Sometimes I get carried away with my Acer C720. I forget that at some point the battery will die because it lasts so long. A few times I've been working and forgot to plug it in after several hours. The laptop just dies without going into sleep mode to save my work. Is there a way to enable this?
Posted Apr 12, 2015, 3:30 PM UTC
Mine pops up with a warning at 2% and 1% so I have not run into your troubles. I have a Acer c720 i3
Does your i3 C720 do this: At about 20% battery life it will just drop instantly to 4% ? Its pissing me off; I still get about 6-7 hours but still I don't know where that other 16% goes.
I wouldn't say 'drops instantly' BUT it does drop down to a very low percent in about 50 minutes.
From 100% down to 20% I lose pretty much 10% per hour. Once it hits 20% it drops to 2% or 1% in only 50 minutes so it appears to drain at over double the speed.
I let mine run down today and it did give me a pop-up at 2% which is when I shut it down and charged it :-)
Sorry to essentially smile at your struggles, but this makes me feel better because I'm not the only one.
If you install Linux, it will give you a battery warning every few minutes when it has 15% or less.
I've never seen that notification. I'll do that. I just haven't been getting that warning, interesting. That's what I would have expected to see
The battery meter should turn red or something,that should be enough to notice.
On the Dell 11, you have a notification light that is white for charging but is orange when it goes under a certain perceantage.