Thread: Strange problem with battery life
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2013-05-20 , 06:37
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Originally Posted by sonofabit View Post
I've been searching for recent information about it, but I can't seem to find anyone else having similar problem... Which is: my battery started to drain like crazy!
P.S.2 I've got two batteries and both have allmost the same drain time.
Well, you are not alone
I have exactly the same situation and it started on Thursday, May 16th. My typical runtime has been also 2 days (about 48 hours), but now it is barely about 18 hours... Command "top" shows usual processes and the CPU load is the same as peviously. And I also have 2 batteries and they behave the same...

The only thing I did on Thursday, was that I upgraded to kernel-power-settings 0.17 from extras-devel and as I did "apt-get upgrade", I also got updates for libmagic1, gstreamer0.10-maemo-xiph and file packages. After every reboot I load the "default" profile with kernel-power-settings. After discovering the battery drain I downgraded all these packages to their previous versions, but the problem remains...

Could it be possible that kernel-power-settings 0.17 introduced some change that is not reverted by downgrading the package? Or are both of my batteries from the same series and their lifetime has just gone to the finish??

Any ideas what to check further?
 

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