ux501vw g501vw constant battery discharge charge "feature" killing battery capacity

There's a battery discharge/charge function that drains the battery 5% (to 95%), then recharges it to 100%.
So the battery is constantly cycling between 95-100%.

This laptop is 3 months old, and my battery capacity has gone down from 60mwh to 56mwh. A loss of 6% battery capacity.

If you want to check, run as admin this command

powercfg /batteryreport

and look at all the charge discharge cycles while you're plugged in.

wtf man. Is it better to keep discharging 5% and recharging like this?

 

6% loss on a "theoretical" max battery capacity is well within normal parameters. No batteries are identical, and very few ever make their designed capacity after a cycle or two.

If it continues to lose capacity over 10% tops, that could indicate an issue. But if it stabilises around where it is now that is completely normal. Also, most laptops do the 100-95-100-95..... charging thing, LiOn and LiPo don't like being trickle charged to 100% continuously, the cells last a lot longer with some very slight exercising at the top end of the charge