Bug 468587

Summary: Plasma mobile sleep state interrupts phone charging
Product: [Plasma] plasma-mobile Reporter: witchhunter <witchhunterpro>
Component: generalAssignee: Devin Lin <espidev>
Status: REPORTED ---    
Severity: normal CC: carl, espidev, florian.richer
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
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Description witchhunter 2023-04-16 19:26:40 UTC 
SUMMARY

When phone is charging it goes into sleep state after predefined timeout, which will, by the rule, interrupt device charging.
This is really a bad first impression users are facing, not only for the PlaMo, but for the chosen underlying OS as well. 
This do not occur while Caffeine mode is enabled, though.

After small amount of time while using the Mobian Posh OS, I haven't noticed the same problem. It seams that phone don't go into suspend while charging, and this appears confirmed by their wiki:
https://wiki.mobian.org/doku.php?id=faq#charge-is-slow-or-phone-discharge-while-plugged
I don't know if this is entirely true, because my impression is that phone takes longer to wake up after 100% battery charge has been reached. Nevertheless, the screen's power off and lock settings are respected.
Also, within their settings application, there is an option to enable suspend while charging, which is disabled by default.
IMO, this is a good solution, since it can be eventually easily reversed.



SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
PinePhonePro
Operating System: Manjaro Linux 
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.2
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.103.0
Qt Version: 5.15.8
Kernel Version: 6.1.12-1-MANJARO-ARM (64-bit)
Comment 1 Florian RICHER 2025-06-12 12:53:32 UTC 
Is this still relevant?
Comment 2 witchhunter 2025-06-14 16:42:32 UTC 
(In reply to Florian RICHER from comment #1)
> Is this still relevant?

Manjaro ARM releases haven't been updated consistently in a while so I don't use them anymore, but with Mobian trixie:
Kernel Version: 6.12-rockchip

Phosh:Gnome 48 
vs 
KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.13.0
Qt Version: 6.8.2

Situation is pretty much the same. Phosh, on their   Settings > Power > Automatic suspend
have two separate cards:  "On battery power"  and  "When plugged in".  The latter is unchecked, in spite the recommendation/info stated right below to keep automatic suspend enabled to avoid higher power consumption. 

And here is the updated wiki link:
https://wiki.debian.org/Mobian/FAQ#Charge_is_slow_.28or_phone_discharge_while_plugged.29

PosmarketOS currently undergo heavy transfer to systemd, so I haven't tested it.