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    Lenovo W530, randomly showing critical low battery while on charger, fully chargedd

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by SJLPHI, Jan 20, 2022.

  1. SJLPHI

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    Hello,

    I am having a bit of a weird problem on my W530 Windoss 10. Lately I am noticing that my W530 is unusuable if I have Thinkvantage installed along with several Lenovo bloatwares so I more or less removed them all. Some of the issues caused by bloatware are:
    • Random crash while on Skype.
    • Random crash while idle.
    • Crash everytime during battery reset from thinkvantage.
    • Random hibernation.
    By removing the bloatwares I have eliminated the first 3 bullets but 4th bullet was only taken care of after I disabled hibernation altogether. Now I still get low battery power warning randomly once a while. The battery is obviously very old (I still have 3 usable OEM batteries, 2 x 6 cells and 1 x 9 cell) but I don't think it's a hardware issue because this does not happen on the Linux side, only on Windows 10.

    There is someone who also wrote about it at some point for T430 ( https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/ThinkP...ttery-Odd-Behavior/m-p/4335775?page=1#4335778).

    Remember this is happening while the W530 is fully charged, and is connected to charger.

    Has anyone hunted down the source and have a solution for this?
     
    SJLPHI, Jan 20, 2022
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