Aug/091
Maximize your laptop battery life
Collected by www.diggingshop.com
When I first got my laptop 1 year ago , my laptop battery life was about 3 hours. Now after daily use (mostly with plug but using battery as well) it is down to 1.5 hrs which is basically useless. SO I am buying a new dell d620 battery from diggingshop.com?the battery shop suggest:
“New dell laptop battery come in a discharged condition and must be fully charged before use it. It is recommended that you fully charge and discharge your new dell laptop battery 3 times to allow it to reach its maximum rated capacity.
Rechargeable battery will undergo self-discharging when left unused.Don’t store notebook batteries completely discharged.It should always be stored in a fully charged status and kept in a cool, dry and clean place.
Fully charging and then fully discharging it at least once every two to three weeks.With lithium-ion dell laptop batteries, partial charges and discharges are best on a regular basis. These batteries do not suffer from the memory effect.
With the use of your dell d620 battery, the battery life will be shorter and shorter.How to keep the battery a longer life is the primary problem that the computer users should pay attention to ”
It turns out that the single, most important aspect to maximizing a laptop battery life is something that I wouldn’t have thought of: matching the battery to its charger. In the diggingshop.com’s words: “Make sure your laptop battery and adapter match and you have a quality adapter.”
That, further, minimizes any manufacturing differences that may occur over time.
The number two factor in laptop battery life? Temperature.
The fact is that laptops just aren’t designed for … well, for laps. If you look at the bottom of your laptop you’ll see it probably has feet (or more likely, bumps or rubber pads) that lift it off of any flat surface you might put it on. That creates very important space for ventilation. If you block that space, with say your lap, it’s likely that you’ll be causing the laptop to run hotter than it should. If you do this regularly, you’ll likely shorten the lifespan of the laptop’s batteries.
Again, in diggingshop.com’s words: “Rechargeable dell d620 battery will undergo self-discharging when left unused.Don’t store notebook batteries completely discharged.It should always be stored in a fully charged status and kept in a cool, dry and clean place.”
Temperature cycling – allowing the laptop to become very cold and then warm, repeatedly – say by leaving it in your car overnight in cold weather regularly can also adversely impact the battery’s life.
A concern that I’ve had for a long time is whether or not leaving a laptop plugged in for extended periods of time would harm the battery. Today’s designs pretty much expect that type of usage, so it’s not the issue I was afraid it might be. Good thing, too … my laptop is plugged in and running pretty much 24×7.
Finally: “Dont use laptop battery if it is not necessary because every charge/discharge time may shorten hp compaq batterys life. .”
Jul/092
Dell XPS M1530 battery won’t charge, plugged in.
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Dell XPS M1530’s battery won’t charge, plugged in.
Q:
“My Dell XPS M1530 battery won’t charge, all of a sudden. It says “0% available (plugged in, not charging). When I boot it up and enter setup (F2 at the DELL spash screen), it doesn’t recognise my adapter (D series, the very same one supplied with the laptop), and mentions that my “dell xps m1530 battery has experienced a permanent failure and needs to be replaced”.
I get no error message while booting normally either, simply the “0%” icon in the task tray in Vista. The xps m1530 battery status LED on the front of the laptop is flashing red, as if to say the battery is simply undercharged.. but the battery just won’t charge! I’ve left my laptop off and plugged in for 2 days, and it hasn’t charged the laptop battery.
It turns on just fine with the AC adapter plugged in and battery removed, the same with the battery installed. I’ve checked all the contacts on the battery and adapter, they are clean and not broken. I don’t have any other adapters or laptops to test with.. when I run the self help diagnostic tool (in the Dell Support Center), it just turns my laptop off. ”
Best Solution
I’ve seen this type of thing happen when the AC adapter was bad. Try purchasing another adapter and see if that works. It doesn’t have to be a DELL. It just has to be the same DC volts and AMPS. That is shown on the back of the adapter.
Don’t go plugging your adapter into another laptop (like some people might suggest). If it is the wrong amperage or DC volts you can damage the laptop! Someone with 10 years experience ought to know that.
Solution 2#
AC Adaptors do go bad sometimes. With the computer OFF, plug it in for an hour, then check Control Panel:Power Options: Power Meter to see if the battery for dell xps m1530 is charged. (If the charger is not supplying the proper wattage, it may run the computer but not charge it.)
If you have access to a similar computer, try your charger on the other computer, and the other computer’s adaptor on yours. You may have a malfunction in the charging circuit which should be covered by your Dell Warranty.
I like to use the Control Panel Power Meter because you can plug and plug the adaptor and see what the computer is seeing.
Spare 9-cell dell xps m1530 battery 
rice: $ 87.89
Jul/092
HP DV6000 Battery Charging Problems and Solutions
Problems :
HP DV6000 battery gauge says “6% available (plugged in, not charging)”
followed these steps:
(1) have AC power adaptor connected and Vista running
(2) remove hp pavilion dv6000 battery
(3) reconnect battery
now says “6% available (plugged in, charging)”
a few minutes later, it says
“100% available (plugged in, charging)”
then a minute later it says
“6% available (plugged in, charging)”
Best Solution
Reinstalling the power management software has just fixed it for me, i have a dv6552. Go to device manager and under batteries, unistall the Microsoft ACPI Compliant Control Method Battery. Go to Actions on the menu bar and select ’scan for hardware changes’. It will reinstall it and hopefully start charging immediately (mine did anyway).
Solution #2
DC JACK Issue
1: one side of the DC ground is not conntected to the rest of the system, so no circuit is complete to the charging section.
CHARGING Circuit issue
2: bad power controller chip (MAXIM IC) or zener diode in that circuit, maybe bad
Solution #3
Any one with a HP Pavillion 6000 series, who is having certain tech difficulties should go to HP page and search for extended service warranties to see if your system qualifies. I had an issue with my wireless driver and all I had do was to first turn your system completly OFF, then remove the laptop battery, then remove the middle cover (underneath Lap Top) and then remove the wireless card. (You will see it connected to two small cables) remove the cables and the small screws and remove the card and then reinserted the card and close the cover -do remember where the two cables go- . Then turn on your system, -do not put the hp dv6000 battery yet- and go to control panel/ device manager/ look for network adaptor, and see if you see your lan card, once this is done reconnect your battery. If you don’t then contact HP they will fix it for free, even if your warranty expire. They will even pick up your postage!.
Informations from :fixya.com
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Jun/090
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