Battery charge capacity reduced quicker than it should be

Asked by Azul

Hi,

Looking for some advice to improve battery performance and extend battery life.

Two weeks ago i bought a new ASUS F555LA-AB31 laptop. I removed Windows 10 and installed Ubuntu on it. For the first roughly 10 charge cycles, the batter charged to 100% capacity with no issue. Since then, the battery has been through about 5 charge cycles, not charging to its maximum capacity but only to 97%. Asus specifies that the battery is good for 500+ charge cycles.

I just fund out that Linux has worse battery management capability than Windows. I'm not sure to what extent that is true but if it is, I would like to do everything possible to optimize the lifespan and charge capacity of my new battery.

Please help!

sudo upower -i `upower -e | grep 'BAT'`
  native-path: BAT0
  vendor: ASUSTeK
  model: ASUS Battery
  power supply: yes
  updated: Wed 06 Jul 2016 11:59:02 AM EDT (2 seconds ago)
  has history: yes
  has statistics: yes
  battery
    present: yes
    rechargeable: yes
    state: discharging (currently unplugged to fully drain and try to recharge to 100% capacity)
    warning-level: none
    energy: 33.652 Wh
    energy-empty: 0 Wh
    energy-full: 36.343 Wh
    energy-full-design: 37.331 Wh
    energy-rate: 10.267 W
    voltage: 7.6 V
    time to empty: 3.3 hours
    percentage: 92%
    capacity: 97.3534%
    technology: lithium-ion
    icon-name: 'battery-full-symbolic'

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
#1

What is the output of:

lsb_release -a; uname -a

Thanks

Battery life is not universally better in Windows. It depends on hardware and configuration entirely.

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Azul (iospadov) said :
#2

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Release: 16.04
Codename: xenial
Linux azul-X555LAB 4.4.0-28-generic #47-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jun 24 10:09:13 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
#3

You could try the latest kernel. May help

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Azul (iospadov) said :
#4

Installing TLP has resolved the issue.