Micky1979 Posted June 11, 2016 Share Posted June 11, 2016 Last october my old battery pack on on my HP DV7-7002el exploded... really. Also some damage to the Nothebook chassis. In truth, I really waited too long with this old-exausted battery and pratically always connected to the charger. Maybe I should be more careful. Replaced the chassis with an original part, but to save money I had to do everything myself because HP asked more than 300 euro (over $350 ).. Well, I do a good job, it was also fun to do and offcourse, I also bought a new more powerful battery. Not an original part, but a new 9000mAh powerfull-increased battery for 30 Euros. Lately I had not much time dedicate on my Hackintosh due to my study (these days I'll take the Diploma ) + my job after school, but yesterday I take the time to redone from scratch my patched ACPI tables: DSDT SSDT-1 SSDT-6 (+ undervolt step using Clover) For the DSDT I never had a big problem adding/patching needed stuff, but I always found essential the battery patch by Rehabman here: https://github.com/RehabMan/Laptop-DSDT-Patch needed to display the battery information using its ACPI battery kext here: https://github.com/RehabMan/OS-X-ACPI-Battery-Driver This time, after the battery replacement only one issue because (apparently?) the battery never reach the 100% of charge, but stop at 80% max (at least this is displayed). Not a big problem anyway because I think this is due to the new battery kind. But what I found really intresting, are the new patches on how to turn off the discrete graphic (NVIDIA Optimus) under OSX by Rehabman. Used the new iasl61 to decompile all my table adding missing external references as suggested and found only some garbage in SSDT-6 easily fixed (I had to comment out the MXMX method BTW needed by Windows only). Applied all the patches (edited to comply with other modifications previously made to my DSDT (GFX0 to iGPU, PEGP to GFX0)), and BAM: all working at first reboot, and my NVIDIA is gone! Surprisingly, my Lappy today reached almost 6 hours of battery life with one charge! (I mean using it)...also it is now really cold (never cold like this using windows as far I remembar)! Not least, now the notebook is very quiet because the fan has to do less work Ok, the battery is an increased version, but I found this awesome, also considering that my i5 is not voted to the energy saving like newer ones (also have better geekbench )! Please share your battery life! cheers 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spike32 Posted November 7, 2017 Share Posted November 7, 2017 Last october my old battery pack on on my HP DV7-7002el exploded... really. Also some damage to the Nothebook chassis. In truth, I really waited too long with this old-exausted battery and pratically always connected to the charger. Maybe I should be more careful. Replaced the chassis with an original part, but to save money I had to do everything myself because HP asked more than 300 euro (over $350 ).. Well, I do a good job, it was also fun to do and offcourse, I also bought a new more powerful battery. Not an original part, but a new 9000mAh powerfull-increased battery for 30 Euros. Lately I had not much time dedicate on my Hackintosh due to my study (these days I'll take the Diploma ) + my job after school, but yesterday I take the time to redone from scratch my patched ACPI tables: DSDT SSDT-1 SSDT-6 (+ undervolt step using Clover) For the DSDT I never had a big problem adding/patching needed stuff, but I always found essential the battery patch by Rehabman here: https://github.com/RehabMan/Laptop-DSDT-Patch needed to display the battery information using its ACPI battery kext here: https://github.com/RehabMan/OS-X-ACPI-Battery-Driver This time, after the battery replacement only one issue because (apparently?) the battery never reach the 100% of charge, but stop at 80% max (at least this is displayed). Not a big problem anyway because I think this is due to the new battery kind. But what I found really intresting, are the new patches on how to turn off the discrete graphic (NVIDIA Optimus) under OSX by Rehabman. Used the new iasl61 to decompile all my table adding missing external references as suggested and found only some garbage in SSDT-6 easily fixed (I had to comment out the MXMX method BTW needed by Windows only). Applied all the patches (edited to comply with other modifications previously made to my DSDT (GFX0 to iGPU, PEGP to GFX0)), and BAM: all working at first reboot, and my NVIDIA is gone! Surprisingly, my Lappy today reached almost 6 hours of battery life with one charge! (I mean using it)...also it is now really cold (never cold like this using windows as far I remembar)! Not least, now the notebook is very quiet because the fan has to do less work Ok, the battery is an increased version, but I found this awesome, also considering that my i5 is not voted to the energy saving like newer ones (also have better geekbench )! Please share your battery life! cheers I have a problem with battery life. I successfully installed High Sierra and disabled Nvidia graphic card, but I reach less than 3 hours of battery life, but on Windows 10 (on the same laptop) I can reach a lot of hours of battery life with one charge. What can I do? CLOVER.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
01tt0ly Posted March 11, 2018 Share Posted March 11, 2018 I guess it's because the Nvidia is turned off in Mac OS while in windows it's optimus that may consume a lot battery power. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spike32 Posted May 11, 2018 Share Posted May 11, 2018 On 3/11/2018 at 8:01 AM, 01tt0ly said: I guess it's because the Nvidia is turned off in Mac OS while in windows it's optimus that may consume a lot battery power. If the Nvidia had been turned on I could not have installed High Sierra. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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