Running a Gigabyte U4UD, been having battery problems for months now, and the battery health only reports 50% capacity. Started playing Battlefront and got distracted and saw my battery looks like this now. Been doing this for 15 min, so either my battery is magical… or the Clevo design is flawed. Seeing how long she goes for on battery before it just dies.
I am not looking for tech support, just thought this would be funny.
There are 2 possibilities:
The battery is bad.
- Replace it.
The battery is not calibrated.
- Go into the BIOS and leave it on, unplugged.
- Let the battery completely drain until the machine shuts off and won’t turn on again.
- Plug it in and as soon as it can, boot into your OS.
- Leave it plugged in until it completely charges.
- Once it’s at 100%, unplug it and turn off auto-sleep.
- Let it completely drain with the OS running, until the OS shuts it down.
- It should now work again if the battery itself isn’t bad.
Sometimes it is enough to just drain the battery until OS shuts you down and after that let it charge to 100% with no interruptions (best not using the device at that time)
It may need multiple cycles
doing this about once a month should keep the "OS“ of the device (every device with a rechargeable lithium battery (phones, drills, cars, etc.)) calibrated with the actual SoC (state of charge) of the battery.
try acpi -b
Either Linux has no idea what your battery is telling it; or your battery is just…toast.
Let’s just hope for your sake it’s just a funny linux bug. Replacing specific laptop batteries can be a tremendous pain if you can’t find a specific cell that works for your device.
How is it that one cannot purchase a bunch of flat rectangular batteries and just put them inside the laptop (wherever they fit) and connect them manually to some custom charge controller? We do it all the time on other devices like drones and shit. We have generic round cylindrical batteries, why isn’t there flat generic Li batteries?
I fear you‘d had to reverse engineer some proprietary nonsense that some companies put in their battery in order to prevent free repai… rhmm, security of course, security…
I’ve not worked with batteries but I would assume there are two pins for voltage and ground, one temperature probe pin and or two pins for serial communication (probably I²C). If batteries would have had some sort complex handshake then it would have needed a corresponding UEFI patch so that system is able to refuse booting if the power level is too low. That’s why I assume there would be no handshake (unless it’s apple ofc).
You would be surprised how hard it can be sometimes to source batteries due to shipping rules and regulations; as well as the general difficulty surrounding just building your own battery pack…which can end badly if you aren’t an electronic engineer or similar professional who knows exactly what they are doing.
Nah, she’s toast. Ran multiple distros, and the same problem persisted across Fedora, Arch, and Ubuntu. It’s also an Intel machine, and I’ve been eyeing a Framework with AMD. Which is why I’ve stated I am not looking for tech support.
I must warn you of the dangers of pushing batteries in a failure state like this though; Lithium batteries can sometimes fail in explosive ways.
Keep an eye on the thermals and don’t let it expand or pop on you.
no pain no gain
Well, of course I know him, he’s me
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I’m just going to point this out, I asked for no tech support.
It doesn’t matter, outcome is the same
That just guarantees tech support lol
The battery is bad and you should replace it. Also be careful it doesn’t turn into a spicy pillow
No Pillow… yet, but yeah I’ve tried to look for replacement, but she’s a
GigabyteClevo so finding parts isn’t easy.
