Blinking light?

Nexed_
Nexed_ Member Posts: 32 Troubleshooter
in Predator Laptops
I got new battery for my laptop a week ago. It has a bit higher capacity than my old battery. Sometimes when almost fully charged the charging light starts blinking then stops. Also it sometimes blinks when fully charged to it changes from blue to orange (blinking) and then changes to blue again. Also rarely it blinks when fully charged but don't switch to blue, it just keeps blinking.

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  • AnhEZ28
    AnhEZ28 ACE, Member Posts: 4,296 Pathfinder
    @Nexed_ do both charging and power light blink the same time or just the charging light?
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  • Nexed_
    Nexed_ Member Posts: 32 Troubleshooter
    Power light is fine. Only charging light blinks.
  • AnhEZ28
    AnhEZ28 ACE, Member Posts: 4,296 Pathfinder
    @Nexed_ try to do a battery calibration by using it until the battery dies and fully charge it.
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  • Nexed_
    Nexed_ Member Posts: 32 Troubleshooter
    @AnhEZ28
    Also, can you tell me what does the blinking light even means?
  • AnhEZ28
    AnhEZ28 ACE, Member Posts: 4,296 Pathfinder
    @Nexed_ blinking charging light only means that the battery has some problem, might be battery incompatibility or issue with recognizing correct capacity,
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  • Nexed_
    Nexed_ Member Posts: 32 Troubleshooter
    @AnhEZ28 btw it's the substitute so maybe that's why it blinks
  • Nexed_
    Nexed_ Member Posts: 32 Troubleshooter
    @AnhEZ28 also this battery have design capacity and full charge capacity. Design capacity: 54 720 mWh and Full charge capacity: 57 638 mWh.
    After some use is sometimes just keeps blinking simmilar to when you have 10% battery. The blinking stops when you unplug it and reach design capacity,
    On my older battery full charge was around 49 mWh and design capacity was also around 49 mWh.
    Do you know something about this?
  • AnhEZ28
    AnhEZ28 ACE, Member Posts: 4,296 Pathfinder
    @Nexed_ so it might be an incompatible issue. The laptop was set to have a ~49mWh battery. When the current battery reaches higher than that, it will blink the light to tell you the problem with the battery. But if it doesn't affect your normal use, then you don't need to worry about anything.
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  • Nexed_
    Nexed_ Member Posts: 32 Troubleshooter
    @AnhEZ28 what does it mean if it just blinks all the time and sometimes drops to 97% and won't charge up and won't go down. I need to unplug it and wait to drop it to battery design capacity so then it will unblock and start charging. So I think I will just calibrate it but not with "calibrate" option in Acer care center as It just doesn't exist.
  • Nexed_
    Nexed_ Member Posts: 32 Troubleshooter
    So if it's "ok" I can just ignore it?
  • AnhEZ28
    AnhEZ28 ACE, Member Posts: 4,296 Pathfinder
    @Nexed_ either ignore it or do a manual calibration again.
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  • Easwar
    Easwar Member Posts: 6,727 Guru
    Hi @Nexed_,

    May I know the full model name of your unit.

  • Nexed_
    Nexed_ Member Posts: 32 Troubleshooter
    @Eswar You mean laptop model?

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