Tips to extend battery life on Windows 10/11

[Hari_Ravichandran]

Am going to have to return to the office soon, will take the train (e.g., 2 hours each way). For some reason, am only getting about 3 to 3.5 hours of battery life on my framework laptop running Windows 10. Any tips to increase the battery life would be appreciated. Maybe updating the firmware or buying a replacement battery will work?

I have the i5-1240P with 64 GB of RAM and a 2TB SSD.

Also, do you think upgrading to Windows 11 will help a lot with the battery?

[Azure]

have you tried the solutions listed here?

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[amoun]

@Hari_Ravichandran

Maybe updating the firmware or buying a replacement battery will work?

• You don’t say what laptop you have (CPU)
• Have you tried the Windows options?
• Ideally you will already have the 3.17 firmware, and there are not batteries available yet.

Have you read the following etc. there are lots of topics . . .

What is the battery life of your Framework Laptop?

I don’t think the Wifi Websurfing benchmark uses anywhere close to 15W. If that were true we would be seeing 3h runtimes.

Battery Life?

We have set three power profiles in Windows. You can choose “Best Battery Life” to limit TDP. Battery life will depend a lot on the workload, but as one benchmark, we’ve tested MobileMark 2018 at 10.5 hours.