Power button light

Framework Laptop 13
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+1 requesting ability to turn off (or RADICALLY dim) the LED or turn it to a less distracting color.

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You can set the brightness of the power LED in the UEFI settings, but there are only three settings (bright, medium, dim) and the color remains white.

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You can use the ectool to set it to blue, which is unsupported, and results in the light being off.

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Since the EC source was recently released, I’ve opened a request there: https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/EmbeddedController/issues/11

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Or even cleaner:

sudo ectool led power off

On another topic, I tried to get a finer control over led brightness by using

sudo ectool led power white=<value between 1 and 100>

But it doesn’t do anything :frowning:

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Anyone know how to force the power button light ON? I just replaced my input cover after my original power light was only half lit, and now the light won’t turn on at all :frowning:

Changing the brightness level in the bios does nothing, and I’ve checked the cable three times.

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…this doesn’t sound right. Connection or hardware issue I’m guessing.

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Indeed. I’ve identified the cause as being the connector between the touchpad and board. I’ve already contacted support for instructions.

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Both. I received a new input cover, which the power light does not turn on at all. And I’ve also disassembled/reassembled the connectors on my original one.

The power button light is a square “ring” around the fingerprint sensor, and the top right corner on my original power button light is not lit (as if a single LED is not working).

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Hi I would like to boost this idea! This blue light is driving me mildly berserk. I might just put gaffa tape over it but that doesn’t seem like a good solution overall. Pls fix this one guys! Fanx, Claire

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Apologies if necro’ing this thread is frowned upon, but I can find no better place to raise my concern:

I travel a bit too much sometimes for work, and the putting the FW13 to sleep often leaves the power button light pulsating for some time at night. I’d prefer a setting that would let me have the power button light turn off in sleep mode - or is this a problem with updates or w/e.

As is, my workaround is to simply shut the laptop, but occasionally I forget and while trying to sleep I end up having to get back up to close the cover. This wakes the laptop …ugh.

Or am I missing a workaround?

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Win 11

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Can confirm hibernate saves alot of battery compared to sleep

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oh dope! I just assumed it was a super super low power state

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Well off is technically a low power state XD

Hibernate saves the current memory state to disk and then shuts down. When you start again it’ll load said state and it’s back where you were.