How come I cannot set my critical battery action to NOTHING?> I have to choose, standby, hibernate, or shutdown..... but I want to keep it at nothing to totally drain the battery down to 0% (discharge) what to do?
You have to select something the battery is draining and youre not on power so what would it do ? However, draining the battery to 0% is not good it will degrade battery. If you really do want to drain it (not recommended) then set the critical percentage to 0% and critical action to shutdown.
Take a look in your bios settings, some bioses got a function to calibrate the battery, this will also drain the battery to zero
I agree with you! I found out the hard way, on the second full discharge of one of notebook, it show a 4.7% wear on the battery prior to that it was 2.1% and it cut down on the capacity by 2,000mWh, does not seem much, but, every minute count..when you are doing presentation to a large groups
I thought u need to discharge ur battery completeley when u notice that it's life is degrading...... so what I did was i let it reach 5 % then I kept the lapppy in BIOS mode so it drained to 0% please correct me if im wrong.......
I think u can't set "Do Nothing" 'cause of the risk of losing data but u can set the "Critical Battery Level" to e.x 1%