I do the following to charge my battery: 1. Pugin the ac adapter 2. Choose "do nothing " in "what happens when lid closes" while plugged in. 3. on the taskbar, left click the battery icon, set plan to "battery saver" 4. Remove ac adapter jack, left click the battery icon, set plan to "battery saver" This is to use minimal power which should be less than the power ac adapter in giving to the laptop. Note the battery percentage. 5. Goto "Device manager", "battery", Uninstall both the drivers. Plugin the jack.The laptop should be charging now but you cant check it as the battery software has been uninstalled. Close the lid. Leave for an hour or so. Open the lid, the battery icon will be back as the software has been auto reinstalled. Check battery percentage , it should be charged more than it was before closing the lid. Slow but charging.
My original charger stopped charging for some reason so I went to a technician to have it looked at. The guy connected the Dell charger he had lying around and it immediately began charging, no problem. So, he ordered me a new charger (thinking that this is the problem) and now that I got the new one it does charge and it does get recognized by the laptop. However, weirdly enough it takes the laptop from 1 to several minutes to actually recognize that I've plugged the charger into it. When I plug it in, the little blue light on the charger head itself starts to dim and brighten while the little light next to the port occasionally blinks blue. Eventually the laptop does recognize that the charger has been plugged in, but this, as I've said, takes minutes. In the meantime, while the blue light brightens/dims it looks as though it's struggling to "connect" until eventually it finally does.  Anyone have any idea what could be causing this? At this point my guess is that I either need a higher voltage charger or I have some sort of software problem. Thanks in advance!
Dell G3 brand new charger taking minutes to "plug in"