Legion Go changes from charged to charging and back constantly when battery is full
I’ve noticed that the Legion seems to constantly charge and drain the battery when it’s full. This also affects the tdp profile if using AC profiles in SDTDP. I’ll be playing plugged in and the tdp will drop to the battery profile and then eventually switch back.
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hi, I'm the SDTDP dev. I've known about the problem for a while now, unfortunately there's no known workaround. SDTDP relies on Steam's AC power notifier, so it's outside of my control.
As for whether this behavior is a Steam bug, or an OS bug, that I don't know. I suspect this is actually a hardware or bios issue that Lenovo would need to resolve....
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hi, I'm the SDTDP dev. I've known about the problem for a while now, unfortunately there's no known workaround. SDTDP relies on Steam's AC power notifier, so it's outside of my control.
As for whether this behavior is a Steam bug, or an OS bug, that I don't know. I suspect this is actually a hardware or bios issue that Lenovo would need to resolve.
Interesting. Thank you for your input. I wondered if it was a hardware/bios bug. Any idea if Lenovo is aware of this issue? Surely it’s bad for the battery.
make sure youre on the latest bios
its better
but its not a hardware issue
its normal
used to be worst and they improved it
as an update, recently released a more robust implementation of AC TDP profiles on the Legion Go.
https://github.com/aarron-lee/SimpleDeckyTDP/releases/tag/v0.3.8
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Release v0.3.8 · aarron-lee/SimpleDeckyTDP
SimpleDeckyTDP v0.3.8
adds a much more robust AC TDP profile implementation for the following devices:
Lenovo Legion Go
Minisforum V3
This also enables AC TDP profiles for these two devices on ...
it should fix the issue for SDTDP's AC TDP profile functionality