Lenovo Yoga 2 Battery Drains to 0% while Powered Off (Shutdown)

[muzz17]

Hello,

I have a Lenovo Yoga 2 13 (not pro). It is relatively new, I've owned it for about two months now. Everything has been working fine, and it's performance/speed has been great; however, recently the laptop battery drains completely after it's been powered down.

Whether the laptop is in sleep mode or I shut it down, it loses complete charge, and I have to plug it in in order to turn it on again. This is turning out to be a very annoying problem, as I don't always want to have to plug in the laptop to power it on. And also, I don't want to keep the laptop plugged in all night as I heard this can damage the battery.

Granted, if the laptop is left off for only an hour or so I still have some power left (but the charge still drops a significant amount). But if I shut down the laptop the night before at full charge and then turn it on in the morning, it will go from 100% to 0%.

All suggestions are appreciated. I would like to explore software fixes before replacing the battery itself. So far, inevitably, I have tried some power cycles because the laptop drops to 0%, I have done many power cycles going from 0% to 100%

Thank you so much!!

 

[Otiggen]

I forgot to mention... if the BIOS password prompt stops Sleep to Hibernate transitions then you should be able to change a BIOS setting to avoid requesting a password when resuming from Sleep (at the cost of some reduced security in the event of a theft etc.).

 

[miraque]

I have a Dell Inspiron 7000 series 15 with W7 64 bits. Update the BIOS with the latest drivers and have the same problem . Turn off the notebook battery with 80% and the next day it is at 0 %. The notebook is turned off, not suspended .

 

[Otiggen]

First thing is to check the system and application event logs for any evidence that the machine was active overnight (don't jump to too many conclusions as to the cause from any events found in the logs - various updaters etc. may well run without having been the cause of the machine waking or refusing to sleep).
When you say "turned off" you need to give more information. How did you turn it off? Did you check any available LED for disk activity and power to confirm it was off? Sometimes machines don't shut down when commanded. Pressing the power button, or closing the lid, may not be configured to shut the machine down in any case. When turning the machine on again you can get an idea of what state it was in - at least for WIndows 7... a quick boot to user login suggests it was in Sleep. A message about "Resuming..." indicates it was in hibernation. A full Windows slow boot sequence indicates it was Shutdown (or crashed).

 

[Otiggen]

and one other thing - I think suggested by someone else earlier in this thread... if your machine has the capability to power the USB ports when shut down... .then check for any USB connected device that might have been drawing battery power while the machine was off.

 

[a99wex]

Hi,

Try following the directions on this video, it helped solve the issue with my Dell Inspiron 5547. My lappy used to die every morning, even after I shut it down at night. This disables a W10 feature that makes booting faster. Annoying, if you ask me.

Hope this helps yeah

https/www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ4wDpKh9oU

For those that cant view the video,
open cmd as an admin, and run the following command - bcdedit /set disabledynamictick yes

All credit goes to the video author.
https/www.youtube.com/channel/UCURrmf6mMk8mxhqEn2e_bQQ

 

[ReDNeX]

What does exactly "disabledynamictick" do?

 

[a99wex]

What does exactly "disabledynamictick" do?

It disables dynamic tick, it's apparently a feature that keeps laptops in a low power mode, similar to hibernate, it's said to be the main cause of battery drain, I've seen better battery life since I ran that command.

But sometimes my laptop looks like it's shut down, but I can still hear the fan running (happens about 20% of the time)

But who knows, Win10 is weird like that...

 

[wladicus]

I had the same problem with my laptop. Follow the next steps and you'll solve the problem:

Go to control panel -> power options -> choose what the power buttons do
- Edit by wladicus 2016.03.18 - * (Note: There are no such options if running Linux OS, therefore this cannot be the best solution. Solution has to apply to all possible operating systems, otherwise it is a poor hardware design.)

From there you can change what the power off or sleep buttons do. You can also change what your computer does when its lid closes.

Good luck!

 

[Douglas_7]

Well guys I have a Dell 3542 and I was having the same issue searched for 2 days and this drove me crazy. Well It is because of bad Intel Management Engine Driver if yours is uprgarded to v11 something you don't need to downgrade, just go to device manager->System Devices-> Intel Management Interface->Properties->Power Management and uncheck Allow the computer to turn of this device to save power and try testing now hopefully it will work

It works for me too! Last night did accordingly with your instruction, filled battery 100%, put the the Dell 3542 on "Sleep" mode through the night, next day...Voila...still 100%....Thank you Faran52!

 

[Shivam_12]

Thanks a bunch for all of your help!!

I just noticed something extremely interesting and wanted to know what you thought about it. So I've been using my laptop since 8:00am and the battery was just now starting to get low so I plugged it in...I plugged it in when the battery was at 23%...however, now that I've plugged in the laptop it says 0% available "(plugged in, charging)"

That is extremely strange because I know when I plugged it in there was 23% charge left. Now it's been "plugged in, charging" for quite some time but that percentage is not changing from 0%

Why is that when I plug in my laptop it is suddenly saying 0% available.

 

[Shivam_12]

hit windows+s type device manager click it then go to system device->there find intel management interface uninstall it............
it worked for me----------- and the you can install version 9 of that driver on googlng you can get it........

 

[Buckyball60]

something you don't need to downgrade, just go to device manager->System Devices-> Intel Management Interface->Properties->Power Management and uncheck

If have the battery drain on a Dell XPS 13 (Windows 10) but this option wasn't available under "System Devices"

However there are two other entries there "Intel(R) Serial IO I2C Hostcontroller 9D60 and 9D61" where the boxes andere "Power Options" were checked. I unchecked both and did a reboot and charged to 100%. Now after 2h the battery is still at 99% so I hope that was the necessary fix.

*edit*
Checked 3-times within the last 6 hours, battery is at 97% right know.

** 8.5 hours on sleep - 96% **
** 22 hours on sleep - 95% **

That seems very good to me and it looks the two change fixed the problem for me

 

[Masoud_1]

My laptop is the Asus n552vw .
When the laptop was off 1% per 6 hours of battery charge was reduced.

My problem was solved by installing the latest version of "Intel Management Engine Driver (1.5M) for Windows 10 for Intel NUC" "version 11.0.6.1193" .

 

[stewar15401]

The problem is that some laptops deliver power to the USB ports even when shut down. The purpose is to allow the charging of other devices (cellphones, etc.) via USB with the laptop battery alone. At least for Lenovo laptops, the fix is in the BIOS.

THE SOLUTION: Hit F12 during initial startup (before Windows runs) to enter SETUP/BOOT OPTIONS. Once you locate the USB options page, disable the option that delivers charging power to the USB ports when the unit is shut down. Then hit "save changes and exit."

Unfortunately, the BIOS default setting is the problem. Lenovo itself claims that this battery drain problem is "normal" and offers no fix. But if you DO NOT make this change, your battery will drain constantly when the unit is unplugged, and it will drain even quicker if you keep a USB flash drive plugged into it.

 

[Adithya_2]

Hai,
I am also getting same problem on my dell laptop if you got any resolution procedure please send me.

It was a new laptop, just three months back i purchased it . with other OS its working fine but i am getting problem with the windows 10. I charged my laptop to 100% in the night and when I woke up in the morning the laptop was showing red light indicating the low battery. I wonder how the battery drained so quickly overnight while the laptop is shut down?! And this is not the first time its happening, I am facing this problem after I upgraded to Windows 10. Is there any solution to this. It is not my battery fault it is only problem i am getting windows 10.

 

[Adithya_2]

Well guys I have a Dell 3542 and I was having the same issue searched for 2 days and this drove me crazy. Well It is because of bad Intel Management Engine Driver if yours is uprgarded to v11 something you don't need to downgrade, just go to device manager->System Devices-> Intel Management Interface->Properties->Power Management and uncheck Allow the computer to turn of this device to save power and try testing now hopefully it will work

I went as you said and when i comes to Properties window i can't find any tabs regarding the Power Managment
i'm using windows 7. and the Intel Management Engine is installed and working on my Laptop.
i used laptop dell insprion 15 3537
please help me

Hai,
I am also getting same problem on my dell laptop if you got any resolution procedure please send me.

It was a new laptop, just three months back i purchased it . with other OS its working fine but i am getting problem with the windows 10. I charged my laptop to 100% in the night and when I woke up in the morning the laptop was showing red light indicating the low battery. I wonder how the battery drained so quickly overnight while the laptop is shut down?! And this is not the first time its happening, I am facing this problem after I upgraded to Windows 10. Is there any solution to this. It is not my battery fault it is only problem i am getting windows 10.

 

[Adithya_2]

I figured I might share my experience in hopes it may help someone.

I recently purchased a Lenovo y50 laptop with an 1 tb hybrid drive and from the start I noted it was draining battery, even when powered down. It also ran at 100% disk utilization for about 10 minutes after powering it up sometimes randomly spiking to 100% during use.

I figured the drive may be hiccuping or something. I shut it down and listened to it for 20 minutes or so and it made mechanical sounds and the lights would randomly blink on for a second. I figured that's probably my battery problem as well since the drive was not shutting completely off.

After trying every software, system and driver fix I could find, I decided I had a bad drive. So I purchased a new 500 gb Samsung ssd and installed it into my laptop (it's very simple to install there are YouTube tutorials for it, just be careful use the right tools and take a lot of time) and boom my problems are all fixed. Reply to my post if you would like help with installing the ssd or migrating your files (I hear the disk software Samsung includes is pretty bad but I didn't use it.)

I doubt this can be explained by a bad drive... the drive activity just seems to me to be caused by some software running on the system that didn't want to shut down. Installing a SSD would make any such activity much less noticeable, and in any case it doesn't necessarily happen every boot.
On my system I notice that the laptop won't go to standby when I close the lid when I am running Folding@Home and have the battery set to the "Extended Battery Life" Profile. Just changing the battery Profile to "Dell" (standard) one before shutting the lid resolves that issue".

It seems to me that some kind of good troubleshooting tree is needed for power drain problems which can have many causes.

The issues can perhaps be broadly classified as follows:

Systems that are not configured to user expectations*
Systems that won't go to sleep on command
Systems that unexpectedly wake from sleep
(Rather alarming when they wake in the laptop bag and overheat)
Systems that draw too much power when in Sleep or even Hibernate modes

* By not configured to user expectations...
The actions on shutting the lid, pressing the power button, etc. may change with the selected power profile (on battery, on AC, and power profile selection)... so the user may have inadvertently changed the action to one they did not intend.
Some people think Sleep is useless but I think it is appropriate for some classes of user who usually come back to their machine on at least a daily basis and want a fast startup. In any event, when a system is configured to Sleep first, and then change to Hibernate you should see most of the benefits of Sleep without the large power drain that occurs if by change you don't come back to the machine for several days. At least - if it is working as intended!

Hai,
I am also getting same problem on my dell laptop if you got any resolution procedure please send me.

It was a new laptop, just three months back i purchased it . with other OS its working fine but i am getting problem with the windows 10. I charged my laptop to 100% in the night and when I woke up in the morning the laptop was showing red light indicating the low battery. I wonder how the battery drained so quickly overnight while the laptop is shut down?! And this is not the first time its happening, I am facing this problem after I upgraded to Windows 10. Is there any solution to this. It is not my battery fault it is only problem i am getting windows 10.