How do I get the percentage of battery power remaining to display on a Lenovo ThinkPad tablet?

relztrah · Mar 25, 2019

There's a way to display the percentage of battery charge remaining because I've seen it on another identical tablet PC. I only use this tablet at the gym and leave it in my gym clothes bag so it would be nice to know when it is getting below 10% rather than trying to guess from the bar.

I looked through all settings, but didn't see where to enable the percentage to display.

Digerati · Mar 25, 2019

Does it show the percentage when you hover the mouse pointer over the battery icon?

If not, and you are sure there is no setting you overlooked, then I can only guess the other computer you saw was running a battery status monitoring program. I suggest you look through what is available and pick the one that suits you best.

Tekno Venus · Mar 25, 2019

There is no way to do this natively in Windows. However, Lenovo bundles some software called Lenovo Vantage with their machines. Inside Vantage, there's a battery gauge option (somewhere, not exactly sure where it is) which will turn on a battery % meter in the taskbar. More info here: https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/ThinkP...le-green-battery-icon-on-taskbar/td-p/3667701

If you can't find the option within Vantage, I've seen people reporting that it has been removed in some versions.

There's another option, which is a program called BatteryBar. I used it a long time ago, but I believe it still works with Windows 10: BatteryBar Pro: Windows Battery Life Tracker. There's a paid and free version

relztrah · Mar 26, 2019

Here is what I'm talking about.

This is from my second Lenovo ThinkPad. Both of them show Lenovo Vantage in the apps list, but when I tap on it, it just gives a splash screen and then goes away. There is no actual app that opens and allows me to make any changes, unless I'm missing something. Thanks for the tips. I'll follow them up when I get some time.

Digerati · Mar 26, 2019

Instead of tapping on the battery icon, what if you right click on it? Does that then give you any options to open the app or get to a settings page?

Tekno Venus · Mar 26, 2019

If you right click on the taskbar, and hover over Toolbars, there might be an option to enable the Lenovo Battery Meter there.

The screenshot you've given is definitely the Lenovo battery meter, I've seen it on Lenovo's I've used in the past - it's just a case of working out how to enable it!

relztrah · Mar 26, 2019

It's a tablet, so there's no mouse or clicking.

Tekno Venus · Mar 26, 2019

You can still right click on a tablet - just tap and hold

relztrah · Mar 27, 2019

Here's what I see when I long press:

And none of those options has a setting that allows me to display the percentage of battery power left. But the good news is that I have a solution! I have an extra cellphone power pack that I put in my gym clothes bag so when my battery dies while I'm on the elliptical machine in the middle of an article, I can simply plug in the power pack and then charge the tablet when I get home. Fortunately this table has an alert when battery power gets low, so I have a few minutes warning.

I appreciate all the suggestions from other members here, but this really isn't enough of an issue that I'm going to pursue it further. I'll just use the power pack. Thanks again.

jcgriff2 · Mar 31, 2019

I found this on Google -

How do I show battery percentage on Lenovo?
Re: Display Battery Percentage

Pull down from the top to reveal the Notification center.

Tap on the Settings gear symbol on the top right corner. This will show the Notification Center menu.

Tap on "Display Batter Indicator".

Select "Percentage" to show the percantage charge remaining on the Notification line.

Display Battery Percentage

Regards. . .

jcgriff2

jcgriff2 · Mar 31, 2019

I found this too - How to display battery percentage - Smartphone/Tablet - US

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