Pinebook Pro drains ny battery after shutting it off

[Tongman]

I shut it down

Hello, did you "power off" or "shutdown"? It sounds like you may have used "sleep" or "suspend" which don't work very well on the pinebook pro; they barely use less power than having the screen off. So the workaround would be to actually shutdown.

If you want to go down a small rabbit hole, there is a way to get suspend to work as expected, but it involves an old kernel.

Hello

Thank you for your reply!

I power it off, not suspend or hibernate.

My current workaround is to hold the power button for like 10 seconds after it shuts down to really make sure it dies.

Any idea what I can do to trace down what keeps it running?

I soft-bricked the device when I first flashed Manjaro to the emmc but managed to flash tow-boot on the SPI and got it to boot, so currently there is also a uboot on the emmc. Could this have something to do with it?

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There should be a big disclaimer somewhere that the power lamp is not really an indication of power-on status.

I certainly understand why they made the lamp software-controlled.  But in practice it sure has been problematic.

Why did they make the power lamp software-controlled?