HP Laptop - "plugged in, not charging"

Talib Fiasco

Hey all.

I've got a HP Pavilion G6 Windows 8 laptop which is only a year and a few months old.

I had a problem with the battery a while ago where it wouldn't charge 100% and at times would show "not charging". This was fixed by simply doing a hard reset.

Now in the last few days my laptop died out and will not turn on now unless it's plugged into the adapter. It was stuck on 60 something per cent charge and when you mouse over it it says "plugged in, not charging". Now with every day the per cent goes down one...for example there is 57% on it now as a I type.

I did a battery check on HP Support Assistant which said that the battery is fine but needs to be calibrated but sure I can't do that unless it's charged to 100%.

Soooooooo.... I'm asking how the hell can I fix this problem and actually get the battery to charge?

Any help greatly appreciated!

liamo

Sometimes batteries die


Solution : Buy a new battery.

Talib Fiasco

liamo wrote: »

Sometimes batteries die


Solution : Buy a new battery.

Afraid I'd get that answer like!

How would I go about buying the correct battery for my laptop?

same ol sh1te

Talib Fiasco wrote: »

Afraid I'd get that answer like!

How would I go about buying the correct battery for my laptop?

You can order a cheap one on eBay for about 20e, it will last about a year or alternatively you can spend three times than on an official one that should last longer. Search the model number on eBay and you'll find them

allthedoyles

Would be great if you knew someone with a similar laptop , and put their battery into yours, to check for definate that it is the battery.

Or even do it the other way around , where you put battery in someone elses laptop.

Would be a disappointing to buy a new battery and discover you still have same problem .

same ol sh1te

If the charging light is coming on its most likely the battery

NGC999888

Planned obsolescence.
You'll find there is nothing wrong with the cells in your battery. its the controller thats telling the computer not to charge it anymore - so you go out and buy a new one.
look up ways around this on google.

Talib Fiasco

NGC999888 wrote: »

Planned obsolescence.
You'll find there is nothing wrong with the cells in your battery. its the controller thats telling the computer not to charge it anymore - so you go out and buy a new one.
look up ways around this on google.

Care to expand on that? I know very little about the inner workings of laptops etc

NGC999888

Talib Fiasco wrote: »

Care to expand on that? I know very little about the inner workings of laptops etc

Good thing there is google then i guess.
I'll even type in the words for you.

https://www.google.ie/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=planned%20obsolescence%20laptop%20battery

Talib Fiasco

NGC999888 wrote: »

Good thing there is google then i guess.
I'll even type in the words for you.

https://www.google.ie/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=planned%20obsolescence%20laptop%20battery

Ah cheers. I didn't realise planned obsolescence was the actual thing you were refering to I thought it was some fancy term completely unrelated to the problem!

whizbang

Its not a great conspiracy theory going on here..
Its just safety. maybe a little over the top safety, but nothing else.

Can you get this to work, with or without power plugged in?
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=us&lc=en&docname=c03325217

ED E

Your battery is actually made up of 4 or 6 of these:

What can happen is you get one bad cell that dies and then the whole pack stops functioning.

It could also be a dead charging circuit in the mobo though, G6s arent too uncommon, I'd try and track down another one to determine whether its battery or laptop as above.