Fedora 44 Battery Drain

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Hi,

My fedora 44 system drains battery so quickly, as much as 1 percent every single minute.

However when I check my energy-rate levels from upower, I see the the current energy-rate is around 7 watss for my 45W battery, which should not consume 1 percent every minute. Either GNOME misreports the battery percentage, or something is not adding up. For reference, I am adding the upower and fastfetch outputs:

upower: 
battery
    present:             yes
    rechargeable:        yes
    state:               discharging
    warning-level:       none
    energy:              33.46 Wh
    energy-empty:        0 Wh
    energy-full:         44.59 Wh
    energy-full-design:  45 Wh
    voltage-min-design:  11.55 V
    capacity-level:      Normal
    energy-rate:         6.859 W
    voltage:             12.035 V
    charge-cycles:       437
    time to empty:       4.9 hours
    percentage:          75%
    capacity:            99.0889%
    technology:          lithium-ion
    charge-threshold-supported:    yes
    icon-name:          'battery-full-symbolic'

fastfetch:
OS: Fedora Linux 44 (Workstation Edition) x86_64
Host: 20VG (ThinkBook 15 G2 ARE)
Kernel: Linux 7.1.13-200.fc44.x86_64
DE: GNOME 50.4
WM: Mutter (Wayland)
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 4500U (6) @ 4.00 GHz
GPU: AMD Radeon Vega Series / Radeon Vega Mobile Series
Memory: 4.41 GiB / 13.51 GiB (33%)
Battery (0x4C 0x31 0x39 0x4C 0x33 0x50 0x44 0x41): 75% [Discharging]
2

FYI I edited your post to format the command output as pre-formatted text using this

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3

Is your laptop BIOS up to date? If not update it and see if the issue changes.

4

My manufacturer (Lenovo) only provides .exe files for this specific laptops bios updates. Thus, I can not update it from Fedora.

5

Lenovo support the fwupdmgr tool.

See if sudo fwupdmgr get-updates finds firmware to update.
Then you can apply with sudo fwupdmgr update.

6

I guess my system is all up to date. see:

doruk@fedora:~$ sudo fwupdmgr get-updates 
Devices with no available firmware updates:
 • MZALQ256HAJD-000L2
 • OK Certificate
 • SSD PLUS 240GB
 • System Firmware
 • KEK CA
 • Option ROM UEFI CA
 • SteelSeries Rival 3 Wireless
Devices with the latest available firmware version:
 • UEFI CA
 • UEFI dbx
 • Windows UEFI CA
No updates available
7

Someone else with more knowledge of laptop power stuff will need to help you further.

9

Check powertop to see what’s using the battery (if it’s not a reporting issue).