Windows 10: My laptop keeps saying that the battery level is low.

My laptop keeps saying that the battery level is low. It is charging but it's still spamming the notification. Help!

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Windows 10: how to make "very low battery level" notification popup before hibernating like it was before?

My laptop with Win 10 used to behave in the following convenient manner:

1. at 10% of battery it notified about "low battery" state
   
2. at 7% it notified about "very low battery" (*) state
   
3. after some time, if the charging cable is not plugged in, it hibernated (probably once the level reached 5%)
   

so once it said about very low battery, I plugged in the cable and went on working.

After some Win update (1703 or later) steps 2 and 3 transformed into a much less helpful scenario: at 5% it sais about very low battery and hibernates at once, so that I can only a) start charging after the low level notification or b) trust my sense of time and start charging a certain period after which sometimes causes that unpleasant gap in workflow due to hibernation.

My question is this: how do I set things to return the old behaviour?

In advanced settings everything seems to be ok:

• very low level → hibernate
  
• low level: 10%
  
• critical level: 5%
  
• low level: notification enabled, no other action
  
• reserve battery level: 7%
  

(*) I'm translating back from Russian, so I'm not quite sure about exact terms to use.

 

Extending time between second low battery notification and hibernation


The ratio is 0.63 However a new power plan was delivered to my computer, probably from Windows Update.

It was probably due to what happened on my 5th day of using my laptop, following an unexpected shutdown from 2 weeks ago, when the laptop was attempting to hibernate whilst it had ran completely out of battery before it had the chance to fully hibernate, in the midst of lots of programs running at the same time (as well as a 2.4GHz wireless mouse).

The one on the right is what Windows Update gave me (within the last 2 days, most likely today). Before there was only one power plan. The only changes I had made was

• Low battery level: 10% before and 15% after
• Reserve battery level: 7% before and 10% after
• Critical battery level: 5% before and after

I'll switch from the high performance plan to the balanced plan, to see if that helps, after a few weeks. Update: 2 weeks later

• Low battery level: 17% (+2)
• Reserve battery level: 14% (+4)
• Critical battery level: 7% after (+2)

Update: Another 2 weeks later

• Low battery level: 19% before (+2)
• Reserve battery level: 15% (+1)
• Critical battery level: 7% (no change)

Update: Another 2 weeks later

• Low battery level: 22% before (+3)
• Reserve battery level: 17% (+2)
• Critical battery level: 7% (no change)

Update: 1 week later (for when bluetooth is on)

• Low battery level: 22% (no change)
• Reserve battery level: 17% (no change)
• Critical battery level: 9% (+2)

Update: 1 week later

• Low battery level: 27% (no change)
• Reserve battery level: 15% (no change)
• Critical battery level: 11% (+2)

Update: 1 week later

• Low battery level: 37% (no change)
• Reserve battery level: 25% (no change)
• Critical battery level: 11% (+2)

Update: 1 week later

22nd of January: 0.63 30th of April: 0.49 So it continually declines by approximately 0.14 every 4 months. The weird thing I've noticed is that the lower the current battery charge is, the faster the current charge gets depleted.

• Low battery level: 40% (+3)
• Reserve battery level: 28% (+3)
• Critical battery level: 14% (+3)

Update: 1 month later in June

• Low battery level: 46% (+3)
• Reserve battery level: 34% (+3)
• Critical battery level: 20% (+3)

Update: July

• Low battery level: 49% (+3)
• Reserve battery level: 34% (+0)
• Critical battery level: 20% (+0)

Update: July again

• Low battery level: 52% (+3)
• Reserve battery level: 37% (+3)
• Critical battery level: 23% (+3)

Update: August

• Low battery level: 55% (+3)
• Reserve battery level: 40% (+3)
• Critical battery level: 26% (+3)

Update: August again

• Low battery level: 58% (+3)
• Reserve battery level: 43% (+3)
• Critical battery level: 26% (+0)

Update: August again even then

• Low battery level: 61% (+3)
• Reserve battery level: 46% (+3)
• Critical battery level: 27% (+3)

 

low battery alarm

We suggest that you check if the low battery notification is turned
on. Kindly follow these steps:

• On the search box, type Power Options to see the laptop's power plans.
• Click on Change Plan Settings.
• Click on the Change Advanced Power Settings.
• Scroll down and look for Battery.
• Expand it see Low battery notification, turn it on for both
  On battery and Plugged in.

Let us know whenever you need further assistance.