Configuring Maximum Recharge on Lenovo and Other on Windows

freedomj on 13/06/2024 - 18:55
Last edited 14/06/2024 - 09:34

Hey so I’m a Linux guy but I begrudgingly do some administration of windows machines

I noticed on my Thinkpad X Carbon G9 that Plasma Desktop has options for “Stop charging the battery past X%” and Start charging the battery when it drops below Y% which is great for longspan battery life to leave it docked at 80-85% (I set it to start charging at 79 and stop at 84)

This is some feature that Linux is picking up on, for Lenovos but I can’t find the equivalent feature on Windows - but docked with power pass-thru means some of our expensive machines are running at 100% charge like all the time

Edit: Thanks for the answer about Lenovo - any experiences on HP or Dell or surface computers?

Also I haven’t found HP to expose this feature to the Linux kernel, — how about Dell? Surface Pros?

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  • OpayuOnam on 13/06/2024 - 19:57
    +4

    There's a windows store application called Lenovo Commercial Vantage, in there you can set the charge amount. You can set it both from GUI and command line interface, as well as network deployment using the Lenovo IT solution.

  • freedomj on 14/06/2024 - 09:42

    Still after info on HP Dell and MS devices

    I don’t buy it at all, but according to

    Makeuseof.com

    >

    Laptop manufacturers like Lenovo, HP, MSI, Dell, and Asus ship their computers with a built-in battery charge limiter to maximize the battery run time. Useful if you use your system plugged in all the time at 100% charge.

    But my work HP Pavillion Aero 13in with Ryzen5 SoC doesn’t expose this feature to Plasma - although I haven’t tried any of the power related daemons like upower

    I suspect for some reason HPs intel lineup works, but not their AMD

    This thread is getting a bit old, but suggests that HP have consumer models with terrible support and standard features only available on professional models:
    https://www.reddit.com/r/Hewlett_Packard/comments/hi916g/bat…

    I wonder if that’s changed for ‘23 and ‘24 models of the Envy X360s

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