{"id":378,"date":"2011-09-01T19:55:14","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T19:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/?p=378"},"modified":"2011-09-01T19:55:14","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T19:55:14","slug":"qa-plugged-in-not-charging-97-remaining-fault-or-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/?p=378","title":{"rendered":"Q&amp;A: Plugged in, NOT charging, 97% remaining. Fault or feature?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><i>Question by jheel<\/i>: Plugged in, NOT charging, 97% remaining. Fault or feature?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My HP Laptop is like 7 days old. (HP ProBook 4520s)<br \/>\nIt says &#8220;Plugged in, Not Charging, 97% remaining&#8221;, and the charging status indicator LED stays off..<br \/>\nSearched for this keyword in google, and apparently it&#8217;s a problem\/ hardware fault.<br \/>\nBut then if i run the computer on batteries till it says 40% remaining and then plug in the charger, the charging indicator LED turns on and it says &#8220;plugged in, charging&#8221;.<br \/>\nIs this a feature to save the battery from overcharging? Or is this a hardware fault and I should get in touch with HP?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best answer:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>Answer by Joe<\/i><br \/>I have two from different companies and they have both said that. None of them is more than three years old. I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s a fault or a feature, just when it&#8217;s near fully charged, it slows down enough that it&#8217;s impossible for the machine to detect whether it&#8217;s charging or not.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What do you think? Answer below!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question by jheel: Plugged in, NOT charging, 97% remaining. Fault or feature? My HP Laptop is like 7 days old. (HP ProBook 4520s) It says &#8220;Plugged in, Not Charging, 97% remaining&#8221;, and the charging status indicator LED stays off.. Searched for this keyword in google, and apparently it&#8217;s a problem\/ hardware fault. But then if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1135,21,147,1134,1136],"class_list":["post-378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design-flaws","tag-charging","tag-fault","tag-feature","tag-plugged","tag-remaining"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}