On the Framework 13, at least the on AMD one, I noticed a problem. When the battery discharged before I forgot to plug it in, the power button LED flashed when the battery was at “zero percent”!
In other words, I only had like 5 seconds to react, then the machine shut off. This is completely unacceptable, IMO.
Can someone at Framework’s engineering dept. please add a UEFI BIOS setting to change the critical battery number to flash the LED sooner, (or add an option to ACPI suspend at critical battery) something like 5% or 10%, or have the user able to change these?
Yes, I know there is user software to do perform suspend automatically, but it would be great if this feature could be added. Could free up operating system resources, I guess.
Are you running Windows or Linux? Windows should automatically tell you if your battery is low (below 10% and customizable). Linux (at least in KDE) also provides low battery notifications.
Suspend is a thing related to the OS, not the BIOS or hardware manufacturer, so you really can’t blame Framework for this issue. This likely is something related to an OS setting that you must change unless if it is a battery hardware issue.
@Charlie_6: Huh… maybe. After using laptops for a while, like Thinkpads in particular, I just remember them having a setting exactly like I described–a critical battery suspend setting. So I know it exists.
So I’m wondering… if the OS I’m using on here did not have these power management things, why did the LED flash even happen at all? So maybe you’re onto something. It is just somehow misconfigured at literally 0% battery.
@Elliot_Lu: Debian 12 with i3wm, so I think that means I can only get community support…
If no one wants a UEFI setting, for the sake of the thread, I could look up, document and post a solution for people using Linux without a DE, such as a lighter WM for X/Wayland, and headless/server as well.
Usually it’s the “power-manager” that handles this. You could try gnome-power-manager, mate-power-manager, or xfce4-power-manager (the latter is probably the better option for you).