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Re:Laptop explodes while charging at Letchworth business by kawsper on Monday April 02, 2018 @02:37PM (#16737724)
Some devices does this, if you are on Linux and are using a Thinkpad, you can fetch tp-smapi-dkms or acpi-call-dkms, and run the following:

    echo 40 | sudo tee /sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/start_charge_thresh
    echo 80 | sudo tee /sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/stop_charge_thresh
Then it will stop charging once it reached 80% and only start charging when it drops below 40%.
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Re:Laptop explodes while charging at Letchworth business by ssebastianj on Monday April 02, 2018 @05:26PM (#16739514)
I don't know if that it's exclusive on ThinkPads but I love that feature. Now I'm using TLP[0] to re(calibrate) the batteries (main and extra) on a ThinkPad running Linux, it uses "tp-smapi-dkms" or "acpi-call-dkms" behind the scenes.

[0] http://linrunner.de/en/tlp/docs/tlp-linux-advanced-power-man...

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