The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    T420 Battery management/settings

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by themogul, Dec 20, 2011.

  1. themogul

    themogul Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    10
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    Hi All,

    Got a new Thinkpad. Got everything setup with ssd and all. Thank you all here :)

    I saw thread/post sometime back about battery settings/properties which extend battery life, but for the life of me, I cannot find that. Could somebody please post the link OR say what I need to do. Something about charging kicking in when battery falls to 40% or something.

    I would be really grateful if I could know this.

    Much appreciated.

    thx.
     
    themogul, Dec 20, 2011
    #1
  2. csclifford

    csclifford Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    139
    Messages:
    484
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    If you want to adjust the battery settings then click on the battery bar in the lower right side of the task bar. That will bring up Lenovo Power Manager.

    Then you click on "battery", and then "battery maintenance"

    You can then set the charging thresholds to maximize battery life. A lot of us have different settings, I have mine start charging when below 50% and have it stop charging at 98%.
     
    csclifford, Dec 20, 2011
    #2