Clicking Airplane mode, as the expected result of disabling Wifi. The left Image shows we are initially connected to the Wifi. No bonus points for guessing where I’m staying this week…. Let’s enable airplane mode from the network icon’s pop-up menu. Surely that would not prevent the laptop charging? Don’t call me Shirley! Unfortunately, I could not blame this on the networking team so the next question asked was what did I change? The only thing was that I worked on the airplane, and put the laptop into airplane mode using the Network Settings popup from the system tray. Chances of two laptops from different batches failing with the same issue on the same day are low. Later that day when I arrived at my hotel, my W541 did the same thing. This was a Lenovo W541 with the new rectangular power connector, which meant there were no spares readily available. After travelling to the customer location, his power supply had “died” as it was not charging the machine. One of my colleagues emailed with an issue on their laptop.
