**Battery Now**

My second post today thats miner for the quick reponse to my first question. Second question is about the battery. Again i have only had this laptop for about 2 days now and ran the battery dead twice and charged it up before i ran it dead again, and now seeing that battery while plugged in saying only 96% and total battery 97% (again while plugged in) is this normal? have i already killed that battery 4 % already...?? any suggestions

PS this is better than the online tech chat that compaq offers
thanks again in advance

 

Running the battery dry is not a good idea. Repeated complete discharges of the battery is a sure way to kill it. May I suggest setting your laptop to go to standby or hibernate when battery reaches around 5%.

A similar thing happened to me. My battery will only charge up to 98%. What I did was to drain the battery to around 40%. I then removed it and stored it for several days. When I finally put the battery back, it charged to 100%. Guess I was lucky.

You can download mobilemeter, it can show you your battery wear.

 

Well thanks for the prompt response so you suggest that i take i out for few day and let it sit. I guess i can try and do that. But there is no other way hu... **** i guess i was just thinking it was like a cell phone battery.. oh well thanks again

 

When I said I guess I was lucky, I meant that I stumblled upon it by chance. I was going to use my laptop of AC for several days so I decided to pull the battery for storage. I was not expecting it to go back to 100%. It was pure luck.

I suggest you google mobilemeter and download it. It should show you your battery wear level. On my laptop, it was showing 0 wear when it would only charge to 98%.

BTW, in case your laptop has an option in BIOS for calibrating the battery, don't use it. It will completly drain the battery.

Good luck!

 

thanks again for the information. That program Mobile Meter just shows the wear on battery kind of like the one in windows right? and if it shows 0 wear wht does that mean exacly

 

0 wear means that the program is reading that there is no wear and tear on your battery. In case you have a v2000, mobilemeter has been known to report wrong battery wear level on this model.

Worse case scenario, try to get compaq to send you a replacement battery since it is less than a week old.

 

My DV4000 12-cell battery wear in a rate of 1-2% per week for the first 4 weeks (6% after 4 weeks), then another 2% in the next 4 weeks. I run the battery 50-80% dry 2-3 times a week. It seems it will get stablized. For complete discharge, you are supposed to do that once every 2-3 months to recalibrate the battery according HP.

 

2nd day using my notebook and it is on 23% wear =( sucks when i first got it i did a full charge w/ notebook on but i disconnected it while it was like 50% because my ram arrived and i stuck it in, then i played around w/ my notebook and the battery dropped to 83% and i charged it back to 100% then i used it again and it droppde to 74% and then charged back and then used it till like 93% and now full again, lol I dont think that was smart, any clue how to fix it?

 

What are you people rambling about? This sort of wear and tear should only be apparently after hundreds of discharges

 

Hi Soul814, you may try to recalibrate your battery as HP recommended. First you fully charge it. Then turn off any battery power options and allow the laptop to drain completely. Plug it back and charge it up again.
The life time of a lithium battery is around 500 charging cycle when it can hold only 50% of less its capacity.

 

Well again guys thanks for all the help and it seems like its back up to 100% so who know whats going on with it but i just dont let it drain completely anymore..
Cheers A.G

 

=) we'll im going to discharge it now, im using it and it has a while left, im going to let it get to 0 and charge it again this time with my notebook off and i'll see what the wear is hopefully its good

 

i guess i did a bad discharge =) lol after doing it i read that I'm not suppose to be using my notebook when I'm doing it, well my computer battery life increased by 2% its at 26%. =(