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TheEroica Nov 27, 2022 @ 9:00am

Low Battery Indicator suddenly gone?

Wondering if anyone else is experiencing this? I used to get an indicator at 10 and 5% battery letting me know the system was going to shut off soon. Out of nowhere that warning is gone.... I haven't changed any settings or tinkered with anything other than downloading an updated Proton layer for unsupported games.... I was playing batman arkham and it shut down at 0% because I didn't know it was so low. It keeps happening!

I did not see any place in settings suggesting I can toggle that option on or off. Anyone have any idea?

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Mahjik Nov 27, 2022 @ 9:46am

Are you on Stable, Preview or Beta?

class101 [OLED deck] Nov 27, 2022 @ 10:39am

In Desktop Settings > Startup and Shutdown > Background Services > Free Space Notifier checked

TheEroica Nov 27, 2022 @ 12:52pm

Originally posted by Mahjik:
Are you on Stable, Preview or Beta?

Umm... Stable?

TheEroica Nov 27, 2022 @ 12:59pm

Originally posted by class101 deck:
In Desktop Settings > Startup and Shutdown > Background Services > Free Space Notifier checked

So I did go to that setting and it was unchecked. I checked it and am draining the battery now to see if it worked. Thanks for the heads up! Any reason why it would all of a sudden uncheck?

Mahjik Nov 27, 2022 @ 1:19pm

Originally posted by TheEroica:
Originally posted by Mahjik:
Are you on Stable, Preview or Beta?
Umm... Stable?

There have been multiple people suggesting notifications are messed up in the non-stable branches.

TheEroica Nov 27, 2022 @ 1:37pm

Originally posted by TheEroica:
Originally posted by class101 deck:
In Desktop Settings > Startup and Shutdown > Background Services > Free Space Notifier checked
So I did go to that setting and it was unchecked. I checked it and am draining the battery now to see if it worked. Thanks for the heads up! Any reason why it would all of a sudden uncheck?

Sadly it did not work. ;/

Mahjik Nov 27, 2022 @ 4:35pm

Just to make sure, under Settings->Notifications, you don't have the two non-critical Notifications at the top of that page disabled?

Last edited by Mahjik; Nov 27, 2022 @ 4:35pm

TheEroica Nov 27, 2022 @ 7:44pm

Originally posted by Mahjik:
Just to make sure, under Settings->Notifications, you don't have the two non-critical Notifications at the top of that page disabled?

They are disabled. Is that bad?

Mahjik Nov 27, 2022 @ 8:08pm

Originally posted by TheEroica:
Originally posted by Mahjik:
Just to make sure, under Settings->Notifications, you don't have the two non-critical Notifications at the top of that page disabled?
They are disabled. Is that bad?

I don't know if that's bad. We are all learning how the OS works. While it would seem that a low battery notification would be a "critical message" and shouldn't be effected by those settings, maybe that notification is....

My suggestion would be to try your same test but have those two notifications "enabled". See if it makes a difference.

TheEroica Nov 28, 2022 @ 7:10am

Originally posted by Mahjik:
Originally posted by TheEroica:
They are disabled. Is that bad?

I don't know if that's bad. We are all learning how the OS works. While it would seem that a low battery notification would be a "critical message" and shouldn't be effected by those settings, maybe that notification is....

My suggestion would be to try your same test but have those two notifications "enabled". See if it makes a difference.

OK, I'm gonna give it a whirl today. Been playing outer worlds and killing my battery every couple hours. Lol. Just want my notifications back!

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green Mar 4, 2023 @ 11:16am

Originally posted by TheEroica:
Originally posted by Mahjik:

I don't know if that's bad. We are all learning how the OS works. While it would seem that a low battery notification would be a "critical message" and shouldn't be effected by those settings, maybe that notification is....

My suggestion would be to try your same test but have those two notifications "enabled". See if it makes a difference.
OK, I'm gonna give it a whirl today. Been playing outer worlds and killing my battery every couple hours. Lol. Just want my notifications back!

Did it work? Because I'm having the same issue...

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TheEroica Mar 4, 2023 @ 12:18pm

Originally posted by green:
Originally posted by TheEroica:
OK, I'm gonna give it a whirl today. Been playing outer worlds and killing my battery every couple hours. Lol. Just want my notifications back!

Did it work? Because I'm having the same issue...

For me it simply went away with an update. It has come back and gone away periodically but for the most part functions fine now. I just waited for a patch.

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