Hi All!
I have been using zorin OS version 16 for quite sometime and decided to upgrade to version 17.1 pro. After upgrading to 17.1 pro I noticed that the battery life on my laptop is only about 2 hours now. I used to get about a full 8 to 10 hours without any issues. The battery is brand new in this laptop.
For the laptop I am running a Lenovo Thinkpad Carbon X1 Extreme Gen 3. It has an i9-10885h, GTX 1660ti, 48gb ram and 1.5tb of ssds. I leave the laptop in battery saver mode since Im not doing anything intensive.
I checked powertop and nothing jumps out at me as running crazy or wild. I also tried to install TLP which I know is not advised but I tried it anyways to see if it would help and all it does is says that I have 99 hours left but I know thats not accurate.
Even something as simple as just browsing amazon for 20 minutes my laptop dropped from 99% to 87%.
Any help or tips to manage this other than being tethered to the wall?
Is it really 2hrs before battery dies, or is battery meter saying low percentage after 2hrs. Have you done a battery calibration since Z17.1?
@strike6 , I had the same problem - absolutely terrible battery life (I'd get a 40 minute warning, then it would just shut down) with Zorin 17.1 Core, so I installed TPL and it completely fixed the issue. Give it a go!
https://linrunner.de/tlp/index.html
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Just an additional note. Ideally batteries, to preserve their life, the number of charging cycles should be kept to a minimum. Never let the battery get below 35% and never charge beyond 80-85%. The only good thing about Samsung Notebooks that ran Windows had an app to prevent the battery being charged beyond 80%.
Based off my testing it is about 2 hours. Yes I calibrated the battery when I bought the brand new one.
But just for own sake from what I read online it said to drain the battery to 5% not 0, then charge it back up to 100%. Is there anything special in linux that has to be done?
I tried TLP but all it says is my laptop battery life is 99 hours but still dies after about 2 or 3 hours.
I did notice today that I had a firmware update from the software center and it updated a whole bunch of gnome firmware including the nvidia drivers so I guess ill see what happens
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See if this guide from Chris Titus helps:
After some time, I finally got a solution, and my battery life has been much better so I wanted to share with everyone so if they run into this, they can also try this. I installed Powertop by using the command sudo apt install powertop. Once installed you can use the powertop --calibrate command to have it go through its calibration and it now gives me an accurate battery reading and Im going my full 8 to 10 hours of battery life.
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