[ltp] poll: how is your battery? (9-cell-battery lost about 25% capacity in 10 months)

[Carlos Maldonado]

Neil Caunt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>> What would you say, is a loss of 25%-30% in 10 months really acceptable
>> for a quality battery? What are your own experiences?
> 
> 
> I bought my X20 second hand and I know it to be at least 4 years old. 
> I've no idea if the battery was the original supplied with the laptop, 
> but it's showing as running at about half of its original capacity.
> 
> A full charge will keep it going for anything up to 2 hours until the 
> battery reports itself as completely drained, but oddly it will give me 
> an extra 40 mins or so before it actually goes. This occurs with both 
> APM and ACPI.

if it's a LithION battery you are killing it with complete cycles, they 
behave better and last more with short charge cycles

> Is there any way to recalibrate the battery? I've tried running it down 
> completely a few times to no avail.
> 

I'm sorry there is no way to do that, you'll eventually need to get a 
new one

regards

Carlos

> Cheers,
> Neil