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Is my laptop supposed to shut off at 11% battery left? Is there a way I can change this in the settings?
Hello =D if you can't tell by my question I'm not the best person when it comes to technology so please bare with me here. I got a new laptop for Christmas and whenever it gets to 11% battery it tells me I need to plug in the charger. Is this normal? The laptop shuts off if I don't plug it in. I don't want to continually plug in the charger because I know that it drains the overall life of the battery if it's constantly being charged or at least that's what I have been told. The battery unplugged has been lasting at max about 2 hours and 20 minutes. This is an HP laptop if that makes any difference. All I have been doing is surfing the web or sometimes play The Sims 3.
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- WK of AngmarLv 68 years agoFavorite Answer
It's a bad idea to let the battery drain down to a low level and then recharge it to full and repeat. This will drain the battery life.
In any case, the option is located in "Power Options": you have failed to mention what operating system you are using, but if it is Windows, it should be located somewhere in the Control Panel.
And yes, this behaviour is normal. It is a warning so that you don't accidentally let the battery get to 0% and lose all of your work/data. I would strongly recommend that you keep this feature on for that very reason. Also, it generally does not automatically shut down, but it automatically hibernates - it saves all of your data to your hard drive so that the next time you start it up, you can resume work from where you left off.
If you are looking to increase the battery time before it gets to 0%, then reduce the brightness and performance settings - this is also located in Power Options in the advanced settings.
- Anonymous8 years ago
It is set at a level that gives the machine time to shutdown clean. Any lower and it can possibly fail to save files and that can lead to corruption. It would also be failing before the drive heads are parked which can cause drive damage.
