2 weeks battery 9% wear

Hi, I got my notebook on dezember 21, 3 days ago it alredy was with 9% wear level..
Its a gateway p-9708u, 9 cell battery...
It jumped from 5% to 9%..Is it normal? I alredy read guides and a lot of topics about this, but its all too specific..
My brother got the same notebook( same day) and have 6% wear level..
The both batterys had 2% in the first day..

 

mu thinkpad T500 that I've had for 1year has 9% wear on it. I'd say it's not normal. it sounds like gateway was being cheap and gave both of you guys old batteries.

 

You need to do a full battery calibrate to find out your true wear level , I have only had this notebook a month and the battery wear level is 13.5% according to battery bar.

 

You mean discharging it until 10% and than full charge?
Doesnt it increase battery wear?( I read you better never letting the battery less than 20%), Im kind concerned..

 

You have it a month(13,5%), yuio have it a year(9%), is that difference normal, or those gateway batteries have terrible quality?

 

Repetitive discharging beyond 20% isn't recommended. One time is no problem.

Better go to 0%.

 

really I discharge my battery daily for about a year minus weekends and summer, most times it shut down at 5% so to be honest I think you battery isn't very good. I abused my battery and I'm at 9%.

 

How do I go to 0%? Windows alows me that?( Im not on my notebook now )...

 

Just boot into the bios and leave the notebook till it shuts itself off.

 

Or change the critical battery alert in advanced power options.

 

I prefer doing it from the bios, because if you battery cuts out in windows as it is writing data to the hdd, you never know what problems it might cause.

 

I will do it and post the result later.

Something I notice is that changing between balanced and power saver doesnt make much difference for the estimated time( the maximum difference I get is 10-15min), sometimes its also gets more time on balanced...Is it like that for everyone?

Also I have a question about this battery software, is it windows built in or some application that comes installed?

 

I can say that out off all the laptops that I've ever had, that option never really does much for me. All it really does is make speedstep more aggressive. The only way you're really going to see noticeable battery time improvements is to under-volt.

 

Yeah, i checked the discharge rate under everest ultimate, balanced varies between 28xx-32xx, power save varies between 27xx-28xx mW..

 

Finished the calibration, wear level 8%...

 

You might find that every time you do a calibrate you wear level might go up or down by a couple of %

 

8% is not too bad.

I would just accept it and handle the battery with care.

 

lol.. my discharge rate is around 18,700mw and I've been using my battery pretty heavy since I got my CW... My battery still holds every single milliwatt it was intended to hold with no wear and that's after a good 100-130 charge/discharge cycles. I'd call foul with gateway, and make them replace the battery. That's premature wear, and batteries are expensive!

 

The screen is 17", cant that be the difference?

 

no it doesn't... but seriously 9% wear in 2 weeks is a lot... i had 20% wear after 1 year....

 

In the past, ive gotten a new laptop with a little bit wear on it right away, just from the factory.

Personally, after almost 2 years, i have 64% wear... its horrible...

 

I did a calibration on my brothers notebook, it jumped from 6% to 9%..damn, Im very disapointed with those batteries..