TLP helps make my laptop more conservative on power when on battery power, and more performance focused when on AC. The issue is that when I want to enable/disable TLP or change some settings with TLPUI, it requires a reboot before it takes affect. I've tried sudo systemctl stop TLP and sudo systemctl start TLP, but this doesn't seem to have any effect.
I have my Thinkpad laptop configured to charge up to 80% cause I mostly use it on AC. On the occasional use where I am taking it off AC, is there a command that basically tells tlp to charge the battery to 100% and once 100% is reached, return charging behavior to the 80% configuration?
I see there is command sudo tlp fullcharge [ BAT0 | BAT1 ], but this command requires a reboot before the "80%" configuration is restored. Is there a command to restore the "80%" configuration without having to reboot?
I tried installing TLP in ubuntu 18.04 using the command line
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:linrunner/tlp
But I get the following error:
How do I solve this problem?
Since upgrading to Ubuntu 18.04 from 17.10 my usb ethernet adapter keeps disconnecting. It used to work perfectly with 17.10.
dmesg shows the following output upon a connection drop:
[ 273.462732] usb 4-1.4: usb_reset_and_verify_device Failed to disable LTM
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[ 273.643622] usb 4-1.4: USB disconnect, device number 11
[ 273.795468] usb 4-1.4: new SuperSpeed USB device number 12 using xhci_hcd
[ 273.816520] usb 4-1.4: New USB device found, idVendor=0bda, idProduct=8153
[ 273.816522] usb 4-1.4: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=6
[ 273.816523] usb 4-1.4: Product: USB 10/100/1000 LAN
[ 273.816524] usb 4-1.4: Manufacturer: Realtek
[ 273.816525] usb 4-1.4: SerialNumber: 0000A5
[ 273.896167] usb 4-1.4: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 12 using xhci_hcd
[ 273.948778] r8152 4-1.4:1.0 eth0: v1.09.9
[ 274.503001] r8152 4-1.4:1.0 enx144fd7d04a3c: renamed from eth0
[ 274.539481] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): enx144fd7d04a3c: link is not ready
[ 274.543857] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): enx144fd7d04a3c: link is not ready
[ 276.431243] r8152 4-1.4:1.0 enx144fd7d04a3c: carrier on
[ 276.431258] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): enx144fd7d04a3c: link becomes ready
I've recently switched from Windows to Ubuntu, and I was kind of frustrated when I found out that there was no way to set battery thresholds on Linux. On Windows, I can choose to limit charge to 60% (the laptop stops charging at 60% and resumes charge at 58%, in order to preserve battery life). I tried setting up the same procedure with tlp, but it only works on Lenovo ThinkPads. My computer is an ASUS VivoBook S14, I am running a dual boot Windows 10 - Ubuntu 16.04.
I wanted to know if there was any piece of software that could control the battery charge ? Or maybe a way to use tlp in order to set battery thresholds ?