N3410 - battery dying

I recently got an N3410 and I love it - from the screen to the great build quality.

But I do have one major problem - my batery dies out very quickly, even when the laptop is not on.

To give an example - recently I charged the battery to 100% and then went out of town. When I came back 4 days later the battery was completely dead.

I searched other posts in this forum and there was some talk of a BIOS update. Does anyone have any information on this or any other reason why this might be happening?

I'm really hoping I can fix this without having to send it in for repair.

 

im not sure how much the bios would do to help but there could be a few things
if you just closed your laptop, it could have gone into standby mode which still uses a little battery, it shouldnt be enough to run you battery down that fast though so there could be a problem.
im not sure what processor you have but you should look into using notebook hardware control to undervolt your cpu and save some energy. i undervolted and it took my battery life from a little over 4 hours to over 6 so its worth a shot
good luck

 

Thanks for the suggestion, but this is more a problem with the battery dying even when the laptop is switched off - not hibernating.

My bros Dell was also off for the 4 days that we were out of town and his powered without any problems - battery was still over 80%.

 

This is a problem that many here are aware of with the N3400/3500 and N6000 series.

On my N6010 I noticed that my speakers are always powered even when switched off. And have found the only solution is to unplug the battery when I leave my notebook unplugged for a long time. (Mine is practically drained in 3-4 days)

Fujitsu don't seem to release any Bios updates for some reason, although I doubt this could be fixed by Bios fix. It might just as well be bad hardware design.

 

Dang...that was definitely not what I wanted to hear.

I guess my only solution is to send it in for repair.

Thanks for confirming that though.

 

I'd contact Fujitsu customer service, theyve been helpful for me in the past. I think its normal for some power to be drained when not in use. Personally, I havent gone 4 days without turning on my n3410 yet - but from what I can tell it basically retains its charge when its off and Im not using it. Maybe I'll experiment in next few days and see how it does. Id like to think you just have a bad battery. On the topic of speakers staying on when the unit is off- how can you tell?

 

My N6010 has a subwoofer, and if I put my ear on it I can hear a hiss that goes away if I remove the battery. Not sure if anything else is also draining power on top of the woofer/speakers

If the battery is left out of the notebook it won't discharge, or at least nothing beyond the expected few percents. Another indicator that the drainage is due to the notebook itself.

I am not sure if this problem is still there in the new releases, but it was there in the initial N3500 and N6000

 

Yup, happens to my N3510 as well. Well know issue. When battery is left in notebook, discharges from 100% to around 60% in 5 days.

 

You're lucky, I go from 100% to 0% in 3 days WHEN SWITCHED OFF. I have already sent my 3510 in once, and it came back exactly the same. Fujitsu's lame excuse that 'they all do that' is just BS. I have had 8 other notebooks, and all of them lasted many many weeks when turned off, and had >90% battery life when powered back on. It is a design fault that is common the the 35xx and 34xx series (and probably others) and Fujitsu need to come clean and fix what is a very demonstrable and repeatable problem.

- Tim

 

Yeh, it has been a known design fault in the N34XX, N35XX and N6XXX notebooks. Sending it in for warranty certainly won't fix the problem and I doubt Fujitsu will ever fix it. Maybe in a newer model. It's probably a hardware design problem so I doubt a new bios could fix it. I guess we're stuck with it

Im just not sure whats eating up the battery in the N3 series notebooks. In the N6 series theres the subwoofer, but for the N3?