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Definitely, its what I used as well. Although the reading was a bit spikey (between 5-25W), after sleep the ~10W increase in draw was easy to notice. Pulling the battery is probably needed as well to get a good reading.

You're absolutely right. The point was to make users more aware of the fact that the discrete graphics may turn on again after wake without them knowing and sleep/wake otherwise working fine. :)

For what its worth, I've noticed that on my laptop, the discrete graphics card gets enabled again after a wake from sleep. This can be hard to tell, because in my case it did not show up in System Profiler or IOReg, since I think they only get updated at boot time, and not after a wake from...

Spent some time on this again, it seems i need the RE1B/RECB/WE1B/WECB utility methods to read/write buffers from/to EC from Rehabman to do this. I (ab)used the _Q10 and _Q11 DSDT methods for this (display panel brightness), since i can call them using the brightness buttons on my keyboard...

Patch: #Maintained by: RehabMan for: Laptop Patches #battery_HP-DV6-3165sf.txt Fully working on HP Pavilion DV6-3250

First, a lot of thanks to Tonymac & Rehabman for all your (DSDT) guides! They have been an extremely useful source of information. Without those guides this would never work, so thank you for all your work! I was recently given an old HP pavilion laptop with an i5 480M (Arrandale HM55)/1st...