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Enalicho

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Registered: 2013-11-22

Posts: 1

Awful battery life on ASUS Eeepc 1015px

Hi all,

I've started using Arch on my Eeepc 1015PX, and have found there to be quite a massive drop in battery life. When I was using Fedora, I was getting a battery life of at least 3 hours. At the moment, I'm lucky to get 50 minutes. I've followed the wiki guides on how to use laptop-mode-tools and configure systemd to handle things like the lid closing, but I'm still not sure if there's anything I'm missing. Does anyone have any experience with making eeepcs have a longer battery life on Arch? Any tips or places to look would be greatly appreciated.

The output of upower is

  native-path:          BAT0
  vendor:               ASUS
  model:                1015PE
  power supply:         yes
  updated:              Fri 22 Nov 2013 03:24:33 AM GMT (1 seconds ago)
  has history:          yes
  has statistics:       yes
  battery
    present:             yes
    rechargeable:        yes
    state:               charging
    energy:              22.3344 Wh
    energy-empty:        0 Wh
    energy-full:         24.9372 Wh
    energy-full-design:  56.16 Wh
    energy-rate:         4.482 W
    voltage:             12.627 V
    time to full:        34.8 minutes
    percentage:          91%
    capacity:            44.4038%
    technology:          lithium-ion
  History (rate):
    1385090672	4.482	charging
    1385090644	4.601	charging
    1385090614	4.720	charging
    1385090584	4.849	charging

This is the state 15 minutes after it shut itself off (it does not hibernate by itself - it powers off instead without warning) and being charged.

Last edited by Enalicho (2013-11-22 03:25:44)

socials

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Registered: 2013-11-15

Posts: 27

Re: Awful battery life on ASUS Eeepc 1015px

Use powertop to find out what processes/devices eat up the most of your battery.

Also, you're battery is in really bad shape. I'd recommend buying a new one.