Both laptops are Toshiba Satellites ( hers C70 & mine S70 ).
My wife’s laptop won’t charge a good battery to full capacity(stops @ 97%). My laptop will.
I have traded batteries, mine will hers won’t. I have traded charging adaptors, mine will, hers won’t.
We have ‘drained’ her battery to auto shutdown and then charged without starting an OS. Still stops @ 97%.
While trying to check the battery in Leap, I couldn’t get upower to work, and didn’t install acpi. But TLP command line did show battery ‘charging’ and @ 97% charge.
It has been @ 97% with adapter plugged in now for more than 4 days with a known good battery.
my question(finally).:
what are the pitfalls of taking her hard drive and putting it in my machine? I would of course want to put my hard drive in her machine as I leave my machine plugged in and she does take hers off a/c power.
will Leap even recognize the machine hardware after exchanging the hard drives?
I’m sure Win10 will need a lot of driver updates before it will function again(if at all).
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97% is fine… they do wear out… what do you see from the output of the command;
upower -d
Re-calibrate the battery, should be a tool on the Toshiba site, check the BIOS for charging type options maybe each a different in their options for charging.
are you referring to the battery, or the machine? The battery is good, brand new, and I can put it in my machine and it gets to 100% in less than 5 minutes. Problem is when she takes it off a/c, the battery percentage drops like a rock. Goes down to 40% in hardly no time. And down to less than 10% in just an hour or so more.
I can’t get upower to report anything on my wife’s machine. That is why I used TLP
I looked but no such thing as a recalibration in the BIOS, and will look at Toshiba site for a tool(if it exists).
Your wife’s computer marks the battery as charged when it is at 100%.
Your computer marks it as charged when it is at 95%. It probably calls that 100%, and has a scale that can go up to 105%.
Measuring that last little bit of “fully charged” is not completely reliable. I wouldn’t consider this a problem. Just get on with life.
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I think the issue is not with the charge level, the battery is only lasting a short time… not like the other laptop, hence my feeling it may be a hardware issue?
At one time, I had a Toshiba laptop. And it was a battery killer.
It turned out that, even when powered off, it was draining the battery. I got into the practice of removing the battery when it was turned off (unless still plugged into the power).
OK, to clarify, My laptop marks that battery as 100% when it is 100%. otherwise it marks it as for example 96% with 30 minutes left to full charge.
My wife’s laptop marks that battery as 97% with 4.9 hours left to full charge(upower -d output is included here)…
My wife’s machine has marked it at 97% with 4.9 hours left to full charge for over a week.
My laptop is UEFI, my wife’s Laptop is legacy(and still has no re-calibration mode in the BIOS) (@Deano, I will look at the tools you mention)
upower -d output as susepaste.https://susepaste.org/50695968 I left it as outputted without editing out mouse and other things).
I can put that battery in my machine, let it charge to 100% indicated, and do a upower -d on my machine, but I doubt it will give any more usable information.
I suspect it is in fact a hardware problem on my wife’s laptop.
Which is why I asked about putting her hard drive in my machine and mine in hers.
I leave my machine plugged in so I am not concerned about not seeing a 100% battery indication.
openSUSE being a Linux distro will not have any problem booting on any pc/laptop that can support/meet the requirements, e.g. cpu, memory and so on, or if the hardware is to new and the current kernel does not have any support for it. The only problem you will have imho is booting a windows (s)hdd on a different pc/laptop. Last time I did that is with XP and it got me locked up because Windows thinks that I’m probably pirating the OS :-), can’t remember exactly what was the error/warning message I’ve got but It is a lesson learned…