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And now since Apple is continually updating firmware through their software updates, I always want to know if that firmware is actually applied.Ĭlick to expand.Well, first system started to misbehave, slowed down, spinning beachball, you know. I use a program called SilentKnight from an excellent 3rd party that shows most the firmware versions that are up to date for a range of specific hardware, except SMC. Thank you for providing the SMC version of our T1 units running 10.15.5. Even though that's kinda how PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) works, but that a whole different discussion.

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Had you told me AlDent was just turning on and off the charging to maintain the voltage at chosen SOC, I would not install the app. From your response, it looks like AlDente is using the built-in SOC set charge voltage to maintain the battery at that SOC.

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That way it knows how to control the amount of amps going to the battery, and taper the amps until it gets to 100% SOC voltage, then supply a constant 'trickle' charge to maintain full charge and not damage the battery (or stop the charging at 100%). At 80% SOC there is a corresponding voltage that is specific to each battery.

The way most charge controllers work is that they look at SOC (State of Charge) voltage. I'm an off-gridder that has too much knowledge of FLA batteries and charge controllers and knowing a little about how a 3rd party app is affecting the built-in charge controller of a $3,000 device is most likely good knowledge to have. 6669mAh.Ĭlick to expand.The more knowledge you have of something, however seemingly insignificant to one, may prove to be consequential in future problem solving for another. I had once even 94% and 103.5%.Īnd your design capacity (my design capacity is 6669 mAh)? - same. These numbers are pretty much wild guess and wild variations are expected. Pretty useless for you.Īnd may I ask what your battery cycle count is? - 63 cyclesĪnd your current % of design capacity? - 98.8 %, varies between 97 - 99.7 %. So these numbers are on system and battery which is ONLY about 6 month old. I had my system SSD and keyboard fail last fall, Apple replaced main board and top case with battery under Apple warranty. May I ask what your SMC firmware version is? Mine is the most updated according to unknown sources for our rig: 2.45f4. How long have you been using AlDente? I'm guessing you unchecked Apple's BHM feature? - few weeks, and sure, uncheck BHM. You are not seeing the charging indicator go on and off while it's holding your set %? - No.

This is how Apple implemented its BHM feature and why you need newer macs to do so. So you think the app is comparing amps 'out' and battery percentage and finding an amps 'in' to keep it there? - no, it simply tells SMC what max charge to hold.

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Does anyone know how it works? Is it supplying a trickle charge to keep the percentage stable? or is it just turning on and off the power to jump between a low and high a few percentage points apart? (He is working on an update 1.2, but says to wait till he can work out the code signing bugs.)Ĭlick to expand.Lots of questions which will be not that helpful. And does anyone know if a SMC reset will revert the firmware code back to default and delete AlDente's code? It is very tempting to use this as it does exactly what I want it to do. That is firmware that has been known to brick units. Now for AlDente, David Wernhart even states: 'AlDente still taps in some very low level system functions that are not meant to be tampered with.' I have a major problem with a 3rd party app modifying the SMC BCLM key. If it truly is supposed to only go down to low 90s then back up, WTF? That is not doing what needs to be done for these types of batteries, not to mention greatly increasing cycles.

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I am gathering all my glitches from the upgrade and since I am still on AppleCare, I'm going to milk it along with submitting Feedback Assistant tickets. I realize it's only been a few days and it may be learning something, but I expected it to behave as AlDente and again disappointed that apple has dumbed down the feature with just one checkbox.ĭoes anyone have any idea how it is actually supposed to work? Please provide documentation. I am now watching the Battery (Last 12 Hours) graph in the Activity Monitor/Energy app to see if I miss something. This battery is rated at 1000 cycles, so not a good sign.Ī few hours after I installed 10.15.5, I saw the menu battery charge indicator dropping to about 93%, then when I looked again it was back to 100%, and since then I have not seen it do it again. My rig is always plugged in and battery is showing only 215 cycles, but 87% of design capacity.

This feature being one of the main reasons. I've just updated to Cat from Mojave on 6/3.