Stuck in constant loop of sleeping and waking on low battery status

So on my Pavilion dv6t 7000 which came with Windows 7, the critical battery level was set to 7% and that was the minimum value that I could set it to, which I guess is something HP locked in as one of their own changes (like how the "balanced" power setting was called "HP recommended"). Anyways, I upgraded to Windows 8 and it seems that those changes are gone because the intermediate power setting is now called "balanced" again and I can set the critical battery level to 5%. However, the laptop still goes to sleep at 7% just like it used to.

That's not the really bad part though. The bad part is that when I wake it again, it turns on and after a few seconds goes back to sleep. However, in another few seconds it will automatically reawaken with a notification on the screen by Windows 8 saying something like "Plug in your PC, your battery level is at 8%," and yes, the battery level always goes up to 8% from 7% when it does this. From here on, the laptop will be locked in an endless cycle of automatic sleep and waking up like this until I either plug in the laptop, or it runs out of battery. It seems like some HP setting separate from the OS itself is making it go to sleep and then Windows 8 is waking it up again to show that notification on its own. That same notification will show every time too, except the value does go down as the battery runs out.

Is there any way to fix this behavior? I have downloaded the latest BIOS updates for my laptop, but they do nothing to fix it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.