No low battery notification and my computer always just shuts off, I have all the right settings on

Anonymous
2010-05-19T07:07:41+00:00

I purchased my laptop now for about 6 months and the most annoying part is that there is never a low battery notification before my laptop hibernates. It has never shown up once.

The battery meter is active and shown in my system tray. I have gone into power options, changed advanced battery options for low, critical, and reserve levels as well as turned ON low battery notification. In system tray properties > notification area > customize > I have also selected "show icon and notifications".

The windows 7 microsoft website as well as many other forums only suggest to do these 2 things. I HAVE done these two things, as they were the original settings when I bought this laptop new...what else can I do? Is there a patch, download, anything?! I would rather not have to install 3rd party software. I would just like my laptop to function properly. I am not a heavy gamer or student, I just use my laptop to surf the web and watch videos. I also use free Avira antivirus, if any of this is important to why a battery notification won't show up.

Edit: My friend and I bought the exact same computer on the same day. His shows notifications and mine doesn't, so I know it's possible.

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Anonymous
2014-11-25T13:08:22+00:00

Just open your

"control panel" 

and then "power option" then 

"change advance power settings"

there select  the profile you want to active( power saver ,high performance etc.)

Then scroll down to "battery" expand it and find "low battery notification" and turn  "on" for both "on battery" and "plugged in"  and you will done.

Note :- not necessary to turn it on for "plugged in"

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  1. Anonymous
    2016-09-03T16:17:03+00:00

    (had ) the same issue. HP probook, Windows10, "HP optimised (recommended)"

    it seems that reserve_battery_level and low_battery_level functionalities are mixed up.

    experiment:

    reserve_battery_level = 22%

    low_battery_level = 21%

    low_level_notification = on

    at 22% I got the low level message and peeped (suppose this is the low level notification)

    (I'v OKd it, and let the level go further down)

    at 21% the brightness got lower (suppose this is what reserve level should cause)

    so this is what works for me:

    reserve_battery_level > low_battery_level > critical_battery_level

    low_level_notification = on

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-09-16T08:14:48+00:00

    Hi, my laptop does the same thing, and the settings are right. However, it used to give a warning and at some point stopped doing that. I think it was after one of the automatic updates, thus it is something MS did to the system. I hope they will fix it! It is not you, it is not me.

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-09-19T08:23:23+00:00

    My settings are good and this still happens. It used to work but stopped at some point. I think one of the many updates messed up something. So your advice should work but doesn't.

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-09-19T19:42:08+00:00

    I tried everything and it didnt worked. so finally a raplaced the battery and it solved the problem. i think it has something to do with the battery life, it dies after year and a half aprox.

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