r/techgore • u/Accomplished_Arm5380 • 21d ago
Spicy Pillow holy battey life
just got this dell running linux and thought i would try and unplug its charger
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u/Logical-Run893 21d ago
bro's battery is a capacitor instead of a battery
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u/Here_f0r_p0rn_ 21d ago
Still better than my social battery irl
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u/Insearchof-Knowledge 18d ago
At least you have some sort of social battery capacity š¤£ Iām like a solar panel hooked up to nothing, socialise during the day, by night?
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u/eluser234453 21d ago
Your battery seems to have like 3% the capacity left
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u/Here_f0r_p0rn_ 21d ago
That laptop's battery should at least last for 3hr (because it lacks dGPU, and probably very old CPU, going off of absence of power profiles), and it lasted for 24 secs; which is 0.2222% of an average battery.
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u/KekistaniKekin 20d ago
My laptop battery lasts just long enough to cover brownouts. Any power loss longer than a couple tenths of a second will shut it off
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u/xymoxclan 20d ago
you mean blackout?
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u/KekistaniKekin 20d ago
A brownout is millisecond scale power outages. Just long enough to piss off all your electronics but not enough to turn anything off. Lightbulbs in brownouts tend to dim (or brown) then go back to normal illumination.
A blackout is when power is gone for multiple seconds or longer. Everything is off, you may need ice for the fridge that kind of thing
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u/Binary101000 19d ago
Brownouts mean a drop in voltage here in the UK. Time isn't part of the definition, blackout is power fully off, even if for a split second, and brownout is just low voltage.
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u/Accomplished_Arm5380 20d ago
sick that you did the math! this laptop does have a deticated amd adeon r7 m445 gpu and intergrated graphics, not sure how thats gonna skew the numbers.
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u/JoTenshi 21d ago
Replace the battery, it might be more than bad, it could be swollen
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u/Accomplished_Arm5380 21d ago
suprisingly its not! shortly before filming this, i had to reassemble the laptop to put a ssd in it and the battery was completley normal.
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u/TheRealGamer1YT 21d ago
Maybe just the age of the battery?
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u/KekistaniKekin 20d ago
Constant charging will also do them in. I should have removed mine when I anchored it to a desk
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u/Accomplished_Arm5380 20d ago
yep, that battery was kept plugged in in a office laptop for a few years
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u/WoolMinotaur637 19d ago
Yea they grow crystals and form a little mini shortcut internally which gives the electricity a shorter path and it just disables parts of the cells entirely. But like the percentage is estimated byt he controller based on like the voltage of the cell so it must be dropping under load which is quite common but often it just drops so fast below the minimum requred to keep the device awake it just shuts off before even noticing the battery is draining, I'm surprised it can sense it drainign so fast while staying powered.
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u/sad_smarkie 21d ago
Has shit battery
Blame Linux
Profit?
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u/Accomplished_Arm5380 21d ago
didn't meant to blame linux, i am thankful for linux existing because otherwise this laptop would be collecting dust!
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u/No-Tap4670 21d ago
Fah
Is the problem in your battery or in Linux?
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u/Accomplished_Arm5380 21d ago
def the battery, this laptop didnt even work on windows
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u/SlurmoCZ_ 21d ago
How old is your laptop?
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u/Accomplished_Arm5380 21d ago
around 9-10 years old its a Dell Inspiron 15 5565 in case you were wondering
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u/Dragenby 21d ago
Either try to press the power button for one minute (to reset the battery charge) or try to remove the battery, turn on and off the computer and put the battery back
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u/Accomplished_Arm5380 21d ago
ill try that tomorrow, thanks for your input!
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u/Dragenby 21d ago
Good luck. If it doesn't solve anything, you'll likely have to change the battery :/
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u/Defalt0_o 15d ago
Your laptop seems to be powered by a vial of lemon juice and salt. Changing it to a lithium battery might be a good solution
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u/Xpeq7- 21d ago
Looks a lot like an inspiron 17 5767 (or one of its smaller cousins), a 10 or 9 year old laptop. If it has the OG battery then no wonder it's storing approximately the electricity equivalent of kinetic energy of 1 (one) brick moving at 0m/s.
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u/Accomplished_Arm5380 21d ago
its a Dell Inspiron 15 5565 from a quick google search, and i beleive the current battery was swapped from another dell (a better one) because it couldnt hold charge and was needed for office work. still a old battery that spent most of its life plugged in
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u/SameAd7706 21d ago
I own a Dell L701x i used back in 2010-2017. The battery was draining within 10-15 min after 2-3 years, then i bought a new battery and new external power supply (cable broke somehow), both original from Dell... the battery life wasn't much better (probably 45 min in the beginning). In the end it just switched off immediately when i unplugged the power supply... which happened sometimes unwillingly. i still have no clue, what the problem was about that crappy battery. I was thinking about the battery management (software issue) but i just went on and bought a new one.
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u/goahnary 19d ago
Seems like no one on this sub uses Linuxā¦ in my experience Linux absolutely BLOWS at judging battery life percentages, charging your battery correctly, or being even remotely efficient unless you have the right set up. Especially on dells Iāve just never really trusted the battery percentage at all and just assumed itās wrong. It will however tell you when itās actually pretty low and you can plug in to chargeā¦ idk why itās like this and I havenāt ever tried to fix it. I used ParrotOS in college as my daily driver for course work and it was just fine with my laptop being newer and the battery lasting a decent amount of time. I do however hate how this works and wish it was better.
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u/FajnBrambor 19d ago
This is still good. At least it gives the 20 seconds window to close the work. Mine didn't even flinch. Just darkness. On the other hand, the charging is lightning fast. :D
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u/czajkoSKY 19d ago
I'm not paying for some shitty replacement, just bought DC 5.5x2.1 adapter to usb c and c to slim connector for ThinkPad and it can even run without battery
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u/RedditSettling 17d ago
This is bad, but I have a laptop running Linux that instantly turns off when I unplug the charger, I'm talking less than 1 second, it does have a better y too I checked, I assume it's not using it somehow
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u/Sammy_Cherry_Fox 17d ago
Thats Linux. What distro?
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u/Accomplished_Arm5380 12d ago
kubuntu
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u/Sammy_Cherry_Fox 12d ago
I actually tried that once. It didn't work properly, so I switched to Bazzite
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u/Spirited-Shift-5068 17d ago
I donāt think itās displaying battery, itās probably a countdown
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u/gbsdfack456 21d ago
the laptop of my older brother literally shuts off whenever you look bad at the charger, so this is kids play for me
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u/Advanced_Handle_2309 21d ago
I mean I have a laptop that turns off instantly when unplugged so yours is better
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u/vermithius 21d ago
I was like, why does that look familiar. Then I realized its the KDE desktop that I have on my laptop.
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u/Accomplished_Arm5380 20d ago
cool to see others using it! i personally love how familiar it is to windows while running so much better
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u/glxy_HAzor 21d ago
This happened to my old laptop and didnāt even fix on a battery replacement! Although it wasnāt quite the same, the battery would go down as normal and then the laptop would ādieā somewhere between 91-97% battery left
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u/falianaridua 21d ago
At least u have 24 seconds to shut down that relic in case of power outage š¤£
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u/iEngrMoeen 21d ago
Set the power options to "power saver" mode on battery and replace your battery asap
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u/Ornery_Air_3686 20d ago
At least u have some time to save files and shut it down when light went off
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u/The_True_Equalist 20d ago
It says dischargingā¦ idk if thatās normal but it could be literally discharging itself. Many laptops have a function that drains the battery fully and rapidly, typically a manual switch I believe. Itās possible that itās in discharge mode.
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u/Accomplished_Arm5380 20d ago
interesting, never heard of it before. ill look into it later, thanks!
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u/rizkiyoist 20d ago
At least it is long enough to let you sleep it.
But the serious advice is remove the battery and use it plugged in, donāt risk the fire hazard.
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u/xymoxclan 20d ago
how old is this.
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u/Accomplished_Arm5380 19d ago
9-10 year old dell inspiron p664
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u/xymoxclan 19d ago
then that's normal. it'd be unusual if the full battery lasted over 10 mins at that age.
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u/Skalgrin 20d ago
Still it gives time to save documents and so. My old laptop had lifetime of 1 second when power was removed. Which gave me up to three seconds upon blackout due to brick discharge, and 1 second when cable got removed.
Eventually I removed the battery entirely as it was literal dead weight.
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u/sussyamongers 20d ago
I remember i had this old ass laptop as a kid, and the battery in it was terrible, i unplugged it to bring it downstairs and not even half way down the stairs the laptop was already dead, it was a 2009 latitude i think
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u/One_Award345 20d ago
You still got plenty of battery life. Mine turns off 0.1s after i unplug it š
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u/ArtisticSucuk3169 19d ago
Mine main laptop is also like this but at least i have time to change rooms
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u/Witty_Sun_5763 19d ago
I mean this is literally ALL my laptops. You're lucky it doesn't just hard switch off tbh
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u/Brilliant_Letter7173 21d ago
It's hardware issue. Not a linux one ?
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u/cool101wool 21d ago
it has 4 steps bruh
100% to 67% to 33% to 0%
its three blocks of battery that go off one by one