Comment 2 for bug 1909133

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Rob Nickmans (nickmansrob) wrote :

UPDATE: after committing some further research, I discovered other Linux distro's also suffer from this bug. Turns out HP's BIOS is locked and users are unable to let it report battery statuses to non-Windows operating systems.

A possible solution is using the distro without the battery indicator, and plug in the charger based on the side LED which starts to blink at 10%. Another option I used is enable WSL with a GUI or working with virtualization. This way, the battery status can be checked through Windows.

Waiting for an official response from HP, as a reaction to several complaints from their customers, or a BIOS update enabling the ability of battery status reporting. Until then, I will use WSL as temporary workaround.