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    Strange Battery Wear Levels?

    Discussion in 'HP' started by ColdHeat, Jul 28, 2010.

  1. ColdHeat

    ColdHeat Notebook Geek

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    Hi everybody, I'm getting an 11% Wear level reported by Battery Bar and HW Monitor.

    I've already contacted HP and they simply had me run HP Support Assistant and it listed the Battery as good.

    I want to squeeze as much battery life out of the HP Envy 14 as much as the next person but I can't do that with my battery potentially being defective.

    Does anyone else have strange battery wear levels? The laptop was ordered two days after launch and its only 2 to 3 weeks old.
     
    ColdHeat, Jul 28, 2010
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  2. Heilwasser

    Heilwasser Notebook Enthusiast

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    MY wear level jumped from 3.5 to 13.5% in like a day once. I think it's just false reporting. I think you will see it drop back down if you use the battery regularly. I did a clean Win 7 install and it went back to 3.6%. shugs I guess if you are getting anywhere from 3-4 hrs its normal.
     
    Heilwasser, Jul 28, 2010
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  3. Skwiggler

    Skwiggler Notebook Guru

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    I went from 10.4 to 7.6 to 4.7 back to 8.6 now its at 4.6 again.
    Its just false recording I think.
     
    Skwiggler, Jul 29, 2010
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  4. MagusDraco

    MagusDraco Biiiiiiirrrrdmaaaaaaan

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    My wear went from 5% to 3% over the course of a couple weeks.

    reading might not be right.
     
    MagusDraco, Jul 29, 2010
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