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Battery drain issues post upgrading to Windows 11
Hi, I have got a Dell XPS laptop (16 GB RAM, 1 TB SSD, Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-9750H CPU @ 2.60GHz 2.59 GHz) and to my knowledge this has one of the better battery life (approx. 7-8 hours post charging) and when you close the laptop and open it on the next day, it just consumes approx. 2% battery only. This is all good with Windows 10. But when I received my Windows 11 update things went for a toss. Interface looks awesome, navigating through them is also awesome. But then battery - no it was worrisome !
I had my laptop full charged and as usual I left it as it is. Then to my surprise it drained out completely and I had to recharge it full again. When I looked over the Battery Usage (thanks to Microsoft for the detailed usage pattern) it started to drain after a certain time. None of the tasks were running, I had shut down my Oracle, SQL Services, closed my Edge, Chrome browsers, etc., services, still no luck.
I know this is a issue reported by many users across the globe, and the steps to minimize the battery drain (provided in Bing/ Google search) aren't the effective ones. They are just to optimize your battery consumption and not to avoid your battery drain issue. Many others have written go back to Windows 10, but then why take all the effort to upgrade to Windows 11 and get awestruck with its interface.
I know its all early days of roll-out and I hope Microsoft definitely has a way to fix this issue. Here is the look of my battery usage post charging and leaving it idle overnight.
If anyone has the same issue and would like to take this to Microsoft, please have a look at my battery usage levels as well.
Thanks
- Hi,
i install windows 11 and the battery go wild 🙂
im started to think im crazy but in windows 10 not having this bug ..
and in windows 11 .. i try everything i find on this bug .. even install all tool firmware etc ... and
im surprise its not fixed and when we read on internet its not just my lenovo t480s but many other brand of people have it this problem..
im a network admin and computer support specialist and ...the first impression on windows 11 was good .. but the lack of interface utilility .. and the little irritating thing ..
and i feel like windows its not finish like a beta software ...
microsoft need to listen the customer what they really need
so someone have a idead?
after many hour to read and try to troubleshoot this ... i think the airplane mode like symptome
because i check consumption of eatch thing and its minimal ..
i use the computer for read web and doing computer job ... and even plug i lost charge when charging and nothing consume it ... its evaporing? hehe
sometime its like going good and when its start to going down ... nothing i do change the draining
i charge at 110 watt .. vantage say battery is good ... the number i see its normal
but the energy it lost in space somewhere? haha
so .. i was happy when i see the driver for the battery for windows 11 ... its not changing anything ...
and no i dont want to return to windows 10 ... since the last 30 years i always use the latest OS
so when we find the culprit maybe we find it for any brand of laptop that have the same beavior
and stop sending people to the hardware company ... its afffecting only windows 11 users on many brand .. like lenovo hp or dell at random model ..... so i think when the problem its not specific like that .. we need a Microsoft ing to manage this and go in deep on that ..
we need to find it to have a windows stability ...and user happyness of the product ...
its at end of debuging this its because a hardware specific or soft or driver that are commun to all brand ... we can advise company and tell what cause this ... and we find a fix together and we make windows A OS of Quality
... ps i was so happy to see the android app we can use on windows ... hahaha
i was so disapointed... many years i tell my people , that was a bad microsft store and app ...and if i can imagine have a google play store ... (the best on word at this momment) ... we can change the user friendly for curstomer experiences
the point that choc me ... after install and read on how to do it ... you choose amazon store to do it ...
comon all this good work to finish in the wrong Store hahaha
i will be clear right now ....
only google store its the options there... all app its on it .the price too ... and why program all of this .. when we can do only one verison to alll...
with edge you understand that google its not enemy but a good players and we need to work togheter to make life better .. they have good idea , microsoft have good idea .. and we need that merge to be transparent for the user ...
windows its the os .. and we merge and facilitate assimilation with populair good app
microsoft need to buy google .. its not going to disapear .. they have goods skills ...
ty November 2022 and still having the same battery drain issue with my Huawei Matebook D14 after upgrading to Win 11. Usually I got around 5 hours of battery on Win 10, now after upgrading to Win 11 just 2 hours.
It's June 2022. I upgraded in November last year but returned to windows 10 because of the same issue. I just made the mistake of upgrading thinking the problem was fixed but it is still there. Plus many of the software I use on a regular basis run super slow. Suggestion: STAY WITH WINDOWS 10. Windows 11 is not such a great OS plus there are a lot of bugs they still need to fix.
It's September 2022, and after 9 months of Windows 11 I have gone back to Windows 10. I have tried countless things to reduce the power usage on Windows 11, but nothing works. It simply uses much more power than Windows 10. The battery life on my Intel 8th gen CPU laptop on Windows 11 is 4 hours instead of 7 hours with Windows 10. That's 40% less, which is completely unacceptable.
Additionally, since I have BatteryBar installed, I can follow the power usage in every moment. I have noticed Windows 11 ramps up the power usage much more on every task, but the performance is even lower than on Windows 10. And then it takes 5-10 seconds to lower the power usage, whereas Windows 10 lowers the power usage instantly after the action has been performed.
There is something VERY wrong with how Windows 11 handles the CPU.Hi splus9 I don't think going back to Windows 10 is an option. I am looking for Microsoft to fix this issue, because if this is not done then any powerful laptop you buy paying a huge amount will have the same problem 🙂
Thanks
Aravind S
Hi,
I am having same issues with my HP Probook, only after upgrading from win 10 to win 11, i am facing the same problem. When i close (shutdown/hibernate) my laptop on at any battery percentage (say 90%, 60% or even 100%) and then after next day or two, when i tried to switched on my laptop again it always shows battery low (drained to 40%, 30% and even lower than that). It only happened after upgrading from windows 10 to 11, my laptop was working 3 to 4 hours continuously in windows 10. In win 11 it is something suddenly shutting down due to battery drain problem.
Have Microsoft fixed it ir we need to downgrade our pc to windows 10, or some other operating system better than this worst ever win 11.
6 months update:
Given the course of time and daily updates released by Microsoft I thought the battery drain issue would have got resolved. But it still remains the same and absolutely no improvement. Wondering whom else we need to report this? If this is a common problem across all of Win 11 users, what's additionally required by Microsoft to fix this battery drain issue before laptop gets spoilt???
Thanks
Aravind S
Details of battery usage:
Battery Level - 6 months update - Last 7 daysBattery Level - 6 months update - Last 24 hoursBattery Level - 6 months update - Settings
- This issue doesn't affect all devices and it is recommended to file a report using Feedback Hub app , so you could send log files and Microsoft investigate it.
In addition, you may report this issue to your device's manufacturer support.- Thanks Reza_Ameri, will do as suggested. I have done it once, but can do it again.
A few days ago I bought a Lenovo laptop which has the configuration:
- Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-10210U CPU @ 1.60GHz 2.11 GHz Installed
- RAM 8.00 GB (7.84 GB usable)
- Storage 128NVMe SSD + 1TB WD HDD
- GPU None
At windows 10 I get battery backup for almost 7-8 hours but after upgrading to windows 11 is reduced to 2.5-3 hours
I tried too many tips from google nothing can work. There have many bugs also that is difficult for tech people then I switch to windows 10 again. I have the exact problem with my Lenovo Slim 7 Pro Ryzen 9. I used to get about 8h of use on battery on Windows 10 but as soon as I upgraded to Windows 11, the battery got down to less than 3 hours. Totally unusable and reverted asap. I also got into a problem with widgets as they only worked during the first boot-up and after that constantly conusmed 7% of CPU, kicking upp my fans. I will try to upgrade in a couple of months to see if the issue has been resolved. For now, staying with Windows 10...
- Has windows fixed this problem yet? My ACER battery is not recharging. And I haven't even installed Windows 11 yet for fear it sill ruin my laptop completely.
- *will*
- I highly suggest you stay at windows 10 for now.
- This issue's been happening to me since the first official release of Windows 11. Had faith in Microsoft that they'd make this problem a top priority, but it's still going until now.
HP Pavilion Gaming 15 (2019)
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-9750H CPU @ 2.60GHz 2.59 GHz
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 4GB AravindS2190 Can't even go back to windows 10. This is very frustrating. Microsoft should either fix this asap or allow users to revert back to win 10
