Battery life improved with F18

[Bill Murray]

Thanks guys,
               I don't know what you did, but after upgrading my laptop 
FC17->FC18 I
saw a 5 hr battery life being quoted - I never saw that long before.

It may be something to do with optimus? My nvidia video card is not 
working inF18 as there
is no bumblebee rpm yet, but maybe someone worked out how to switch it 
off by default?
(suits me). Anyway, I'm happy!
       Bill

[g]

On 01/21/2013 05:35 PM, William Murray wrote:
> Thanks guys,
> I don't know what you did, but after upgrading my laptop FC17->FC18 I
> saw a 5 hr battery life being quoted - I never saw that long before.

watch out.

it may well be that you found a bug in battery monitor.

[Zoltan Hoppar]

Check in command line too, the acpi/bat0 available in cli either. If
it says the same, then you win. But ordinary laptops average is not
more just 3-4 hours (or with huge battery longer, but thats rare),
some netbooks more, and smartbooks (ARM) logically has the longest
cca. 5-10 hours. Are you sure that your platform is that such?

2013/1/21 William Murray :
> Thanks guys,
>               I don't know what you did, but after upgrading my laptop
> FC17->FC18 I
> saw a 5 hr battery life being quoted - I never saw that long before.
>
> It may be something to do with optimus? My nvidia video card is not working
> inF18 as there
> is no bumblebee rpm yet, but maybe someone worked out how to switch it off
> by default?
> (suits me). Anyway, I'm happy!
>       Bill
>
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[Sylvia Sánchez]

El lun, 21-01-2013 a las 18:35 +0100, William Murray escribió:
> Thanks guys,
>            I don't know what you did, but after upgrading my laptop 
>
> FC17->FC18 I
> saw a 5 hr battery life being quoted - I never saw that long before.
>
> It may be something to do with optimus? My nvidia video card is not 
> working inF18 as there
> is no bumblebee rpm yet, but maybe someone worked out how to switch it 
> off by default?
> (suits me). Anyway, I'm happy!
>        Bill

Hello!

It happened to me too.  Now I have 4 hours of battery life,
when in Fedora 17 used to have around of 2 hours.

Thank you very much people!!!

Regards from the south,
Lailah

[Roger]

> >  Thanks guys,
> >             I don't know what you did, but after upgrading my laptop
> >
> > FC17->FC18 I
> > saw a 5 hr battery life being quoted - I never saw that long before.
>
> Hello!
>         It happened to me too.  Now I have 4 hours of battery 
>
> life, when in Fedora 17 used to have around of 2 hours.
>
> Thank you very much people!!!
>
> /Regards from the south,/
> */Lailah/*

Same here.
I made a bootable USB stick and installed Fedora 18 on an old Dell1520. 
Installation and updating was a breeze, no brainer really.
With the previous ubuntu install we could not get battery to above 83% - 
Fedora it goes to 100% and shows 5 hours life.
BUT I do not think this to be correct. Too many are reporting laptops 
with 5+ hours.
At 83% battery life was 1 hour and 19 minutes, then at 100% it's 5 +hours.
Will  test today
Roger

[Sylvia Sánchez]

El vie, 25-01-2013 a las 09:12 +1100, Roger escribió:
> > > Thanks guys,
> > >            I don't know what you did, but after upgrading my laptop 
> > >
> > > FC17->FC18 I
> > > saw a 5 hr battery life being quoted - I never saw that long before.
> >
> > Hello!
> >         It happened to me too.  Now I have 4 hours of battery
> >
> > life, when in Fedora 17 used to have around of 2 hours.
> >
> > Thank you very much people!!!
> >
> > Regards from the south,
> > Lailah
>
> Same here. 
> I made a bootable USB stick and installed Fedora 18 on an old
> Dell1520. Installation and updating was a breeze, no brainer really.
> With the previous ubuntu install we could not get battery to above 83%
> Fedora it goes to 100% and shows 5 hours life.
>
> BUT I do not think this to be correct. Too many are reporting laptops
> with 5+ hours. 
> At 83% battery life was 1 hour and 19 minutes, then at 100% it's 5
> +hours.
> Will  test today
> Roger

Yes, sure, it can happen.  But in my case, they are REAL 4 hours.
First, because I can use it in the library without power supply,  and
second, because in Ubuntu this used to be the battery life of my
netbook.
But sometimes there are false messagestoo.  Some days ago, I disconnect
the power supply and a message appears saying:  "You have 11 hours
remain (100%)".
Very funny.  :-D

Anyway I'm happy, Thank you for this great release!
Lailah