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    what does wear level of battry shows?

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by dare2winn, Jan 21, 2013.

  1. dare2winn

    dare2winn Newbie

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    i have calibrated the battery of dell 4110 inspiron and it reached again 100% that is 0 % wear level but one day suddenly it went to hibernation and wear level reached to 8 % , so my question is to expert that why this ups and down in the wear level? if i had kept that 100% for long time without re calibrating then would my battery remain 100 percent ? or what ever the software show the internal wearing keep on going? please help
     
  2. Commander Wolf

    Commander Wolf can i haz broadwell?

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    It is normal for batteries to lose capacity over time, even if you never use it. The wear level just indicates how much capacity the battery can still hold. At 8% wear your battery can hold 92% of the original capacity: if you were getting 100 minutes of runtime, you should now get 92 minutes. Whether you calibrate the battery or not will not affect the wear level: you can have a battery that has a nominal 0% wear, but it will crap out when Windows says 50% because the actual wear level is 50%, etc.
     
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    thank you for the response . now one query...few monts ago the wear level of my battery was 7% but one day it went to hibernate lack of charge and i recharged it and checked the wear level then it was 0%. now my question is . is my being better or its real wearing is still 7% and virtually shown zero percent? and after few days due to lack of charge it went to 8% wear level so what is this , it means once the battery gets weraing level then it is remained for forever eventhough it shows less wearing level after caliberation? help to be clear