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Why is Android not sending low battery notifications?

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On my Moto G6, I used to get a notification reminding me to charge the battery every time it got down below about 20%. This was quite handy as it meant I almost never got to the point where the phone switched off by itself.

It now seems to not do this, and I've now been caught out a couple of times by it switching off in the middle of me doing something. Any ideas why? This is the exact same device and I don't think I have changed any settings that should affect this.

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Is the reported charge actually dropping low enough to trigger a notification? Or is it powering off when it still says something like 25%?

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24 minutes ago, pythonmegapixel said:

It now seems to not do this, and I've now been caught out a couple of times by it switching off in the middle of me doing something. Any ideas why?

Could be the battery is going bad. My old phone had the same symptoms of randomly shutting down when doing something, even though it had enough charge left. This happened mostly under load, meaning the battery was no longer able to provide peak power.

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13 minutes ago, BondiBlue said:

Is the reported charge actually dropping low enough to trigger a notification? Or is it powering off when it still says something like 25%?

4 minutes ago, Eigenvektor said:

Could be the battery is going bad. My old phone had the same symptoms of randomly shutting down when doing something, even though it had enough charge left. This happened mostly under load, meaning the battery was no longer able to provide peak power.

No. That was my first thought too, but my G6 is from one of the newest batches (I bought it at a knockdown price when they'd just bought in the G7 to supersede it), so I didn't think it was really old enough for the battery to have gone that bad yet.

 

To work out what level it was actually shutting off at, I charged it fully and waited for it to get down  again and then watched it - the reported charge gets quite low (to like 2%) and then it switches off. 

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pythonmegapixel

into tech, public transport and architecture // amateur programmer // youtuber // beginner photographer

Thanks for reading all this by the way!

By the way, my desktop is a docked laptop. Get over it, No seriously, I have an exterrnal monitor, keyboard, mouse, headset, ethernet and cooling fans all connected. Using it feels no different to a desktop, it works for several hours if the power goes out, and disconnecting just a few cables gives me something I can take on the go. There's enough power for all games I play and it even copes with basic (and some not-so-basic) video editing. Give it a go - you might just love it.

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