Ignore "Not a genuine Lenovo Battery"

Ok, everytime my computer comes back from sleep, I get the message "This battery is not a Genuine Lenovo Batter"
here's the thing: I really don't care.
This message is really starting to get on my nerves because when I click on it, it doesn't go away.
Also the battery guage refuses to get the correct percent on the battery. Right now, i have it plugged in, and it's telling me a) that its on battery power, and b) its only at 71%.
Now it updates ONCE every time i log in from sleep mode. but thats it. it doesnt update when I'm off AC power so I dont know when my battery is going to die.
is there ANY other power manager or something i can do to stop this message and make the ThinkVantage power manager recognize the battery?
EDIT: Or do i need to install drivers for this manufacturer's battery?

If the battery is a genuine Lenovo battery, updating the battery management software should get rid of this.
Keith
Formerly 600E 2645, T30 2366, X31 2673, T40 2373, T41 2379, T42 2373, T42 2379, T60 1952, T61p 8889, T61p 8891
Currently T420 4177-CTO, T430 2347-A54, T430 2349-L64, T430 2347-UN9, T430 2342-CTR, Ideapad K1, H520S 2561-1LU

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"Not a genuine Lenovo battery" - how turn off warning?

20 times a day I get a warning that my battery is not genuine Lenovo. I know that. I want to disable this warning. How?

Or just update the Power Manager software.
Keith
Formerly 600E 2645, T30 2366, X31 2673, T40 2373, T41 2379, T42 2373, T42 2379, T60 1952, T61p 8889, T61p 8891
Currently T420 4177-CTO, T430 2347-A54, T430 2349-L64, T430 2347-UN9, T430 2342-CTR, Ideapad K1, H520S 2561-1LU

Re: "Not a genuine Lenovo battery" - how turn off warning?

remove the thinkvantage power manager.
Regards,
Jin Li
May this year, be the year of 'DO'!
I am a volunteer, and not a paid staff of Lenovo or Microsoft

go into control panel, then head to uninstall or change a program, from there you should be able to uninstall the power manager.
Regards,
Jin Li
May this year, be the year of 'DO'!
I am a volunteer, and not a paid staff of Lenovo or Microsoft

Power Manager Guage: Genuine Lenovo Battery Not Attached

I have a T60p Thinkpad (WinXP) with a non-genuine Lenovo Battery. Several times a session, a warning balloon pops up from the system tray Power Manager Guage that reads "Genuine Lenovo Battery Not Attached". There is no way to close the balloon and if I try, it takes control of my browser and tries to sell me a battery. Very heavy-handed marketing.
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Thank you

I just got an aftermarket battery, which I have no choice about because that is
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accessory. IT IS ENTIRELY ANOTHER MATTER TO NAG ME CONSTANTLY ABOUT IT.
So I have to choose between beging nagged by the "not a genuine Lenovo
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I am having a message that says "Genuine Lenovo Battery Not Attached" message that appears after Windows 8.1 starts up. A similar sort of message appears before even Windows boots up, and I need to press the 'Esc' key in order for Windows to boot. This seems to have happened after a recent Windows update. I have uninstalled an reinstalled the Lenovo Power Management Driver but it does not appear to have fixed the issue. My BIOS is the latest version.
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Reset simply does a circuit discharge, it doesn't wipe anything off your hdd.
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X200 brand new battery: "Genuine Lenovo Battery Not Attached"?

Hi,
I got a new 9-cell x200 battery from lenovo literally a few hours ago, and upon plugging it in Power Manager gives me the dang "Genuine Lenovo Battery Not Attached" message... despite the battery being ordered directly from Lenovo! I've noticed that the cells in this battery are Panasonics instead of the Sanyos I got in my 6-cell included with my x200.
Why is it giving me this message, and how do I disable it (without getting rid of Power Manager)?
(To be honest, I'm more interested in the first question )
Message Edited by alacarte on 02-23-2009 05:10 PM

Anyone?

Power Manager : Genuine Lenovo Battery Not Attached

I refuse to pay the bloated price Lenovo charge for their 'genuine' Lenovo battery and bought a long-life one for less than half the Lenovo price. However I keep getting that annoying message popping up and i bascially have to click the pop up to see a website to then shut it down. Invaiably the message will repeat several times and just , well , 'do my nut in'.
there is a similar thread in the T60 section but the fix there entails an XP element which i tried but it wont work in Vista..anyone any idea how to disable this dumb warning?
I'll take my chances if the battery goes boom....
Lenovo X200 Tablet / 350Gb HDD / 4GB RAM / Windows 7

Gkinghrn wrote:
..anyone any idea how to disable this dumb warning?
the only way to disable it is to uninstall the ThinkPad Power Manager software.
Gkinghrn wrote:
I'll take my chances if the battery goes boom....
if your battery does go boom then the cost savings won't seem so great. almost every battery explosion i've seen (all of which were non-genuine batteries) completely destroyed the notebook.
lenovo batteries have monitoring/failsafe electronics built in. third-party batteries do not have this. third-party batteries also wear out much more quickly than a genuine as they use cheap cells. unfortunately, there's no such thing as an inexpensive long-life battery.
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Genuine Lenovo battery - not

I just purchased a battery for my X200S from notebook-laptop-accessories co uk, advertised as a 'genuine Lenovo' item (there's even a picture of a Lenovo-branded battery on the page). When it arrived, it was just an aftermarket battery as you can find on eBay for less than half the price. Thankfully due to a PayPal glitch my payment didn't go through, so I'm not out of pocket (they're welcome to pay me the postal costs to return it!), but I thought other users might appreciate the warning.

thanks for the feedback.
Regards,
Jin Li
May this year, be the year of 'DO'!
I am a volunteer, and not a paid staff of Lenovo or Microsoft

The battery installed is not supported by this system and will not charge. Lenovo X220i.

Hi All, I bought a re-furbished Lenovo X220i and decided to buy an extra genuine Lenovo battery which is brand new (New Old Stock maybe?) from a dealer. Battery Details: P/N OA36283 on the Box. P/N 42T4861 on the battery. According to the Lenovo documentation, this battery part number should be compatible to Lenovo X220i. However, when I insert the battery in, it comes up with a message that the battery is not supported by the system and will not charge. The battery comes up with zero (0%) charge. I installed the latest driver I can find and still comes up the same. Can anybody shed some light on this please? Thanks.

Hi
can you provide the photo of the labels on the battery surface (with quality the symbols legible)? Also, if OS is win7 and Lenovo Power Manager application is installed, it's very helpful to add information PM in the Advinced mode from the Battery tab.
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Genuine Lenovo Replacement Battery Does Not Charge

After reading the number of people on this forum who experienced the same problem I faced (my T61p 9 cell battery went from fine to dead overnight), I took the advice of the contributors and purchased a new, genuine Lenovo replacement battery from a seller on e-bay. I compared the new battery to my original battery and here's the test results for each of the 2 batteries;
Lenovo ThinkVantage Toolbox Log File
Tuesday, September 21, 2010 11:01:04 AM
Main Battery (Original Battery)
Battery Name: 92P1133
Manufacturer Name: Panasonic
Manufacture Date: 07-13-2008
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Lenovo ThinkVantage Toolbox Log File
Friday, October 15, 2010 11:17:30 AM
Main Battery (New replacement battery)
Battery Name: 42T4619
Manufacturer Name: SANYO
Manufacture Date: 03-25-2009
First Used Date: 10-14-2010
Type: LION - Lithium Ion
Bar-coding Number: 1ZFAS93S5PU
Battery Serial Number: 7410
Designed Capacity Percentage: 100
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Current Charge: 20.56 Wh
Full Charged Capacity: 88.50 Wh
Designed Capacity: 84.24 Wh
Voltage: 11.03 V
Temperature: 28 C
Cycle Count: 0
Battery Status
Test Started 10/15/2010 11:15:21 AM
Test Finished: Passed 10/15/2010 11:15:22 AM
After charging the replacement battery overnight, the battery gauge never went above showing 24% charged. I unplugged the AC adapter and it went from 24% to its current level of 5% in about 15 minutes. After plugging the AC adapter back into the computer, the battery will not charge.
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Its becoming a problem trying to suss out the genuine from the replacement models.

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I have a Y2P (i5) ... Feel free to ping me if you want me to test some applications with your Y2P if you have the same model. I don't mind keep doing recovery on it if needed .... =)

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I searched online and this seems to be a very common problem for some reason... but I don't want to take any risks by modifying the windows files to stop checking if its cracked or not because I purchased a legitimate copy of windows, or at least I was supposed to (and I really doubt such a huge retailer like Frys would be installing counterfeit copies of windows...).
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Have you checked out THIS MS forum?
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1) Machine Brand and Model (PC/Laptop):
Lenovo W520
Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205
Note: Wireless switch on lefthand side enabled, bluetooth led lights up but wireless does not.
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03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation 6000 Series Gen2 [8086:0085] (rev 34)
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ifconfig does not show wireless
$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
4 ) Check for modules:
$ lsmod
iwlagn 215351 0
iwlcore 139688 1 iwlagn
mac80211 269644 2 iwlagn,iwlcore
cfg80211 167809 3 iwlagn,iwlcore,mac80211
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$ dmesg
[ 13.497936] iwlagn: Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link AGN driver for Linux, in-tree:
[ 13.497938] iwlagn: Copyright(c) 2003-2010 Intel Corporation
[ 13.498058] iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
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[ 13.498181] iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: Detected 6000 Series 2x2 AGN Gen2a, REV=0xB0
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*-network UNCLAIMED
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vendor: Intel Corporation
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width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
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Ubuntu 10.10
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2.6.35-28-generic x86_64
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sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart
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filename: /lib/modules/2.6.35-28-generic/updates/compat-wireless-2.6.36/iwlagn.ko
alias: iwl4965
license: GPL
author: Copyright(c) 2003-2010 Intel Corporation <[email protected]>
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Hi sparhk, and welcome.
One of the Lenovo staff who frequents the forum put out a call to help you in a private forum. I do a little Linux, so I poked into it. To my amazement my first Google hit was your thread where you indicate you have solved the problem. (At least, it _looks_ like you...)
May I respectfully suggest that a post back here indicating success would be a nice touch? That way anyone who passes by looking for help with this issue will have a better chance of finding it. For posterity, here it is (see post number 25):
[SOLVED] Intel 6205 wireless not working with Lenovo W520
Glad you got it working,
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Where to buy a genuine A1309 battery?

I went to the Apple store today and they will not replace my third party battery. They suggested I try some of the third party dealers around to see if they will.
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Now I know not to buy lenovo products

I have decided to boycott Lenovo
I bought a Lenovo y510P back in October 2013 because I wanted a gaming loptop. I never got to enjoy it because (1) I am coming from the console space. So I never really tried to game on it except from trying a few steam games (2) My PS3/PS4 controller weren't working properly.
Since the very first time I got it, I was having problem upgrading to the next Windows 8 update. After the update it would give me a blue screen after restarting. Failing after several attempt I ended up reverting back via recovery mode. I call customer service and was told that it was a Microsoft problem and that I should give them a call. I didnt want to go through all that hassle so I left the computer with the out of the box Windows 8.
A year later I thought made i'll give it another try and lo and behold I was able to upgrade to Windows 8.1. I recently bought an Xbox One controller because I wanted to give the PC gaming another try. One game that used to work wasnt working anymore and had a message that the vertex shadder and some other shadder was needed. OK... not sure why it's not working now when clearly I used to get to the menu screen before. So I ran windows update in an effort to trying to put the laptop up to date. The last update I remember seeing installed before passing out last night was the Network Framework. I woke up this morning and noticed that the keyboard red light was on but nothing on the screen (not even the led light let alone the Lenovo logo).
Did the regular rebooting, taking out the battery etc, still nothing. I finally called the lenovo support and I was happy to hear the rep said that he could give me a courtesy troubleshooting because I was already out of warranty (thumb up for that). We did the same power off/on troubleshooting and concluded that this could be a hardware problem.
Here is why I will boycott and never EVER buy another lenovo product. I bought this laptop for gaming purposes and never got to use it as such. I barely use the computer because I use my work one. Sure my kid uses it for ABC Mouse and my wife browses every now and then, but the fact that updating it breaks it to the point were I have to spend money for potential replacement of hardware without any real use out of it is border line unacceptable. This proves to me that the $1000+ I spend on it was definitly NOT on a quality product and would NEVER recommend a lenovo product to someone else.
I will not be spending another dime on this and I will say that I have learn my lesson not to trust lenovo products.
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