Bad battery life on Xubuntu 16.04 Lenovo T460s
Solution 1
What you can do to increase the battery-life is installing tlp with some additional stuff
sudo apt-get install tlp tlp-rdw acpi-call-dkms
tlp
is in the official ubuntu repo since 15.10. More information are available here. The man
-page is in english
man tlp
You can also install thinkfan
which can reduce the noise-level and can save some energy. You should also install powertop
sudo apt-get install thinkfan powertop
powertop
is a really powerful tool writen by intel.
Solution 2
You should watch your computer enviroment (eg, making sure the the cpu doesn't get too hot, don't run too much applications, so on.) You could use tlp. tlp is excellent on many Linux computers.
sudo apt-get install tlp
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Atomius
Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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Atomius over 1 year
The battery life of my new
Lenovo T460s
is very bad (about 4,5h with a little bit browsing and half display contrast).Xubuntu 16.04
shows two batteries (SANYO 00HW022
andSANYO 01AV405
). They were drained one after the other. I'm not sure how the batteries are integrated in the notebook, but I ordered it with only one (fixed) battery.Is there something I can do to increase the battery life? Is it a recognition problem of the battery?
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Kev Inski about 8 yearsIt would be good to add more information about your setup. Did you install anything like tlp or is it a normal xubuntu Installation? I think it is a new skylake CPU, normally newer hardware is not so well supported even if it is intel.
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Kev Inski about 8 yearsaccording to the lenovo shop, there are two build-in batteries (one front and one back), so it is normal that the OS sees both.
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Admin about 8 yearslinux skylake support is currently woeful. Processor cannot use most of the low power states it has. Nothing you can do for a little while until it improves. mjg59.dreamwidth.org/41713.html
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Fabby about 8 yearsWelcome to Ask Ubuntu! ;-) As Ubuntu 16.04 is not officially released yet you should use launchpad to file a bug so the developers are aware of this and can track it.
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linrunner about 8 yearsDoes it have Optimus hybrid graphics or intel only?
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linrunner about 8 yearsIf you're from Germany you may ask your question in the german ThinkPad-Forum.
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Atomius almost 8 yearsCan you help me analysing my powertop output? pastebin.com/n2w1anTp
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Admin almost 8 years(to switch between ac and battery, type
tlp ac
and battery:tlp battery