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    My Battery Meter is Stuck

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by Seven7, Oct 31, 2009.

  1. Seven7

    Seven7 Notebook Enthusiast

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    My battery recharging seems to be frozen.

    I have my battery settings to start charging at 30% and stop at 60%.
    When it got to 34% i plugged in the AC adapter and its been stuck there for couple hours and unchanged.

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    When I hover over the Lenovo battery icon it says (34%) remaining. Charging will start when below 30% and stop at 60%

    When I hover over the Windows 7 battery icon it says: 33% available (plugged in , not charging).

    This happened when I had Vista installed as well. The % would freeze when I plugged in AC adapter and charging settings were changed.

    I have done a clean install of windows 7 on my T400.
    Any help would be appreciated. :)
     
    Seven7, Oct 31, 2009
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  2. pem69

    pem69 Notebook Consultant

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    You just gave yourself the answer.
    "I have my battery settings to start charging at 30% and stop at 60%."
    You plugged it in at 34%, which is not below 30%, so it doesn't charge. Seems right to me...
     
    pem69, Oct 31, 2009
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  3. Seven7

    Seven7 Notebook Enthusiast

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    oh i'm confused lol. ty.
     
    Seven7, Oct 31, 2009
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    intoflatlines Notebook Consultant

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    Also, I find that sometimes the Windows 7 battery icon is 1% off from what the Power Manager tells me occasionally.
     
    intoflatlines, Oct 31, 2009
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  5. drjohn

    drjohn Notebook Consultant

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    I just installed win7 on my previous XP system. I have installed the ThinkPad Power Management driver but can't seem to find the battery meter. Is it a separate utility?

    Strangely, although upgrading to win7 from XP is supposed to invoke a clean install, win7 seems to be following the previous settings I'd established under XP with the Thinkpad utility (charge at 60, stop at 95%)

    ~john
     
    drjohn, Nov 1, 2009
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  6. cassiohui

    cassiohui Notebook Evangelist

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    it's part of thinkvantage power manager
     
    cassiohui, Nov 1, 2009
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  7. drjohn

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    yep, I just figured that out. I installed System Update and let it show me. All works now. Sometimes it's just better to let the system teach you ;)

    thanx
     
    drjohn, Nov 1, 2009
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