Lenovo battery "Plugged in, not charging"

Question

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?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

Here is the simple fix I done</

1. Right click on the right bottom corner of your toolbar, Select Toolbar >> Energy Meter
2. Then Open the Energy meter
3. If conservation mode is already OFF, turn it ON. If already ON, turn it off.
4. Wait for a few seconds and you can see the battery started charging again.

Check the screen Below:

Answer 3

I am a senior PC tech manager. Took me a few hours to track down "The True Solution" to this issue:

"Lenovo G780 "59% available (plugged in not charging}".

I've tried all sorts of posted suggestions and a few possible "Tech" tricks, but nothing helped. 

I then dove deep into the Lenovo tech help areas, and I finally found this: (copy the whole link below and follow their instructions - to change this "FEATURE" on your laptops)

https://pcsupport.lenovo.com/us/en/troubleshoot/LPT000300?linkTrack=diagPDT:Battery%20not%20charge%20or%20will%20not%20fully%20charge%20on%20idea/Lenovo%20laptops

You can look for this APP in the MS Store, Look for "Lenovo Settings: Your Smarter Device Control", 

or, do a WEB search for it.

I hope this helps!

Bill

Answer 4

Having gone through all of the above I went to Lenovo to discuss the issue, and the the G710 there is a problem with some battery's that when they fully discharge they loose the firmwre in the battery hence the "unatherised battery"! and its not charging. I eventually got a free replacement battery from Lenovo, and plugged it in after waiting for about 7 weeks for it to turn up and guess what plugged it in and I again got "unautherised battery" and not charging messages.

I did the proper restarts and normal shut downs to no avail. Finally stared energy manager, set it to full performance  and just pulled the battery out with AC adapter plugger in and machine running and then pushed it back in again, and it now says its recognised and charging to a massive 1% so far. If it doesn't get above that by morning I'm returning the whole lot to Lenovo or the rubish tip.

Terrible system and service, caused by them using smart (!) batterys so that you have to buy theirs.

So I suggest be smarter buy another brand.

Answer 5

the problem is the APM (advance Power Management), if is not charging is because the battery is already fully charged, some times when you replace a battery the APM will give wrong readings or have a wrong state.

in most computers to reset the APM that a hardware part not a software part you need to turn off your computer, unplug it, then press the power button for ten seconds and then release.

that's how i fixed this issue. but still i called the warranty on why the APM is already failing to read the battery status properly. this should not occur until you replace the battery(in the lenovo twist is not possible since is screwed in).