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Lenovo battery "Plugged in, not charging"

Anonymous
2012-02-16T22:03:45+00:00

Original title:Battery issue

I bough a lenovo laptop two months ago with windows 07 installed and I have already a problem with the battery. The icon constantly shows like the battery is "plugged In not charging". I brought the laptop back to the shop and it doesn't seem to be a problem with the battery and with charger neither. Does anybody know what that can be due?

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Anonymous
2012-02-17T20:48:58+00:00

This is not necessarily a technical fault.

Edit - This link seems to address the issue *http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/IdeaPad-Y-and-U-series-Laptops/Z560-Battery-80-available-plugged-in-not-charging-Energy/ta-p/309028*

Check your PC manual, the Lenovo support site, the Lenovo folders in Start menu All programs & the BIOS for a battery utility.  Several PCs have utilities with names like "Battery life extension" that will only charge the battery when its charge falls below some threshold such as 80%. 

If you search this forum for battery not charging, you'll see several examples of this.  Review the search results for ones concerning Lenovo PCs to get you to a solution more rapidly.

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  1. Anonymous
    2016-11-15T16:47:42+00:00

    About "smacked it around "

    I would urge you to try an alternative solution the next time the problem appears.  Just remove the battery from the computer and leave it for half an hour to let it cool down completely.

    If this does not achieve anything, i.e. if the smacking it around turns out an essential part of the repair, then it indicates that there is a loose connection inside the battery.  Loose connections generate local heat spots.  Local heat spots within a battery can cause fires because the material that stores your electric power is also an excellent fuel.

    So your best course of action would be to replace the battery.

    Denis

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-11-13T18:10:05+00:00

     What *did* work was popping the battery out, smacking it against my leg a few times, blowing on the connections, and plugging it back in like you used to have to do with your old Nintendo game cartridges.  

    This seemed to work for me too. Before this I also uninstalled Lenovo Power Manager and went through various steps posted on various forums to no avail. So I tried this. I shutdown, removed the battery, blew on it and smacked it around, reinserted the battery (without the AC plugged in), booted up and saw that the battery was recognized. After plugging in the AC it started to charge as well.

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-07-09T20:54:50+00:00

    I have a Lenovo Z710 Laptop.

    Now and then, my battery shows that it is plugged in and not charging. I get very annoyed and start looking for a fix until I remember that sometimes,  my battery does stop charging at 97%.   So, I unplug the AC power cord and let the battery drain a bit. When I reconnect the AC power cord, the battery starts charging again. (From what I understand, NOT allowing the battery to charge to 100% helps make it last longer).

    What throws me off is that, usually, the battery does go to 100% charge, and everything is normal. When the "battery not charging" message comes up, it takes some time before I remember to just unplug the AC cord, let the battery charge go down, then plug in the AC cord. This has happened quite a few times, but I keep forgetting (and the forgetting keeps getting worse... )

    I hope this post helps... and I hope it will help ME when I read it in the future!

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-03-07T13:47:37+00:00

    Ok. I tried many many different methods. Uninstalling reinstalling various management software and controllers. Nothing worked. Then i tried this stupid method that Erik suggested. Right Erik...like THAT would work.  What the what? It did!!!!! Smacking and Blowing did the trick. I'm writing this reply from a fully charged g700 Lenovo Laptop. Thank you Erik, however you are.

    It didn't work for me, but I don't know what did.

    I had to return to Warsaw, Poland, (where I bought the damned machine) and take it across town to a service center. After about 10 days, they returned my G710, OEM battery intact, saying that it works, that it's up to factory standard, that I can remove and reinsert the battery without problem. No charge (money, I mean).

    They're right. The machine works. The battery discharges and recharges. It's back where it should be.

    Why did I have to fly it from Houston to Warsaw just to get it charged? Ask Lenovo customer service. Ask Lenovo marketing.

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