This is a guide intended to boost your machine’s battery life (especially for brand new laptops)
Steps
Hybrid Mode Make sure your Hybrid mode is enabled (Vantage/Legion Toolkit), in case you have a laptop equipped with advanced optimus (AO), use hwinfo and determine if the dedicated GPU is using power as there’s a known bug with AO not fully “killing” the DGPU after going back into Optimus mode. To “kill” the DGPU use this guide Turn off Nvidia GPU in hybrid mode
Battery calibration I you have a newly bought laptop or a laptop that has been plugged in for a long time, then Calibrate the battery by discharging to 15-20% then charging back to 100%, repeat this process until you get the normal discharge rate of 11-15w, usually takes 2-3 times for battery discharge to get that low.
Refresh Rate Use Refresh Rate and Power Profile Auto-Switch V2 to switch to 60Hz automatically when the device is unplugged
Powerplans
Use Kira’s Quiet Mode V1 ⬇️ (AMD)
Use Kira Quiet Mode v2 ⬇️ (AMD)
Use Undervolt’s Battery saver plan ⬇️ (Intel)
Importing Powerplan
Open an elevated command prompt
Type the following command to list all the available power plans:
powercfg.exe /L
Now all the power plans installed in the laptop will be displayed along with their GUID, currently equipped power plan will be denoted by an asterisk (*) Execute the following command:
powercfg import "%YourUserProfile%\Location of the powerplan downloaded right now\PowerPlan.pow" GUID
(DONT COPY PASTE THIS COMMAND, ADD YOUR VALUES)
Use Powercfg.exe /l to get the GUID for each powerplan
Replace the GUID portion with the actual GUID value along with the location of the power plan file with its extension (*.pow) [Example: powercfg.exe import “C:\Users\kira\Downloads\KiraQuietModeV2.pow” ddf002d4-7cae-4a92-a312-7eb843f2abe9]
To confirm the power plan installation, navigate to windows search -> edit power plan -> Powerplan Name -> Enable
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