Hi
I have a problem with my laptop battery under Linux - can anyone advise what to do?
Actually there are two laptops that both display the same problem (both Lenovo G505s). I'll keep the story as short as possible:
My laptop (G505s AMD A10 processor, purchased with Windows pre-installed): after some months of not being used, and having changed by broadband router to a fibre optic one, Windows decided to lock me out. So I thought: I've had enough of this, time to switch to Linux. Did some research and settled on POP! OS.
Being worried about the data on my hard drive, I thought I'd try it out on my daughter's unused Lenovo G505s with slightly less powerful processor (it just says "A series" on the label on the machine). Prepared POP! OS media and installed, overwriting the hard disk in its entirety (no more Windows!) I noticed that although POP! OS worked fine, and I liked it, the battery wouldn't charge. The charging light on the machine was on, but it never seemed to charge and certainly could not power the machine without mains. I thought this might have been due to age of the machine/battery and fact that it had been sitting unused for a long time. I thought I would go ahead and sort my A10 machine out.
After installing on my A10 laptop (a slightly later version of POP! OS, as it had changed in meantime), all was well but the battery was showing the same behaviour; not charging. So it seemed to be a common thing among the two laptops.
I bought a new battery from Amazon not a Lenovo one but one from DTK, thinking my own machine had had quite a long period of unuse. Exactly the same; the battery will not charge.
I've tried a number of solutions found on the net/YouTube, such as removing and replacing the battery when connected to mains, leaving it on for 24 or 48 hours and so forth. Many of these solutions were proposed in relation to Acer machines. None of them worked.
Now I am thinking that Windows (or Lenovo in order to work only with Windows) must have done something in the BIOS to 'confuse' other operating systems. I have dug through the BIOS to see what battery options are there (none), and dug through the POP Settings, but to no avail. The laptop was billed as a Windows machine, maybe it's just not compatible with POP or Linux?
Typing "ACPI -b" in the terminal delivers no lines in the terminal at all.
Typing "ACPI -V" in the terminal delivers one line about the (AC?) adapter ("online) and four lines about cooling only. I'd copy and paste them if I could...
Any suggestions (apart from go back to Windows)?
I have a problem with my laptop battery under Linux - can anyone advise what to do?
Actually there are two laptops that both display the same problem (both Lenovo G505s). I'll keep the story as short as possible:
My laptop (G505s AMD A10 processor, purchased with Windows pre-installed): after some months of not being used, and having changed by broadband router to a fibre optic one, Windows decided to lock me out. So I thought: I've had enough of this, time to switch to Linux. Did some research and settled on POP! OS.
Being worried about the data on my hard drive, I thought I'd try it out on my daughter's unused Lenovo G505s with slightly less powerful processor (it just says "A series" on the label on the machine). Prepared POP! OS media and installed, overwriting the hard disk in its entirety (no more Windows!) I noticed that although POP! OS worked fine, and I liked it, the battery wouldn't charge. The charging light on the machine was on, but it never seemed to charge and certainly could not power the machine without mains. I thought this might have been due to age of the machine/battery and fact that it had been sitting unused for a long time. I thought I would go ahead and sort my A10 machine out.
After installing on my A10 laptop (a slightly later version of POP! OS, as it had changed in meantime), all was well but the battery was showing the same behaviour; not charging. So it seemed to be a common thing among the two laptops.
I bought a new battery from Amazon not a Lenovo one but one from DTK, thinking my own machine had had quite a long period of unuse. Exactly the same; the battery will not charge.
I've tried a number of solutions found on the net/YouTube, such as removing and replacing the battery when connected to mains, leaving it on for 24 or 48 hours and so forth. Many of these solutions were proposed in relation to Acer machines. None of them worked.
Now I am thinking that Windows (or Lenovo in order to work only with Windows) must have done something in the BIOS to 'confuse' other operating systems. I have dug through the BIOS to see what battery options are there (none), and dug through the POP Settings, but to no avail. The laptop was billed as a Windows machine, maybe it's just not compatible with POP or Linux?
Typing "ACPI -b" in the terminal delivers no lines in the terminal at all.
Typing "ACPI -V" in the terminal delivers one line about the (AC?) adapter ("online) and four lines about cooling only. I'd copy and paste them if I could...
Any suggestions (apart from go back to Windows)?