Dell :: Battery Charger Life

Nov 22, 2008

My battery charger doesn't charge and the blue light isn't turning on.

Is it safe to assume that it is dead?

Are there any tests I can do to verify if that's the case?

I've had it for a year and 3 months, is that the typical life of a battery charger?

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I would like to ask about the Lenovo Energy Management software bundled with my Z400. Regarding the Energy Management > Battery > "Optimized Battery Health" in particular. When the battery charges until 60%, does it internally disconnect the charger from my battery? The Power icon in the System Tray says "Plugged in, not charging". Or does the software stops the charging until 60%, and when it lowers the software allows it  to recharge again? I'm worried about getting my battery worn out immediately, as I leave my charger plugged in most of the time.

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My inspiron was working fine until yesterday.Today,when I tried to use it,

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2.My battery charger's led glows brightly when connected to the power outlet but not the laptop(when power supply is switched on).But once I connect it to the laptop,(and switch the power supply on)the led blinks once and goes off.

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I've looked at the other threads and tried removing the battery while the laptop is off for 30-40 seconds but it doesn't run because it's not getting power from the charger at all.

The laptop is a couple years old and the hinges on both sides have been pried off (can provide pics) but I never had problems until now - I plug the charger in but it won't charge and even if I pop the battery out it STILL doesn't charge!

One night, I had to set the charger upright in order for it to charge. Today I had to set the bulky and heavy part of the charger higher above the laptop in order for it to charge. Now, how to get this thing to work because proping the charger upright or higher than the laptop isn't working anymore!

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What is draining all the power? How does the Z pull 4-5 hours on its battery life?

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Also, are there any new deals for the 9-cell batteries?

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Nov 30, 2009

Here a bit of summary of how to enable some advance power plan settings, the highlights are disabling the core parking override and max % of unparked cores.

-Windows by defaults keeps at least one logical core active per physical processor core. With the nehalem architecture parked cores consume almost no power.
-Also keep in mind if you set max unparked cores to 50% it may still activate all cores because 50% of 8 hyperthreaded cores is 4.
-You can use resource monitor to see if cores are parking
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-Setting you power plan back to defaults nulls you the changes to it is harmless and reversable if you are careful
-If you are not comfortable making registry changes don't do this as you can really screw your computer up, if you mess up the wrong things in your registry

Open Regedit (type regedit into the startmenu search box)

Expand location to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlPowerPowerSettings54533251-82be-4824-96c1-47b60b740d00

In order to enable some advanced power plan settings you will have to rename the REG_DWORD "Attributes" to "_Attributes". This one it own does not change how your computer runs, it simply adds an extra option into your advanced settings for each power plan

Here are the relevant registry keys:
0cc5b647-c1df-4637-891a-dec35c318583
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3b04d4fd-1cc7-4f23-ab1c-d1337819c4bb
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447235c7-6a8d-4cc0-8e24-9eaf70b96e2b
Sets the processor power state when parked, I think the default is ok

5d76a2ca-e8c0-402f-a133-2158492d58ad
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a55612aa-f624-42c6-a443-7397d064c04f
Processor core parking override, this one is key, it you don't disable this in your power plan settings you will only park "virtual" cores

ea062031-0e34-4ff1-9b6d-eb1059334028
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should I keep

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2) Remove the battery once it's fully charged and keep the laptop on A/c

3) Remove the A/c once the battery is fully charged and charge it next time
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Mar 8, 2010

My m1530 battery life is very poor, im only getting around 40mins unplugged, Im not running power-sucking tasks either,

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Its so annoying now does anyone know what could potentially be the problem?

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I'm having some battery life issues with my laptop, and i wanted to see if the performance of my battery is normal, or if something is wrong.

At first, my battery started draining really fast so i replaced the battery in July, and now im seeing the problems again.

Basically, I need my laptop for class, and i have microsoft word, wi-fi running, and a web browser during that time period. My brightness is set on about 4, and the battery option is on portable/laptop (note: i have tried max battery with same result)

i'm getting less than an hour of battery life..

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Dec 17, 2009

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I ask because as strange as it sounds, using BatteryBar indicates that the 6 cell that came with my 1640 has a capacity of only 5100mWh! That sounds very strange, because I know that on my XPS m1530, the 9 cell had a capacity of nearly 86,000mWh. I am having a 9 cell sent to me for my XPS 1640, and hopefully that will fix things. Maybe the battery's circuit board is reporting the numbers wrong/shrug.

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Jun 19, 2009

I just bought a Dell Studio 1555 laptop with the following customizations made

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4) 4 GB Ram

Can you guys recommend me some softwares which can check my Battery performance. I am not sure if I am right on this but "THIS" software when run simulates various levels of activity on the laptop such as Casual use, High Intensity use etc etc. It runs by itself and then we can see for how long the battery has lasted. I don't think the battery meter is very accurate so can you please help me with this. Thank you. I hope I have explained myself properly

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2) Hard disk
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