Battery drain when shut-down (HP Spectre x360)

[MonLee]

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@Rajamahal wrote:

Official source from Samsung. I'm giving it a shot.

http://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/minisite/ssd/download/tools.html  

then scroll down to "Driver" section

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i followed the link but instead of giving me the driver i got a page that sais the fallowing...

We apologize for your inconvenience Please try again within 24 hours

There is a daily limit on the number of this software.
Unfortunately, the download limit for the day has been reached, please try again within 24 hours.
We apologize for any inconvenience this might have caused you. Thank you.

what is this? why would they do this? samsungs servers cant handle the load of people downloading a 3.5mb file?

[op1001]

site is workign fine here.

but here is the link 

http://ssd.samsungsemi.com/ecomobile/ssd/update15.do?fname=/Samsung_NVM_Express_Driver_21.zip

[jpzsports]

What driver should we use if we have the NVMe SAMSUNG MZVLV512 ?

[pqkiller666]

The V variant of the SSD uses the same driver - it just doesn't acheive the same results.

[MonLee]

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@op1001 wrote:

site is workign fine here.

but here is the link 

http://ssd.samsungsemi.com/ecomobile/ssd/update15.do?fname=/Samsung_NVM_Express_Driver_21.zip

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that brings me to the same weird download limit page as before.

[pvbgolfer]

We have drifted off the main thread of the Battery Drain issue.  Any new developments on that front.  Anyone hear anything from HP?

[op1001]

still the same old. one tech from escalation told me that the sphinx is a temporary fix 
( which really just fibs numbers it isn't a true fix )

he stated that a bios update will be released with no eta.

Nothing will happen useless we all get the same ticket or complaint going to escalate it to hp somehow.

petition? i dunno

[pqkiller666]

Was this tech referring to BIOS F.20A?

This has already been released.

I am now only experiencing a 1% drop in battery overnight using all of the suggestions given here including the storage controller driver mentioned...

Not sure if the people asking for more solutions have tried everything?

- Windows Anniversary Update (from Win10 website)

- SPHINX fix w/updated flash.exe file

- Updated all drivers available via HP Support Assistant and BIOS F.20A

- Samsung NVMe Storage controller driver 2.1 dated Dec 16.

Anything else I am missing?

BTW I have USB charging ENABLED in BIOS and fast Boot option enabled and I am only getting 1% battery drain overnight when shut down and the laptop (appears to) hold 100% charge when fully charged but still drops to 94% within minutes of switching the laptop on...

[RadicalDad]

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@op1001 wrote:

still the same old. one tech from escalation told me that the sphinx is a temporary fix 
( which really just fibs numbers it isn't a true fix )

he stated that a bios update will be released with no eta.

Nothing will happen useless we all get the same ticket or complaint going to escalate it to hp somehow.

petition? i dunno

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Class action lawsuit might get their attention faster.

[lynx3333]

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@op1001 wrote:

still the same old. one tech from escalation told me that the sphinx is a temporary fix 
( which really just fibs numbers it isn't a true fix )

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I don't agree with this statement. It may be a temporary fix, but I don't think it just fibs numbers unless those folks who found that their machine was dead after having it powered off for a week+ are still finding that it's dead after the same amount of time even with the sphinx fix.

I had mine powered off. After 24 hrs, it was at 100%, then it was at 94% after 48 but after that, it has dropped 1- 2% a day. I had it off for 5 days at one point when it wasn't at 100% and it was still consistent with 1-2 % a day after the initial drop to 94%. It certainly wasn't even close to being dead as it would have been prior to the sphinx update.  If it was just fibbing numbers, worst case, after 2 weeks, it would have read 80% but really was essentially dead and about to stop powering on.