Battery not charging beyond 31 percent

TidySean said:

Hi, yes, that is typical for BIOS updates and so on, it ensures there is enough charge to complete the updates.

Switch it off and leave it connected to AC power, it should charge up, slowly. When you hover over the battery icon in taskbar, what does it say? It clearly knows it's connected to power.

Yes, it does show that it's plugged in.


I have tried keeping my laptop switched off for like an hour and keep it for charging, but unfortunately, the battery percentage remains the same.

Hey, did you take it to the shop? Given that the battery is not charging even when off, indicates more of an issue.

It could be something as simple as a bad charger or something else. At this point, someone looking at it will be able to help you more.

Buying batteries nowadays is risky. Even big wig companies have problems with where and who they ship from.

Usually reading it is best to get them from

Japan or Korea, if not some expensive western place. Their might be some mainland places that makes good batteries.

The over all problem is plagues car batteries, I forget which country in mainland Asia but they make some great car batteries versus the obvious.

Avoid China batteries like the plague that being said many batteries are mass produced and sit in a warehouse for years not being purchased. Over time they lose their charge just sitting their. It is impossible to get an official new battery.

On YouTube people are so fed up with the battery problem they went old school and just manually restore the battery by purchasing the mix, or in the case of the labtop tools to recharge and store the battery ability to hold a charge. People even try the freezer trick ( to freeze to gain some charge ).

Even on the news people ordering batteries from amazon have had the same problem along with exploding batteries.

If labtops just had adapters to newer batteries ( because they all are the same not including the chip-set information. ) or even adapters to fit D, B, and AA, or even AAA
batteries we would not have this problem.

I am not kidding you when I say this. NASA officially have B batteries that could outlast you. These batteries cost like thousands of dollars if not hundreds to purchase. A guy on Assembler forum bragged about it, Same with Compact flash Gold and Industrial versions.

That being said many of the consumer or China-ware batteries are buying bricks. Bricks that fails over time.

TidySean said:

Hey, did you take it to the shop? Given that the battery is not charging even when off, indicates more of an issue.

It could be something as simple as a bad charger or something else. At this point, someone looking at it will be able to help you more.

Hi. Just got back home from the shop. They replaced the battery. Now it's charging fine. It was 2 percent at the shop. It's been like 5-6 minutes now since I plugged it in at home and it's at 17 percent as I type this. Thanks everyone for replying!

archz2 said:

I plugged it in at home and it's at 17 percent as I type this. Thanks everyone for replying!

Brilliant news, glad you got it sorted.