Battery Threshold in Power Manager 2 (T500)

The battery threshold feature in Power Manager 2 doesn't seem to work for me very well. Two issues:

1) Sometimes I would change the threshold setting from "Always fully charge" to "Optimize for battery lifespan" or "Custom" and the change wouldn't stick. That is, I would press okay, and when I immediately go back into Battery Maintenance it would return to the previous setting.

2) Even when I do manage to set it to a certain percentage or to the Optimize option, the battery is often still charged to 100%. For example, right now I have the threshold set to Custom, start at 95% stop at 100%, the battery is fully charged (100% in start bar icon), when I hover my mouse over the icon it says "Charging will start when below 95%", and it's still charging. I thought it's supposed to stop when it hits 100%.

Any help? Suggestions?

 

First of all unless you are going somewhere soon and need the 100% charge set it to something like start at 40% stop at 60%, continually topping off to 100% kills a Li-Ion battery capacity very quickly. Those thresholds will give you some time if there's a power cut and will keep your cycle count low (it's also in the ideal range to longevity).

Try those thresholds and see if it helps the problem you currently have. Also, try upgrading to the latest power manager if you don't have it, it may be a bug that has been fixed.