Battery not charging to 100% issue
 

Hey Everyone,

I am having an issue with my Dell Latitude d620 not fully charging my battery to 100%. It seems to always get stuck at 60% charge and it thinks the battery charge is complete. I am using a non-dell battery I got off ebay, but for the past 4 years, the battery has not had any issue charging to 100% until recently. I thought it may have been a battery issue so I bought a replacement but this issue still exists.

I have tried to drain the battery to 3%, let it rest for a bit before putting it on the charger again. I have also tried different power adapters as well as charging it through the docking station but it doesn't seem to resolve this issue.


Has anyone experienced this and if so, is there something I can do?

have you tried to charge with the laptop off? and tried to use another battery indicator?

You've had it for four yrs.
That could mean its time for a new battery.

My HP batt was doing the same thing.
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I think the battery is toast.

LOL you guys. He said he bought another replacement battery and it still does the same thing. I'm thinking it might be the charging circuit.

i think there are sensors on the motherboard that has the issues...typically batteries do only have a life expectancy of roughly 3-5 years before these types of issues come about...

also what kind of batteries are inside? it coukd be a bad cell in the string

Can't hurt to do some battery calibration...

What you have to do is disable all the power management actions... as in don't let the laptop go to sleep or hibernate when it gets down to x% battery left. Disable all of those.

Charge the laptop up as high as possible, then unplug it and let it run into it actually turns off from no more battery. Then plug it back in and let it charge back up to full capacity again before turning the laptop back on.

This can help to get your system battery status back in sync.

Thanks for all the suggestions.

I'll try calibrating it again and seeing what I get. Hopefully its not a charging circuit issue.

Just an update for anyone who cares....

I ended up trying out a brand new non dell ac adapter. I was able to charge my battery to 100%.

After running the battery to about 10%, I decided to test out my old AC charger and it now charges my battery back to 100%. Weird.

My 4 year old 9 cell battery still has 4 hour battery life on it too!