Windows 10: The "255% available" battery bug that never gets resolved.

I really, really, really need to talk to the leader of the Windows team at Microsoft about this annoying bug that happens whenever I remove my laptop's battery:





I don't know why you guys never fixed it. It's been there since 1803 and affects everyone. Of course those who have batteries might not be able to see it. But those who are living with no battery laptops, can't they just have a "No battery present" thing instead of that? Or are you pranking everyone off?


Lots and lots of people have been reporting about this to communities but never get a helpful answer. Searching for "windows 10 255% battery" shows tons of unanswered questions and not those tech newsletters saying this is a common problem, although it is. Is that tooltip ballon so small that just... no one, even you guys, care about it?


PLEASE FIX THIS BEFORE RELEASING 2004, if you want your OS to be considered as "Prefect"

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Battery icon shows 255% even when battery not installed

As 255% is FF (hex) - all 1's - suggests a certain kind of bug...

If you have a live boot disk, that should prove it's not hardware related.

You could also try a 3rd party battery monitoring program, but if that reads the same buggy info from the OS, might give garbage too.

Similar here, resolved:
Battery shows 255% - how is that possible when 100 is the max?? | AVForums

 

Battery icon shows 255% even when battery not installed

If draining the battery does not resolve the 255% indication then you might try searching the forum for battery driver. I recall seeing some guidance about resolving some apparent battery problems by uninstalling the battery driver and letting Device manager re-detect then reinstall it. I have not kept any notes on this subject but I know I have seen such posts.

Denis

 

Battery icon shows 255% even when battery not installed

HP dv-6c63NR Laptop. Recently (not sure when it started), the battery icon in the System Tray show 255% charge when the battery is installed or removed. I've rebooted multiple times and just finished a reset. Nothing changes, still shows 255% charge.

Any suggestions on how to trouble shoot this?

It was okay a week or two ago.

This laptop is in the Insider Fast stream and currently has 1903 18362.1. I could install a non-insider build on my 2nd HDD (I have a 500GB SSD boot and a 500GB HDD 2nd drive) as a test.