I have to admit upfront that I’m doing a bad practice of having multiple DE. I use i3 mainly, and Cinnamon for the occasional need to plug my laptop to projector or LCD screen in the class, because it’s easier to mirror or extend screen in a DE.
I noticed this charging issue recently after I tried COSMIC to try Wayland because this laptop uses Nvidia card. It did not last long because COSMIC lags very badly for some reason.
As I said the laptop is a Thinkpad E330. The battery is new, I just bought it more or less a month ago.
Here’s some detail about my battery as of the time of this writing.
acpi -V
Battery 0: Not charging, 80%
Battery 0: design capacity 3944 mAh, last full capacity 3678 mAh = 93%
Adapter 0: on-line
Thermal 0: ok, 43.0 degrees C
Thermal 0: trip point 0 switches to mode critical at temperature 126.0 degrees C
Thermal 1: ok, 52.0 degrees C
Thermal 1: trip point 0 switches to mode critical at temperature 103.0 degrees C
Cooling 0: Processor 0 of 10
Cooling 1: Processor 0 of 10
Cooling 2: Processor 0 of 10
Cooling 3: intel_powerclamp 0 of 100
Cooling 4: Processor 0 of 10
Cooling 5: x86_pkg_temp no state information available
output of cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/{charge_stop_threshold,charge_start_threshold}:
75
75
the /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/status is Discharging when unplugged, and Not charging when plugged in.
I tried sudo tee the charge_stop_threshold to 90 and charge_start_threshold to 30, based on this thread at Arch Linux Forum , but when I cat each of them, they remain at 75.
Here’s the usual inxi output.
output of `inxi -Fxxc0z`
System:
Kernel: 6.12.37-1-lts arch: x86_64
bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 15.1.1
Desktop: i3 v: 4.24 dm: LightDM
Distro: EndeavourOS base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: LENOVO
product: 3354AK9 v: ThinkPad Edge E330
serial: <superuser required> Chassis:
type: 10 serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: LENOVO model: 3354AK9
serial: <superuser required>
part-nu: LENOVO_MT_3354
UEFI-[Legacy]: LENOVO v: H3ET65WW(1.02)
date: 09/12/2012
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 27.3 Wh (61.3%)
condition: 44.5/47.7 Wh (93.3%)
volts: 11.5 min: 10.8
model: SANYO 45N1057 serial: <filter>
status: discharging
CPU:
Info: dual core
model: Intel Core i5-3210M bits: 64
type: MT MCP arch: Ivy Bridge rev: 9
cache: L1: 128 KiB L2: 512 KiB
L3: 3 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 1726
min/max: 1200/3100 cores: 1: 1726 2: 1726
3: 1726 4: 1726 bogomips: 19967
Flags: avx ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3
sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel 3rd Gen Core processor
Graphics vendor: Lenovo driver: i915
v: kernel arch: Gen-7 ports:
active: LVDS-1
empty: DP-1,HDMI-A-1,VGA-1
bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:0166
Device-2: NVIDIA GF119M [GeForce 610M]
vendor: Lenovo driver: N/A arch: Fermi
pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16
bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1058
Device-3: Lite-On Integrated Camera
driver: uvcvideo type: USB rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1
bus-ID: 2-1.5:4 chip-ID: 04ca:700c
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.18
with: Xwayland v: 24.1.8
compositor: Picom v: 12.5 driver: X:
loaded: modesetting
alternate: fbdev,intel,vesa dri: crocus
gpu: i915 display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1366x768 s-dpi: 96
Monitor-1: LVDS-1
model: AU Optronics 0x312c res: 1366x768
hz: 60 dpi: 118 diag: 336mm (13.2")
API: EGL v: 1.5 platforms: device: 0
drv: crocus device: 1 drv: swrast gbm:
drv: crocus surfaceless: drv: crocus
x11: drv: crocus inactive: wayland
API: OpenGL v: 4.5 compat-v: 4.2
vendor: intel mesa v: 25.1.5-arch1.1
glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes
renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 4000
(IVB GT2) device-ID: 8086:0166
API: Vulkan Message: No Vulkan data
available.
Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo,
glxinfo, vulkaninfo
de: xfce4-display-settings
gpu: nvidia-smi wl: wayland-info
x11: xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 7 Series/C216 Family
High Definition Audio vendor: Lenovo
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:1e20
API: ALSA v: k6.12.37-1-lts
status: kernel-api
Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.4.6
status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
status: active 2: wireplumber
status: active 3: pipewire-alsa
type: plugin 4: pw-jack type: plugin
Network:
Device-1: Intel Centrino Wireless-N 2230
driver: iwlwifi v: kernel pcie:
speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1
bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:0888
IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
Device-2: Realtek
RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express
Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Lenovo
driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie:
speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: 2000
bus-ID: 09:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168
IF: enp9s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 298.09 GiB
used: 54.4 GiB (18.3%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital
model: WD3200BEVT-22A23T0
size: 298.09 GiB speed: 3.0 Gb/s
serial: <filter>
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 76.35 GiB
used: 29.65 GiB (38.8%) fs: ext4
dev: /dev/sda1
ID-2: /home size: 28.67 GiB
used: 24.75 GiB (86.3%) fs: ext4
dev: /dev/sda5
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition
size: 8.8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
priority: -2 dev: /dev/sda2
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 53.0 C
mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (rpm): cpu: 0 fan-2: 0
Info:
Memory: total: 8 GiB note: est.
available: 6.81 GiB
used: 3.16 GiB (46.4%)
Processes: 255 Power: uptime: 1h 40m
wakeups: 1 Init: systemd v: 257
default: graphical
Packages: pm: pacman pkgs: 1655
Compilers: clang: 20.1.7 gcc: 15.1.1
Shell: Bash v: 5.3.0
running-in: xfce4-terminal inxi: 3.3.38
Any solutions or ideas to fix this? I need it to charge at least to 90 percent because I often find myself away from power cord and I would like to have an extended battery power usage.
Edit: typos
Supposed to save the battery’s life from itself.