[ltp] Battery died

Abdul Basit linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Fri, 19 Sep 2008 23:54:48 +0500


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Hi,
I am the 3rd one please.
I found my laptop battery dead in 2 days period.
I was getting about 1.5 hr backup from last 1 year. Suddenly i found 5 min
backup time.
and next day blackout :(

Any idea?


On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 9:19 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br
> wrote:

> On Fri, 19 Sep 2008, Philipp Kern wrote:
> > my battery died yesterday all of a sudden.  The battery LED is only
> > blinking red.  tp_smapi reports a charge of 85% and gnome-power-manager
> > says that the "battery is fully charged", but as soon as I pull the cord
> > everything goes black.  The battery is a bit over a year old, I think.
> >
> > Any ideas, if this can be solved by some EC magic?  Laptop in question
> > is a Z61m.  And does anyone know what the default warranty on batteries
> > is?  One year?
>
> One year.  You are the second to report batteries that last a little more
> than one year and suddenly break down like that :-(
>
> --
>  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
>  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
>  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
>   Henrique Holschuh
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Abdul Basit | Manager Support | +92-321-416-4196 | +92-42-588-7833 |
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<div dir="ltr">Hi,<br>I am the 3rd one please. <br>I found my laptop battery dead in 2 days period. <br>I was getting about 1.5 hr backup from last 1 year. Suddenly i found 5 min backup time.<br>and next day blackout :(<br>
<br>Any idea?<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 9:19 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:hmh@hmh.eng.br">hmh@hmh.eng.br</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Fri, 19 Sep 2008, Philipp Kern wrote:<br>
&gt; my battery died yesterday all of a sudden. &nbsp;The battery LED is only<br>
&gt; blinking red. &nbsp;tp_smapi reports a charge of 85% and gnome-power-manager<br>
&gt; says that the &quot;battery is fully charged&quot;, but as soon as I pull the cord<br>
&gt; everything goes black. &nbsp;The battery is a bit over a year old, I think.<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; Any ideas, if this can be solved by some EC magic? &nbsp;Laptop in question<br>
&gt; is a Z61m. &nbsp;And does anyone know what the default warranty on batteries<br>
&gt; is? &nbsp;One year?<br>
<br>
</div>One year. &nbsp;You are the second to report batteries that last a little more<br>
than one year and suddenly break down like that :-(<br>
<br>
--<br>
 &nbsp;&quot;One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring<br>
 &nbsp;them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond<br>
 &nbsp;where the shadows lie.&quot; -- The Silicon Valley Tarot<br>
<font color="#888888"> &nbsp;Henrique Holschuh<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Regards,<br><br>Abdul Basit | Manager Support | +92-321-416-4196 | +92-42-588-7833 | <a href="http://www.convergence.pk">www.convergence.pk</a><br>
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