Questions tagged [battery-life]
Battery life refers to the amount of time that a portable computer such as a laptop can function while powered only by its battery.
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Calculating estimated runtime and charging time for a Linux system battery in a command-line project
I am working on a command-line project in Arch Linux, specifically designed to present system battery information. I have successfully implemented various features, but I am currently facing ...
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Weird laptop battery behaviour
On my 4 year-old laptop, the battery discharge pattern is weird. It goes does relatively quickly and steadily down to 6%, then remains at 6% for 1.5 hrs and then very quickly goes down 1%/min.
I had ...
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Macbook Pro mid 2014 battery lasting only 2/3 hours (300 cycles)
I just can't figure out why my battery is draining so fast, using it only for browsing/watching videos.
Any idea?
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MS Surface Book Pro. Battery Died Suddenly
I have a Windows Surface Book Pro. device. The battery was healthy and works for as much as I needed. Out of a sudden, the battery today does not work at all. If I plugged the cable, the device turns ...
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Best laptop battery charging strategy when already at 100% [closed]
For a Dell Vostro 7510 (which just says "3-Cell Battery, 56WHr (Integrated)" in the order...not sure what type it even is...) let's say its battery just reached 100% charge, but I have an ...
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Windows 11 battery life issue
In early 2022, I bought a new Lenovo ThinkPad E14 Gen2 with an AMD Ryzen 7 4700 u. It had Windows 10 pre-installed, and I immediately upgraded to Windows 11. Although the manufacturer promised a ...
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Force Edge to run only in iGPU on my laptop
As the title says, I'm trying to restrict Microsoft Edge to run using only the Intel iGPU to save energy on battery and avoid unnecessary stress and high temperatures when plugged. I tried to do it ...
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Why does my laptop battery only charge to 95%?
My laptop (MSI GS76 Stealth 11UH) is plugged all the time. I've noticed that the battery charge is 95%. Why not 100%?
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Is it better to continue the uncomplete charging session of the laptop battery after waking it up or should you just let it discharge first?
I am using a new battery on my laptop. My OS is Windows 10 and I've searched for this question for a long time.
Suppose it's the end of the day and you are doing the last things on your computer while ...
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Battery slowly draining on AC power then laptop (running Ubuntu) drastically slows down when it hits 30%
So all of a sudden my AC charger is not able to keep my battery charging when I'm using my laptop anymore. My Laptop is an Acer Aspire 5 A515-51G-72DB and I bought it brand new 5 years ago.
It slowly ...
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PC Shuts Down Before 10% and Battery Test Shows Battery Capacity Reduction
I recently purchased a new Li-ion battery for my HP Probook 4520s PC which claims to be 5200mAh/58Wh. When I ran battery scan with windows powershell, I saw that the capacity was 45Wh.
I was directed ...
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Dell Inspiron battery diode on indefinitely
I have a Dell Inspiron 15 Gaming 7577 with specs hardly IMHO important, but someone might be of other opinion, so let me start with all that non-sense:
BIOS/UEFI: updated to 1.16.0, latest to date;
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Is there a way to disconnect the laptop battery in Arch Linux?
I use Arch Linux on a laptop. To make the battery last longer, I wanna be able to disconnect it entirely to minimize idle leakage and little recharges when the battery level drops. I also want to be ...
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Random battery Macbook issue from 22% to full charge
After the battery replacement and an SMC and PRAM reset, still I'm getting strange behaviors on the new battery.
I have been working the MacBook for some time, and after having 82% of charge it ...
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Mimicking Laptop Battery Management Software With Smart Switch
I just bought a new HP Laptop (Envy x360) and was very surprised to find out that it had no battery/energy management software or anything in the bios to manage the charge of the battery to keep it at ...
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Battery Usage in Windows 11
If I navigate to Systems > Power & Battery in Settings, and then down to the Battery Usage section, there should be a section that shows the Battery Usage per Application. Unfortunately, on my ...
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new battery, wear level is 67.7%,16.3%, 8.9%, then 7% at the 3rd charge Cycle, is normal?
I just installed an OEM battery on my Surface Pro 4.
At the very beginning, the battery Wear Level is 67.7%.
Then I tested it with discharge and charge cycles. The Wear Level reduces as the following ...
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Unplug or switch off AC outlet when laptop is not in use?
I just replaced the battery of my laptop, Inspiron 15 7000 7567, it was damaged (swelling) and now it works fine.
I used to have my laptop connected all the time with the AC adapter, and the AC ...
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Laptop battery fake discharge after hibernation
Recently I've noticed that every time I'm hibernating the laptop for a longer time (no more than for the night), when it comes back up, it starts at 0% charge and has trouble doing so (tries to ...
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powercfg /batteryreport no correlation with actual battery life?
I have 6 batteries for my laptop. I used powercfg /batteryreport to check "Full Charge Capacity" for each of them.
Then I wrote a quick Excel VBA script that enters total elapsed time in a ...
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Keeping laptop charger plugged-in, while charging stops at 80%
I have an Acer Gaming Laptop, it comes with an inbuilt feature, that stops charging the battery when the capacity is above 80%, it can be found under Acer Care Center named as Battery Charge Limiter.
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Asus ROG G752VM no battery detected
My ASUS laptop today didn't turn on when I pressed the button to switch it on.
Adding the power supply, the laptop turned on, and noticed the battery icon shows 'no battery detected".
I have ...
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How can I fix the issue that when working on battery, my laptop turns off without any notification?
I have a Sony VPCEH 2010 Laptop and Win 10 is installed. When on battery, If the battery arrives at about 30%, my laptop suddenly turns off without any "Battery Low" warning and after ...
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My MacBook Air M1 (2020) drains the battery faster than expected when I keep my Android phone connected to it
The battery drains very quickly on my MacBook Air M1 (2020) when I keep an Android phone connected to it. I use it for app development.
Is there any way I could stop the Android device from charging? ...
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Laptop battery quickly losing capacity
I have a brand new Lenovo Yoga Slim 7 (about two months old). The battery health report in the Lenovo Vantage app shows the current battery capacity as 58.24 Wh, compared to a design capacity of 60.7 ...
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Incorrect reading on laptop battery
Since last 3-4 days, my laptop's (Dell XPS 9370) battery is behaving quite erratically.
I use my laptop mostly plugged in during the day, so the battery is charged to 100% at the end of the day. If I ...
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Is there a Windows 10 setting or an app that can control a laptop's battery charge capacity?
There is a bundled laptop software that comes with a battery master that allows users to set the maximum limit of the battery charge capacity (e.g. 60%, 80%, 100%). Is there a Windows 10 application ...
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Do cables exist that will both charge via usb micro, but also function with a female usb port [closed]
I have a tablet, in particular, a Hyundai Protocol x8. The only port on it is a USB 2.0 micro type B port.
I can use a USB micro B to USB A Female adapter, then a USB hub, to plug in a keyboard, ...
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Is there anyway to stop charging when laptop battery is < 80%?
I'm a Linux (Debian) user. I work on my laptop full days. Most of the time I forget to remove the laptop charging plug. I'm looking for something when my laptop battery is more than 80% it will ...
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Keeping a spare laptop battery at home
What is the best way to keep a newly bought spare laptop battery at home?
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New Battery Acting Weird
I have a Dell Vostro 14 3468 and recently my battery died.
So I bought a new replacement battery on 6th of October, 2020. I followed all the instructions mention and did my first charge to 100%.
When ...
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Does keeping a computer on power kill the battery? [duplicate]
If we keep a computer charging, does it affect the battery so much that battery-life is greatly shortened?
I am trying to find out why someone else's computer battery always gets bad after a couple of ...
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LAPTOP BATTERY ideapad lenovo
Design capacity
629.75 Wh
Full charge capacity
23.4 Wh
is my battery life is poor , do i need to replace it?
is there any way of calculating life of battery?
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Transferred old SSD with OS to new laptop w/o clean install. Battery drains indredibly quickly
So one of the main selling points of the laptop I just bought last week (Dell xps 13 9300) was its long battery life, allegedly 8hr on heavy use, or 13 hours light use, according to most benchmarks I ...
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If I keep my laptop charging while I use it, will it spend lifecycles?
I am looking for a laptop to buy and I am reading some pages about hardware and battery.
I read about lifecycles and that if I remove the battery and use it plugged, it will prevent battery from ...
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Charging a laptop with usb c charger but it does not support it will damage the port?
So there is a reverse charging thing built into smartphones nowadays.I connected my phone to the usb port of my laptop and my laptop said charging is not supported from this port and I saw that ...
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Full charge capacity much much lower than design capacity?
I had no idea about battery report on windows until recently. I have a Dell Inspiton 5570 bought 2 years ago. I didn't know if full battery capacity met design capacity then. But now, full charge ...
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So what exactly is RESERVE BATTERY LEVEL(IN %) in Dell ALIENWARE Laptop?
So what exactly is RESERVE BATTERY LEVEL(IN %) in Dell ALIENWARE Laptop?
RESERVE BATTERY LEVEL (RBL)
WHAT is RESERVE BATTERY LEVEL?
Please follow with the series of screenshots for explanation
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Should battery count for laptop be a negative number
I have a Toshiba Satellite P55W-C5200X that dual boots Windows 10 and Ubuntu. I had to replace the battery, which is removed by opening the laptop's bottom (doesn't pop out), over 3 times. I bought ...
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Bluetooth version for mouse [closed]
What new features are exposed in newer versions of the Bluetooth standard that improve such things as power consumption and latency specifically in the use case of a Bluetooth mouse? For instance, ...
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How to set charging cap for a laptop battery?
From various sources I learned that when you need store a battery for extended period of time, it's best to support it's charge level somewhere around 40-50%. Some laptops have firmware settings which ...
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Laptops Battery not holding much recently Acer Predator g3 571
my Acer Predator's battery isn't holding it anymore it used to do 2 to 3 hours on power-saving mode, not it only does an hour and a half, this starts to happen recently according to the battery report ...
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Is it advisable to update to non-OEM Intel graphics driver on laptop?
I have a laptop, Acer Swift 3 with integrated Intel UHD 620 graphics.
Today I received a notification through Intel driver support assistant that I have an update for my graphics driver but it came ...
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Is it better to charge a battery to 70% every day, or 100% every two days? [closed]
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Currently I have a smartphone with a battery big enough to use it 2 full days without needing to charge it, but lately I have been investigating about not charging it to the maximum, what helps ...
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how can i limit charging battery level at 60%
Is there a way to limit battery charging to dedicated percent to conserve or store batteries, especially for built-in batteries, I have this feature in my Lenovo laptop but I can't find it in other ...
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Is it wrong to use a laptop with the lid closed?
Recently I decided to use my laptop with an external monitor and I always use it closed-lid and enjoy. :)
The question is: Is it wrong to use a laptop closed-lid?
I mean problems like overheating ...
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Battery shows 5% remaining after 8 hours of charging and sometimes says "Battery not detected."
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The computer runs as expected when it is plugged in.
After charging overnight (about 8 hours), the battery life is at 5%.
Sometimes, the battery task bar icon says, "Battery not ...
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Does a low power charger help Macbook's battery?
Since many battery expert believe 100 percent battery would hurt battery's life.So m y theory is, when you use like 45w charger which has lower than apple's original one( 96 power), you can keep your ...
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Should I plug out my laptop after shutting it down?
I have 5 Lenovo ideapad 330 laptops in my office and developers work with them. Laptops are plugged in all the time when they are working. My first question: Is it correct usage of laptops?
And the ...
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Can generic laptop battery charger ruin my original battery?
I want to use 2 power adapters for my laptop, one I keep in the bag, and one I keep at home.
One is original, and other one is generic brand.
They both work fine, same thing, generic one charges ...
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