Plugged in, charging, but still at zero percent
By gorgeoustill
@gorgeoustill (66)
Philippines
December 10, 2010 1:20pm CST
Hi Techie mylotters,
I hope you can help me out here. I have a Toshiba L305 laptop for 2 years now and it was working fine until last week. My brother accidentally pulled out the plug and when I rebooted it, it's no longer charging. The power indicator says "plugged in, charging" but the battery is not charging at all and stays at zero percent. A friend told me that I just need to update the bios so I did, but still no luck. What's worst is, I can't turn on this thing unless the power adapter is plugged in.
I hope someone here will be able to give me some "DIY" fix for this. Another friend assume that this has thermal power issue but I want to try and see if I can fix this first before I see a technician.
2 responses
@JudgeIronFist (2472)
• Singapore
11 Dec 10
Hmm...I've not heard of this problem before. I have a Lenovo T400 and it's about 2 years now too. Whenever I use it, I'll always plus in the adapter, seldom using it with the battery alone. Why not you try changing the battery, as some batteries have very short life spans. I think this has a problem to do with the battery.
@fpsninja (874)
•
10 Dec 10
From the sounds of things, it your battery that is knackered. Or maybe you actually have more battery than you laptop will recognise. Try charging and unplugging, and see which of following happens:
If it turns off straigh away, then you might have a loose battery, or a totally broken one, try checking the battery compartment, and make sure everything is fine there
If it Work for say 5-10 mins, and then switches off, then your laptop has a worn down battery.
If it stays on as normal, but the battery indicator stays on 0, then its likely to be some software problem not reading the battery life correctly.
I am no 100% on these, but this is just what i found out with my laptops.
Hope this helps
