Re: Possible to recalibrate the battery on a laptop?

2023-02-17 Thread Roger Heflin
Usually how battery packs die is that one of the cells becomes very weak (this case), or goes high resistance (completely dead pack), or shorts internally (you lose the voltage from one battery but the pack will still work so long as the device can survive with much lower voltages). And basically

Re: Possible to recalibrate the battery on a laptop?

2023-02-16 Thread Tim via users
On Thu, 2023-02-16 at 18:41 +0100, andreas.fourn...@runbox.com wrote: > Is it possible to recalibrate the battery indicator so I would get a > warning when it is about to die? I did that on my laptop, and it was the instant death of my battery. Well, it was probably more that the sensors decided

Re: Possible to recalibrate the battery on a laptop?

2023-02-16 Thread George N. White III
On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 1:42 PM wrote: > So recently I've started to get this problem that the laptop dies even > when the battery indicator says there is something like 40% left, i.e. > I never get a low battery warning. Then when I plug it in and restart > it also says the battery is at

Re: Possible to recalibrate the battery on a laptop?

2023-02-16 Thread old sixpack13
... > Is it possible to recalibrate the battery indicator so I would get a > warning when it is about to die? I slightly remember I have seen something about it in the BIOS in one of my laptop (long ago, though) maybe this could help: https://batteryuniversity.com/articles

Possible to recalibrate the battery on a laptop?

2023-02-16 Thread andreas . fournier
So recently I've started to get this problem that the laptop dies even when the battery indicator says there is something like 40% left, i.e. I never get a low battery warning. Then when I plug it in and restart it also says the battery is at something like 40%. The laptop is about five years old.