Hello! My girlfriend’s HP laptop running kubuntu 24.04 has this problem: when it’s turned off (either from the GUI or poweroff
) it discharges overnight, from 100% to 0% in a few days.
I searched the web to look for fixes:
- wake on lan is disabled in the BIOS
- USB ports have no settings in the bios, but there’s nothing connected to them anyway
- the system is actually powered off, not sleeping (at least if
poweroff
actually works) - everything, firmware included, is up to date
She doesn’t remember having this problem from the beginning, but cannot tell when this started occurring
Did any of you ever encounter this problem? I don’t know what else to do, and it’s quite annoying.
Thank you for your time!
- noddy ( @noddy@beehaw.org ) 4•5 hours ago
Might be related to those sleep state stuff that microsoft keep pushing. I think LTT has a video about how it causes battery to drain while off. I think the solution was either shutting it down while unplugged, or while plugged in or something. If you always shut the laptop down with the charger plugged in try to unplug the charger before shutting it down and see if it makes a difference. Or the opposite. I don’t remember which it was.
- Lem453 ( @Lem453@lemmy.ca ) 2•8 hours ago
I would check the journalctl logs to ensure it is fully turning off. If here is still battery drain and you are sure the laptop is off, then its a hardware issue rather than software.
- cRazi_man ( @cRazi_man@lemm.ee ) 8•18 hours ago
My wife’s HP laptop does this as well (she is running Windows). A previous laptop did this and a BIOS update fixed it. For most laptops the official response from manufacturers seems to be: eat shit.
- JaxNakamura ( @JaxNakamura@programming.dev ) 2•9 hours ago
My son’s Windows laptop did the same. Turns out there is a setting to make Windows truly shut down when selecting “shut down” from the menu, because normally it secretly sleeps or hibernates or something to have faster start-up times. There’s also the power another device via USB option that you may have to disable in BIOS / EFI settings.
As usual :|
- krolden ( @krolden@lemmy.ml ) 5•1 day ago
How long does the battery last while powered on?
As it should be, the battery life while in use it’s even better than my own pc
- terminhell ( @terminhell@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 5•1 day ago
Laptops now use the internal main battery as a replacement of the cmos rs2032 battery (in a lot of em at least).
Not that such a low draw cause this level of drain. Maybe the battery is going out as well.
- GenosseFlosse ( @GenosseFlosse@feddit.org ) 2•7 hours ago
The CMOS battery has maybe 100mA and lasts 5 years. A laptop battery has at least 400x the capacity, it would not drain in a few days.
I checked and yes, there’s no cmos battery in it. Do you think this may have something to do with it?
- terminhell ( @terminhell@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 2•14 hours ago
Hard to say. But it’s something to consider. Lots of other worthwhile suggestions I see too. Hopefully it’s not a combination of things.
Let us know how it goes!
- MangoPenguin ( @MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English4•1 day ago
Maybe Intel AMT running? I’m not sure it can be disabled though.
- krolden ( @krolden@lemmy.ml ) 2•1 day ago
Even if it was it shouldn’t drain the battery that fast.
- sag ( @sag@lemm.ee ) 2•22 hours ago
I have HP Notebook. This issue also happened to me. It was a battery issue. I just changed the battery.
The battery health is marked as 100%, which seems strange to me. However, the battery life while powered on is very good, so I don’t think the battery is old or exhausted. Do you think that changing the battery may be the solution?
- sag ( @sag@lemm.ee ) 1•7 hours ago
Maybe the solution. Not Sure.
- MultipleAnimals ( @MultipleAnimals@sopuli.xyz ) 3•1 day ago
Same with my Lenovo, not in few days tho but maybe in week or a two.
- Strit ( @Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show ) 3•1 day ago
I’ve had a similar issue with most of the laptops I have owned. The battery just discharges slowly when the device is turned off.
I have no idea what causes it or if it can be fixed.
- rotopenguin ( @rotopenguin@infosec.pub ) English2•18 hours ago
Instead of having an efficient chip monitoring the power button, they integrate that job into some 10nm chip. That chip doesn’t get to power off, so it just pisses away power on gate leakage all day long.
- lapoigne ( @lapoigne@jlai.lu ) 2•1 day ago
Same for me with a MSI laptop, no solution
- dysprosium ( @dysprosium@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 1•1 day ago
It may be exactly this, noticed by Linus Tech Tips: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHKKcd3sx2c
If their solutions don’t work, try this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JoFi5yXzZk