The option presents itself usually on initial startup at I've read about this issue on multiple forums. I don't know if this is an oversight, or not, but it apparent that ASUS is not the only manufacturer that seems to have this ghost setting situation.
Portable chargers are fine in a pinch, but I didn't want to have to deal with that, I just wanted to switch back toġ00% charging for the remainder of the class, and then at the end of the week I could revert back to the power charging threshold of 80%. I also don't have a consumer friendly removable battery as it's installed inside the casing of my laptop, so no option for backup battery. Had I not been missing a whole 22% to 24% of my battery, had this feature been easily located, this When I went home that evening and plugged it in, there wasn't even an auto recovery document and apparently my original document had somehow beenĬorrupted, as if it had attempted to auto-save just as the laptop died, creating a glitched save file that was unreadable. At one point I had turned my head away from my laptop to focus on the lecturerĪnd on what he was writing on the whiteboard, a few minutes later I turned back to find my laptop was dead. On one particular day late into my week long course, I had been working on a big project for the course which was due the next day. Constantly being vigilant towards the battery is notĬonducive to productivity and a train of thought. Watching it like a hawk, my work suffers as I'm constantly distracted with paranoia that my laptop is going to die and that I'll lose any work I may have not thought to save in the past 5 minutes or so. When I get focused on something I'm working on, I'm not always eagle-eyeing the battery %. Missing 20% of your battery due to a power charging threshold that seemingly can't be changed, I want that extra 2% to 4% that I'm not getting. I know that 2 to 4% may not seem like much, but when you're already
To say the least, I was extremely frustrated and feeling like I'd committed an irreversible action to my laptop forever limiting it's usefulness to me.Īdding insult to injury, the battery never reached the 80% I had initially confirmed, as it was only really ranging from 76% to 78% before switching to "Plugged in, Not charging" status. I did my best, but because I couldn't figure it out, I kept having to put it to sleep and pick and choose when I would participate in the class when it involved Than the 80% charging threshold if I was going to get through the rest of the week and catch up. I felt lost in the course because I couldn't properly follow-along. So I had to be selective when I used it, closing it when everyone else was navigating to important websites. Rate estimated by the default battery keeper. It wasn't long before I realized that my poor laptop was not going to make it for the last 2 hours of class based on the After confirming that first day, I hadn't been able to relocate that option in the settings under power management, power profiles, or underĪnd all was fine really, until I took some all day courses over an entire week which heavily relied on my use and access to a laptop. There had also been an option to set the charging threshold to 60% or keep it at 100%. Of course, this sounded like a very smart idea (and it's a great feature to have turned on in ideal On initial start-up out of the box, the system asked if I wanted to maximize the potential of my battery's life by setting a power charging threshold of 80%. To skip the rest if you want, most of this is to help search engines locate this post so it's easily indexed and presented as a valid return against the original query) (scroll down to ****** for the answer and
And I figured it out.read on below for solution.
I have been trying to figure out how to reset the power/battery charging threshold on my ASUS laptop for well over 2 months, ever since I bought my new Zenbook.