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No battery status on Acer Aspire 7

krasmaks

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Motherboard
Acer Aspire 7 A715-42G
CPU
AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
Graphics
AMD Radeon RX Vega 7
OS X/macOS
15.x
Bootloader
  1. OpenCore (UEFI)
Mobile Phone
  1. Android
Hello! My laptop is Acer Aspire 7 A715-42G with AMD Ryzen 5 5500U, integrated Vega 7 (successfully enabled with NootedRed and upgraded VRAM to 2 Gb with Smokeless UMAF), NVIDIA GTX 1650 (disabled in Mac OS with DeviceProperties), PS/2 keyboard, I2C HID touchpad, Broadcom BCM94352Z (replaced pre-installed incompatible Mediatek WiFi), Apacer M.2 SSD (replaced pre-installed SK Hynix). My bootloader is OpenCore.
I have an issue with battery percentage: it always shows 100% and currently on power adapter, and it does not depend on actual battery status. I checked battery in Windows 11 and Xubuntu, both report the status correctly. I have VirtualSMC, SMCBatteryManager and ECEnabler in my Kexts folder, they are up to date and enabled in config.plist. I tried booting to Sequoia, Sonoma, Ventura and Monterey and they all work, except for the battery status. As for ACPI, I've built them by using SSDTTime and according to Chefkissinc AMD Hackintosh guide. So, I have EC Laptop, USBX, USB-Reset, PluginType, XOSI provided by SSDTTime and PNLF, ASL0 from NootedRed page.
After some research, I found Rehabman's Battery Patching guide, but then found out my DSDT doesn't have any fields over 8 bytes, so it theory I don't even need ECEnabler. I have tested with and without it, nothing changes. I think the issue is with SSDT-EC, but I cannot say for sure because I don't have much Hackintoshing experience, especially with laptops. I tried booting without EC, but as expected it just crashes. So, what can be the reason?
I appreciate any help. Thank you!
 

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