I have enabled Smart Charging in the bios. It is set to start after 1 day. The charging icon in Windows says Smart Charging is enabled. The laptop has been plugged in for several days. And the Smart Charge icon still says the battery is at 100%. Am I missing some step?
I’ve been having the same issue, no idea what the fix is. It worked perfectly before Microsoft introduced their “smart” charging.
Well it magically has started to work. Framework wanted me to basically disassemble my laptop and make sure all systems were discharged. Reassemble it, but I never got to it. Now it is charging to 85% as I set it up in the BIOS. I am a little afraid to install the newest BIOS for fear it will muck it up.
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Oh good! I’m glad it finally started working, mine does work eventually but not to the specifications I’ve set. In my experience, It sees to be based entirely on when windows was last booted. I sometimes leave my 16 on for days at a time, when I come back to it, smart charge is working properly. When I reboot windows, it immediately charges back to 100% and sits there. That seems wrong to me, as before Microsoft got involved it worked perfectly at the hardware level and even persisted through reboots. It was great! I updated my bios and drivers today, we’ll see if that changes anything. Framework’s release notes didn’t mention anything about changing how smart charging works though so you should be safe.
I return with good news! I dug around on the forum and found that this is a known issue with an easy fix. Framework advises disconnecting the battery and charger, then holding the power button for at least 10 seconds. This depletes the charge in the EC chip and resets it. I’ve followed the process and now my 16 limits battery charge properly even after windows shutdown! Success!
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As a Side Note…Linux Fedora KDE, new FW16 AI9…I have set smart charging in the BIOS to 80% and it is working flawless.
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I wanna try Linux one of these days! I love that Steam is going full tilt on SteamOS and really I’m waiting for that to finish baking before I make the jump. I really only game and screen record and save all my data to my HexOS server, watch YouTube, or do light web browsing. Stuff that Linux can easily handle, undoubtedly, I’m just really familiar with Windows at this point which is the only thing that keeps me around. But once SteamOS gets full Framework laptop and Nvidia GPU on Desktop support i’m leaving windows.
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