GPD microPC only 10min battery runtime


mclien

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So my GPD microPC is 1 years old (plus the time in stock, I guess).
I haven't used it in while, so I plugged t to the PSU and kept it that way for about a day.
Is the charge LED supposed to change color/turn of when fully charged?

Disconnecting it from the charger resulted in about 10min runtime before turning off.

I guess the battery might be dead, but as far is my searching went, there is n source for a replacement.

So what is the best path to choose from here?
 
ED used to sell them, but out of stock now:

I think this is the same but double the price:
 
I was wondering, if that is for sure a dead battery, or if it may be some other problem.

As for the battery: it s at least free shipping worldwide. But it might be an idea to order directly from aliexpress, where that batteries seem to come from anyways.

Or just find the right LiPoly size and swap the cable from the old one.
 
I think the GPD MicroPC was notoriuos for draining the battery while off, which will impact the battery health. You can fully charge again and see how it goes, but I guess it will again be 10min.
 
But then the battery protection circuit must have been bad too. Otherwise that one would have cut the power above a certain threshold. That would mean to look into building a batterypack with a good protection circuit would be the path to choose, right?
 
You can always charge till 100% and let it drain to 0% and charge for half a day so it's full for sure. To recalibrate the battery.
Update all GPD drivers which might contain fixes.
If the battery is bad not much can be done except replace it. And done store it too long without charging.
 
I haven't tried it myself, but you supposed to be able to create a windows-to-go USB disk (32/64GB:
Get ISO here (free of charge): https://www.microsoft.com/nl-nl/software-download/windows11

If you run this on Linux / GPD MicroPC itself:
Install Wine (if you dont have it already): sudo apt install wine
Get Rufus Portable (Windows app): https://rufus.ie/en/
Run it using Wine: wine rufus.exe
Pray Wine and Rufus work nicely :p
In Rufus select your USB disk and the Windows ISO. Set the partition scheme to GPT/UEFI and file-system to FAT32. Also enable a “Persistent partition” for saving your BIOS installation file, as Windows will probably not see your internal drive as it's probably not FAT32/NTFS.
You should now have a Windows to-go USB-disk.

Have your GPD fully charged and connected to a charger, as writing the BIOS should not be interrupted.

Plug-in USB-disk in GPD and power it.
Tap F7 for the boot menu and select USB to boot Windows.

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There might be a way to extract the BIOS from the executable and install that via Linux directly, but I wouldn't recommend that to you. As you'll brick your GPD if the BIOS update fails.
 
Well my dutch is not that good :-=, but replacing nl-nl with en-en in the URL works. But it is still a installation, which needs a product key....
And I find it rather annoying to be forced to buy a windows license to update my BIOS.....
But yeah, the installed one is from 2020

My experiences with wine are more of the kind "if I don't mind to do a fresh install to have a clean system again...

So I#ll wait what the gpd support suggests to my question how to do this without a windows.

I still think a dead battery is more likely.
 
You don't need a key to install. It will bug you after 30 days or so, but Windows will stay working.

It might force you to login with your Microsoft account though. I think there are ways around that but I haven't tried. In the past it was as easy as clicking 'not now' or something. -> Looks like you have this option in Rufus:
Click the gear icon (advanced options). And check the: "Remove requirement for an online Microsoft account" option.
 
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