Battry Question

Hello to all

I have a question how much time does the battry run out fast if i use internet office apllication and Messnger ?

The battry run out n about one hour (when its 100% charge) .

Laptop model : HP DV5T

Thanks for all helpers .

 

How old is the battery? and which battery is it? (hp dv5t has several battery options) 1 hour seems awfully short for a new battery but maybe reasonable for a low capacity battery ~1yr into its life.

To compare my 9 cell battery lasts approximately 3:30 hours using internet,office, and messenger.

 

the battry is new (bought the laptop 2 weeks ago)
its had 6 cell .

 

Does it last exactly 1 hour? That seems very short for a new 6 cell battery, which should last around 2 hours at your workload. Perhaps you have vista power saving options set to maximum performance? rather than balanced? that would increase the amount of power the cpu/wireless card/harddrive use.

If you wish to increase the battery life, I suggest checking out the undervolting thread in the NBR forums. In addition, you may want to turn off bluetooth when you are not using it, and reduce the power usage of your wifi card (if the option is available).

Most of the power settings can be accessed from the battery icon in the system tray.

 

A 1 hour battery life is kinda short. Here are some tips I wrote recently for conserving battery life which you might want to put to good use:

Tip 1: Power Down the Display
Do you know one of the most effective ways to conserve laptop battery life is to lower the brightness of the screen display? Its been known that lowering one level of screen brightness will yield up to 10 more minutes of battery life. You can easily do this by going to Start > Settings > Control Panel > Display and clicking the Settings tab. You can also disable those cool effects like ClearType fonts and fade effects to reduce the CPU’s power consumption.

Tip 2: Turn Off Unused Devices
And here's another tip for you. As you may know, many modern laptops have a Wi-Fi built in. Unknown to many people, that Wi-Fi connection is a power guzzler! Make sure you turn off the Wi-Fi connection using the external Wi-Fi on-off switch. If your laptop does not offer such a switch, you should go to the Control Panel > System > Hardware > Device Manager and disable the infrared transceiver, Ethernet adapter and Bluetooth radio.

Tip 3: Decrease Hard Drive Activity
Your laptop hard drive is another power eating culprit. To save power, you should reduce the frequency with which your hard disk has to spin. To do this, you can try defragmenting your hard drive regularly. This can be done using the Disk Degfragmenter in the Start > Programs > Accessories > System Tools menu.

You can also optimize the Windows’ paging file - the area of the laptop hard drive that serves as virtual memory whenever your RAM is full. Optimizing the paging file size ensures your hard drive is accessed less frequently when you run out of system memory. To change it, go to the Control Panel > System > Advanced > Performance Settings > Advanced > Virtual Memory Change. Set both the initial and maximum paging file size to 1.5 times the capacity of your installed RAM size.

Tip 4: Disable Startup Items
Here's another tip. Disable your unneeded startup items! I find it very irritating whenever my laptop boots up and I've to wait like 20 seconds for all manner of little program bits to load into memory. You can disable those startup programs. Go to the associated programs and click on the Options or Preferences menu to do this. You can also go to the Startup tab in your Start Menu and clear programs you don't want to run at boot time.

Tip 5: Condition the Battery
One thing you should remember about laptop batteries. You need to condition it. When you first buy your laptop, charge the battery to 100 percent and then discharge it completely. Next, charge it to 100 percent again. This is not a pointless exercise - it 'conditions' the battery and helps it remember exactly how much electrical charge it can hold. After you do that, you will never need to completely discharge the battery again.

Hope all this helps you out.