# \[TRACKING\] Linux battery life tuning

**URL:** <https://community.frame.work/t/tracking-linux-battery-life-tuning/6665>\
**Category:** Linux\
**Tags:** ubuntu, other-distro\
**Created:** [September 13, 2021, 6:38am UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/tracking-linux-battery-life-tuning/6665 "2021-09-13T06:38:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![lhl](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/community.frame.work/lhl/32/9497_2.png) [@lhl](https://community.frame.work/u/lhl)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2022, 4:33am UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/tracking-linux-battery-life-tuning/6665/278 "2022-09-28T04:33:26Z")

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> [@Lamy](#):
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> @nrp Could you please update, if the issue is resolved or what all subissues are pending? Its 1 year since the post was posted, would be nice to have a summary on the updates.

For those following along at home, can you quote what issue or subissues you’re referencing? This is a general linux battery tuning thread so I think this is primarily a collection of best practices/discussion of workarounds, I don’t think there’s any single resolution expected for this thread.

I think the biggest known remaining battery issues are non-Linux specific:

- higher-than-average battery drain in suspend, exacerbated by attached USB device expansion cards (Windows generally gets around this by hibernating automatically at 5% battery usage and in Linux you can do something similar with suspend-and-hibernate; I wrote [a simple tool to track battery drain in suspend](https://github.com/lhl/batterylog) btw).
- potential RTC boot issues if left off and unplugged for an extended period of time (weeks)

Each of these problems has their own threads and hopefully updates go there (or in this thread that was gathering known issues).

> [@Known issues guide](http://community.frame.work/t/known-issues-guide/21089):
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> Shall we manage the known issues by the community so that people can easily see the issues and optionally solutions? At least it’s still useful to list important issues only. I didn’t find any similar thread listing the “current” known issues. Known issues RTC coin battery issue, The laptop doesn’t turn on after turning off for a while. All the Intel 11th gen CPU. Intel 11th gen CPU too? 1. [Laptop won't power on unless i plug in AC power](http://community.frame.work/t/laptop-wont-power-on-unless-i-plug-in-ac-power/13085), 2. [Viability of an ML 1220 rechargable battery for RTC…](http://community.frame.work/t/viability-of-an-ml-1220-rechargable-battery-for-rtc-cmos/17664)

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