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Note that most batteries these days in anything more complex than a watch have "smart" charge controllers and so upower or similar can read what their design watt-hours and current maximum capacity are. Also, often the total charge or discharge rate. That plus a little math should tell you if it's an aging battery or if your machine is simply failing to idle down for some reason.
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-----Original Message-----
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From: Frank Steinmetzger <Warp_7@×××.de>
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Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2022 4:46 PM
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To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Full battery laptop only 1 hour
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Am Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 01:51:39PM -0700 schrieb Mark Knecht:
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> On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 1:40 PM Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@×××××××.pt> wrote: |
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> > On 2022-09-12, Guillermo García wrote: |
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> > > Hello guys, |
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> > > I bought a laptop and i got like 4 hours of batter life, |
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> > > everything ok, (using more than 1 vm, etc), however now in idle my |
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> > > laptop has only 1 hour of life, which is really annoying because |
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> > > its a brand new laptop bought one year before. |
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> > Did anything change? Is this the same system/install which used to |
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> > last |
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> > 4 hours on idle? Or, when you say "brand new bought one year |
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> > before", you mean it wasn't used before? |
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> > Nuno Silva |
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> Battery life can change over time. I've had batteries that after a |
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> couple of years just didn't last as long. I've purchased a few |
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> replacement batteries from Amazon and one of them didn't hold charge at all. |
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My Thinkpad is 6¼ years old and the batteries it shipped with are at 72 and
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75 % of their original capacity. But I didn’t use them *that* much, and always kept them betweet 40 and 80 % charge when I didn’t need them, which is probably 98 % of the year.
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> 1 year is pretty short but possibly he might buy a new battery as a |
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> test. They generally aren't overly expensive. |
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I don’t believe that they went down to 25 % of their original capacity within a year. To achieve that, they must have endured unspeakable abuse.
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