Ubuntu – Battery drains down even after shut down

16.04batterypower-managementshutdown

I am using ubuntu 16.04 on my HP 15 ab522tx laptop.Even after I shut down my pc after few hours I find it discharged completely .Also,battery is quite new and was performing better in previous OS(windows 10).

I also tried various power saving workarounds but I am not able to figure out why this happens!Please explain.

Is there any solution for this!

Output of systemd-inhibit --list :

hemant@hpnb:~$ systemd-inhibit --list
     Who: NetworkManager (UID 0/root, PID 1258/NetworkManager)
    What: sleep
     Why: NetworkManager needs to turn off networks
    Mode: delay

     Who: Telepathy (UID 1000/hemant, PID 3222/mission-control)
    What: shutdown:sleep
     Why: Disconnecting IM accounts before suspend/shutdown...
    Mode: delay

     Who: Unity (UID 1000/hemant, PID 2637/compiz)
    What: sleep
     Why: Unity needs to lock the screen
    Mode: delay

     Who: hemant (UID 1000/hemant, PID 2569/unity-settings-)
    What: handle-power-key:handle-suspend-key:handle-hibernate-key
     Why: GNOME handling keypresses
    Mode: block

     Who: hemant (UID 1000/hemant, PID 2569/unity-settings-)
    What: sleep
     Why: GNOME needs to lock the screen
    Mode: delay

5 inhibitors listed.

Best Answer

Remove the battery for several hours and check if it will drain out. If the battery still charged, it should be healthy.

One possible trouble maker could be any USB port or other device that still powered while the system is shut down.

Extra powered USBs are feature for some laptops. Usually these ports are yellow colored. Port as this could be troublemaker especially if something is plugged in this port. In most cases this feature could be disabled via the BIOS settings.

Recently I've discovered that the new batteries should be charged to 100%. Unfortunately I can't find the source of this statement but this solve my problem with my new battery jump drain from ~35% to 5%.

Within Ubuntu the package tlp (apply laptop power management settings) could be helpful. It is capable to handle the power management of the devices (USB, PCI, etc.) at kernel level.

TLP [1] brings you the benefits of advanced power management for Linux without the need to understand every technical detail. TLP comes with a default configuration already optimized for battery life, so you may just install and forget it. Nevertheless TLP is highly customizable to fulfil your specific requirements.

Please note: TLP runs on every laptop brand. Setting the battery charge thresholds is available for IBM/Lenovo ThinkPads only.

TLP is a pure command line tool with automated background tasks. It does not contain a GUI.

TLP [2] (TLP - Linux Advanced Power Management) is more progressive management utility battery-for Linux, which applies different settings automatically when you log on and every time you change the power source, depending on your distro and hardware.

Basic usage of tlp:

  • Install the package: sudo apt update && sudo apt install tlp.

    If you are using tp-smapi the better way to install the package is:

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:linrunner/tlp
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install tlp tlp-rdw
sudo apt-get install tp-smapi-dkms acpi-call-dkms

  • There are two services installed tlp.service and tlp-sleep.service.

  • Use sudo tlp stat to check the current settings.

  • Use nano /etc/default/tlp to tweak the configuration.

  • Use sudo tlp start to apply the configuration.

Another useful tool is powertop, that is not just a monitoring tool, but has also a calibrating option: powertop -c.

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