Re: Power settings wrong or battery dying?

2018-04-12 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Thu, 12 Apr 2018 16:23:52 +0200 Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > You can still try to train the battery for longer run-time > capabilities: basically I do that by running the computer on battery > until the system says the battery is near zero or actually zero. 'Battery' here means

Re: Power settings wrong or battery dying?

2018-04-12 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 12 April 2018, sixpack13 sent: > do you got a setting "calibrate battery" or simular named in your > BIOS (seen in samsung's) ? > maybe, try it before buying a new battery. On one device, that was the end of my battery. It immediately went from being not too good, to

Re: Power settings wrong or battery dying?

2018-04-12 Thread sixpack13
do you got a setting "calibrate battery" or simular named in your BIOS (seen in samsung's) ? maybe, try it before buying a new battery. powertop (last TAB): what's draining ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an

Re: Power settings wrong or battery dying?

2018-04-12 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Thu, 12 Apr 2018 16:23:52 +0200 Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > I try monitoring the battery status while draining the device with a > command like this: > watch -dc 'upower -i /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT1| grep -E > "present|state|to\ full|percentage|capacity|time\

Re: Power settings wrong or battery dying?

2018-04-12 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Wed, 11 Apr 2018 18:30:58 +0100 Danny Horne via users wrote: > On 11/04/18 18:26, Dave Stevens wrote: > > On Wed, 11 Apr 2018 18:12:04 +0100 > > Danny Horne via users wrote: > > > >> From comments received so far it's looking

Power settings wrong or battery dying?

2018-04-12 Thread Danny Horne via users
On 12/04/18 12:51, Robbi Nespu wrote: > > Well, I could be you battery is dying. This is mine output which has > time to empty and my battery capacity are going down also (last time I > check, it was more than 60%. > > present: yes > state: discharging > time to empty:

Re: Power settings wrong or battery dying?

2018-04-12 Thread Robbi Nespu
Well, I could be you battery is dying. This is mine output which has time to empty and my battery capacity are going down also (last time I check, it was more than 60%. present: yes state: discharging time to empty: 2.0 hours percentage: 90% capacity:

Re: Power settings wrong or battery dying?

2018-04-12 Thread Danny Horne via users
On 12/04/18 09:18, Robbi Nespu wrote: > How much of battery capacity percent you have right now? > Try to check with this: > > $ upower -i /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0| grep > --color=NEVER -E "present|state|to\ full|percentage|capacity|time\ to > empty|time\ to full|technology" >

Re: Power settings wrong or battery dying?

2018-04-12 Thread Joe Zeff
On 04/12/2018 12:57 AM, Danny Horne via users wrote: Well the battery has been out for about 15 hours and the laptop claims it's fully charged, but also says it has less than an hour to run It's also possible that a capacitor or resistor in that circuit has changed its value slightly. I have

Re: Power settings wrong or battery dying?

2018-04-12 Thread Robbi Nespu
How much of battery capacity percent you have right now? Try to check with this: $ upower -i /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0| grep --color=NEVER -E "present|state|to\ full|percentage|capacity|time\ to empty|time\ to full|technology" paste down here, it would be interesting to take a

Re: Power settings wrong or battery dying?

2018-04-12 Thread Danny Horne via users
On 11/04/18 17:52, Danny Horne via users wrote: > On 11/04/18 17:48, Dave Stevens wrote: >> On Wed, 11 Apr 2018 17:41:50 +0100 >> Danny Horne via users wrote: >> >> if you pop the battery out for a day does the same thing happen? >> >> d >> > Just popped the

Re: Power settings wrong or battery dying?

2018-04-11 Thread Matthew Miller
On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 03:10:53PM -0400, Fred Smith wrote: > There should be a battery-monitor applet somewhere. I am not running > Gnome, so I don't know where it hides the battery applet, but on > Mate its right there on the upper toolbar. In my case I can right- Actually, the battery applet

Re: Power settings wrong or battery dying?

2018-04-11 Thread Fred Smith
On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 05:41:50PM +0100, Danny Horne via users wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a four year old laptop that's running Fedora 27 Workstation.  If > I leave the thing switched off and unplugged after a day it will need > recharging by varying degrees. > > Have I missed something in the

Re: Power settings wrong or battery dying?

2018-04-11 Thread Danny Horne via users
On 11/04/18 18:26, Dave Stevens wrote: > On Wed, 11 Apr 2018 18:12:04 +0100 > Danny Horne via users wrote: > >> From comments received so far it's looking like a battery replacement. > why not do the test first and spend the money later? > > d >

Re: Power settings wrong or battery dying?

2018-04-11 Thread Dave Stevens
On Wed, 11 Apr 2018 18:12:04 +0100 Danny Horne via users wrote: > From comments received so far it's looking like a battery replacement. why not do the test first and spend the money later? d ___ users mailing list --

Re: Power settings wrong or battery dying?

2018-04-11 Thread Danny Horne via users
On 11/04/18 18:03, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 04/11/2018 09:54 AM, Danny Horne via users wrote: >> On 11/04/18 17:49, Samuel Sieb wrote: >>> If it's turned right off, then Fedora has nothing to do with it. >> >> That's the thing, I'm not sure if I've missed something in the power >> settings and it's

Re: Power settings wrong or battery dying?

2018-04-11 Thread wwp
Hello Danny, On Wed, 11 Apr 2018 17:54:51 +0100 Danny Horne via users wrote: > On 11/04/18 17:49, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > If it's turned right off, then Fedora has nothing to do with it. > > That's the thing, I'm not sure if I've missed something in the power

Re: Power settings wrong or battery dying?

2018-04-11 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 04/11/2018 09:54 AM, Danny Horne via users wrote: On 11/04/18 17:49, Samuel Sieb wrote: If it's turned right off, then Fedora has nothing to do with it. That's the thing, I'm not sure if I've missed something in the power settings and it's just going into standby or some other power saving

Re: Power settings wrong or battery dying?

2018-04-11 Thread Danny Horne via users
On 11/04/18 17:54, wwp wrote: > Of course you don't have any USB device still plugged in and draining? > Some laptops are configured to keep some of the USB plugs powered even > if computer is switched off. > > > Regards, > Nothing plugged in except (usually) the charger signature.asc

Re: Power settings wrong or battery dying?

2018-04-11 Thread wwp
Hello Danny, On Wed, 11 Apr 2018 17:41:50 +0100 Danny Horne via users wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a four year old laptop that's running Fedora 27 Workstation.  If > I leave the thing switched off and unplugged after a day it will need > recharging by varying

Re: Power settings wrong or battery dying?

2018-04-11 Thread Danny Horne via users
On 11/04/18 17:49, Samuel Sieb wrote: > If it's turned right off, then Fedora has nothing to do with it. That's the thing, I'm not sure if I've missed something in the power settings and it's just going into standby or some other power saving mode ___

Re: Power settings wrong or battery dying?

2018-04-11 Thread Danny Horne via users
On 11/04/18 17:48, Dave Stevens wrote: > On Wed, 11 Apr 2018 17:41:50 +0100 > Danny Horne via users wrote: > > if you pop the battery out for a day does the same thing happen? > > d > Just popped the battery, I'll report back in 24 hours

Re: Power settings wrong or battery dying?

2018-04-11 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 04/11/2018 09:41 AM, Danny Horne via users wrote: I have a four year old laptop that's running Fedora 27 Workstation.  If I leave the thing switched off and unplugged after a day it will need recharging by varying degrees. Have I missed something in the power settings or is my battery on

Re: Power settings wrong or battery dying?

2018-04-11 Thread Dave Stevens
On Wed, 11 Apr 2018 17:41:50 +0100 Danny Horne via users wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a four year old laptop that's running Fedora 27 Workstation. > If I leave the thing switched off and unplugged after a day it will > need recharging by varying degrees. > > Have

Power settings wrong or battery dying?

2018-04-11 Thread Danny Horne via users
Hi all, I have a four year old laptop that's running Fedora 27 Workstation.  If I leave the thing switched off and unplugged after a day it will need recharging by varying degrees. Have I missed something in the power settings or is my battery on it's way out? Thanks for looking