I got a Lenovo 27++ slice battery for my t430 when it should have been a 28++ (mine is a genuine Lenovo battery) would removing this whitelist also make the slice battery work?
@@damnhighrent1735 Hey DamnHighRent, i am wondering how good those slice batteries perform compared to the normal 9 cell - 94wh akkus. hopefully youtube notifies you and you can reply
I confirm that the instructions worked perfectly for my Lenovo T430i. I just want to clear a confusion mentioned in the video for having a Genuine battery during the process. I think what was meant is to plug any battery with enough charge during the process to eliminate any risk during the BIOS flashing in case of power loss. Thank you for sharing this wonderful tool.
Man, I'm so grateful for that ! I thought I found the best deal with this laptop until my 3rd party 20€ batterie refused to charge...and discovered the price of a genuine one... With your hack, my 180€ T430 with brand new battery IS a deal ;-) Bless you Sebi
This worked perfect on a T530 that had the battery issue. You have to go into the defconfig file in the root folder and change the config_battery parameter from n to y so the file looks like this: CONFIG_KEYBOARD = n CONFIG_BATTERY = y Then follow the instructions on the github site at the bottom...easier than what you did in this video.
Thank you very much for this step by step guide. Sorry for the long post below but it may help someone in the future if I list the issues I faced when following this: To summarise: 1. If you want to use a new battery instead, make sure you get the 70++ genuine ones or higher 81+ as anything under that (even 70+) might not work. Also be aware of fake 'genuine' batteries. 2. If you follow the readme from the website make sure you do the extra step of turning the keyboard patches off and turning the battery patch on. 3. To avoid the catch 22 of Bios won't charge battery and empty battery won't allow bios update, see if you can use another laptop to charge the battery fully. 4. You can use another laptop to prepare the usb flash drive bios as long as it is running linux. 5. You can safely update the bios in future after you apply the patch. Bios from 2016 didn't need upgrading first to apply the patch. DETAILS: I bought a second hand t430 off ebay and was gutted when it came defective. Among the issues was the unsupported battery message at start. I followed your steps and am happy to report that everything worked great the 2nd time around (the first time I followed the readme file from the website and didn't turn OFF the keyboard patches and more importantly didn't turn ON the battery patch). Thank you for showing the extra step. My battery is a genuine lenovo 55+ battery and actually holds a good charge but is unsupported in the T430. I think the ones that are for this particular laptop are the genuine 70++ batteries or higher. With regards to updating the bios, I was able to fully charge the suspect battery in a T410 (since it has the exact same battery and doesn't have any problems with unsupported batteries). I was then able to flash the patch bios onto my bios firmware from 2016 (so a 2 year old bios works). I also carried out the whole preparation and USB creation procedure on the T410 which is running MX-15 linux (debian based) since my T430 has windows 7 on it, so using a different laptop worked for me too. Lenovo released a new bios in august 2018, so as a last step, I had a go at installing that through windows 7 (after I applied the patch) and it didn't affect the patch in any way (I lost sound for a second but upon reboot it works again).
Success on W530. For me "make patch_disable_keyboard clean" did not work, however editing the defconfig to set battery and keyboard to "y" and "n" respectively works great. Now I can use the battery from one of the ThinkPad Edge models. It's a genuine Lenovo battery, Lenovo is just being pricks.
Can this be done on a lenovo X131e? I tried to do this using the T230 flash but needless to say... it was a stupid idea. Luckily I didn't destroy my PC but now I know it didn't work
Thank you so much for posting this video/tutorial! I was asked to repair my friend's Lenoxo X230 ThinkPad laptop, it needed a new cooling fan/thermal paste and the old battery was knackered (also showing a not official battery warning). The new battery works much better, but still refused to charge and came up with a non genuine warning. After installing Linux on a spare SSD I had (removing the customers' SSD to protect their data) and performing the required steps from this guide, everything now works perfectly and the battery charges up fine. (After which, I reinstalled their SSD - so they keep their files and I now have a test Linux drive as required.)
I found that Windows 10 in my recent i7-X230 refurbished buy can figure out from the power saving options to clock the processor down, so it runs around 1.3-1.6 GHz while on battery. I just checked that the same applies for the T430. It might be relevant in stretching the battery life for some. Maybe there is other software for this and I would be interested in the Linux names.
Thanks a whole bunch mate! Finally got my 3rd party battery working. I was a bit stressed, quadruple checking everything XD. My machine is the thinkpad x230 and since the readme was based on this one, Most of the things I could copy and paste. Still checked to make sure though. Thanks again.
I can confirm this works on a W530! A bit of a pain to unlock but the payoff is worthwhile. Make note to use git clone of the repo, don't download and extract it or part of the make process will fail.
Hey Sebi, I did this perfectly - even got the second message. And yet, a brand new battery is still not being detected. It shouldn't be a problem with the battery because it did hold a charge when I bought it, but now obviously it is unable to be charged back up again. Something odd is that the patch files didn't actually change when I ran the make commands. I ran the commands, and then added .OFF manually. The final flash DID say that it was only flashing the patch I wanted though (battery). Besides those patches automatically changing, everything was the same as it was on screen. I'm so confused as to why this isn't working.
I'm having an issue similar to someone else in the comments where the make patch commands don't actually change the patch files. I tried it on Arch, and now I'm doing it on a Lubuntu VM but the same thing is happening. Any clue how I can deal with this?
On the Lenovo EOL web database, the latest available BIOS version I could find for the T430 is 2.68 So how come you mention there is a 2.82 version ? Where did you find that?
Hello, i did everything you said and it went smoothly in ubuntu, the problem is after i restart the laptop and go to the boot menu and select the usb with patched bios, i get black screen for a second then it just goes back to boot menu, nothing seems to happen. What should i do? Ps, my bios version was 2.82 and i downgraded to 2.81 Edit, i managed to fix it by removing the number 1 at the end of " if=patched. t430.img of=/dev/sdc1" , but after installing the bios and restarting, the battery problem didn't get fixed.
Thanks for the video. I'm a newbie to Linux, so I ran into a host of issues. First off I had to do a complete install of Ubuntu on a spare hard drive - I couldn't get this to work by running Ubuntu from a thumb drive. Once I had Ubuntu installed, the commands provided to turn off/on the patches wouldn't work for me (even using the SUDO command) - I figured out after several hours that I didn't have rights to the thinkpad-ec folder, nor could I change the rights. I had to create a new folder, grant myself the rights and copy the contents over to it. The commands to turn the patches on and off still didn't work. After the better part of a day I finally managed to create a thumb drive that upgrades the BIOS to 2.81, then after a reboot patches it to allow generic batteries to work (this is for the model T430 ONLY). I didn't mess with the keyboard patches because I don't need them. In any case, I created an image file of my thumb drive that I'd be happy to post somewhere to save everyone the hassle of having to do this themselves. Please don't get me wrong - I truly appreciate this video, but based on the comments I seem to be in the minority for those who struggled to get this to work.
Hey dude, I'm trying to do this on Arch and I'm having a similar issue. The patch commands do absolutely nothing. Do you think you could send me a link to that specific image?
@@Merlinfoop Sorry - I replied a month ago and just noticed it never got posted. I tried again today, but whenever I post the link my reply gets deleted. Is there another way I can send you the link?
@@EFudd-lu6ji I have a T430 and I don't really understand what's going on here :) If you have a simpler solution, I'll be glad for instructions, thanks!
@@alexf1515 Alex - I've created an image of my USB drive, but it's 30g in total. If you can provide me with a public storage site I can upload it to, please provide me the info.
For all the Thinkpad T 430 and T420 owners out there looking for a better screen much research on Panellook I have found and installed the Chimei Innolux N140FGE-LA2 with a 300 CD/M2 Luminance rating 50% greater than the lousy Lenovo Panels with a viewing angle of 45/45/20/45 a Contrast ratio of 650:1 which is awesome for a TN panel the correct LVDS connector in the right place taking the HD++ 1600 x 900 cable because this is a HIgh Res 1600 x 900 screen not the standard dog of a screen. It has the correct mounting holes screws straight in connects perfectly with the correcdt HD++ cable required for the HD++ spec screens and unlike the Lenovo X1Carbon TN screen which is better than stock but requires cable extensions to work or the very hard to find Alienware M14 X glossy TN panel which while good is a case of good luck finding one. The Innolux N 140-LA2 is available new and I just successfully fitted it have not yet calibrated the colors but it is already far better than the stock Lenovo Screen
Hey, thanks a lot for the video. It I wouldn't mind it that much to buy a genuine Lenovo battery but they don't even seem to be available anywhere anymore... Flashing the BIOS was suprisingly easy and the Battery is charging. Unfortunately the thinkpad will not turn on with just the battery installed and also immediately turn off, once the Power adapter is removed. It seems as if it's not using the battery at all although If I turn it off, unplug the charger and have just the battery in, the fingerprint sensor is still flashing, but pressing the power button doesn't do anything. Tried this with several replacement batteries. Did anyone have this issue, too?
I don't think the T440p has a whitelist. I have several. Some with third-party batteries, including the one I'm using right now. Haven't had that issue. Maybe it's a T430 only issue.
Thank you so damn much for this - recently bought a genuine 9 cell battery for my t430 - originally had a 6 cell battery and it came up with this error message!!! learned alot here thanks for the master class! now my t430 will take any battery no hassle! cheers bro!
I bought a second hand Lenovo T460s. It's great. Unfortunately it will be the last Lenovo product I ever buy thanks to them blocking the use of replacement batteries. Not impressed at all.
@samantha tang I wouldn't call it propaganda, more like capitalism at work. Of course a company is going to want you to buy their products! At least Lenovo makes replacement batteries readily available, unlike another prominent computer manufacturer we know of...
It might work. But you would have to reverse engineer the BIOS and EC file yourself using Ghidra or Radare and create the actual hex patch. So: for everyone not comfortable with disassembly and deep level code analysis: no this does not work as noone with enough disassembly knowledge has created a patch so far.
Thanks for the great tutorial. I’ve got T430 & T530 to mod with this. For the record: a whitelist allows, a blacklist blocks. Lenovo is whitelisting a few batteries and blacklisting everything else. The end result is he same: modding the whitelist means that every battery that will fit will potentially work. It’s all about the terminology... Cheers.
@@fernabianer1898 Then the correct wording is: "Lenovo whitelists certain of their own batteries", not "Lenovo whitelists 3rd-party batteries". Not: th-cam.com/video/MWZlktXFNJk/w-d-xo.html
I did not have this problem with my Lenovo T430 in which I replaced my battery with a non Lenovo battery. Maybe my computer has an updated BIOS and I am dual booting to Linux Mint and Windows 10, all of which I installed myself.
Same, I bought a refurb from Newegg.com. The Lenovo battery that came with it was bad. I bought a Generic battery from ebay and had no issues. I'm running Ubuntu. I guess it also might be the luck of the draw. The ebay store I ordered it from said it was completely compatible with Lenevo and it is. Since I bought it over a month ago, Linux still shows the health at 97% and can hold its charge for around 4 hours.
Hi Sebi! Thanks for your instructions! I patched my t430 successfully but the "won't charge / wrong battery" message keeps coming and the battery won't charge. What did I do wrong? Edit: Ah stop, BIOS still says "2.82" - WTF? But didn't I patch it correctly? o.O Why is that so?
Pls help. Can I do this with my battery on 0% plugged in not charging? My laptop is x230 and needs 44+ battery and I only have 29+battery which has no charge and the PC can only run on AC
Great video and big thank you for your presentation. I had small problem because my T430 was on new bios but all finished good ( I mean: back to the older previouse BIOS ) and on the moment I have successful battery charging.
@@omajor1622 I used Ubuntu (downloaded the last one). As a matter of fact, I also had a problem with Mint, some dependencies were missing, but on Ubuntu, things fixed themselves on their own (weird, as Mint is based on Ubuntu...)
@@MartinLasTerrenas did you run the live version or did you do a full install, kubuntu live didn't work for me and neither did Ubuntu lts live. I even tried Manjaro Wich does the last 3 steps but won't do the first step.
I have L530 with 9 cell battery (genuine) but I will need to replace it. Will 3rd party battery work on latest bios 2.76, ec ver 1.14 or if it wont could I just downgrade bios to older one if there is not any whitelist ?
I bought a nine cells large accu for the t430 for 24 Euros only (new), in germany. Now I also need to patch the BIOS, thank you for the video. Greetings from sw germany.
I followed all the instructions up until I tried to change the configuration for enabling the battery fix, but Linux wouldn’t allow it. Always gives me an error
I have been reviewing the battery and keyboard patches that I make for the Lenovo t430, however I have a Thinkpad E430c with a problem with the generic batteries, they do not charge due to the battery check just when loading the BIOS. There is a way to adapt the T430 patch to work with the E430c
Thank you later: I will thank you now ! :) meanwhile it was a bit diffrent but works fine global. Also t410 t420 batteries are working. I enjoyed the real english accent btw.
For those interested, this might be a good workaround. It is a standalone charger you can use. Do a google search for "External Laptop Battery Charger for Lenovo ThinkPad T420s T430s, 45N1037 0A36309." --- or whatever battery/laptop you have.
Hello Sebi! I see that you are still replying to comments so ill throw mine at you. My lenovo t430 battery was lost a while ago so i bought a replacement which wont charge at all. it has half a charge left. so it can power the laptop. I obviously dont have to original battery. Will this fix work if I use the new offbrand battery instead of the original one? Thank you for your video, it would be awesome if it would work.
@@SebisRandomTech I have another question. Is the "patched.t430.img" the file that at the end you flashed to the usb drive? Its located in the "home/thinkpad-ec"directory. After i followed all the steps.
Hi, can I use your image file on my T430 to speed up the process? My T430 BIOS version is the last one (2.78), released yesterday by Lenovo. Congrats for the video!
Update: I've created my BIOS image using Ubuntu (running on T430 DVD drive). I've enabled only the battery patch, like you did. Tks again for the video.
Thank you very much, sir, for helping out with this. I was able to fix the battery issue by upgrading bios from 2.72 to 2.81 and then modding it. Btw, my original battery was unable to keep any charge so I decided to flash BIOS mod being on my new third-party battery and it was a success.
Hy. Thanks a lot for this, it worked like a charm. but after i've flashed the modified bios "home" and "delete" keys are now inverted. can you help me? thanks
You may have forgotten to turn off the keyboard patches that are included in this patch. This mod is primarily meant for installing the T420 keyboard into the T430, so you have to disable the keyboard parts of the patch if you don't plan on doing that. To fix this simply rebuild the BIOS with the battery patch as before, but make sure to enter the commands to turn OFF the keyboard patch. This is shown in the included README.
Worked on Lenovo T530. Thanks! I had an original Lenovo battery but an older gen and T530 refused to work with it. Also, I didn't even had to get a "original" battery for the bios flash - just remove the battery, plug the AC and it will let you flash the bios without the battery
One split open on me after I dropped it (down the steps so it was justified) and I refuse to use it. Other than that I've never had any issues with them so I just play it safe. Don't leave them plugged in/charging when I'm not around, keep them away from heat or moisture, etc.
@@SebisRandomTech Yeah that's basically my policy with them too. I usually disconnect them when I'm going to be using the machine on AC for a long time aswell though
Hello, I was going to follow the steps in your video with my W530, but when I entered github I saw this notice: COMPATIBILTY WARNING: As the result of CVE-2019-6171, newer Lenovo firmware update files have added a digital signature. If you upgrade to locked version you will not be able to patch your EC without downgrading it. but in the video you explain that to be able to do it you need to have the bios to the newest version. What do you recommend me to do then? thank you
The newest BIOS versions for the xx30 machines prevent you from modifying it, so you have to go back to the previous version, the newest version before that measure was implemented. This video pre-dates that newer version being released, hence why I said to have the newest version (at that time). For your W530 you will want to have BIOS version 2.75 installed.
hello, in the last step when connecting the memory with the patch I just see the message "Missing operating system" instead of everything that appears in the minute 10:47
Saludos Sebi´s Random Tech, gracias por mostrarnos una forma de hacer valer estas baterías, a los que no podemos pagar las mas caras. Seria mucho pedir que nos brindara el archivo iso, con parche, le gardeceria mucho
Hi Sebi! I have used this patch for my x230 and it worked great for a year. I recently made the error to update my BIOS to 2.77 and it does not work anymore. Do you know a tutorial to downgrade bios? I am under manjaro. Many thanks!
I can't help very much with Manjaro, but I do know that you can downgrade the BIOS. Go to the settings and go to Security->UEFI BIOS Update Option->Secure Rollback Prevention and select Disable. After that I think you can downgrade the BIOS directly from Windows, but can't speak for the process in Manjaro.
Now I got the T430 patched to 2.81 but the message keeps coming and the battery still not going to charge... BIOS is now G1ETC1WW 2.81 and EC is G1HT35WW 1.13. What did I do wrong or what did go wrong?? 😞
Double check your typing when you entered each command when building the EC patch. It sounds silly but there have been a few times where it didn't work for me where I simply forgot to enter a line of code or entered a command wrong.
Thank you, just did the flash and it worked, battery is charging now, i was successful doing the flash without an original battery, just kept the after market one installed and it worked fine, T430 BIOS 2.72
Boot a live Linux or WinPE USB to bypass the current OS. I keep several handy. See pendrivelinux for easy ways to load them. If the problem remains, reseat RAM. After that, take your question to the Thinkpad forums.
Thank you VERY MUCH for the video and the tutorial. I've bought a T430, Core i7, a few weeks ago, and it came with a supposedly original battery (it really seemed original), but the seller told me it wasn't charging. Strangely, the message that the battery was not original appeared each time I booted the computer. Then I bought a brand new 3rd party battery and the message remained. Worried about the situation I googled for a solution and found your video. Then I installed Linux (Ubuntu) as a dual boot system, followed the steps and voilà: no more "not original Lenovo Battery" messages. Then I swapped to the old battery (the original one), and it was not charging indeed. Maybe it's a faulty battery. An importante note, I guess: I made all the procedure with the 3rd party battery and it worked seamlessly as well. So maybe it is not mandatory to use an original Lenovo battery for the procedure. Thanks again, kind regards, Emmanoel Ferreira, from Brazil.
Buenas tardes Enmanuel, me podría ayudar con los pasos para poder parchar una T430, es que no soy muy ducho en Linux, y no comprendo como hace en lo hace en el video tutorial, gracias de antemano
Hello ! Thank for your video ! I just did this and I have a question, if you still have the Laptop : what is the BIOS version after you install the patch ? Mine still shows 2.74, not 2.72 as it is written in the installer. Is there any way to know that it worked, other than testing with a third party battery ?
Hi sebi. I have T430 thinkpad and bought an Msata SSD 256 kaizen. When i install the msata, it did not appear either on the disk managemen or in the bios. Do you maybe know what i did wrong? Or maybe t430 does not support msata?
T430 does in fact support mSATA. Typing this from a T430 with a mSATA drive as my main boot drive. It's possible your SSD is faulty or not inserted correctly. Make sure the mSATA drive is enabled in the BIOS's boot menu.
It worked for the T430 seriously thanks. We were having trouble for a week, my father could not attend live classes. If you want, I can also make the Turkish version for you.
HI, Thanks for sharing your knowlege on Thinkpads. Please can you tell us if what you did 3 years ago on this T430 is valid for the T430i model ? What do you think about the T430 with the NVS 5400m graphic card ? Best wishes
I believe it should work with the T430i as well. The NVS 5400M isn't a horrible card but depending on what you expect to use it for it won't be a massive improvement over the Intel HD Graphics.
Hi, Next question : is it possible to apply hamishColeman mod to bios modded by n4ru/1vyrain ? (I think to be based on 2.64 BIOS version for the T430/T430i)
if you already performed the EC flash for the classic keyboard (and did not update the battery or wifi patches during that time), can you do the battery patch afterwards by itself and not mess up the existing patch that was already flashed for the keyboard?
I opened up my genuine 9 cell 57++ battery for my T540p, replaced the 18650 cells and soldered it back together. Then I got the same error message. I don't have another working battery unfortunately. It's weird because I open up the Thinkpad Battery utility and it sees all of the info of my battery (charge cycles, S/N, voltage,...). Not sure what to do next.
Yes. Since making this video Lenovo patched newer versions of the BIOS to make EC patches like this impossible, hence why you need to stay on 2.81 or downgrade to it.
Hey, i'm trying the trick with a live USB Ubuntu 20.04.1 and when i launch "sudo make build deps" i have some issues with missing packet "xorriso" and "innoextract". any ideas ? thanks a lot dude !
Hard to say for sure, as I'm not well versed with Linux terminal stuff. Almost any time I had an issue building the patched BIOS it was because I made a typo or other mistake. Double check that you've typed everything correctly and try again!
I have an x230 and have been trying to get this to work for the last couple days. I have followed every step to the letter and everytime I try to boot the flash img from my thumbdrive nothing happens and the thumbdrive gets bricked. Any advice?
Just an update, I realized that I needed to make sure I had legacy boot enabled after reading some of the comments on this video. However, after doing so, when I attempt to boot from my flash img thumbdrive nothing happens. All that appears on the screen is Lenovo Limted whatever and just sits there doing nothing. I have already bricked 4 perfectly good thumb drives and I only have one left. I really don't want to waste it, so I could really use some help please??!!
Hi there :) I just want to ask if this trick for t430 and the third party batteries is possible with x230 and where could I find the bios file? Thanks in advance :)
It should work with the X230. Simply follow this process exactly, *except* when building the patched EC use the "patched.x230.img" file instead of the "patched.t430.img" file. If you try using the finished T430 file instead (or any file besides the X230 file), you'll brick your system.
@@SebisRandomTech Thanks :) As far as I understant - I must create new bios, using the files from the link inder the video. The thing is that I don't have the knowledge to create it, so I'll try searching it in the net. Or try someone, who will be able to create it for me.
@@valoneshev8078 That may be the smart thing to do. With something like this it's a good idea to find someone else who can do it or get the file for you if you're not comfortable doing it. :)
Thank you very much, helped me to install and OEM t420 battery onto a t430, now charges well. t430's are just plain awesome. im lucky enough to get the Nvidia nvs5400 version too. with this mod and with a good battery finally working, I'm looking at installing a i7-qm down the line.
@NYCfactor 3632qm is my choice. 35w tdp Also, you wanna use tpfancontrol to make a custom fan profile. This will allow you to max out the fan for best cooling.
@NYCfactor you know what, I was taking a look at how it would pan out, it would help you with thread intensive apps. but real world use? you wouldnt be able to tell the difference. mine is used for some cad work but mostly games, turns out, most of the time the GPU would max out before stressing the CPU for my use. I would also use the GPU with cuda cores for rendering, im not sure if apps can work parellel between CPU and GPU, so I cant forsee an advantage with the QM for me. so thats on you to decide. are you still on HDD btw? if you are. you're better off going the ssd route 1st the dual to quad cpu.
Could you please perform this adjustment for Windows 10 (if it is possible)? I have Lenovo M5400 Touch and when I tried to put third party replacement battery the message, you mentioned at the beginning of your video, appeared - not charging.
No. It might work. But you would have to reverse engineer the BIOS and EC file yourself using Ghidra or Radare and create the actual hex patch. So: for everyone not comfortable with disassembly and deep level code analysis: no this does not work as noone with enough disassembly knowledge has created a patch so far.
The Lenovo Yoga 12 has this issue also. From what I can tell, the original Bios on the Yoga 12 already had the whitelist. Will this process work for the Yoga 12? From what I have gathered, it sounds like it will only work on the T430 and T430S. Sad that this laptop is going to end up in the dump. No genuine batteries available that will work.
Im getting a "Lenovo Group. Please remove media and press any key to reboot" message when I try to boot from the flashed flash drive. Trying the battery whitelist removal on an x230 i5 with BIOS ver 2.75 ECP 1.14. My flash drive is FAT format and I set the BIOS to Legacy only. Some help would be greatly appreciated!
Update: The BIOS flash seems to have worked. During the flash it mentions something about applying battery whitelist patch. But upon booting to windows 10 or Linux Mint, my x220 44++ battery is still not charging. I get a message from Lenovo Vantage about the battery not being recognised in windows 10.
@@SebisRandomTech Seems like the best way to confirm. I'll try to get a non x230 battery that has been tried and tested in another device. Thanks Sebi.
Maybe, if so then they're probably more expensive or uncommon. Every after-market battery I have bought, regardless of brand never worked in any xx30 machine without this patch. Many even say on their product page "Not compatible with T430, X230, W530", etc.
Have you tried kingsener? They're a high quality Chinese assembler, use genuine sanyo/LG cells (like lenovo genuine oem- the "genuine" lenovo batteries on ebay/Amazon are fake and use crap Chinese cells), the capacity exceeds the label design capacity in use and per Windows battery report , and work flawlessly in my t440p and t450s
Thanks a million. Got the indicator to blink again on my X230 with a newly purchased X220 battery. The circuit on the older battery seem to have died, so I got some 18650 batteries out for something else.
Thank you very much for this. However, it's still not working on my T530 with 2.77 BIOS with 1.14 EC. Difficult to downgrade. Possible wrong EC version, I just noticed it's 1.13.. But at least it's not bricked (yet!). Going to try the Ivybridge route. Unless anyone has strong feelings about that.....?
Thanks, I did get it working with 2.77 eventually via 1vyprep, but something in the process made the keyboard layout change and the lights stop working. Will downgrade and try again with the updated version 👍🏻
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I got a Lenovo 27++ slice battery for my t430 when it should have been a 28++ (mine is a genuine Lenovo battery) would removing this whitelist also make the slice battery work?
As far as I am concerned, it should. I've never used a slice battery so it would be interesting to see what your results are.
i'll let you know the results :)
it worked :D
Awesome, I'll pin this comment so others can see it and know that it works.
@@damnhighrent1735 Hey DamnHighRent, i am wondering how good those slice batteries perform compared to the normal 9 cell - 94wh akkus. hopefully youtube notifies you and you can reply
I confirm that the instructions worked perfectly for my Lenovo T430i. I just want to clear a confusion mentioned in the video for having a Genuine battery during the process. I think what was meant is to plug any battery with enough charge during the process to eliminate any risk during the BIOS flashing in case of power loss. Thank you for sharing this wonderful tool.
thank you for that comment man :)
Which bios Version did you use for your t430i, thinking about picking up a t430i and doing this mod
Man, I'm so grateful for that ! I thought I found the best deal with this laptop until my 3rd party 20€ batterie refused to charge...and discovered the price of a genuine one... With your hack, my 180€ T430 with brand new battery IS a deal ;-) Bless you Sebi
This worked perfect on a T530 that had the battery issue. You have to go into the defconfig file in the root folder and change the config_battery parameter from n to y so the file looks like this:
CONFIG_KEYBOARD = n
CONFIG_BATTERY = y
Then follow the instructions on the github site at the bottom...easier than what you did in this video.
Thank you very much for this step by step guide.
Sorry for the long post below but it may help someone in the future if I list the issues I faced when following this:
To summarise:
1. If you want to use a new battery instead, make sure you get the 70++ genuine ones or higher 81+ as anything under that (even 70+) might not work. Also be aware of fake 'genuine' batteries.
2. If you follow the readme from the website make sure you do the extra step of turning the keyboard patches off and turning the battery patch on.
3. To avoid the catch 22 of Bios won't charge battery and empty battery won't allow bios update, see if you can use another laptop to charge the battery fully.
4. You can use another laptop to prepare the usb flash drive bios as long as it is running linux.
5. You can safely update the bios in future after you apply the patch. Bios from 2016 didn't need upgrading first to apply the patch.
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I bought a second hand t430 off ebay and was gutted when it came defective. Among the issues was the unsupported battery message at start.
I followed your steps and am happy to report that everything worked great the 2nd time around (the first time I followed the readme file from the website and didn't turn OFF the keyboard patches and more importantly didn't turn ON the battery patch). Thank you for showing the extra step.
My battery is a genuine lenovo 55+ battery and actually holds a good charge but is unsupported in the T430. I think the ones that are for this particular laptop are the genuine 70++ batteries or higher.
With regards to updating the bios, I was able to fully charge the suspect battery in a T410 (since it has the exact same battery and doesn't have any problems with unsupported batteries). I was then able to flash the patch bios onto my bios firmware from 2016 (so a 2 year old bios works). I also carried out the whole preparation and USB creation procedure on the T410 which is running MX-15 linux (debian based) since my T430 has windows 7 on it, so using a different laptop worked for me too.
Lenovo released a new bios in august 2018, so as a last step, I had a go at installing that through windows 7 (after I applied the patch) and it didn't affect the patch in any way (I lost sound for a second but upon reboot it works again).
Success on W530. For me "make patch_disable_keyboard clean" did not work, however editing the defconfig to set battery and keyboard to "y" and "n" respectively works great. Now I can use the battery from one of the ThinkPad Edge models. It's a genuine Lenovo battery, Lenovo is just being pricks.
Can this be done on a lenovo X131e? I tried to do this using the T230 flash but needless to say... it was a stupid idea. Luckily I didn't destroy my PC but now I know it didn't work
Thank you so much for posting this video/tutorial! I was asked to repair my friend's Lenoxo X230 ThinkPad laptop, it needed a new cooling fan/thermal paste and the old battery was knackered (also showing a not official battery warning). The new battery works much better, but still refused to charge and came up with a non genuine warning.
After installing Linux on a spare SSD I had (removing the customers' SSD to protect their data) and performing the required steps from this guide, everything now works perfectly and the battery charges up fine. (After which, I reinstalled their SSD - so they keep their files and I now have a test Linux drive as required.)
I found that Windows 10 in my recent i7-X230 refurbished buy can figure out from the power saving options to clock the processor down, so it runs around 1.3-1.6 GHz while on battery. I just checked that the same applies for the T430. It might be relevant in stretching the battery life for some. Maybe there is other software for this and I would be interested in the Linux names.
i follow everthing and boot into ubuntu linux then copy the patch to the formatted fat 32 usb 4gb but on booting up it shows missing operating system
Thanks a whole bunch mate! Finally got my 3rd party battery working. I was a bit stressed, quadruple checking everything XD. My machine is the thinkpad x230 and since the readme was based on this one, Most of the things I could copy and paste. Still checked to make sure though. Thanks again.
Awersome, thanks for sharing
I can confirm this works on a W530! A bit of a pain to unlock but the payoff is worthwhile.
Make note to use git clone of the repo, don't download and extract it or part of the make process will fail.
Worked on my T430. I updated to 2.75 first (G1HT35WW) and then followed this video. Error message is gone and battery is charging.
Hey Sebi, I did this perfectly - even got the second message. And yet, a brand new battery is still not being detected. It shouldn't be a problem with the battery because it did hold a charge when I bought it, but now obviously it is unable to be charged back up again. Something odd is that the patch files didn't actually change when I ran the make commands. I ran the commands, and then added .OFF manually. The final flash DID say that it was only flashing the patch I wanted though (battery). Besides those patches automatically changing, everything was the same as it was on screen. I'm so confused as to why this isn't working.
I'm having an issue similar to someone else in the comments where the make patch commands don't actually change the patch files. I tried it on Arch, and now I'm doing it on a Lubuntu VM but the same thing is happening. Any clue how I can deal with this?
On the Lenovo EOL web database, the latest available BIOS version I could find for the T430 is 2.68
So how come you mention there is a 2.82 version ? Where did you find that?
Hello, i did everything you said and it went smoothly in ubuntu, the problem is after i restart the laptop and go to the boot menu and select the usb with patched bios, i get black screen for a second then it just goes back to boot menu, nothing seems to happen. What should i do?
Ps, my bios version was 2.82 and i downgraded to 2.81
Edit, i managed to fix it by removing the number 1 at the end of " if=patched. t430.img of=/dev/sdc1" , but after installing the bios and restarting, the battery problem didn't get fixed.
Thanks for the video. I'm a newbie to Linux, so I ran into a host of issues. First off I had to do a complete install of Ubuntu on a spare hard drive - I couldn't get this to work by running Ubuntu from a thumb drive. Once I had Ubuntu installed, the commands provided to turn off/on the patches wouldn't work for me (even using the SUDO command) - I figured out after several hours that I didn't have rights to the thinkpad-ec folder, nor could I change the rights. I had to create a new folder, grant myself the rights and copy the contents over to it. The commands to turn the patches on and off still didn't work. After the better part of a day I finally managed to create a thumb drive that upgrades the BIOS to 2.81, then after a reboot patches it to allow generic batteries to work (this is for the model T430 ONLY). I didn't mess with the keyboard patches because I don't need them. In any case, I created an image file of my thumb drive that I'd be happy to post somewhere to save everyone the hassle of having to do this themselves. Please don't get me wrong - I truly appreciate this video, but based on the comments I seem to be in the minority for those who struggled to get this to work.
Glad you managed to get things working, even if it was a bit more of a hassle for you. Feel free to link the patched BIOS here if you do post it.
Hey dude, I'm trying to do this on Arch and I'm having a similar issue. The patch commands do absolutely nothing. Do you think you could send me a link to that specific image?
@@Merlinfoop Sorry - I replied a month ago and just noticed it never got posted. I tried again today, but whenever I post the link my reply gets deleted. Is there another way I can send you the link?
@@EFudd-lu6ji I have a T430 and I don't really understand what's going on here :) If you have a simpler solution, I'll be glad for instructions, thanks!
@@alexf1515 Alex - I've created an image of my USB drive, but it's 30g in total. If you can provide me with a public storage site I can upload it to, please provide me the info.
For all the Thinkpad T 430 and T420 owners out there looking for a better screen much research on Panellook I have found and installed the Chimei Innolux N140FGE-LA2 with a 300 CD/M2 Luminance rating 50% greater than the lousy Lenovo Panels with a viewing angle of 45/45/20/45 a Contrast ratio of 650:1 which is awesome for a TN panel the correct LVDS connector in the right place taking the HD++ 1600 x 900 cable because this is a HIgh Res 1600 x 900 screen not the standard dog of a screen.
It has the correct mounting holes screws straight in connects perfectly with the correcdt HD++ cable required for the HD++ spec screens and unlike the Lenovo X1Carbon TN screen which is better than stock but requires cable extensions to work or the very hard to find Alienware M14 X glossy TN panel which while good is a case of good luck finding one.
The Innolux N 140-LA2 is available new and I just successfully fitted it have not yet calibrated the colors but it is already far better than the stock Lenovo Screen
You have a link for it? How much was it also?
+ you cant use genuine older t420/t420 batteries and if you have thise it can be really annoing
what if you don't have the original battery anymore?
Hey, thanks a lot for the video. It I wouldn't mind it that much to buy a genuine Lenovo battery but they don't even seem to be available anywhere anymore... Flashing the BIOS was suprisingly easy and the Battery is charging. Unfortunately the thinkpad will not turn on with just the battery installed and also immediately turn off, once the Power adapter is removed. It seems as if it's not using the battery at all although If I turn it off, unplug the charger and have just the battery in, the fingerprint sensor is still flashing, but pressing the power button doesn't do anything. Tried this with several replacement batteries. Did anyone have this issue, too?
Could be a motherboard issue.
@@SebisRandomTech Thanks for the quick reply. Yeah, I guess it has to be somethin HW-related. Might finally be time for a new one then.
Thank you man for sharing this with us. Just to note I did the update with the aftermarket battery and it also worked.
I don't think the T440p has a whitelist. I have several. Some with third-party batteries, including the one I'm using right now. Haven't had that issue. Maybe it's a T430 only issue.
You’re correct, the xx30-series ThinkPads are the only ones with a battery whitelist.
Thank you so damn much for this - recently bought a genuine 9 cell battery for my t430 - originally had a 6 cell battery and it came up with this error message!!! learned alot here thanks for the master class! now my t430 will take any battery no hassle! cheers bro!
What if i have no workinggenue lenovo battery? i cant updaye bios without it
I bought a second hand Lenovo T460s. It's great. Unfortunately it will be the last Lenovo product I ever buy thanks to them blocking the use of replacement batteries. Not impressed at all.
From what I heard this only affected the T430 series, unless that's changed.
@samantha tang I wouldn't call it propaganda, more like capitalism at work. Of course a company is going to want you to buy their products!
At least Lenovo makes replacement batteries readily available, unlike another prominent computer manufacturer we know of...
@@SebisRandomTech the whitelist on the t460s and it won't let me install a WWAN module not authorized by Lenovo
should be a class action lawsuit for right to repair...so many batteries probably ended up in the land fill, this should be illegal....
Can't you just share the Bios you created?
Would anybody share with me modded BIOS image for T530? Or let me know where it can be downloaded.
I have a lenovo thinkpad t450 that won't charge a third party battery. Is the whitelist likely the issue? The bios version is 1.37...
It might work. But you would have to reverse engineer the BIOS and EC file yourself using Ghidra or Radare and create the actual hex patch. So: for everyone not comfortable with disassembly and deep level code analysis: no this does not work as noone with enough disassembly knowledge has created a patch so far.
After doing this are we supposed to not update the BIOS any more?
Correct. On machines this old there really aren't going to be any more updates anyway.
@@SebisRandomTech Thank you Sebi. I managed to downgrade the BIOS to 2.81. How can I prevent Windows from automatically updating the BIOS version?
@@fabiofranz1767 There should be an option to disable automatic BIOS updates in Lenovo Vantage.
Thanks for the great tutorial. I’ve got T430 & T530 to mod with this.
For the record: a whitelist allows, a blacklist blocks. Lenovo is whitelisting a few batteries and blacklisting everything else.
The end result is he same: modding the whitelist means that every battery that will fit will potentially work.
It’s all about the terminology...
Cheers.
you mean the right thing and it would also work when you think about it that way, but it doesnt actually have a blacklist
@@fernabianer1898 Then the correct wording is: "Lenovo whitelists certain of their own batteries", not "Lenovo whitelists 3rd-party batteries".
Not:
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I did not have this problem with my Lenovo T430 in which I replaced my battery with a non Lenovo battery. Maybe my computer has an updated BIOS and I am dual booting to Linux Mint and Windows 10, all of which I installed myself.
Same, I bought a refurb from Newegg.com. The Lenovo battery that came with it was bad. I bought a Generic battery from ebay and had no issues. I'm running Ubuntu. I guess it also might be the luck of the draw. The ebay store I ordered it from said it was completely compatible with Lenevo and it is. Since I bought it over a month ago, Linux still shows the health at 97% and can hold its charge for around 4 hours.
Hi Sebi! Thanks for your instructions! I patched my t430 successfully but the "won't charge / wrong battery" message keeps coming and the battery won't charge. What did I do wrong?
Edit: Ah stop, BIOS still says "2.82" - WTF? But didn't I patch it correctly? o.O Why is that so?
Pls help. Can I do this with my battery on 0% plugged in not charging? My laptop is x230 and needs 44+ battery and I only have 29+battery which has no charge and the PC can only run on AC
As was said in a previous comment, you need to have a charged battery and the AC adapter for this to work.
@@SebisRandomTech Now I have a strange desire to hold my laptop close and dance dreamily around the room.
Great video and big thank you for your presentation. I had small problem because my T430 was on new bios but all finished good ( I mean: back to the older previouse BIOS ) and on the moment I have successful battery charging.
Thank you Sebi! It worked for me. I followed step by step and now my "counterfeit Lenovo battery" is charging. T430 is ready to be my daily driver :)
im having problems half way through the process, what linux distro are you using? i also have the t430
@@omajor1622 I used Ubuntu (downloaded the last one). As a matter of fact, I also had a problem with Mint, some dependencies were missing, but on Ubuntu, things fixed themselves on their own (weird, as Mint is based on Ubuntu...)
@@MartinLasTerrenas did you run the live version or did you do a full install, kubuntu live didn't work for me and neither did Ubuntu lts live. I even tried Manjaro Wich does the last 3 steps but won't do the first step.
@@omajor1622 I run the live version. But you need to sudo apt-get update before starting the process.
@@MartinLasTerrenas ahhh perfect, it's working now. Thank you so much my bootleg eBay battery now appears to be charging
I have L530 with 9 cell battery (genuine) but I will need to replace it. Will 3rd party battery work on latest bios 2.76, ec ver 1.14 or if it wont could I just downgrade bios to older one if there is not any whitelist ?
I bought a nine cells large accu for the t430 for 24 Euros only (new), in germany.
Now I also need to patch the BIOS, thank you for the video.
Greetings from sw germany.
I followed all the instructions up until I tried to change the configuration for enabling the battery fix, but Linux wouldn’t allow it. Always gives me an error
I have been reviewing the battery and keyboard patches that I make for the Lenovo t430, however I have a Thinkpad E430c with a problem with the generic batteries, they do not charge due to the battery check just when loading the BIOS. There is a way to adapt the T430 patch to work with the E430c
Thank you later: I will thank you now ! :) meanwhile it was a bit diffrent but works fine global. Also t410 t420 batteries are working. I enjoyed the real english accent btw.
For those interested, this might be a good workaround. It is a standalone charger you can use. Do a google search for "External Laptop Battery Charger for Lenovo ThinkPad T420s T430s, 45N1037 0A36309." --- or whatever battery/laptop you have.
exist some method por a lenovo B series ? ,like lenovo B590. Thanks for answer my question
Hello Sebi!
I see that you are still replying to comments so ill throw mine at you.
My lenovo t430 battery was lost a while ago so i bought a replacement which wont charge at all. it has half a charge left. so it can power the laptop. I obviously dont have to original battery. Will this fix work if I use the new offbrand battery instead of the original one? Thank you for your video, it would be awesome if it would work.
Some have reported success as long as the battery has some charge left, but I haven’t tried this myself.
@@SebisRandomTech thank you for your answer!
@@SebisRandomTech I have another question. Is the "patched.t430.img" the file that at the end you flashed to the usb drive? Its located in the
"home/thinkpad-ec"directory. After i followed all the steps.
@@SebisRandomTech At the end i just rolled with it and it worked like a charm! thank you very much for the tutorial!
Hi, can I use your image file on my T430 to speed up the process? My T430 BIOS version is the last one (2.78), released yesterday by Lenovo. Congrats for the video!
Update: I've created my BIOS image using Ubuntu (running on T430 DVD drive). I've enabled only the battery patch, like you did. Tks again for the video.
Thank you very much, sir, for helping out with this. I was able to fix the battery issue by upgrading bios from 2.72 to 2.81 and then modding it. Btw, my original battery was unable to keep any charge so I decided to flash BIOS mod being on my new third-party battery and it was a success.
If I already installed 1vyrain bios mod, I can do this tutorial whithout brick the laptop?
I have a T560 that, after months of using third-party batteries, suddenly decided to no longer accept them. Anything I can do?
I was too scared of bricking my laptop to do this, but then I followed along with your video and now my computer is fixed. Thank you so much.
Can you do the same for an x130e
Hy. Thanks a lot for this, it worked like a charm. but after i've flashed the modified bios "home" and "delete" keys are now inverted. can you help me? thanks
You may have forgotten to turn off the keyboard patches that are included in this patch. This mod is primarily meant for installing the T420 keyboard into the T430, so you have to disable the keyboard parts of the patch if you don't plan on doing that. To fix this simply rebuild the BIOS with the battery patch as before, but make sure to enter the commands to turn OFF the keyboard patch. This is shown in the included README.
Worked on Lenovo T530. Thanks! I had an original Lenovo battery but an older gen and T530 refused to work with it. Also, I didn't even had to get a "original" battery for the bios flash - just remove the battery, plug the AC and it will let you flash the bios without the battery
Interesting. Most people have said you need some sort of battery. Good to know!
TBH aftermarket batteries fucking terrify me lol.
I've used so many, never had an issue, but they still disturb me.
One split open on me after I dropped it (down the steps so it was justified) and I refuse to use it. Other than that I've never had any issues with them so I just play it safe. Don't leave them plugged in/charging when I'm not around, keep them away from heat or moisture, etc.
@@SebisRandomTech Yeah that's basically my policy with them too. I usually disconnect them when I'm going to be using the machine on AC for a long time aswell though
Same story here.
Hello, I was going to follow the steps in your video with my W530, but when I entered github I saw this notice: COMPATIBILTY WARNING:
As the result of CVE-2019-6171, newer Lenovo firmware update files have added a digital signature. If you upgrade to locked version you will not be able to patch your EC without downgrading it.
but in the video you explain that to be able to do it you need to have the bios to the newest version. What do you recommend me to do then?
thank you
The newest BIOS versions for the xx30 machines prevent you from modifying it, so you have to go back to the previous version, the newest version before that measure was implemented. This video pre-dates that newer version being released, hence why I said to have the newest version (at that time). For your W530 you will want to have BIOS version 2.75 installed.
@@SebisRandomTech thank you
my T500 shows 100% but runs for 5 mins then laptop shutsdown, I think it is a kill switch blacklisted battery
Could also just be a dud.
hello, in the last step when connecting the memory with the patch I just see the message "Missing operating system" instead of everything that appears in the minute 10:47
Thank you so much. It's working in my t430s laptop.
Saludos Sebi´s Random Tech, gracias por mostrarnos una forma de hacer valer estas baterías, a los que no podemos pagar las mas caras. Seria mucho pedir que nos brindara el archivo iso, con parche, le gardeceria mucho
Hi Sebi! I have used this patch for my x230 and it worked great for a year. I recently made the error to update my BIOS to 2.77 and it does not work anymore. Do you know a tutorial to downgrade bios? I am under manjaro. Many thanks!
I can't help very much with Manjaro, but I do know that you can downgrade the BIOS. Go to the settings and go to Security->UEFI BIOS Update Option->Secure Rollback Prevention and select Disable. After that I think you can downgrade the BIOS directly from Windows, but can't speak for the process in Manjaro.
I confirm this today. It was working for a t430. I made th downgrade of the bios, and after flashed the bios. And it works. Thank you.
Hi, wow you did it?
Now I got the T430 patched to 2.81 but the message keeps coming and the battery still not going to charge... BIOS is now G1ETC1WW 2.81 and EC is G1HT35WW 1.13. What did I do wrong or what did go wrong?? 😞
Double check your typing when you entered each command when building the EC patch. It sounds silly but there have been a few times where it didn't work for me where I simply forgot to enter a line of code or entered a command wrong.
Hi great video I have a T470 but both of my batteries are genuine and I get the same message any ideas
Hello, I have the same model and problem, did you find a solution?
Thank you, just did the flash and it worked, battery is charging now, i was successful doing the flash without an original battery, just kept the after market one installed and it worked fine, T430 BIOS 2.72
Hej Lukas, how can I do it? can you tips me?=)
Hi Lucas, can help me with it?
@@besamjaaz Sure man, what are you having problems with ?
@@lukasbasques Many thanks Lukas, I have the same problem you had. But I dont know how to resolve it! can you instruct me for the right procedure?
@@besamjaaz I pretty much followed the procedure in the video, did you get stuck somewhere or are you having problems starting ?
I have a bootloop issue with my T430 any can help me? it stuck in Thinkpad logo 😭
Boot a live Linux or WinPE USB to bypass the current OS. I keep several handy. See pendrivelinux for easy ways to load them. If the problem remains, reseat RAM. After that, take your question to the Thinkpad forums.
Thank you VERY MUCH for the video and the tutorial. I've bought a T430, Core i7, a few weeks ago, and it came with a supposedly original battery (it really seemed original), but the seller told me it wasn't charging. Strangely, the message that the battery was not original appeared each time I booted the computer. Then I bought a brand new 3rd party battery and the message remained. Worried about the situation I googled for a solution and found your video. Then I installed Linux (Ubuntu) as a dual boot system, followed the steps and voilà: no more "not original Lenovo Battery" messages. Then I swapped to the old battery (the original one), and it was not charging indeed. Maybe it's a faulty battery.
An importante note, I guess: I made all the procedure with the 3rd party battery and it worked seamlessly as well. So maybe it is not mandatory to use an original Lenovo battery for the procedure.
Thanks again, kind regards, Emmanoel Ferreira, from Brazil.
Buenas tardes Enmanuel, me podría ayudar con los pasos para poder parchar una T430, es que no soy muy ducho en Linux, y no comprendo como hace en lo hace en el video tutorial, gracias de antemano
Hello ! Thank for your video !
I just did this and I have a question, if you still have the Laptop : what is the BIOS version after you install the patch ? Mine still shows 2.74, not 2.72 as it is written in the installer.
Is there any way to know that it worked, other than testing with a third party battery ?
For me, I just used a third-party battery to check. I am unaware of other ways to know if it worked.
Worked, thanks Seb :)
Hi sebi. I have T430 thinkpad and bought an Msata SSD 256 kaizen. When i install the msata, it did not appear either on the disk managemen or in the bios. Do you maybe know what i did wrong? Or maybe t430 does not support msata?
T430 does in fact support mSATA. Typing this from a T430 with a mSATA drive as my main boot drive. It's possible your SSD is faulty or not inserted correctly. Make sure the mSATA drive is enabled in the BIOS's boot menu.
Hello, After the update, my del key not working anymore and also I fn function keys. Have anyone any ideea?
Disable the keyboard patch and it works perfectly. Is default enable. Read more carefull.
It worked for the T430 seriously thanks. We were having trouble for a week, my father could not attend live classes. If you want, I can also make the Turkish version for you.
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It worked for me :D. Thanks! (T430, version 2.76)
HI,
Thanks for sharing your knowlege on Thinkpads. Please can you tell us if what you did 3 years ago on this T430 is valid for the T430i model ?
What do you think about the T430 with the NVS 5400m graphic card ?
Best wishes
I believe it should work with the T430i as well. The NVS 5400M isn't a horrible card but depending on what you expect to use it for it won't be a massive improvement over the Intel HD Graphics.
@@SebisRandomTech thanks a lot for your answer
Thank you so much from France sebi, it worked perfectly well on my x230 I owe you 100 dollars or a pint of beer as you prefer ;)
Please tell me how did you modified x230 bios
So cool!! Would this work for an updated L530? Sadly seems very difficult to downgrade..
I don’t know for sure if this process works on the L series.
can i write the moded bios on Linux mint?
You can do this on essentially any Linux distro. The process should be similar/the same regardless.
Hi,
Next question : is it possible to apply hamishColeman mod to bios modded by n4ru/1vyrain ? (I think to be based on 2.64 BIOS version for the T430/T430i)
I think you can but it's suggested to do the HamishColeman patches before doing the 1vyrain patch.
@@SebisRandomTech Thanks a lot
if you already performed the EC flash for the classic keyboard (and did not update the battery or wifi patches during that time), can you do the battery patch afterwards by itself and not mess up the existing patch that was already flashed for the keyboard?
I'm getting the warning now and I haven't even changed the battery. Weird.
Check your bios clock setting. And check the CMOS battery.
I opened up my genuine 9 cell 57++ battery for my T540p, replaced the 18650 cells and soldered it back together. Then I got the same error message. I don't have another working battery unfortunately. It's weird because I open up the Thinkpad Battery utility and it sees all of the info of my battery (charge cycles, S/N, voltage,...). Not sure what to do next.
"Newst version of bios"
"Do not use bios newer then 2.81"
So I need to be on 2.81?
Yes. Since making this video Lenovo patched newer versions of the BIOS to make EC patches like this impossible, hence why you need to stay on 2.81 or downgrade to it.
Thanks so much. it worked.
Hey, i'm trying the trick with a live USB Ubuntu 20.04.1 and when i launch "sudo make build deps" i have some issues with missing packet "xorriso" and "innoextract". any ideas ? thanks a lot dude !
Hard to say for sure, as I'm not well versed with Linux terminal stuff. Almost any time I had an issue building the patched BIOS it was because I made a typo or other mistake. Double check that you've typed everything correctly and try again!
I've switched to Mint (an old mint) and it worked
the files that turn on and off they do not do that with me do i something wrong. sorry about the language
can i do this with bios 2.64. I whant to do the 1yrain after
I just read the video name and description...
Is there anyway to do the same with wifi cards?
There is a patched BIOS called "IvyRain" available that will allow you to install aftermarket wireless cards for this model.
I have an x230 and have been trying to get this to work for the last couple days. I have followed every step to the letter and everytime I try to boot the flash img from my thumbdrive nothing happens and the thumbdrive gets bricked. Any advice?
Just an update, I realized that I needed to make sure I had legacy boot enabled after reading some of the comments on this video. However, after doing so, when I attempt to boot from my flash img thumbdrive nothing happens. All that appears on the screen is Lenovo Limted whatever and just sits there doing nothing. I have already bricked 4 perfectly good thumb drives and I only have one left. I really don't want to waste it, so I could really use some help please??!!
If you cannot see the thumbdrive in Gparted you can always try TeskDisk utility in Windows.
I saved my 2 broken microSD using the tool on windows.
Hi there :) I just want to ask if this trick for t430 and the third party batteries is possible with x230 and where could I find the bios file? Thanks in advance :)
It should work with the X230. Simply follow this process exactly, *except* when building the patched EC use the "patched.x230.img" file instead of the "patched.t430.img" file. If you try using the finished T430 file instead (or any file besides the X230 file), you'll brick your system.
@@SebisRandomTech Thanks :)
As far as I understant - I must create new bios, using the files from the link inder the video. The thing is that I don't have the knowledge to create it, so I'll try searching it in the net. Or try someone, who will be able to create it for me.
@@valoneshev8078 That may be the smart thing to do. With something like this it's a good idea to find someone else who can do it or get the file for you if you're not comfortable doing it. :)
@@SebisRandomTech Yeap :) It's not that I dont want, but I don't have the knowledge :) But I look around for someone, who has :D Cheers, man :)
Thank you very much, helped me to install and OEM t420 battery onto a t430, now charges well.
t430's are just plain awesome. im lucky enough to get the Nvidia nvs5400 version too. with this mod and with a good battery finally working, I'm looking at installing a i7-qm down the line.
@NYCfactor 3632qm is my choice. 35w tdp
Also, you wanna use tpfancontrol to make a custom fan profile. This will allow you to max out the fan for best cooling.
@NYCfactor you know what, I was taking a look at how it would pan out, it would help you with thread intensive apps. but real world use? you wouldnt be able to tell the difference.
mine is used for some cad work but mostly games, turns out, most of the time the GPU would max out before stressing the CPU for my use. I would also use the GPU with cuda cores for rendering, im not sure if apps can work parellel between CPU and GPU, so I cant forsee an advantage with the QM for me.
so thats on you to decide. are you still on HDD btw? if you are. you're better off going the ssd route 1st the dual to quad cpu.
Could you please perform this adjustment for Windows 10 (if it is possible)? I have Lenovo M5400 Touch and when I tried to put third party replacement battery the message, you mentioned at the beginning of your video, appeared - not charging.
Hello, thank you very much, it helped me. But for some strange reason, only the battery charges in Windows, not in GNU/Linux. Thank you again.
Does this work for a ThinkPad E540 model as well?
No. It might work. But you would have to reverse engineer the BIOS and EC file yourself using Ghidra or Radare and create the actual hex patch. So: for everyone not comfortable with disassembly and deep level code analysis: no this does not work as noone with enough disassembly knowledge has created a patch so far.
The Lenovo Yoga 12 has this issue also. From what I can tell, the original Bios on the Yoga 12 already had the whitelist. Will this process work for the Yoga 12? From what I have gathered, it sounds like it will only work on the T430 and T430S. Sad that this laptop is going to end up in the dump. No genuine batteries available that will work.
Im getting a "Lenovo Group. Please remove media and press any key to reboot" message when I try to boot from the flashed flash drive. Trying the battery whitelist removal on an x230 i5 with BIOS ver 2.75 ECP 1.14. My flash drive is FAT format and I set the BIOS to Legacy only. Some help would be greatly appreciated!
Update: The BIOS flash seems to have worked. During the flash it mentions something about applying battery whitelist patch. But upon booting to windows 10 or Linux Mint, my x220 44++ battery is still not charging. I get a message from Lenovo Vantage about the battery not being recognised in windows 10.
@@nawangshrestha9033 Possibly a dud? Have another battery you can check with?
@@SebisRandomTech Seems like the best way to confirm. I'll try to get a non x230 battery that has been tried and tested in another device. Thanks Sebi.
Don't most of those after-market baterries actually have a chip that emulates genuine lenovo battery, so you don't have to do all this patching stuff?
Maybe, if so then they're probably more expensive or uncommon. Every after-market battery I have bought, regardless of brand never worked in any xx30 machine without this patch. Many even say on their product page "Not compatible with T430, X230, W530", etc.
@@SebisRandomTech Thanks for the answer, I might test it in near future as my original lenovo is dying an aftermarket costs around 1/3 the price
Have you tried kingsener? They're a high quality Chinese assembler, use genuine sanyo/LG cells (like lenovo genuine oem- the "genuine" lenovo batteries on ebay/Amazon are fake and use crap Chinese cells), the capacity exceeds the label design capacity in use and per Windows battery report , and work flawlessly in my t440p and t450s
Why can't we just use Windows?
Thanks a million. Got the indicator to blink again on my X230 with a newly purchased X220 battery. The circuit on the older battery seem to have died, so I got some 18650 batteries out for something else.
Thank you very much for this. However, it's still not working on my T530 with 2.77 BIOS with 1.14 EC. Difficult to downgrade. Possible wrong EC version, I just noticed it's 1.13.. But at least it's not bricked (yet!). Going to try the Ivybridge route. Unless anyone has strong feelings about that.....?
Hi! I've just installed the 2.81 BIOS in my T430 and it worked seamlessly. Have you tried that BIOS version (the latest supported version)?
Thanks, I did get it working with 2.77 eventually via 1vyprep, but something in the process made the keyboard layout change and the lights stop working. Will downgrade and try again with the updated version 👍🏻
@@emmanoelferreira8951 tenho um t430 e não estou conseguindo fazer a bateria carregar, pode me ajudar ?
@@renatohonoriodossantos5826 é só seguir exatamente o que o vídeo explica ;)
Hi , this is a fantastic tutorial. I wanted to know can this mod be done without using an original battery? I have a lenovo t530 with the same problem
If the replacement battery is mostly charged you should be able to.