…
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