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Battery Toolkit not working properly #7

Closed SohamJa1n closed 7 months ago

SohamJa1n commented 8 months ago
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When I try to start it, it gives me this error, even after restarting my mac.

I'm on Sonoma 14.4

mhaeuser commented 8 months ago

Is the background task enabled in System Settings > General > Login Items > Allow in the Background > Battery Toolkit? What Mac Model is it?

SohamJa1n commented 8 months ago

Yes it is enabled and I'm on an M2 Air

mhaeuser commented 8 months ago

Weird, I've tested it myself on M1 Pro and M3 Pro, and various other models are tested by others. I'm afraid you'd have to perform some debugging yourself (e.g. checking Console > me.mhaeuser.batterytoolkitd when the background daemon is launched, etc.) - I unfortunately don't have the time to write better debugging stuff at the moment.

SohamJa1n commented 8 months ago

Alright no worries, it's odd because other apps such as BatFi don't work either so I'm thinking its a localised issue.

Will need to test later on.

mhaeuser commented 8 months ago

Now that's bizarre. It's not impossible there is some unexpected hardware configuration going on. The daemon quits when it finds an unsupported configuration, but it should display a different GUI error in that case. Either the daemon is borked by some system configuration issue, or you are hitting an odd edge-case where it quits in a different error path than incompatibility. Check Console, really.

SohamJa1n commented 8 months ago

Anything I should be looking for?

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I saw this, might be something

mhaeuser commented 8 months ago

No, that is just noise, I think. You have to log when the daemon is started (ideally, use the uninstall script and make sure the daemon is terminated with Activity Monitor, then start Console logging, and then start Battery Toolkit to monitor the logs).

SohamJa1n commented 8 months ago

whats the uninstall script?

mhaeuser commented 8 months ago

https://github.com/mhaeuser/Battery-Toolkit/blob/main/uninstall.sh

SohamJa1n commented 8 months ago

What should I be looking for in the logs?

mhaeuser commented 7 months ago

Someone else encountered this and the issue was a stray BTM record that prevented the latest version to update the daemon. Battery Toolkit should be completely uninstalled as follows:

  1. Quit the app fully.
  2. Run uninstall.sh.
  3. Delete the app completely (and empty Trash).
  4. Close System Settings, if it is open, and start it anew. Go to General > Login Items and make sure Battery Toolkit is NOT present.
  5. Reboot.
  6. Re-download and re-try.

If at step 4 Battery Toolkit is still present, you have a stray record as well. You can confirm this by running this command: sudo sfltool dumpbtm | grep batterytoolkit

To get rid of the record, there unfortunately is no straightforward command. You need to locate the supposed location of the stray record with: /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -dump | grep "Battery Toolkit"

If Battery Toolkit exists at the printed location, delete it. If it does not, copy it there and reconstruct the exact structure. Use ls to make sure the location is an exact match. Then, delete it again. Deleting an application usually invokes macOS’ garbage collection for such records, which is what we need to purge it. Finally, resume at step 4.

If you still encounter issues after that, as I said, post a proper log file.

SohamJa1n commented 7 months ago

This worked thanks