Khoa Nguyen

My laptop is running on 10.14.6. I usually use chrome with a youtube tab, facebook, and some other tabs (about 2 - 5 tabs), vscode for web devloper, visual studio...

> Do you need any other kext apart from this repo to update to Catalina ? After you successfully install Catalina, you must replace kexts from the kexts folder to...

> Could you please share your EFI folder? (Maybe create your own repository) Use this EFI folder, it works fine with me.

> Battery has dropped for me as well, but I am able to get about 6 hours with 4K display (8 hours with 1080p before panel swap, would get about...

> I got much better battery life by switching layout id to 72 instead of 30. See [here](https://github.com/kevinshroff/Dell-XPS-15-9570-macOS-Mojave/issues/3) Can you use headphone with layout-id 72?

> > I get around 2 to 2.5 hours on the 4K model and have fans constantly running. > > Undervolting by 105mV (i7) using Volta seems to have helped...

> yup, there is definitely something wrong. I have exactly the same specs and can leave the laptop in standby for a few days. have you checked the kernel_task usage?...

My problem was solved after I delete 2 files `SSDT-DeepIdle.aml` and `SSDT-DeepIdle.dsl`. What are the 2 files doing?

> I tried deleting those 2 patches. When my Hack Pro went to sleep, it became non-responsive. I put them back in after I rebooted. Did you patch `SSDT-UPRW`?

ALCPlugFIx will help you. Download it from [https://github.com/jardenliu/ALC298PlugFix](here). If you're using 10.15.1, you must use this command first `sudo mount -uw /` Extract and run `install.sh` file with `sh ./install.sh`...