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Dell Laptop has Orange Battery Light

KitTkat — Sun, 23 Feb 2020 06:00:30 GMT

I have a Dell Inspiron 15 5000 series. Not sure how old it is 4/5 years or so. I unplugged it to use it in a different room and the battery light turned orange. Plugging it back in, it turned back to its normal white charging light, but once it hit 100% it went back to orange. I did a little research on Google, but only saw problems with having a blinking orange light. Mine is a steady orange light.

Any ideas? It's working fine otherwise.

Re: Dell Laptop has Orange Battery Light

Mindy D — Sun, 23 Feb 2020 06:18:10 GMT

@KitTkat wrote:
I have a Dell Inspiron 15 5000 series. Not sure how old it is 4/5 years or so. I unplugged it to use it in a different room and the battery light turned orange. Plugging it back in, it turned back to its normal white charging light, but once it hit 100% it went back to orange. I did a little research on Google, but only saw problems with having a blinking orange light. Mine is a steady orange light.

Any ideas? It's working fine otherwise.

@KitTkat If the computer is running on a battery, the battery light operates as follows: Off — The battery is adequately charged (or the computer is turned off) Flashing orange — The battery charge is low. Solid orange — The battery charge is critically low.Sep 14, 2019

Diagnostic and Battery Indicators for Dell Latitude Notebooks ...

Re: Dell Laptop has Orange Battery Light

KitTkat — Sun, 23 Feb 2020 06:20:50 GMT

@Mindy D Thank you, but doesn't "running on battery" mean it's not plugged in? Mine is plugged in and the battery says it's at 100%.

Re: Dell Laptop has Orange Battery Light

Mindy D — Sun, 23 Feb 2020 06:33:11 GMT

@KitTkat wrote:
@Mindy D Thank you, but doesn't "running on battery" mean it's not plugged in? Mine is plugged in and the battery says it's at 100%.

@KitTkat @I'm not sure. I found the service manual for your 5000 series online. See if this means anything.

Inspiron 15 5000 Service Manual

Table of Cont

PDF

Inspiron 15 5000 Service Manual>Diagnostics

Diagnostics

Power and battery-status light/hard-drive activity light:Indicates the battery-charge status or the hard-drive activity.

NOTE: Press Fn+H to toggle this light between power and battery-status light and hard-drive activity light.

Hard-drive activity light

Turns on when the computer reads from or writes to the hard drive.

Power and battery-status light

Indicates the power and battery-charge status.

Solid white – Power adapter is connected and the battery has more than 5 percent charge.

Amber – Computer is running on battery and the battery has less than 5 percent charge.

Off

Power adapter is connected and the battery is fully charged.
Computer is running on battery and the battery has more than 5 percent charge.
Computer is in sleep state, hibernation, or turned off.

Link to complete service manual below.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=11&ved=2ahUKEwjqjeO4hufnAhUDY6wKHVm6DQ4QFjAKegQIBBAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dell.com%2Fsupport%2Fmanuals%2Fus%2Fen%2F04%2Finspiron-15-5566-laptop%2Finspiron-5566-servicemanual%2Fdiagnostics%3Fguid%3Dguid-bf435463-8b42-422a-a978-66c60784f23c&usg=AOvVaw0oZ4vzu24AX7Mv0r1oEUM9

Re: Dell Laptop has Orange Battery Light

KitTkat — Sun, 23 Feb 2020 06:34:35 GMT

@Mindy D I honestly have no clue, although I appreciate you looking this up for me. The battery said I had 3 hours of battery left when I had it unplugged. Plugging it back in, it charged up to 100%. I'm totally confused by this.

Re: Dell Laptop has Orange Battery Light

FranandZoe — Sun, 23 Feb 2020 09:46:10 GMT

It's possible your power cord/power supply is not working.

Re: Dell Laptop has Orange Battery Light

Nuttmeg — Sun, 23 Feb 2020 13:38:08 GMT

@KitTkat

Please backup your important files, photos and etc to the cloud or a hard drive.

A Google search of "my Inspiron 5000 has a light" will give you a solution.

You may want to post your concerns at Dell's customer to customer forum.

Re: Dell Laptop has Orange Battery Light

millieshops — Sun, 23 Feb 2020 14:37:43 GMT

@KitTkat @Nuttmeg I'm also on a Dell laptop - for over a year now. But until a few months back, I'd never seen that light and had no idea what it meant when it came on. But as I do most always when there's a problem with any computer, I turned first to the connections. In my case, a connection had worked loose and my battery had nearly depleted itself while I wasn't watching. Unplugging and replugging that connection securely turned my light off.

But I'm glad to have read this whole thread so that now I know more about what's happening right before my eyes!