I ran 3 different scenarios in FF7 Remake, each making sure I considered the boost period the APU does when it initially receives sufficient power from the 3rd party dock and 100W USB-C charger. Also I am on BIOS 319 and using a JSAUX dock with an INVZI 100W USB-C GaN-III Charger as well. I have 4 pictures below:
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This first picture is the Ally on battery in Turbo mode. You can see the Command Center on the left shows Operating Mode is Turbo 25W and real-time stats on the right shows the APU consuming 25W, both are to be expected and correct.
This 2nd picture is the Ally on the included Asus power supply in Turbo mode. You can see the Command Center on the left shows Operating Mode is Turbo 30W and real-time stats on the right shows the APU consuming 30W, both are to be expected and correct. When I plugged the Asus power supply into the Ally , it also boosted up to 53W for 10 seconds which is also expected and correct.
This 3rd picture is the Ally on a JSAUX dock with an INVZI 100W USB-C GaN-III Charger in Turbo mode. You can see the Command Center on the left shows Operating Mode is Turbo 25W HOWEVER real-time stats on the right shows the APU consuming 30W. The Command Center is incorrectly showing 25W even though the APU is consuming the expected 30W. This is good news because it means that when docked like above I actually am getting the 30W Turbo performance despite the Command Center reporting 25W. The other issue to consider is when you are in the Armoury Crate and setting up Manual performance modes, the Manual performance modes wont be able to go above 25W on these 3rd-party docks and chargers until the bug is fixed. IF you have your Ally docked and go into Armoury Crate to make a Manual Performance mode you wont be able to set the APU limits as high as you could if you were just charging the Ally on the Asus power supply. I'm not a fan of messing with the Manual Mode so I am content to keep using Turbo mode which will allow me to still hit the 30W APU consumption despite Command Center saying its on 25W.
This final picture is the Ally on the JSAUX dock with an INVZI 100W USB-C GaN-III Charger in Turbo mode. You can see the Command Center on the left shows Operating Mode is Turbo 25W and real-time stats on the right shows the APU consuming 53w. This is the boost limit of the APU. I wanted to include this picture so we can see that despite Command Center saying 25W Turbo mode, I am getting the 30W Turbo mode with the expected boost up to 53W the 10second boost time . So this is good news too! Ultimately the real-time stats overlay is the absolute and shows 30W mode is active. The Command Center's operating mode icon is just that, an icon, and it is showing incorrectly.
So in conclusion it seems like the APU Wattage bug is the following:
- Command Center incorrectly reports 25W Turbo mode when on 3rd Party Docks instead of 30W Turbo mode despite APU running in 30W Turbo mode
- When configuring Armoury Crate Manual Performance modes, max APU limits are showing incorrectly as if the Ally were on battery when in reality it is plugged into a 3rd Party Dock with 65W+ charger. This subsequently leads to lower performing Manual Performance mode when plugged in since you cannot set the APU power to the higher 30W+ limits.
I hope this helps the community and Asus support
Edit: this is somewhat a double post but I didn't reply to the OP and it appears people are skipping page 2 where this original reply is.
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Hello, not sure if we are about the same thing. From what I have tested, it seems that the docks and hubs can only reach 25W regardless of what brand assuming it's a PD 3.0.
What I have is the Ally 65W charger that came with the box, a hub that supports PD 3.0, a dock that supports PD 3.0, an Anker 737 120W charger, and an Anker 737 140W power bank.
What's interesting is if I use just the chargers and the power bank connected directly to the Ally, I can get 30W on SPL, 43W on SPPT, and 53W on FPPT. But with the dock or hub, I am limited to 25W to SPL, 30W on SPPT, and 35W on FPPT.
Does anyone have the same thing show up? Whenever I plug a charger on a dock to the Ally, it just says "this power adapter does not support the full performance on this device".
I attached screenshots of what I have plugged and unplugged.
