Battery drain in suspend

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#1

Hello,

I have installed manjaro on my laptop. It currently works pretty well.

I have a battery discharge problem during suspend. I followed manjaro wiki power management and installed tlp and thermald. However compared to windows on the same machine I lose something I would consider quite insane during suspend. In windows if I leave my pc in suspend over weekend I lose around 2% of charge. However on linux I lose around 15 % per night so a total of 45 % over weekend. Is there anything I can do to improve it ?

#2

Check your BIOS settings and make sure USB charging of external devices is turned off. That used to run the battery down on my old laptop until I turned it off when it was suspended.

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#3

I believe Windows is using a hybrid mode. It suspends first and goes to hibernation after some time.

This is what I use with Linux as well. Going to hibernation after 30 min in suspend. While in hibernation the battery lasts indefinitely.

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#4

I'll try to deactivate the power USB. This system is dual booted. My given example was with USB charging activated both on windows and on manjaro. As I said, it seems that either suspend does not power down some components or it does not go to a low enough powerstate or whatever.

I lack however the knowledge to even know where to look.

#5

If the above excellent advice doesn't help,

TLPUI is just a start and the official documentation is needed to drill down in all the possible config options and can be found here...

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