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goodoldays

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Registered: 2021-07-09

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Bleeding Battery

I've installed Arch but from the start, I am troubleshooting battery issues.First I had an issue with NVIDIA GeForce MX230 which drained my battery in just an hour and the GPU fan also ran always which generated a lot of heat, did some digging and found that linux is not compatable with dual GPUs. So did a clean install again by skipping drivers for NVIDIA(didn't try "Bumblebee" or any managing software) and only installed mesa package for my intel integrated graphics which gave an 3 hour standby and  with TLP and installing its recommended packages (2 I think so for hard disk, couldn't remember the name) , gave me a total 4 hour standby for a fair usage.Now the problem is the capacity of battery is reducing significantly when I use Arch( If I use windows 10 it gave a standby of 6 hours and just 0.2 capacity reduce on 15 days as daily use). First I also used VMware in Arch with another OS(Just  mentioning to know the cause)but now I shifted it to windows.I done very basic install of Arch just simple KDE and not even display manager. I love Arch , its principle and community. But this battery issue is a pain in the butt. I am ready to lose 2 hours of extra battery performance by Windows but the capacity thing is annoying.My laptop is around 1 year old.Should I be worried about the capacity thing? If so what should I do to solve it?
My Device specs:
Device name    LAPTOP-9CJP9P4M
Processor    Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-8265U CPU @ 1.60GHz   1.80 GHz
Installed RAM    8.00 GB (7.85 GB usable)
Device ID    4777967C-E72B-4140-86FA-5F0A1FA8A434
System type    64-bit operating system, x64-based processor
Pen and touch No pen or touch input is available for this display
Output of tlp-stat
+++ Battery Status: BAT0
/sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/manufacturer                   = ASUSTeK
/sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/model_name                     = ASUS Battery
/sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/cycle_count                    =    302
/sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/energy_full_design             =  32058 [mWh]
/sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/energy_full                    =  26652 [mWh]
/sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/energy_now                     =  10085 [mWh]
/sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/power_now                      =  12082 [mW]
/sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/status                         = Discharging

Charge                                                      =   37.8 [%]
Capacity                                                    =   83.1 [%]

Last edited by goodoldays (2021-07-09 08:25:49)