Hackintosh Guide - Easy Way to fix Laptop Battery Indicator

[MaLd0n]

1- We need ECEnabler.kext and VirtualSMC.kext with SMCBatteryManager.kext plugin

 

2- Add these kexts and let the bootloader inject

a) Opencore

b) Clover

Just paste kexts into Clover/Kexts/Other

 

Credits: 1Revenger1, Acidanthera Team, RehabMan, Slice

[oldman20]

Hi MaLd0n

my ACPI EC registers 8 bit

         OperationRegion (ECOR, EmbeddedControl, Zero, 0xFF)
            Field (ECOR, ByteAcc, Lock, Preserve)
            {
                EC00,   8, 
                EC01,   8, 
                EC02,   8, 
                EC03,   8, 
                EC04,   8, 
                EC05,   8, 
                EC06,   8, 
                EC07,   8, 
                EC08,   8, 
                EC09,   8, 
                EC10,   8, 
                EC11,   8, 
                EC12,   8, 
                EC13,   8, 
                EC14,   8, 
                EC15,   8, 
                EC16,   8, 
                EC17,   8, 
                EC18,   8, 
                EC19,   8, 
                EC20,   8, 
                EC21,   8, 
                EC22,   8, 
                EC23,   8, 
                EC24,   8, 
                EC25,   8, 
                EC26,   8, 
                EC27,   8, 
                EC28,   8, 
                EC29,   8, 
                EC30,   8, 
                EC31,   8, 
                EC32,   8, 
                EC33,   8, 
                EC34,   8, 
                EC35,   8, 
                EC36,   8, 
                EC37,   8, 
                EC38,   8, 
                EC39,   8, 
                EC40,   8, 
                EC41,   8, 
                EC42,   8, 
                EC43,   8, 
                EC44,   8, 
                EC45,   8, 
                EC46,   8, 
                EC47,   8, 
                EC48,   8, 
                EC49,   8
            }

Battery status and info power in system report fine with ACPIBatteryManager.kext 1.90.1 (latest)

But when I tried replace ACPIBatteryManager.kext with ECEnabler.kext + SMCBatteryManager.kext + VirtualSMC.kext, Battery status and info power in system info gone

I checked kexts loaded and missing SMCBattery, don’t know why?

% kextstat| grep -i -e Lilu -e ECEnabler -e SMCBattery

Executing: /usr/bin/kmutil showloaded

No variant specified, falling back to release

   48    7 0                  0x2f000    0x2f000    as.vit9696.Lilu (1.6.1) 7FE96C72-5555-3D86-BA9C-36D9177168FB <8 6 5 3 2 1>

   53    0 0                  0x8000     0x8000     com.1Revenger1.ECEnabler (1.0.3) 8C5BDAE0-6618-3F41-B0DC-B9A07648A117 <48 8 6 5 3 2 1>

 

[MaLd0n]

12 minutes ago, oldman20 said:

ACPIBatteryManager.kext with ECEnabler.kext + SMCBatteryManager.kex

use only one kext for that

or ACPIBatteryManager.kext or SMCBatteryManager.kex

[oldman20]

14 hours ago, MaLd0n said:

use only one kext for that

or ACPIBatteryManager.kext or SMCBatteryManager.kex

sr, that screenshot is missing, i already delete ACPIBatteryManager, used SMCBatteryManager and VirtualSMC for that

[MaLd0n]

use Olarila efi folder for broadwell notebook. dell work with this battery way

https://www.olarila.com/topic/25111-hackintosh-efi-folders-for-all-chipsets-with-opencore-mod/

 

[oldman20]

19 hours ago, MaLd0n said:

use Olarila efi folder for broadwell notebook. dell work with this battery way

https://www.olarila.com/topic/25111-hackintosh-efi-folders-for-all-chipsets-with-opencore-mod/

 

Olarila refi folder for Broadwell notebook has SMCBattery plugin inside VirtualSMC, but still so detail like ACPIBatteryManager

Olarila efi folder:

 

ACPIBatteryManager:

Edited July 23, 2022 by oldman20

[Armen]

its not working...

[Emilyy]

On 5/24/2025 at 12:09 AM, Armen said:

its not working... 

slope

You can reload it. I still see it working.

[Cleo-Johnson]

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