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Lenovo T480 hackintosh ThinkPad - using Clover
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Battery discharging extremely quickly and battery indicator always showing 100% #55

Closed verpejas closed 1 year ago

verpejas commented 1 year ago

Hi! Thank you for your amazing work :D.

I used your config, generated my own smbios with proper serial etc, removed brcm kexts and iserted those for intel wifi and bluetooth (they both work just fine), but i have an issue regarding battery. The percentage never changes from a 100% and the batteries discharge extremely quickly. With 24wh internal and 72wh external batteries i got around 1.5hour of runtime which is insane. On windows I usually get around 7-8 hours of mixed usage. Right now it shows 100% but i know for a fact that both batteries ar around 30-ish% mark (i checked it in windows). The percentage behaves very strangely and my laptop discharges extremely quickly.

I have the same CPU and gpu as You (i7-8650u + MX150, 32gb of ram), but i still generated new cpufriend kexts and i will test those as we speak. Everything seems to be working perfectly, except for the battery. I hope i can get this sorted out. My main concern was bluetooth and wifi not working realiably but i managed to get them working fine. Missing WPA2 enterprise which i sometimes do need but it is not a dealbraker to me.

Also would it be possible to read the charge state of both batteries independently? I have seen only one reddit post with a T480 which had a battery widget displaying both battery percentages, but he never replied back on what was required for it to work. Here's the thread regarding dual-battery indicator: https://www.reddit.com/r/hackintosh/comments/nuo9k8/thinkpad_t470_everything_works_including_dual/

I am running version 13.0.1 (22A400) as that was the only one for which i could create an install media.

Hope to hear from you soon! Thank you for your time!