jkl555 Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 I bought a new aftermarket battery. It seems now the battery indicator can't detect it. Dual boot to Windows 7 doesn't have the same problem as always. Anyone knows how I can fix it ? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PlutoDelic Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 The only way i've managed to get it to work (stock battery) was through updating FakeSMC and loading its plugins with HWMonitor/HWSensors, which you can change its main icon with a battery percentage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted March 16, 2015 Administrators Share Posted March 16, 2015 Could be useful to specify initial + updated version of FakeSMC you used. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PlutoDelic Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 You're right, especially since there is more then one maintenance out there... Initially i used patel's one from the Official guide for E6410 nVidia, and let me quote myself when i did the aforementioned change: Initially, the built in battery monitor from apple was toast, very inconsistent results, then i got SmartBatterySlim but even this one showed very odd numbers due to the battery being a double one (i think). What i did is, updated these: https://github.com/RehabMan/OS-X-ACPI-Battery-Driverhttp://sourceforge.net/projects/hwsensors/ ( http://www.hwsensors.com/releases seems more updated) which will update FakeSMC as well. Now HWSensors ICON in the BAR can be changed to show the percentage of the battery. So far, this has been the only way for me to have accurate battery output. Basically i have no idea which one i've used, the packaged one or RehabMan's ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jkl555 Posted March 18, 2015 Author Share Posted March 18, 2015 I don't quite remember which version of FakeSMC I am using either. Anyway, I try the DSDT patch for Dell XPS 18 even though it is not the same model (https://github.com/RehabMan/Laptop-DSDT-Patch/tree/master/battery) and revert the AppleACPIPlatform.kext from patel's one from the Official guide for E6410 nVidia back to stock version and it seems to fix the problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted March 19, 2015 Administrators Share Posted March 19, 2015 If you right click on the kext and select "Get Info", you'll see the version... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PlutoDelic Posted March 24, 2015 Share Posted March 24, 2015 forgive me for the delay peeps Again, i have no idea why i have two FakeSMC's, one in Clover and the other in S/L/E, and i really doubt this may be the reason why the percentage reading disappear randomly time to time (HWSensors doesnt read anything) so this is the FakeSMC at Clover: And kextstat shows the same version: xxx:~ xxx$ kextstat | grep Fake 24 3 0xffffff7f82e4c000 0x11000 0x11000 org.netkas.driver.FakeSMC (1613) <11 7 5 4 3 1> and this is the one from S/L/E: weird...and noobish ofc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Bronxteck Posted March 24, 2015 Administrators Share Posted March 24, 2015 they have different file sizes so i would imagine they are different. maybe one you used the package installer and it installed to S/L/E. hwmonitor app usually has to be used with the version of fakesmc it came bundled with. so either make both the same or remove one. if you look inside the kext you might see the version numbers inside it's info.plist to compare them. remember to rebuild your caches if you add or remove kexts from S/L/E. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted March 24, 2015 Administrators Share Posted March 24, 2015 SysProfiler->Software->Extensions will list the various kexts installed and loaded along with version numbers and file location. You'll then be able to eventually remove the extra/unecessary duplicate FakeSMC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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