Satellite A30 battery

My cell A30 began randamly drain on the battery while the power is connected. When the laptop achieved 0% battery turns off. The front indicators indicate that the power outlet is plugged. Remove the power plug and reconnect do not solve the problem, just restart or hibernation starts charging the battery.

I removed the Toshiba power management utility, and the same problem occurs with the Microsoft of the power utility. I tried to reinstall the latest Toshiba power management still no resolution.

I don't think it's a bad power connector because the witness indicates the power is connected. Has anyone else seen this or is it a symptom of the battery needing replacement (portable under 18 months)?

Hi Andy,.

My SA30 does exactly the same thing. The AC LED stays on throughout as the LED, but the battery LED will turn off. The system will show as running on batteries which gradually offload (even though the power LED is still) and finally the book Hibernate.

By trial and error, I found how to trigger this behavior. I just need to apply slight pressure on the side of the DC Jack at the back of the laptop and all the front LED flashes during a fraction of a second and then they all turned off except the ONE and the LEDs of the AC.

I think that the problem is a momentary loss of contact between the inside of the plug CC and the central axis into the Jack located on the back of the laptop. This would explain why the used problem occurs when I moved the laptop or the power cable.

I have now anchor the DC cable to the back of the laptop to prevent any lateral movement of the plug CC and so far that the problem is not returned even if I pick up and move the laptop.

HTH

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