After some digging around, I found THIS THREAD that ended in a bit of a guide on how to DIY it. I would like something like that, or get the Sharkgeek Storm.
Iām also not too happy with the battery performance. I mostly work in Balanced mode and battery discharged quite fast. I need to have display brightness a bit up as itās very sunny here, so that of course contributes towards that problem. Still, only being able to work for maybe 2.5h is quite lame. Got me an Anker powerbank, that keeps it running for another 1.5h (had same issues at th ebeginning with the cable, got me one from ugreen that works fine).
I hope that we will see a more performant battery somewhen in the future that we can upgrade to (exchange th eold one).
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I can get the battery life up to 8 hours on Linux Mint with battery saver mode and no apps running in the background, and the screen brightness at 0.
Contact support, battery health shouldnāt go all over the place every few days
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Another possible cause is maybe the battery is getting too hot.
The EC will stop charging if it gets too hot.
I changed my EC source code to read the battery temperature, but the normal EC code does not output battery temp, even though the battery has a temp sensor in it.
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As shown here. However the battery health shouldnāt jump to 60%. Only the battery percentage gets stuck due to charging pause
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Thank you, I already have contacted support, but I havenāt had the battery jumping issue for some time. I actually have a cron job that does a bash script every 5 minutes, as pictured. Then, it will send the output in a log that is per day. First pic shows syntax in the cron config. Yes, you can create files with a cron jobās output file and have each dayās file be different. Havenāt got it separated for per month/year (as in the files they reside in), but I think itās ok.
Although I have noticed that the batteryās health has fluctuated between the low 90s and high 90s, I havenāt seen a significant enough change in battery time to significantly affect my workflow.
Iām having a similar issue as yours and to this thread here: [SOLVED] Battery claiming drastic drop in health after updating to BIOS 3.03
Iāve only had my FW16 for about a month and my battery capacity hovers around 70% (60 Wh max/85 Wh design). Iāve tried defaulting BIOS settings, a mainboard reset, multiple charge/discharge calibration cycles, etc.
Mint 22, Ubuntu 24, and Fedora 42 upower all report the same degraded capacity number. Windows 11 powercfg /batteryreport does as well. Only 15 charging cycles on the battery according to Windows.
I have a support ticket that tier 1 escalated, but they did so over a week ago and Iāve heard nothing back since. I have requested an RMA on the battery a few times with decent evidence that itās defective. So far that request in particular has been ignored.
One thing that has been helping me so far is that I left the laptop for like a couple of days straight, and it raised the battery health slightly.
But, so far the health was able to stablize to around 90% I just try to keep the battery charge between 60 and 90%