Solved No Battery Indicator on my Acer

[edspegeddd]

A few months after I last posted I noticed Acer had a bios update for my device. In this update I no longer have to use any device manager tricks, battery is recognized fine in windows 8 now.

To anyone stumbling upon this in the future .. Check for bios update on Acer website

 

[kat3hay]

Same issue, found a fix:

Go to device manager, right click and uninstall "microsoft compliant ac adapter"

go to action>scan for new hardware.

It'll find the battery and you wont even need to reboot

It works great! I had to extend it a little because when I clicked Action at the top, there was only Help there but when I clicked on something in device manager to expand it, I tried Action again and there was Scan for Hardware changes and after following the steps and selecting All devices, it worked--up popped my battery meter and it showed it was charging. The problem was finding this forum. I googled everything under the sun relating to Uninstalling A/c Adapter in device manager and finally found this after hours of looking. I found alot of Never uninstall the Microsoft A/C Adapter but nt what to do if you already did that. Why did I uninstall the A/C Adapter? Because I was having this no battery and no adapter icon on toolbar so i did not know if i was charging or not so i googled it and several sites said to uninstall the Microsoft A/C adapter. They should not be allowed to do that without finishing with the 2nd thing to do which is the above! Just had to say KUDOS to dcostalis for taking the time to post this solution. You are a life saver!!

 

[weaverpankaew]

Registered to thank "dcostalis" for FIX!

Hello,
I searched on-&-off for an answer to this question for 2 weeks before finding this forum. I have an Acer TimelineX. I have the same issue as others on this thread, no power icon in systray and it was grayed out (non-selectable), but also the "action center" flag was grayed out - this fix (dcostalis, response #8) brought both icon back to the systray. Good luck.

I only did what they instructed:
1. Go to device manager, right click and uninstall "microsoft compliant ac adapter"
2. go to action>scan for new hardware.

Now my computer layout was different but essentially the same, here are my 4 steps:
1. Winkey+R, Device Manager
2. Click right arrow under computer name where it reads "Batteries"
I had two elements in this list: "Microsoft AC Adapter" and "Microsoft ACPI-Compliant Control Method Battery"
3. I right-click deleted "Microsoft AC Adapter"
4. I right-clicked computer name and scanned for hardware changes.
BOTH icons came back in the systray instantly.
and when I look at the notifications center, neither the power slider nor the action center slider is grayed-out, anymore.

FIXED!!

I do believe the issue is related to the "non-removable" battery in the Acer TimelineX. That is all I can figure. I agree that the machine is acting like it believes it is a desktop and therefore has no battery of which to report, so it leave the option non-selectable.

Thanks for the fix.

Note: I went through many regedit fixes and landed on many other forums. Many of the post were to old to apply to my machine hardware and OS. Even Microsoft support forums were void of specific solutions to this problem. This is the only solution that worked.


UPDATE:
I found a BIOS update that fixes this problem for the Acer Aspire Timeline 4830T, BIOS version 1.12 is the last option in the list at the Acer support website. it seems that the previous series of steps needs to be repeated unless the BIOS is upgraded. There is a Windows flash packages (much like a standard "installation package" that you double click.), you do not have to use DOS if that is not a comfortable environment for you. Just READ the readme - it's like four lines..

 

[rdrios]

You could try running sfc /scannow, may be some sytem files corrupted.

This worked for my Toshiba s55t-b5260 ! My mouse and the battery were not detected after a windows 8.1 crash and now both are ok. Thanks a lot!

 

[Serwis IT aowa.pl]

Devscan not need. No need install other software. Use this:
pnputil /scan-devices

Create cmd file
@echo off
pnputil /scan-devices

add in task sheduler (taskschd.msc) and enjoy.

Service IT in Gdansk. AOWA.pl

 

[Serwis IT aowa.pl]

Devscan not need. No need install other software. Use this:
pnputil /scan-devices

Create cmd file
@echo off
pnputil /scan-devices

add in task sheduler (taskschd.msc) and enjoy.

Service IT in Gdansk. AOWA.pl

 

[spotify95]

Just thought I'd say a huge thank you for providing this.
I recently got an Acer Aspire Timeline X 4830T in a job lot of laptops, upgraded the RAM to 8GB, installed a 250GB SSD, installed Windows 10 (8 is now out of support...) and no battery icon! At first I thought I was missing a driver. Then I found this, where the battery icon just wasn't appearing. The initial device manager fix worked temporarily, until each restart. But then I found a website which has the 1.12 BIOS listed, and after that was installed the battery icon remains permanently. Success!!!

Note: Acer seemed to have pulled all drivers from their website for this model of laptop so I had to use a 3rd party website. Not ideal but it worked.