Battery drain when shut-down (HP Spectre x360)

[elinyera]

I tried the i5 model, same problem (it's an Australian model, so the problem is worldwide). I did apply the sphinx fix and seems to be better (after downgrading BIOS to F4 from F11).

I also swapped the M2 drive to a 960 evo yesterday, so i'll keep an eye during a week to see if it works better.

[Zwede]

Hello! I got the i5 version with 8gb ram and a 256gb ssd. I had the same problem as everyone else in here and i tried the sphinx fix and it seems to work for me. Applied it maybe 4 days ago and still havent seen any batterydrain when completely shut off.

Bought mine from the swedish store but i guess the hardware is the same.

[jee82]

Ah good to hear, bought mine in norway so probably the same machines. Did you downgrade your bios aswell? And did you have to apply the fix two times for it to work, like many of the other people here had to?

[AndroidPurity]

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@elinyera wrote:

I tried the i5 model, same problem (it's an Australian model, so the problem is worldwide). I did apply the sphinx fix and seems to be better (after downgrading BIOS to F4 from F11).

I also swapped the M2 drive to a 960 evo yesterday, so i'll keep an eye during a week to see if it works better.

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Why did you down grade the BIOS? I don't recall reading that in the instructions of the fix.

[Zwede]

@jee82 No i didnt downgrade anything. I've done all the updates in hopes of fixing the problem though, but none helped. I just applied the fix following the pdf that came with it. Only did it once and it seemed to work for me.

Hope it works out for you since it's an awesome laptop except for this problem.

[pqkiller666]

I found that running the Sphinx update did nothing... BUT I also noticed when I ran it again today (this would be about the fourth or fifth time) the cmd line in the flash.exe came up with a different message - prior to today it had been saying "Your version is not the same... please restart the system"

Today it said "Firmware installed successfully" then it restarted.

When I ran the Version Check it came up instantly rather than there being a delay.

So I will monitor and see how this goes. I have the 13-w0XX with the i7 in case anyone is wondering.

[elinyera]

I downgraded because i read in one post that it came with that version from hp and there was less drain, so i decided to give it a try.

[pvbgolfer]

That was my post. Sent my PC to HP with F11 BIOS. HP returned it with F04. No explanation. Drain reduced significantly. I am still pushing HP for details on their repair.

[IRP]

The "official" FTP link to Sphinx on page 20 is still active, but there are no files to download.

Does anybody know if there is a new official source ?

[jee82]

Applied the sphinx fix, worked pretty great for me.. lost 2% over 12 hours with fast boot active (plus i started the machine a couple of times checking for a drop so that also may have had an affect in the 2%). Gonna try disabling fast boot and see if the battery drop goes completly away.