Is this a 3 year or older battery? If so, the code that reports battery capacity does not work with such old batteries in all cases.
There is no known software fix today for what looks like a very old battery.
HOWEVER I do install Battery Bar and see if it can report the wear level on the battery.
Bob
Hey!
I have this battery since I bought the laptop (like 3 and half years ago,more or less) and I never changed it. I didn't really used it properly all the time but I could use my laptop for about an hour without connecting the AC or switching to battery saving and it was okay for me.
Recently I reintalled winows 7 and now I have some problems.
First,there was a red cross on my battery icon and it also said "consider replacing your battery" but I disabled this warning because it would kill my brain cells. And the battery wouldn't charge at all but neither daring to go below or above 83%.
Yesterday I tried connecting the AC for one more time before buying a new battery and surprisingly worked! (ok,my laptop was off)
The battery light was red and then green and when I opened my laptop it said fully charged 100%.
I used this time for installing 2 updates. After that I shut down (it was still 100% and AC connected),diconnected the AC and went shopping.
Two hours later I connected the AC and the light was red,not green. Strange. I opened the laptop and it was 93% plugged in,charging. After one hour still 93% plugged in charging. Finally my laptop decided to stop lying me and the battery said 93% plugged in not chargind and since then the light is flashing red and it's still 93%. It doesn't go below or above. I even tried to disconnect the AC so I could recalibrate the battery but no way. More than one hour and still 93% plugged in not charging. Still flashing red. I have important updates but I'm afraid to let then install because I don't know what my laptop could do. Maybe in 2 minutes it will shut down suddenly.
Can anyone tell me what might be the problem and how to solve it?

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