Razer Blade 2016 OS X 10.11.5

[freejack]

Yep, it is a known issue. You have experienced one out of three. It happens when you shutdown while plugged in or if the battery is charged fully. To get back to battery state you have to plug in and restart (in macOS). When macOS has booted again, unplug the charger. See if you got the indicator back.

Remember always to unplug the charger before shutdown or under 100% (like 98% or something) of battery charge to avoid this issue.

(Of course things will have issues with a non-Apple computer!)

Ok, just wanted to confirm it's not just happening to me. I'm trying to figure out a dsdt patch to fix this.

 

[uar]

Ok, just wanted to confirm it's not just happening to me. I'm trying to figure out a dsdt patch to fix this.

Great, notify me if you find something!

 

[freejack]

Great, notify me if you find something!

I'm surprised this ugly fix worked but from my brief testing it seems to be ok. There appears to be a bug either in the laptop's ACPI or ACPIBatteryManager which results in the currentStatus not being updated when the power is disconnected once the battery is fully charged and no longer charging (by this I mean battery has reached fMaxCapacityRaw).

My hack is stupid simple. If the currentRate > 0 (which means it's either charging or discharging) and currentStatus=0 (which it gets stuck at because of the bug I described above), I force _BST to report a currentStatus of 0x01 (discharging). Here's the change:

In method _BST, replace:

Store (B1B2(^^EC0.ST00,^^EC0.ST01), Index (BFB0, Zero))

with:

If (LEqual (B1B2(^^EC0.ST00,^^EC0.ST01), Zero))
{

If (LGreater (B1B2(^^EC0.ST10,^^EC0.ST11), Zero))
{

Store (One, Index (BFB0, Zero))​

}
Else
{

Store (B1B2(^^EC0.ST00,^^EC0.ST01), Index (BFB0, Zero))​

}​

}
Else
{

Store (B1B2(^^EC0.ST00,^^EC0.ST01), Index (BFB0, Zero))​

}​

It may take a few seconds for the status indicator to update but it will. Good luck and I hope it works for you as well.

 

[mdub]

sorry to interject but how much of the razer blade is working currently under sierra? I'm thinking of buying one and giving it a go, thanks

 

[freejack]

sorry to interject but how much of the razer blade is working currently under sierra? I'm thinking of buying one and giving it a go, thanks

I'm on Sierra. Will be posting a guide in the near future.

It's better if I list what doesn't work:

• Multi-gesture trackpad (should be supported soon)
• Discrete graphics
• HDMI out (port is hard wired to discrete graphics)
• Wifi (you can easily replace the wifi module with a supported one. I use the BCM94532Z)
• HDMI via USB-C adapter (still working on this)

What doesn't work well:

• Waking from sleep takes a long time when plugged (15-30 seconds). On battery it wakes in a few seconds.
• Webcam doesn't turn off after using it

That's about it. Hope I didn't miss anything.

 

[uar]

For that price, I recommend you pull the trigger for a 15-inch MacBook Pro, @mdub!

 

[freejack]

For that price, I recommend you pull the trigger for a 15-inch MacBook Pro, @mdub!

I have the new mbp. It's a beautiful machine but very impractical. Like the blade a lot more and will probably return the mac.

 

[mdub]

Wow that's not bad. HDMI over USB-C and 2 finger trackpad scrolling are the only essentials left for me. How's the battery life? Can you use MacBookPro13,3 SMBIOS + SSDTPrgen for full CPU acceleration?
And no thanks on the new MacBook Pro, keyboard is too clicky and I want to be able to upgrade storage.

 

[uar]

I have the new mbp. It's a beautiful machine but very impractical. Like the blade a lot more and will probably return the mac.

I don't recommend to return it yet. It is locked, but that is the fun with it. Couple of days ago, I managed to get eGPU support. The Core works with Maxwell architecture under macOS, not Pascal do to the lack of web drivers. You need to do a bit more to get it work, due to dGPU, but it'll do..

See here:

https://github.com/KhaosT/tb3-enabler
https://github.com/goalque/automate-eGPU

You may also download drivers from NVIDIA's website...

(Display output works on 15-inch MacBook Pro, but not on our blades...)

I did test on external monitor, not sure about the internal one...

 

[freejack]

I don't recommend to return it yet. It is locked, but that is the fun with it. Couple of days ago, I managed to get eGPU support. The Core works with Maxwell architecture under macOS, not Pascal do to the lack of web drivers. You need to do a bit more to get it work, due to dGPU, but it'll do..

See here:

https://github.com/KhaosT/tb3-enabler
https://github.com/goalque/automate-eGPU

You may also download drivers from NVIDIA's website...

(Display output works on 15-inch MacBook Pro, but not on our blades...)

I did test on external monitor, don't think it works on the internal one...

If I need an external display I can run in Windows and make use of this nice GTX 1060. I really don't see the point of carrying around a big eGPU. Might as well just get a micro atx form factor desktop

@mdub MacBookPro13,2 and 13,3 causes kernel panic for me. 13,1 freezes the machine for about a minute after booting into OSX which is annoying and doesn't seem to provide any benefit over what I'm using now (MacBookAir6,2).