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HP Laptop drains battery while turned off (lemmy.kde.social)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello! My girlfriend's HP laptop running kubuntu 24.04 has this problem: when it's turned off (either from the GUI or poweroff) it discharges overnight, from 100% to 0% in a few days.

I searched the web to look for fixes:

wake on lan is disabled in the BIOS
USB ports have no settings in the bios, but there's nothing connected to them anyway
the system is actually powered off, not sleeping (at least if poweroff actually works)
everything, firmware included, is up to date

She doesn't remember having this problem from the beginning, but cannot tell when this started occurring

Did any of you ever encounter this problem? I don't know what else to do, and it's quite annoying.

Thank you for your time!

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (11 children)

does this happen if you force it to shut down by holding the power button for +10sec, or if you remove and reinsert the battery after power off?

forcing a shutdown or removing and installing the battery, will ensure that the laptop is indeed shut down and not just halting during the shutdown process.

if you still have the same issue after this test I would guess your battery is dying, but if not you know that the issue is a software and not a hardware problem..

anyway, best of luck getting it sorted

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (3 children)

on most new laptops, you cannot remove the battery that easily, you have to disassemble the back cover ☹️

[–] KaninchenSpeed 6 points 2 months ago

An alternative would be to boot into the bios and shut down from there

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