u/Massive_Tea6320

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Hi everyone, I'm looking for some help with my Dell laptop ( Dell inspirion 13 5330). It's having a strange charging issue where it recognizes that the charger is plugged in, but it won't actually increase the battery percentage.

The issue is that the battery icon in the taskbar keeps flickering between "plugged in" and "charging", but then it quickly stops. Sometimes it just stays on "idle" even though it's plugged into the wall.

I checked the BIOS and it recognizes the charger wattages and says the battery health is "healthy". I held the power button for 30+ seconds but still doesn't work. And I uninstalled the battery drivers in device manager and restarted my laptop many times.

I think the system capped the max charging thing at 50 because my laptop would only start charging at 50% and could go up to 100 but if i unplug it it won't charge unless I bring it down to 50% again.

Has anyone got any ideas on how to fix this problem?

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u/Massive_Tea6320 — 12 days ago