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    E1505 Blinking Battery Light

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by DSMav8r, Nov 13, 2006.

  1. DSMav8r

    DSMav8r Notebook Guru

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    I am having a strange problem with my E1505...My battery charging light is doing a series of 3 or 4 orange blinks then green, regardless of it being on battery or AC power.

    I have tried recalibrating, popping the battery out, and nothing seems to be fixing it.

    Does anyone know what is causing this? Surely, not my 9-cell going bad after only 6 months I hope?
     
    DSMav8r, Nov 13, 2006
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    DSMav8r Notebook Guru

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    Anyone????
     
    DSMav8r, Nov 13, 2006
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    is your battery fully charged? Normally if it flashes orange, it means it is getting low on the batter power

    It might also be a light code, but i thought the light codes only happened on the power light.
     
    Amber, Nov 14, 2006
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    Yes, it's fully charged.

    It flashes orange 4 times then once green, then repeats over and over regardless of being on AC or battery power, 10% charge or 100% charge.

    Very strange, I have never seen this before.
     
    DSMav8r, Nov 14, 2006
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    The only thing I can tell you is to chat with dell cause I'm betting that is a light code for something. Unfortunately, I haven't found a site that has the list of codes yet.

    Is your laptop working okay? Outside of the light issue
     
    Amber, Nov 14, 2006
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    Yep, everything else works perfectly.

    I am willing to guess that the battery is dying on me. I looked in the BIOS and it recommended replacing the battery (paraphrasing). Still for being only 6 months old, this is rather disturbing.
     
    DSMav8r, Nov 14, 2006
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    Check with Dell. Since your battery is under a year old, they will most likely cover it under warranty.
     
    Amber, Nov 14, 2006
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    Jeps thats a code for replacing or checking the battery.
     
    wopper, Nov 14, 2006
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    when you find out let me know, i JUST got my e1505 back from dell today (had to have the lcd replaced) and the battery light is flashing

    short orange
    short orange
    short orange
    short orange
    long green

    it does it wether its on battery or ac power

    i took the battery out and hit the test button and all the lights light up green.
     
    psychowes, Nov 21, 2006
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    my notebook is only 6 months old also.
     
    psychowes, Nov 22, 2006
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  11. drumfu

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    it's not about how old your battery is, it's about how many discharges you've gone through. the lifespan should be about 500 cycles which is about 1.5 years if you discharge once a day. if you do more than that, you can expect less than 1.5 years.
     
    drumfu, Nov 22, 2006
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  12. Cuddle

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    same prob with my Dell Inspiron 6000...got the solution?
     
    Cuddle, Sep 2, 2007
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    My 9cell battery has the same problem after 1 year. Is there any solution?
     
    tankyren, Nov 21, 2007
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    I have almost the same issue on a Latitude D610, the battery LED keeps blinking amber all the time, without the 4amber/1green pattern, just a dull amber amber amber amber...
    I tried another battery (slightly newer) but I get the same thing. SOmetimes when I pull out the battery when the laptop is on AC power and then replace it i get it to work properly, then after a few minutes the blinking starts over again.
    The windoze battery manager reports no battery in the batt.bay, but when i pull out the ac adapter the laptop still runs with a low batt. message (the led then goes amber continuously) though the embedded batt meter (the 5 green leds on the bottom of the battery) shows 4leds out of five.
    I'm starting to suspect a problem in the charging circuitry :confused:
    Any thoughts?
     
    kamthor, Nov 22, 2007
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