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Laptop Battery problems
Motzy5
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I've had my laptop for 2 years now, its a Toshiba Satellite and since day one the battery life has been slowly declining to a point where i can only get 40 minutes out of it on the lowest and most efficient power setting. I dont want to buy a new battery for it and i remember seeing something before about recalibrating the battery on an older dell computer. It brought it from less than 5 mins of battery life to over an hour. Any idea what I can do to do fix my battery life and bring it upto the 2+ hours its supposed to have?
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A laptop battery has an estimated life span of 2 years.
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There is absolutely no merit to this advice. 99.9% of laptops use lithium ion batteries, which do not have a memory effect. The only way to really hurt a lithium ion battery through charging is to either run the battery very low or to overcharge it, both of which will only happen due to defective circuitry.
Lithium ion batteries are used for laptops because they have much better energy density than nickle cadmium or nickle metal hydride batteries. Unfortunately, they also lose roughly 20% of their maximum capacity every year, largely independent of usage habits.
I was under the impression that this issue had nothing to do with the battery itself, more with the battery manager under the OS.
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