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    R61 battery life

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by vpa, Jun 20, 2009.

  1. vpa

    vpa Notebook Enthusiast

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    The thinkpad power manager indicates that battery can store only 69% of its original capacity. I'm using this notebook for around 1.5 years. The notebook was most of time plugged in.

    Is this normal?

    Do I need to buy a new battery?

    Thanks
     
    vpa, Jun 20, 2009
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    cloud_nine Notebook Evangelist

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    Have you done a battery gauge reset?

    Power manager > Battery tab > battery maintenance > perform reset.

    This will help calibrate and give an updated status of the health of the battery.
     
    cloud_nine, Jun 20, 2009
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    ZaZ Super Model Super Moderator

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    Nope.
     
    ZaZ, Jun 20, 2009
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  4. vpa

    vpa Notebook Enthusiast

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    I did the battery gauge reset. The power manager still shows that battery can store only 69% of original capacity.

    The lenovo website reports that 43R2499 battery can last upto 7.5 hrs.
    Is this true?

    My 7 cell battery used to last for 1.5 hrs with energy star power plan.
     
    vpa, Jun 21, 2009
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  5. willinja

    willinja Notebook Geek

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    so the situation is
    u have use your notebook like 1.5 years
    most of the time plug in using the energy star settings

    the question is even your battery at 100% u still left it plug in ?
    if yes i think u have cause some dmg to the battery so it will cause u having less battery life
    but as u read from the lenovo it's the max amount of hours that the battery could last but not all batteries like it.
    for examples, my battery the site told me that it could last like 6.5 hours
    in my personal experiences is it last like 5 hours with condition wifi enabled
    that's still sound pretty nice for me

    the 6.5 hours is using the energy star with
    1. 0 out of 15 brightness,
    2. bluetooth 100% off,
    3. wifi 100% off,
    4. dvd 100% off,
    5. may be it's idle ?
     
    willinja, Jun 22, 2009
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