Home Office Killed My Laptop Battery

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by lkapp • 4 years ago

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amatecha• 4 years ago

Oh, this is great stuff to know - thanks. I had my ThinkPad (X230) unplugged and it was down to like 3% after just 20-30 minutes. It used to last a couple hours, just a year ago. Guess the battery is basically on its last legs, which is unfortunate as I don't think Lenovo makes a battery for this model anymore... :\

sinuhe69• 4 years ago

When I work stationary, I always set my charging limit to 60%, pluged-in and that keeps my battery in good shape for years.

lencastre• 4 years ago

How do you do that in Windows 11?

MaxikCZ• 4 years ago

Your BIOS must support that. My HP has "BIOSConfigUtility64.exe" downloadable from HP site that allows me to change BIOS parameters from within the Windows. Then I have 2 batch files containing:

C:\Programs\SP107705\BIOSConfigUtility64.exe /setvalue:"Battery Health Manager","Maximize my battery health"

C:\Programs\SP107705\BIOSConfigUtility64.exe /setvalue:"Battery Health Manager","Let HP manage my battery charging"

For 80% and 100% charge limit respectively. Its nice that the changes take effect immediately, dont have to restart PC for it.

qstyk• 4 years ago

This is definitely "a thing." I've had two MacBook Pros whose batteries swelled to where it bent the case open.

I try to make it a point to put my laptop through regular charge and discharge cycles, as result. As much as I love this 21:9 monitor, keeping it perpetually connected is definitely not the way to go.

indemnity• 4 years ago

Modern versions of macOS limit the max charge automatically don’t they? Or is this a hardware thing?

I definitely recall seeing a notification that it wasn’t charging my MBP to full because it has spent too much time connected to the charger.

Home Office Killed My Laptop Battery

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