Synapse Fan Control

Good luck disassembling it ...

 

Cool Cool.
Apparently something is happening on the front ...... if you find out something or need HELP with LINUX programming, please let me know.
And if you can do it yourself then please too!

All the best

 

Has unlocked itself on the EC controller - modding already done something ?

 

No. I have no idea what to change or how to even do it, just a basic dump of the EC

 

Ok, it seems a shame to be a big, unsolvable problem .....

 

As I have seen EC control program is stored in the same eeprom as Bios.
AFUWINGUI has switches for EC update.

How did you dump it?

 

My 2 cents:

In Synapse3 you can export the profile. It creates a file with the extension as synapse3.
Just rename to zip and you'll find XML files inside.

One of them has this content:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<PowerPerformanceMode xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<OnBatteryPerformanceMode>
<Mode>Balanced</Mode>
<BalancedSetting>
<FanRPM>4500</FanRPM>
<FanRPMDefault>4500</FanRPMDefault>
<FanMin>3700</FanMin>
<FanMax>5300</FanMax>
</BalancedSetting>
<UltrabookSetting>
<FanMin>2000</FanMin>
<FanMax>5300</FanMax>
</UltrabookSetting>
<ProductivitySetting>
<FanRPM>4600</FanRPM>
<FanRPMDefault>4600</FanRPMDefault>
<FanMin>4000</FanMin>
<FanMax>5300</FanMax>
</ProductivitySetting>
<GamingSetting>
<FanRPM>4600</FanRPM>
<FanRPMDefault>4600</FanRPMDefault>
<FanMin>4000</FanMin>
<FanMax>5300</FanMax>
</GamingSetting>
<CustomSetting>
<FanRPMDefault>4600</FanRPMDefault>
<FanMin>4000</FanMin>
<FanMax>5300</FanMax>
</CustomSetting>
</OnBatteryPerformanceMode>
<PluggedInPerformanceMode>
<Mode>Balanced</Mode>
<BalancedSetting>
<FanRPM>4500</FanRPM>
<FanRPMDefault>4500</FanRPMDefault>
<FanMin>3700</FanMin>
<FanMax>5300</FanMax>
</BalancedSetting>
<UltrabookSetting>
<FanMin>2000</FanMin>
<FanMax>5300</FanMax>
</UltrabookSetting>
<ProductivitySetting>
<FanRPM>4600</FanRPM>
<FanRPMDefault>4600</FanRPMDefault>
<FanMin>4000</FanMin>
<FanMax>5300</FanMax>
</ProductivitySetting>
<GamingSetting>
<FanRPM>4600</FanRPM>
<FanRPMDefault>4600</FanRPMDefault>
<FanMin>4000</FanMin>
<FanMax>5300</FanMax>
</GamingSetting>
<CustomSetting>
<FanRPMDefault>4600</FanRPMDefault>
<FanMin>4000</FanMin>
<FanMax>5300</FanMax>
</CustomSetting>
</PluggedInPerformanceMode>
</PowerPerformanceMode>

Maybe editing this file, zipping back, renaming to synapse3 and importing as a new profile can have the wanted effect.

 

Again, all data is stored in EC. You can have only one target RPM stored inside. You can not even read current RPMs from EC, only target one. So your system can not be full silent, and you can not have curve except with external app constantly writing new values inside EC. I have reverse engineered communication packets to EC, to write Linux control app, so I have tested bunch of things.

 

Does this means that the above mentioned fan settings are 'useless' in their own software?
Actually I did not try it as I managed to reach what I wanted (completely silent operation during light work (office/web/YT) - so I have no reason to dig deeper
Just 115mV UV for core/cache, then 99% max for the CPU in power management and the laptop is silent.

 

All data you see is set one digit at time when you select balanced or gaming or whatever from interface and what is it - slider with min max and position. On battery every razer is silent on power fans are always on just open back and watch fans.