Questions tagged [battery]
Batteries are the embedded power-source of a component such as a notebook. It is composed of cells of chemical elements that store energy.
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Reviving a dead laptop battery
Is there any way to revive a dead laptop battery?
I have a three year old Dell Latitude laptop that I've been using pretty intensively. After a year or so, the battery dropped dead - if I plug the ...
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Is it safe to operate a laptop without battery?
I know it's 'unsafe' in terms of data loss but I noticed motherboards still have some of their circuits on power when they are plugged in [e.g. a circuit that must wait for power-on signals is ...
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Is it a good Idea to switch to a SSD to use less battery?
I am thinking of buying a SSD for my laptop, mainly for the purpose of extended operating time when running on battery.
At the moment I use a Hitachi HTS545032B9A300 (320GB) (Datasheet) as main drive ...
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Laptop shuts down suddenly when running on battery
My Acer Aspire S7-392 runs well on mains, but on battery shuts down suddenly and without warning. And I mean no warning, it is like someone yanked the power from a desktop PC. Windows does not ...
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Should I remove my laptop battery? [duplicate]
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Is it better to use laptop on battery or on AC power?
I keep my Thinkpad T60 laptop plugged in all the time. Should I remove my battery or if not, should I drain it ...
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Where does `powercfg` get battery health information, and why isn't it in WMI?
On Windows 10 (among other versions) running on a device having a battery, I can use powercfg /batteryreport to obtain the "Design Capacity" and "Last Full Charge Capacity" for the battery, which give ...
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Is it safe to replace a 11.25V laptop battery with 11.1V or 10.8V?
I need a replacement battery for an older laptop that originally came with an 11.25V Li-ion battery (presumably 3 cells at 3.75V each).
The batteries I found online mostly have a nominal voltage of 11....
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Windows event id for battery level change
I need to create a task in TS based on battery level change.
Let's say my battery drops from 67% to 66%. How can I run a task based on this event. Does Windows log this at all? I couldn't find this ...
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Battery charge suddenly drops from about 25% to 6%
I own a Lenovo Y500 series laptop.
The battery being an year old lasts only 1 hour.
But the strange thing is that, when the charge comes down to 25-20 it drops to 6%(critical battery level) in a ...
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Laptop screen turns off on removing power cord
After a recent upgrade to Windows 8.1 Pro from W8, my laptop's (an ASUS X54H) screen turns off as soon as you remove the power cord.
It turns back on with no issues when you plug the power back in. ...
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Where can I see the current charging speed on Windows 10?
Running powercfg /batteryreport in cmd.exe doesn't give the info directly (one has to do the math based on the log). Where can I see the current charging speed on Windows 10?
E.g. on Android I use ...
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Is it a bad idea to keep a Macbook pro always on? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is it better to use laptop on battery or on AC power?
I never turn off a macbook pro I've at home. It's always connected with the power source, but with the lid closed.
Is ...
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Battery Health Charging app can't find it anywhere (Asus ux430UA)
My laptop arrived an hours ago. one of the main reasons I considered purchasing this laptop instead of HP was an app called battery health charging which lets me limit my charging to either 60% or 80% ...
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Thinkpad T60 does not turn on
When I plug in the charge, the battery symbol and the charge symbol will light up green.
Then, when I try to press the power button, the lights turn off and nothing happens.
After this, the only ...
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Does a USB-C Power Delivery splitter exist?
Does a USB-C Power Delivery splitter exist?
I’m considering purchasing an Apple 96W USB-C charger, which could Fast-Charge 2-3 devices at one time with that amount of power. The only downside is that ...
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