Framework 13 AMD Ryzen 7 7840U w/ Radeon 780M Graphics with 61Wh battery running Windows 11 Pro.
I have installed the latest BIOS (3.16), which enables smart battery charging, and only charges the battery to 80% while plugged in for an extended period. That’s fine.
But I’m about to take a long flight, and in preparation for that, I’d like to have the battery charge in this one charging cycle to 100% to give me maximum usage. How do I do that, please?
My YAFI project, will let you do that.
GitHub - Steve-Tech/YAFI: Yet Another Framework Interface
If you’re using the normal charge limiter, then there’s an override button; otherwise I don’t think that button works for the battery extender, so you will either have to disconnect it until the timer runs out, or disable it temporarily.
If you have set the BIOS to 80%. If you want it to charge to 100%, change the bios to 100%. It should then charge to 100%.
If it does not work, it may be due to a bios bug. To work around it, power off the laptop and unplug the psu for 120 seconds. This resets the EC so that the 100% should then apply.
There’s an ectool for Windows. Using ectool to change the charge limit is one-time, which will revert after shutdown or restart
I don’t think the ectool method will work.
With the FW provided EC software. Using ectool to set 100% limit will allow charge to 100%. But after power off it will return to the bios setting value of say 80%. The FW EC software will then force discharge to 80%. Not exactly useful for this use case from the original post in this thread. Of course, if the user also uses my custom EC software, that allows one to disable the “force discharge” step, the approach of using ectool onetime would work.
Thank you so, so much, @Steve-Tech! This is exactly what I needed! Much appreciated!