hamishcoleman / thinkpad-ec

Infrastructure for examining and patching Thinkpad embedded controller firmware
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I need the battery patch for x230t in windows file extension exe #249

Open Modsay opened 10 months ago

Modsay commented 10 months ago

@hamishcoleman or anybody can help! I really have a serious situation and I need help. I had x230t, without battery so I bought a third part battery, however it's plugged in but not charging, so your patch is very interesting and give me a hope, unfortunately the Bois has supervisor password, so I can't change boot mode from UEFI to Legacy, and therefore I can't flash the Bios through flash drive, I knew that the bios update file sets up on Dos environment, so I tried many attempts like using "DosBox" to run the update application but it failed, my question is: is there anyway to get the battery patch through update bios application in windows environment ".exe" ? my bios version is 2.73 which the same version of the patched bios.

hamishcoleman commented 9 months ago

There is theoretically a way to run the EC patch from Windows, but I dont run windows, so I cannot comment on that. Dosbox will not work for this as it is emulating a computer - but if you can look for the lenovo winflash.exe tool and see if that gives you any hints. If you are lucky, it has a help screen and takes some of the same parameters that the dosflash.exe tool does