"Consider Replacing Your Battery"

[Layback Bear]

After reading all those post I have come to the conclusion that all Windows 7 is doing is relaying information that it receives form other hardware or programs. Yesterday you had XP with no battery warnings and today you have Windows 7 and you have battery warnings. Simple to me. XP didn't tell you and Windows 7 can. Put a new quality battery in and give it a try. I have battery powered tools with 4 batteries that cost $120.00 each. When one battery starts loosing power much quicker than the others I replace it. That is just the world of battery powered anything. I have noticed that some battery manufactures recommend running the battery all the way down before charging and some don't. IMHO netbooks, notebooks, laptops are not designed to be PC'S. If you try to use them as a PC the battery will not last as long because the battery is being charge more often and creating heat. Batteries come in various qualities and price ranges. Buy the best you can get if you have a choice. Read the manual.

 

[peterjaena]

After reading all those post I have come to the conclusion that all Windows 7 is doing is relaying information that it receives form other hardware or programs. Yesterday you had XP with no battery warnings and today you have Windows 7 and you have battery warnings. Simple to me. XP didn't tell you and Windows 7 can. Put a new quality battery in and give it a try. I have battery powered tools with 4 batteries that cost $120.00 each. When one battery starts loosing power much quicker than the others I replace it. That is just the world of battery powered anything. I have noticed that some battery manufactures recommend running the battery all the way down before charging and some don't. IMHO netbooks, notebooks, laptops are not designed to be PC'S. If you try to use them as a PC the battery will not last as long because the battery is being charge more often and creating heat. Batteries come in various qualities and price ranges. Buy the best you can get if you have a choice. Read the manual.

All the posts? Are you sure? I'm a systems admin. And own 6 different laptops. Don't you think I'd know bad battery on a laptop when I see one? I've said numerous times here that this bug DOES NOT affect all laptop models. Only certain ones. The laptop I had problems is only 6months old, barely used. I had to replace the batteries TWICE. Went back to Vista, guess what... all is fine now. This bug can be fixed with BIOS updates. But the thing is, it sucks to find out after your batteries have died on you and cost you a bit of $$$$. Cheers.

 

[logicearth]

...I've said numerous times here that this bug DOES NOT affect all laptop models. Only certain ones...

Thus a problem with the hardware and or the drivers (provided by the manufacture) for that hardware.

 

[Layback Bear]

I have no idea what other people know or don't know. I'm really trying to understand how a operating system kills a battery when millions of laptops with Windows 7 don't have this problem.

 

[smarcelli]

How I fixed my "consider replacing your battery".

1) Adjust all setting in your power scheme to minimize actions when the battery is low. (turn off all sleep or hibernate commands and reduce all warnings to 0 or 1 minute).
2) Run the following command:
To change the 'Battery->Critical battery action->'On battery' setting to "Do nothing" using powercfg.exe

1. activate the power scheme you want to modify.
2. open an elevated command console (windows key, type 'cmd' in start menu, press "ctrl+shift+enter", click 'continue')
3. execute "powercfg -setdcvalueindex SCHEME_CURRENT SUB_BATTERY BATACTIONCRIT 0"
4. your current power scheme will show "Battery->Critical battery action->On battery: Do nothing" despite the option being unavailable in the drop box.

3) Run your laptop until it dies...your pc will fully crash. Then fully recharge and run until it dies again.

This will recalibrate your battery. Because Windows 7 automatically shuts down your PC when it thinks the battery is low, it never recalibrates. You have to stop if from sleeping or hibernating all together to get the battery to recalibrate. I went from 66% battery wear to 0.0% overnight.

I have abruptly the same problem. What if I disable Microsof ACPI-Compliant Control Method Battery in Device Manager? Following your remaining instructions?
Thank for an answer. Ciao,
Stefano

 

[smarcelli]

As I have installed both win7 and XP, this issue from battery appear with Win7 only.
I resolved the problem by following the method suggested above from another member, with a change.

Go to device manager and disable Battery/Microsoft ACPI-Compliant Control Method Battery. If you have files in work remember to save them because this action stops the control of battery charge, so the Notebook will shut down abruptly, with no time to save anything.
Done this, charge fully your battery, then run it down till notebook shuts down.
Repeat this operation 3-4 time or more, go again to device manager end reable the Battery...Microsoft...Control (see above). The problem is disappeared.

God saves the Queen, but Science saves Everyone.
Ciao,
Stefano
Italy

 

[Pusspa]

well i am going to find out if the problem really was just the old battery, i bought a non-genuine 12 cell replacement (brand new), and power brick. It is just charging now for the first time, and heres hoping i dont have to quote this post with a complaint at some near future date!

It seems Windows 7 was just telling me the truth, the new battery is working fine... The only problem to this theory is that i bought a hi-capacity version of the standard battery (12 cell vs 6 cell), and i have been reading on the net that quite a few laptops have BIOS that report incorrect battery capacity back to the OS, which means that even if my 6 cell was in good condition, Windows 7 would be told its capacity was much reduced.

 

[WindowsStar]

BatteryCare Updated: BatteryCare

 

[AsuCaga]

Bit different

Okay guys, this didn't happen to my computer. It was my friend's Asus F6v she has owned for 2 1/2 years. Here is the interesting part: She was reinstalling 7 and didn't have the battery message prior to the new installation. I will edit this in the morning when I have a proper keyboard (my laptop is having some issues XD).

 

[Deki]

After reading all those post I have come to the conclusion that all Windows 7 is doing is relaying information that it receives form other hardware or programs. Yesterday you had XP with no battery warnings and today you have Windows 7 and you have battery warnings. Simple to me. XP didn't tell you and Windows 7 can. Put a new quality battery in and give it a try. I have battery powered tools with 4 batteries that cost $120.00 each. When one battery starts loosing power much quicker than the others I replace it. That is just the world of battery powered anything. I have noticed that some battery manufactures recommend running the battery all the way down before charging and some don't. IMHO netbooks, notebooks, laptops are not designed to be PC'S. If you try to use them as a PC the battery will not last as long because the battery is being charge more often and creating heat. Batteries come in various qualities and price ranges. Buy the best you can get if you have a choice. Read the manual.

Bullshit !
"Consider your battery" is nothing more then 1 stupid bug which microsoft didnt solved.
How to solve this problem ? Simple, just install Vista Basic as i did and after that reinstall on Windows 7 64 bit.
Problem solved.

 

[logicearth]

Bullshit !
"Consider your battery" is nothing more then 1 stupid bug which microsoft didnt solved.
How to solve this problem ? Simple, just install Vista Basic as i did and after that reinstall on Windows 7 64 bit.
Problem solved.

You think it is solved? You think that because Windows Vista does not show you this message? Sorry to burst your bubble but Windows Vista doesn't show this message because it was a new feature in Windows 7. If the hardware says the battery is coming to the end of its life, and Windows 7 only repeats this information. How is that a bug? If the battery is not failing like Windows 7 says, then there is a problem with the hardware, the HARDWARE.

 

[Deki]

Bullshit !
"Consider your battery" is nothing more then 1 stupid bug which microsoft didnt solved.
How to solve this problem ? Simple, just install Vista Basic as i did and after that reinstall on Windows 7 64 bit.
Problem solved.

You think it is solved? You think that because Windows Vista does not show you this message? Sorry to burst your bubble but Windows Vista doesn't show this message because it was a new feature in Windows 7. If the hardware says the battery is coming to the end of its life, and Windows 7 only repeats this information. How is that a bug? If the battery is not failing like Windows 7 says, then there is a problem with the hardware, the HARDWARE.

I have no problems anymore with battery, windows 7 work fine now, and battery life is totaly same like b4.
And its bug 100% .

 

[conrode3]

my computer crashed and when it rebooted it was showing the error message. the computer is just over a year old

 

[sway112]

problem solved

the solution to this problem is simply updating ur drivers as well as windows update ,,,,,,,,,,this is what i did now i dont have the "replace batttery message"

 

[serul]

you can drainage your battery power until the computer can't start...make sure the battery is empty..ang plug in the adapter and ON the computer...i have try this and its working..i have try it 5 minute ago..and i register this forum to share what i found..gudluck..

 

[ladygem018]

You can see the capacity of your battery by doing the following
Open a Administrator command prompt and type

powercfg -energy -output c:\energy-report.html

let it run then open the energy-report.html report. Look for a section called Battery:Battery Information near the bottom.
It shows Design Capacity and Last Full Charge which gives you an idea of how worn the battery is. Also check the errors section for anything about the battery.

Mine shows Design Capacity 63360 (which is 14.4v * 4400 mAH for my battery)
Last Full Charge is 59450

i tried this,. and says:
Battery:Last Full Charge (%)
The battery stored less than 40% of the Designed Capacity the last time the battery was fully charged.
Battery ID MSI Corp. MS-1221 Design Capacity 47520 Last Full Charge 17831 Last Full Charge (%) 37

i have msi laptop, and just recently i got this similar problem like everyone here. i had read on a forum outside to try system restore, i tried but it's not successful,it says i should disable my antivirus. i haven't tried again.
purchasing a brand new battery ain't that easy coz it ain't cheap..
aren't there any solution yet?
i cant bring my laptop with me because of this..

 

[logicearth]

aren't there any solution yet?[/U]
i cant bring my laptop with me because of this..

Software cannot fix hardware problems. Your battery is at the end of its life. Replacing it is the only solution you have. There is not much else that can be done.

 

[davehc]

There are quite a few comments/suggestions, that if you receive this message, then your battery is, as it says, about to give up.
In this thread, there are several ways suggested (I was one) as to how to get the OS to say fully charged. In most cases, this is temporary, although some seem to have been succesful.
As I understand, even now still in the rumour stage, it occurs on just a few computer motherboards with a particularr Intel chip? (Acer 700 series seems to be one such).
But. One thing of which I can assure most users. It is not, in the initial stages, a battery problem!
I was lucky enough to have access to batteries, when this problem occurred. All, of three, new batteries, gave the same message after a short useage.
I believe that the original (cheaper!) batteries, can, with undercharging, eventually change their "memory" and adopt a new maximum figure, beteen 80 to 90%. This does mean a spoiled battery in the long run, when the situation become irreversible.. In the same context, I have read that more modern Nicads do not have this memory problem.
Most computers exhibiting this symptom are probably, by now, out of guarantee unfortunately.
The only way to cope with the problem, if you have gone to the extent of purchasing a new battery, is, as with all rechageables, to, from time to time, allow the laptop to discharge the battery to varying levels - even completely if you are able (Not too easy with a laptop, it always has a fairly high residue.)
Several methods of achieving this are in this thread.

 

[Aphasia]

PLEASE provide us some answer. What can we do to fix this problem. It is even better if you will replace all our batteries!"

Replace your battery or talk to the original manufacture of your computer. The battery says it is dieing so there is only one logical solution, replace the battery. Why is that so hard to understand?

aren't there any solution yet?[/U]
i cant bring my laptop with me because of this..

Software cannot fix hardware problems. Your battery is at the end of its life. Replacing it is the only solution you have. There is not much else that can be done.

These sort of posts annoy me as it encourages people to buy new batteries when they either don't need to or if they do, the battery has been damaged by some other medium - and from the looks of this thread it appears to be Win7. Hence they should look at the root cause before buying an expensive battery only to have the problem return.

I have just forked out on a brand new battery as win7 advised me to do and it hasn't made any difference.

Anything below 100% and the message comes up (red cross through battery and "consider replacing you battery" message) it's then about 30 minutes before it's dead, or Win7 thinks it's dead and it goes into standby.

There is lots of conflicting advice above. Is there a definitive solution? Is it possible to 'reset' the battery? I am not able to tell the PC to 'take no action' when it reaches critical level to test how long the battery really has left, the only options are 'shut down' 'sleep' or 'hibernate'....

Any help appreciated. It's pretty annoying having to use my laptop plugged in all the time.

Thanks

 

[logicearth]

I have just forked out on a brand new battery as win7 advised me to do and it hasn't made any difference.

Then there is something wrong with your HARDWARE. Why is this so hard to understand? Windows 7 is only telling you what the HARDWARE tells it! The battery itself is a self contained system. Windows itself cannot tamper with the battery's inner workings.

You need to contact the manufacture of your computer. Only they can fix your HARDWARE problem.