Excellent! Any idea about a release date for that BiOS version? I just did a test this week as I was wondering how my laptop had no battery as I was sure I left it charged the other day, decided to do a test and found out the same problem. Furthermore, it’s an ABISMAL drop in battery I’m experiencing in just hours of the laptop unplugged from the socket.
I’m verifying > 65% drop in battery over 6h! Laptop completely off of course.
Thanks for letting us know when this is coming out I don’t mind being a Beta tester if needed be.
That doesn’t seem normal. I can’t comment on longer term battery drain, as my Framework laptop gets used daily. Every evening, I shut it down and unplug it. In the morning, I plug it in and start it. It loses no more than 1% overnight. Battery charging is limited to 80% in my BIOS settings. It’s running BIOS 3.07 and Ubuntu 21.10. It has four USB–C modules plugged in with nothing attached overnight.
Yeah I have 2 USB-C, 1 USB-A and 1 microSD card ports on the laptop but… Would that suck power out of it? I’ll remove them just in case and check again.
CMOS battery is rechargeable and recharges off of the main battery. that could be contributing. Can we maybe get a modification that stops this happening unless the mains is plugged in and/or the laptop is powered on?
OS doesn’t play a part when the laptop is off, so that’s irrelevant.
Meanwhile I went on the BIOS and there’s an option to “disconnect” the battery when the laptop is off… That seems to work. Now when I charge the laptop completely, turn it off and come back a day after, the battery level remains the same.
Original charger and cable, but it seems that the windows battery status “froze” as it did reach its expected charge in just over an hour.
No excessive heat during charge, and I do use my laptop while it was charging.
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with the charger/battery, but something causes it to drain overnight from time to time, as per the rest of the thread.
Kieran has said that a permanent solution is going to be in the next firmware update, but as far as we know, said update has been delayed by Insyde while we wait for upstream fixes to some big issues. Unclear what the timeline will be on that.
I believe that a fairly easy workaround for this problem could be to, after shutdown, power the laptop on again and when the display turns on, press the power button again to turn it off. Doing this, I’ve observed zero battery drain after a day or so (though I have not actually confirmed that I do have the battery drain when doing just a regular shutdown, so I did not do a full comparison).
I suspect that doing this makes the BIOS or EC trigger a poweroff, which maybe powers things down more completely than the OS does (as instructed by the ACPI tables from the BIOS).
If you’re having the drain problem, maybe try this approach and let us know if it works for you?
I edited the first post to point to the 3.09 BIOS release (currently in Beta, but on track to be taken out of Beta within the next couple of weeks). 3.09 resolves the issue discussed in this thread about battery drain while shut down.
Datapoint: 21h with no battery percentage change reported by Windows. I know this is shorter than discussed in this thread but I actually use my laptops sometimes
I don’t mind being a Beta tester if needed be.
