A few months after I last posted I noticed Acer had a bios update for my device. In this update I no longer have to use any device manager tricks, battery is recognized fine in windows 8 now.
To anyone stumbling upon this in the future .. Check for bios update on Acer website :-)
Just would like to put my 2 cents. I am working in tech support and the escalation boys have been saying good things about windows 8 defender. Long story short they have been trying to infect it with not much success. And I trust their knowledge sooo I'm taking their word for it. It doesn't...
Just registered to say thanks. I too have the timelineX (integrated battery!) and got the devcon thing to work. Here's how I got it to work for anyone out there stumped on how to "install" devcon
Download devcon from microsoft's site
When you extract the files it will spit out two folders...