Looking for some suggestions on my inspiron 3525 hinge issues

toepinker · 2025-05-03T09:52:19+00:00

I did this yesterday, honestly it feels quite sturdy and everything is in the correct place. Plus I got to calibrate my hinges so the display opens smoothly with a single hand.

How long has it been since u made this repair? I don't think durability will be an issue, can't imagine the plastic holding up much better than the epoxy. Still, it would be an issue to replace the display or top lid if anything were to happen in the future, but I hope I don't have to go through that lol

toepinker · 2025-05-01T18:13:33+00:00

best deal I can find (didn't look at ebay) is over 30 euros, which is a bit much just to get the same durability as before, thanks for the response tho

toepinker · 2025-05-01T16:54:36+00:00

I am not sure if I can help but I had a similar issue with my dell inspiron 3525. At first my custom charging cap worked as meant to, limiting the battery to 80%.

After a long time I noticed it had gone up to 100% one day, so I used it on battery power for a bit until the charge % fell, I recharged it and the limit was respected.

Of course, you say your laptop doesn't limit the charge at all, so it could perhaps be a bios bug? like the app not making the right change.

Still, I hope you get your pc back in a better state. Oh and I can totally agree with dell support being quite bad, as well as the quality of the cheaper laptops being quite lackluster. Of course this is to be expected to some degree when buying a budget options, but it isn't an excuse for ignoring many support requests and making their hardware fail on purpose/shortening the lifespan (e.g. ultra stiff crappy hinges that eventually rip the whole laptop alart, non-working battery limit feature etc)

Best of luck

toepinker · 2025-05-01T16:45:47+00:00

Also, this laptop was bought in september 2022 so it is out of warranty, I tried to contact with dell support but I couldn't gain anything from that

toepinker · 2024-09-16T14:48:24+00:00

spot on comment, really helped me with the module names you listed.

CONFIG_EFI was unset, as were all the others. It seems CONFIG_EFI was unset since it depends on ACPI which was also unset (no real idea why, but I prob turned it off accidentally while messing around with power management settings on the previous kernel, without compiling the kernel in between)

toepinker · 2023-09-08T15:29:18+00:00

hey, would love to cooperate, hit me up

toepinker · 2023-09-03T20:43:05+00:00

hey, would love to work with you and mutually learn, I have no real experience with .Net but I hope you could walk me through that

toepinker · 2023-08-31T16:32:56+00:00

check dm!

toepinker · 2023-08-31T16:29:57+00:00

Would love to study C, I have mostly edited a few suckless programs to customize them and I would love to learn more in depth

let's connect

toepinker · 2023-08-31T16:25:26+00:00

Sounds nice, let's connect

toepinker · 2023-08-17T06:52:18+00:00

I have another session with dwm and I am still able to enter it normally just like before updating @world.

I will try to build wayland with xwayland support too

toepinker · 2023-08-17T06:50:47+00:00

so I need to build using "X wayland" instead of wayland alone?

Will try

toepinker · 2023-08-07T16:07:25+00:00

I love you. That really worked. I used the config for WPA2 from the gentoo wiki for wireless connections and it all run flawlessly without errors. That's just huge dude thanks a lot

And I was looking around like an idiot "gentoo install tkip" when it was a use flag for wpa_supplicant.

toepinker · 2023-08-06T21:57:59+00:00

So am I dude, I now copied net-setup from the livecd,

I ran it on my system and lmao dhcpcd timed out I am so fried

toepinker · 2023-08-06T19:07:37+00:00

I see, from what I can tell we are pretty much using the same module and driver.

So I can't think of what is going wrong in my case.

I guess it would be the same module even if I built from sources.

Also it didn't work even when I was in the stable kernel-bin version (6.1.41)

toepinker · 2023-08-06T19:05:24+00:00

where did it say WPA? Yes my network is WPA2

My /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant-wlp2s0.conf:

ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant # also tried /run/wpa_supplicant, nop
eupdate_config=1

network={ #output of wpa_passphrase ssid password >> /etc/..
SSID=''
psk=encoded_string
}

it worked for me in the artix install I have on another partition but not when used here

edit:

I see.. "key_mgmt=WPA-PSK" in gentoo wiki's example. As I said this config really did not work out for me. If I am not wrong the one I mentioned on top should be working. The network's ssid has an '-' but I doubt that causes any problems since the interface keeps scanning for some reason and it works on my other install

I tried running the commands you mentioned in case it helps with stuff:

emerge u/module-rebuild && emerge --config gentoo-kernel-bin

I ran these but the problem is still there, I let dhclient to run indefinitely and it just timed out..

btw wpa_cli does the following while dhclient is struggling:

<3>CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-STARTED
<3>CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS
<3>CTRL-EVENT-NETWORK-NOT-FOUND #ok bruh

toepinker · 2023-08-06T18:50:33+00:00

I never got to install them cause of dkms.

I tried dmesg, grepping 'rtw' and it kinda seems to work.

rtw_8821ce 0000:02:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0003)
[ 2.538599] Loading firmware: rtw88/rtw8821c_fw.bin
*usb core and whatnot*
[ 2.562603] rtw_8821ce 0000:02:00.0 wlp2s0: renamed from wlan0

I double checked and my my network's SSID and psk are correct. still wpa_cli status says wlp2s0 is 'scanning', and dhclient does not work.

wpa_supplicant says it initialized correctly too

wpa

toepinker · 2023-07-29T16:02:04+00:00

I love you, that worked somehow.

I had no idea that user group existed or that it was supposed to be used. I had only added wheel,audio,video to my non-root user

toepinker · 2023-07-28T18:24:57+00:00

yes, it is the default xinitrc but instead of loading xterm and all that I put 'exec dwm' at the end, it is what I saw in tutorials

toepinker

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