Battery Life/Improper Shutdown

When I'm at home, I take out the battery from my VAIO SR and I put it on AC power. I don't want to leave in the battery charging when I have the comp plugged in and in use for fear of a decreasing battery life. Is that a correct way of preventing a short battery life for my lithium battery?

Also, when my comp was on AC power one day, it was accidently unplugged and my computer thus experienced an improper shut down. Is there any way of assuring that my VAIO is okay? Is there any sort of recovery procedure that I should take? If so, please let me know. Thanks in advance.

 

You should only take out your battery if you think you are not going to use it for a long time and then put it into conditions for long-term storage.

Anyways, computers nowadays will not overcharge the battery. On many models, the battery will not be charged if the battery is detected to be at 95% capacity or more.

Otherwise, take out the battery if you think it is being heated up a lot by the rest of the computer.

 

there is a battery care function in vaio control center, then just turn on the function, and it will limit your charge to 80%. So if you leave it with the AC cord plugged in, it wont charge the battery when the battery reaches 80%.

 

why don't you just leave the battery in it's place, it will work with no problems for at least one year, after that.. if you still have the same laptop and plan to keep it for one more year just but a brand new battery.

I had the same issues with my brand new Z, out of love for the laptop I kept doing weird stuff just to nurish it more, but it hit me: I will easily replace the battery, whenever I feel a decrease in baterry life.

The Sony battery Care freaked me out: I enabled it and then a few days later I put my laptop to charge and it didn't charge (it was at 80% and it was saying "not charging, plugged in"). At that point I said my battery is dead (brand new but dead?!) cause I tried restarting the laptop and it would only charge for like 2 minutes until windows starts up and then the charge light would go off .. clearly it was something with the battery .. at least in my mind. After restarting it several times, taking the battery out, etc .. I said let's try the sone battery care, maybe it will fix it It was ON and saying it's all good, battery in excelent shape; still 80% and no charging. So .. I disabled it and then it sudently started to charge, the light was on, windows was reporting as "charging" soo.. the battery is OK. I am sure there was nothing wrong with the battery nor the software; and just the Vaio software did something they know it helps the battery. But I stopped using it after a fresh&clean Vista install. Plus, I want my laptop to be at 100% for when I needed it on the road. Now, if the battery dies out .. I already have a extended battery for my Z, or I can just get a new regular one.