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    UX32VD - Battery Wear & Usage

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by Canarka, Aug 26, 2012.

  1. Canarka

    Canarka Notebook Guru

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    Upon originally receiving my UX32VD, I formatted and installed everything to the SSD, leaving the HDD as a media storage device.

    Initially, I tested the laptops battery life for a few days. Light wifi usage, screen all the way down, keyboard to 1 or completely off. I would get anywhere between 5 to 5.5 hours of battery life. I checked battery wear upon receiving the laptop and it was 1.3%.

    Since school had not started, I stopped testing total battery life and kept the battery within 85-100% at all times when using it.

    I did another couple of test runs and now can only get 4 to 4 hours and 15 minutes of battery life while using the same criteria as my previous test.
    Not only this, my battery wear is up to 5.3%!

    Is anyone else experiencing terrible battery life, and wear?
    Am I doing something wrong here?
    If the battery wear gets too bad, is it covered under the 2 year warranty I received with it?
     
    Canarka, Aug 26, 2012
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  2. serp46

    serp46 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I used HWmonitor to check the wear of my battery, but i t change at every boot. My wear in less than a month is between 3% and 4%.
     
    serp46, Aug 26, 2012
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  3. Heinzi

    Heinzi Notebook Enthusiast

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    My battery wear dropped. But this should be normal for the first cycles of a LiPo battery. I now have 2 total charge / discharge cycles and HWinfo shows me 0.4% wear. I use the stock components but with installed Windows on the iSSD. This setting runs fast and battery life became longer after installing this.
     
    Heinzi, Aug 26, 2012
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  4. serp46

    serp46 Notebook Enthusiast

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    How is possible too much difference between our batteries? Do you usally play with this pc? I read that high temperature can cause battery wear.
     
    serp46, Aug 26, 2012
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  5. Canarka

    Canarka Notebook Guru

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    I dont game at all on my laptop. I have a desktop for that. This is strictly a school/light web usage laptop.
     
    Canarka, Aug 26, 2012
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  6. chroma_cg

    chroma_cg Notebook Consultant

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    been using it for a month, zero wear so far

    use it mostly for light browsing, some gaming but it so low spec that even HD4000 can handle it perfectly

    its mostly plugged in, but sometimes i may carry it around the house and i usually drain about 10-20% (the most is 50%) before plugging in again
     
    chroma_cg, Aug 26, 2012
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  7. Jonny123

    Jonny123 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I have had the ux32vd for about a week and have 6% wear level and max charge at about 43wh. Used it at high temps a few times encoding video and playing a few games. All good as long as it doesn't plummet from here on in :)
     
    Jonny123, Aug 27, 2012
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  8. vegards

    vegards Notebook Enthusiast

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    wear.png

    Bought the UX32VD in september 2012. Holding up fairly well, no?
     
    vegards, Mar 12, 2014
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  9. falze

    falze Newbie

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    Also bought this notebook in september 2012 and I have 10 % battery wear now.
     
    falze, Mar 12, 2014
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