Bluetooth turns ON booting Ubuntu on Satellite L630

I'm using Toshiba Satellite L630-107 (PSK04E).
I installed ubuntu on it but whenever i boot ubuntu my blutooth gets turned on automatically.
When i turn off blutooth from the settings, its not getting turn off.. only way i can turn off blutooth is by booting into windows and using FN key...
Due to this problem i'm getting only one and a half hour battery backup when using Ubuntu and in windows i'll get around 3 hours..
Can anyone help me to solve this problem... pls.

Hi there
I do not have a perfect answer for You but maybe some information and some hints.
First - I doubt that the battery run time is so hard affected by the Bluetooth setting.
For sure, it consumes power, but not that much that it will reduce your run time by 50%. No way.
Instead, there can be other drivers which are not putting their devices to sleep properly or similar issues.
If you are using an old Ubuntu, You should try a later version because many changes are made to the Kernel and subsystems in regards of power-management.
Especially "older" Kernels could drain battery power quite fast. Do not remember which version was affected, but I believe it was 3.0 -> 3.2 or so.
We are now at 3.6 - 3.7 depending on the level of anxiety that You can stand :)
If a later Ubuntu does not help, You may want to try another distro. Different distros tweak the kernels differently and will use services differently. So You may want to boot up on a live media of Fedora (which I am using), OpenSuse or some other recent distro which is NOT built upon the same "base" as Ubuntu.
If that does not help out, and to tweak power-consumption, You may want to try POWERTOP.
It is a cool program which lets You tweak setting for devices which consumes much power and just do nothing.
It is a console-based app so it may not be for everyone.
Looking at the Bluetooth switch - if no distro will allow you to choose if the BT should be on or off, you may want to file a bug to your distro's bug-reporting system.
This may then be resolved after having done some communicating with the maintainers. Hopefully :)
But don't give up!
BR
Tom

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