If your laptop shows a charger being plugged in, but the battery percentage is not increasing, it could just be a case of software malfunction, or the battery may be too old and charging too slowly. It is also possible that the charger is faulty, and you may need to replace it. This article looks at the problems and offers some troubleshooting tips when it shows charging but the battery percentage is not increasing.

Showing charging but Battery percentage not increasing

Sometimes restarting the laptop may fix the issue. Simply shut down your laptop while still in charging mode. Restart and see if it helps. If not, follow the given methods. One might work for you if your battery percentage is not increasing.

Hard Reset the Windows device

A soft reset is where you use the Reset This PC option to reset your Windows 11/10. But we are not resetting Windows OS here. We are resetting the device that is running the operating system. It is called a hard reset.

To hard reset the Windows 11/10 device-

Unplug the charger
Turn off the laptop
Open the backside of the machine and remove its battery
While keeping the battery away from the machine, press and hold down the device’s power key for at least 30 seconds to discharge its capacitors completely
Put the battery back into the slot where it goes
Turn on the device
Plug in the charger

See if the above steps helped. If it is still showing charging but the battery percentage not increasing, you may want to check the next method.

Uninstall the battery device driver and reinstall

It could be a case of a faulty or damaged device driver. A reinstall might fix it.

Unplug the charger
Open Device Manager from the WinX Menu
Expand all the entries in the Device Manager
Expand Battery
Click Uninstall for all the Adapter or Battery entries you see there
Your computer will ask for confirmation, and you just press Enter key
Once the device driver for the battery is removed, restart your computer
On restart, come here again, right-click on Battery and select Scan for Hardware Changes
Your computer will automatically search for the battery device driver and install it.
Plug in the charger and see if the problem is fixed.

You may want to check your charger as well. If you can, get another charger from a friend or a store and see if changing the charger helps. If it does, good. If it doesn’t, it could be a case of broken Windows 11/10 that can be fixed by running Reset This PC option from Settings.

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