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!

  • cRazi_man@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    My wife's HP laptop does this as well (she is running Windows). A previous laptop did this and a BIOS update fixed it. For most laptops the official response from manufacturers seems to be: eat shit.

  • terminhell@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 months ago

    Laptops now use the internal main battery as a replacement of the cmos rs2032 battery (in a lot of em at least).

    Not that such a low draw cause this level of drain. Maybe the battery is going out as well.

      • terminhell@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        2 months ago

        Hard to say. But it's something to consider. Lots of other worthwhile suggestions I see too. Hopefully it's not a combination of things.

        Let us know how it goes!

  • sag@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    I have HP Notebook. This issue also happened to me. It was a battery issue. I just changed the battery.

    • tubbadu@lemmy.kde.social
      hexagon
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      2 months ago

      The battery health is marked as 100%, which seems strange to me. However, the battery life while powered on is very good, so I don't think the battery is old or exhausted. Do you think that changing the battery may be the solution?

  • dysprosium@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 months ago

    It may be exactly this, noticed by Linus Tech Tips: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHKKcd3sx2c

    If their solutions don't work, try this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JoFi5yXzZk