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firmware-lenovo reviews and mentions

• Lenovo Thinkpad T14s Gen 2 will not charge after update
  1 project | /r/thinkpad | 27 Apr 2023

  Windows Update ran this morning and updated a few Lenovo system updates, after which my laptop can now no longer charge. Windows reports it as 0% while the Bios reports it as 7% - has anyone else updated and ran into this? On the below GitHub page, looks to be a known issue but wondered if anyone else has managed a workaround? https://github.com/fwupd/firmware-lenovo/issues/329

• Does the ThinkPad E14 G3 AMD-versions have some type of production error?
  1 project | /r/sysadmin | 7 Feb 2023
• PSA: firmware updates delete custom Secure Boot keys & boot order when using fwupd
  3 projects | /r/thinkpad | 4 Feb 2023

  Another relevant issue report on github.

• Brand new T14s Gen 3, dead within an hour of unboxing due to BIOS update. How does RMA work?
  1 project | /r/thinkpad | 19 Jan 2023
• Linux on the laptop works so damn well that it’s boring
  5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Sep 2022

  ya that service has been very helpful and tracking issues is great, but there can still be issues when installing. For example, I am dealing with a bug found in this list of issues: https://github.com/fwupd/firmware-lenovo/issues on one of my laptops.

• ThinkPad Thunderbolt 4 Docking Station - Crashes laptop - Lenovo ignoring the issue
  1 project | /r/Lenovo | 8 Sep 2022

  Has anyone had any success getting the ThinkPad Thunderbolt 4 Docking Station to work reliably on Linux? I'm running Pop-OS! and as per https://github.com/fwupd/firmware-lenovo/issues/191 it hard crashes (locks) the machine on boot and Lenovo have seemingly abandoned the issue for Linux users, despite the cost of this thing.

• fwupd don't want to update my Lenovo firmware!
  1 project | /r/Fedora | 29 Aug 2022

  Unfortunately a UEFI capsule firmware update actually uses the old version of the firmware to apply the new version. So if you've got a super-old existing version you might need to use Windows (sad face) or a bootable CD to update to a slightly newer version, and from there fwupd can work. Lenovo are supposed to include a "old bios must be newer than X" in the firmware metadata, and so if you can file a bug in https://github.com/fwupd/firmware-lenovo/issues with your old BIOS version included, I can make sure it doesn't happen to anyone else. Sorry!

• Ubuntu Locks Up w/ ThinkPad Universal TB4 Dock
  1 project | /r/Ubuntu | 12 Aug 2022

  I have the same issue, as do others (see https://github.com/fwupd/firmware-lenovo/issues/191). Seems Lenovo just don't bother with Linux these days, given it's been 8 months since this was reported.

• Linux as only Os
  2 projects | /r/thinkpad | 19 Jun 2022

  It does seem that updating firmware might be the only thing to worry about. Do you use the program called fwupd, a.k.a. fwupdmgr? That program works well when it actually works. I have had many problems with it. (See here for problems it has on ThinkPads.) I suggest that you try it (if you have not already) and see whether it works for you. Or, if Pop_OS has some sort of GUI front-end for fwupd (does it?) then try that.

• Firmware update stuck for weeks now
  1 project | /r/LinuxOnThinkpad | 9 Jun 2022

  The issue tracker for Linux firmware update troubles with Lenovo hardware is here, BTW: https://github.com/fwupd/firmware-lenovo/issues

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