When I put my computer in sleep mode and unplug it, the battery completely drains in a few hours, faster than if I were actively using it. Is there an option for either hibernation in lieu of sleep or a way to troubleshoot this?
My battery health is 100%, this doesn’t happen on my windows or fedora partition, and my laptop is about 2 days old, so I don’t think this is a hardware issue.
Thanks!
I know how the processes work, I’m trying to find a solution. I shouldn’t have a dead battery from 80% in under 3 hours, even if I’m actively using the machine.
No attitude was intended, I’m not sure how that came off as attitude. Sorry.
This seems weird, but did you actually time the difference compared to fedora? If what you say is true and the screen is actually turned off not just black with some backlight, then it should get at least as hot as during normal use, that might mean that your laptop is not sleeping. You could try to connect with ssh after you put it to sleep, if it connects it means that it’s not sleeping.
I had issues with sleep not stopping the system properly when a virtual machine was running. I have only used sleep when it suspended automatically on battery.
Do you often use the laptop from battery? That will deteriorate your battery pretty fast. If battery usage is absolutely necessary, on linux you usually have to manually configure battery conservation features of the laptop if they’re even available, so you battery doesn’t degrade faster than it should.
If it’s a new laptop I don’t see why would one use sleep or hibernation, since booting shouldn’t take more than 5 seconds. It would do a lot for your battery longevity.
You should keep your laptop plugged in as much as possible even during sleep, even with windows.
I tried ssh while it was sleeping and it didn’t connect. That was a great idea, though.
I tend to unplug it while I’m not actively using it but doing portable things (travel to work, etc.), and other times when keeping it plugged in isn’t possible (infrequent but does happen) but I would rather sleep than having to turn it on and off a few times a day. I do turn it off at night. I also noticed that if it is sleeping, I doesn’t read my max charge settings from BIOS and charges to 100% as opposed to 80% pref that I set. I did have to RMA the machine from the original post due to a battery issue, but it’s still actin’ funky.