{"id":48127,"date":"2025-02-15T12:56:03","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T12:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=48127"},"modified":"2025-02-15T12:56:03","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T12:56:03","slug":"tlp-1-8-0-dell-charge-threshold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2025\/02\/tlp-1-8-0-dell-charge-threshold\/","title":{"rendered":"TLP 1.8.0 is out! Charge Threshold Support for DELL, Chromebook, &#038; Framework Laptops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/dell-logo.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-48128\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/dell-logo-250x250.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/dell-logo-250x250.webp 250w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/dell-logo-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/dell-logo-700x700.webp 700w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/dell-logo-768x768.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/dell-logo.webp 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>TLP, the laptop battery power saving tool, released new 1.8.0 version few days ago!<\/p>\n<p>The new release add battery charge threshold support for new laptops, including Chromebooks, DELL, and Framework laptops.<\/p>\n<p>With <b>Linux Kernel 6.12<\/b> or later, TLP 1.8.0 finally supports for setting <i>start and stop<\/i> battery charge threshold for DELL laptops.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_34463\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/laptop-photo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34463\" class=\"size-large wp-image-34463\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/laptop-photo-600x332.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/laptop-photo-600x332.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/laptop-photo-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/laptop-photo-768x424.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/laptop-photo-1536x849.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/laptop-photo.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-34463\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">image from pixabay.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>With <b>Linux Kernel 6.12.8<\/b> or later, the release also added <i>stop threshold<\/i> and <i>recalibration<\/i> support for Framework laptop 13\/16 Intel\/AMD, and Chromebooks modded with chrultrabook\/coreboot custom UEFI firmware. While, there&#8217;s also <i>start threshold<\/i> support for the latest Chromebooks with EC firmware v3.<\/p>\n<p>For ThinkPads, the release also added support for discharging to given battery percentage level. For example, discharge the default battery to 60% with command <code>sudo tlp discharge BAT0 60<\/code>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_48129\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/battery-discharing.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48129\" class=\"size-large wp-image-48129\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/battery-discharing-700x296.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/battery-discharing-700x296.webp 700w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/battery-discharing-300x127.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/battery-discharing.webp 706w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-48129\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Discharge battery<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Other changes in the release include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><code>tlp-stat -p -v<\/code> command to show boost per core, while amd-pstate needs kernel 6.11 or later.<\/li>\n<li>Deprecat the RADEON_POWER_PROFILE_ON_AC\/BAT option, which is used for control the clock speed of AMD GPU (ATI legacy hardware).<\/li>\n<li>Fix incorrectly running in battery mode for desktop PC when no power sources detected.<\/li>\n<li>Discover all coretemp sensors in <code>tlp-stat -t<\/code> output.<\/li>\n<li>Ensure wifi activation upon resume if LAN gets disconnected in suspend.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more, see the official release note in the <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/linrunner\/TLP\/releases\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Github releases<\/a> page.<\/p>\n<h3>How to Get TLP 1.8.0 in Ubuntu<\/h3>\n<p>TLP has an <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~linrunner\/+archive\/ubuntu\/tlp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">official PPA<\/a> so far supports Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 24.04, and Ubuntu 24.10.<\/p>\n<p>Simply press <code>Ctrl+Alt+T<\/code> to open up a terminal window, then run the commands below one by one to add the PPA &amp; install TLP (1.8.0 so far):<\/p>\n<pre>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:linrunner\/tlp<\/pre>\n<pre>sudo apt update<\/pre>\n<pre>sudo apt install tlp<\/pre>\n<p>After installed the tool, either restart your computer\/laptop to let it run automatically, or run <code>sudo tlp start<\/code> command to start it without reboot.<\/p>\n<p>TLP is running silently in the background, and default settings are already optimized for battery life, so you can just forget about it afterwards. <\/p>\n<p>But if want, user may edit the <code>\/etc\/tlp.conf<\/code> file or use <code>tlp<\/code>, <code>tlp-stat<\/code>, etc commands for custom settings. See the <a href=\"https:\/\/linrunner.de\/tlp\/index.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">official documentation<\/a> for details.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TLP, the laptop battery power saving tool, released new 1.8.0 version few days ago! The new release add battery charge threshold support for new laptops, including Chromebooks, DELL, and Framework laptops. With Linux Kernel 6.12 or later, TLP 1.8.0 finally supports for setting start and stop battery charge threshold for DELL laptops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1515,1513],"class_list":["post-48127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-power-saving","tag-tlp"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}