Tips on improving G73 battery life?

Hey all,
I have the G73JH and while I like it so far, I am a college student and occasionally have to bring my computer to class. Besides the obvious problems that arise because of the size of the laptop, the battery life has also become somewhat of a problem. I'd like it to be able to last a little longer, and was wondering if you guys had any tips on how to improve the battery life? Whenever I'm on battery I dim the screen/do everything else in the battery saver mode and I also started taking out the battery when I'm plugged in because I heard overcharging it decreases battery life.

 

Don't worry about overcharging your battery. The G73jh cannot overcharge, it's impossible. It's a smart battery and automatically stops charging when fully charged.

Extending Battery Life:
* Here are some tweaks for Windows 7, services to disable etc: Windows 7 Service Configurations by Black Viper
* Edit your Video Bios to reduce battery core and memory clocks to 100, 150. You can try changing the voltage from .95 to something lower, I have not seen any noticeable change with voltage change, heat or battery life. Suspected that voltage on Asus is hardware locked, meaning you have to mod the actual video card itself, changing capacitors etc. Soldering and other modifications.
* Disable any device you don't need while on battery or in class. Disable bluetooth, camera, or even your wireless if you don't browse while in class.
* Edit your power settings. You can go into great details in advanced settings, limiting your CPU power, power saver desktop mode, and other features.
* Download modded drivers for your Azure WLAN Atheros card that will enable battery saving features for maximum battery saving, can increase by 10% on that alone. http://forums.laptopvideo2go.com/to...s-modded-driver-for-windws-7-vista-and-winxp/
- Enable MIMO and WMM power saving, maximum power saving, disable background scan and set roaming policy to very low. This will make your Atheros much better at conserving power.
* Turn off the LED backlights, keyboard, blue under LCD etc, and turn down your LCD brightness.

 

It lasts about 1.5 - 2 hours for me on power saver mode with BIOS 211. Plenty enough for me if I ever need to go battery mode for one class for one reason or another. Usually I just plug it into my seat. Canadian universities all have plugs in every classroom (minus the classic classrooms), but I'm not sure how it is in the US. If there are no plugs around, you might want to make sure you're not using the AMD OC tool as that permanently sets clocks until restart, meaning the system won't downclock accordingly when it's on battery mode. You may also check all your power4gear options and make sure they're set to the lowest power options possible (including CPU state if you're just doing word processing).

Edit: Ruckus' suggestions are great too. Just be careful not to clock too low as that may cause a GSOD or system instability.

 

McGill has almost no power plugs in any classroom accessible to students. So not all Canadian universities.

 

Come to Western.
We're cuddly :3

... and have plugs.

 

dude you go to mcgill i wanted to go there but i didn't get in my application didn't get sent in till waayyy too late but yeah i'm in the US and i don't think the seats in lecture halls and whatnot have plugs, i'll look around tho and yeah i get like 1.5 hours i think just wanted to see if i could get more

I'll try some of those configurations and i dled the driver thanks for your help