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    Not original battery on t61p

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by truelies, Jul 8, 2012.

  1. truelies

    truelies Notebook Consultant

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    Seems it shows a message on tool bar say it's not a Lenovo battery, also t61p doesn't charge this battery. The Sony laptop works with aftermarket battery. Does Lenovo locks out the non Lenovo battery? The original one is very expensive.
     
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    ZaZ Super Model Super Moderator

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    As far as I know it'll work fine, though third party batteries in my experience tend wear more quickly and don't last as long as Lenovo batteries, but the only way to get rid of error message is to dump Power Manager.
     
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    Click on the green battery indicator on the toolbar>>Look to the upper right area of the Power Manager GUI>> either Basic or Advanced will be indicated; if Basic is shown then click on it to bring up the Advanced menu>>click on the Battery tab>>click on Battery Maintenance>>untick “Periodically show messages about battery charge capacity”

    This should eliminate annoying pop-up messages about non-Lenovo batteries. The yellow triangle will remain but pop up messages should cease. Personally I can live with the yellow triangle versus pop-up messages.

    I am not sure why your battery is not charging :/

    I have used aftermarket batteries that were able to function with my ThinkPads. Perhaps you have an aftermarket battery that is missing some microchip coding (I believe there is a chip in the battery housing) that communicates with your ThinkPad?

    While you are on the Battery tab can you see how much full-charge capacity your battery is capable of? Also what is the design capacity and the cycle count?
     
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    truelies Notebook Consultant

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    Cycle is 1. It can show capacity as 56.06 ah and always shows 23% left. I think the battery misses microchip code. After I remove ac power, the laptop lost power immediately.
     
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    truelies Notebook Consultant

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    What's the TPF's market place? So the working after market battery will be charged but have a non lenovo battery warning?
     
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    turqoisegirl08 Notebook Evangelist

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    What we do know is that your present battery is not charging. One way to rule out faulty hardware in your T60 is to try a genuine battery. If the genuine battery accepts a charge then you may proceed to celebrate :D

    If not then you may be looking at a motherboard problem.

    TPF is a forum for users and collectors of ThinkPads. Good people there :)
     
    turqoisegirl08, Jul 9, 2012
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    truelies Notebook Consultant

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    The original one is charging.
     
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    Then it's rather obvious that the "new" one is bad.

    A working aftermarket battery will charge, whether it will throw a warning depends on a couple of things, but you're dealing with a defective item that could damage your ThinkPad's charging circuit in a longer run...
     
    ajkula66, Jul 9, 2012
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