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    T61p notebook battery: Dead after 1 year?

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by tertius, May 26, 2009.

  1. tertius

    tertius Notebook Consultant

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    I've had my T61p for a year since April 2008.

    One thing that I've done was do a battery reset (but I had to stop it half way because I had to unplug and use the notebook).

    Now I fully charge the battery and it says that it has 1h25 minutes on the battery, when it was new it was about 2h.

    But it goes down to about 97% (from 98% at full recommended charge) and then Windows hibernates and when I restart it's at 0%. This process takes about 3 minutes.

    Then it just charges all the way up to 98%.

    I did another reset (fully) to see if that would fix the problem, but it hasn't.

    One other thing I also noticed is that when the charge goes up to around 15% it jumps to 100%.

    Is my battery fixable?
     
    tertius, May 26, 2009
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