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How To Extend Your Battery Life by hardeyjahreh: 5:36am On May 23, 2016 |
How to Extend Laptop Battery Life Span? Recently, Issues has popped up about how to elongate laptops battery Life Span. You can make your laptop’s battery run longer on by turning off or reduce all the things that expend power in your computer. Below are tips that has been gathered through research work by FSS Research Team that will help in making your laptop’s battery last longer. It is divided into 8 sections Section 1: Keeping the battery fresh Keep the battery fresh. Batteries leak power if they aren't used fairly soon after charging. If you use your "full" battery 2 weeks after you last charged it, you may discover it is empty. Instead of charging the battery to 100% each time, fix the maximum charge limit to 80-85%. This will help in the long run by reducing the battery degradation with time. Sony VAIO, Lenovo, Samsung e.t.c. Users are very lucky to have it as an inbuilt option to set this. One should charge it full and exhaust it to like 4% for Calibration purposes. Section 2: Reduce the number of Opened Applications Learn to single-task PC memory that is in use takes more power to hold data. If your laptop has plenty of memory, then keep multiple applications open to avoid loading repeatedly from the hard drive. Close all the applications that run in the background on your computer. Run simple applications that don't use much RAM, disk drive, or processing power. Use a basic text editor rather than the processor and RAM heavy Microsoft Word. Heavy applications like games or movie watching are especially hard on the battery. Section 3: Power Management Switch off the wireless card when you are not using it. Disable Bluetooth. If you don't use this feature, you can safely disable it to avoid draining your laptop’s battery. (Bluetooth works with your wireless card, so putting the wireless off will also power off your Bluetooth) Shut down or hibernate the laptop rather than using standby/Sleep , if you plan on not using it for a while. Standby/Sleep continues to drain energy to keep your laptop ready to go when you open the cover. Power plans can be edited on your laptop to suit this very purpose. Defrag your hard drive. The more fragmented your hard drive is the more your hard disk needs to work. · You do not need to do this on a Mac, as they do this automatically by themselves when needed. · Also, do not do this if your computer uses a solid-state drive, as this will actually make it slower! Section 4: Display Reduce the LCD's brightness level. Turn down the screen resolution. The method for doing this will depend on your laptop make. Section 5: Sound Turn the volume level down, or mute it, if you do not plan to use it. Section 6: Your Physical Environment Avoid extreme temperatures. Batteries rely on basic chemistry and will die faster at extreme temperatures. Try to charge and use the battery at room temperatures. Use a cooling pad when using a notebook computer on your lap. But if it's a USB pad then don't use it as it will most likely use up more battery rather than to conserve it. Avoid propping your laptop on a pillow, blanket, or other soft surface that can heat up. Section 7: Peripherals Unplug external devices such as a USB mouse or an external drive. Avoid using a CD or DVD. If you store copy of data you need on an optical disc, copy it to your laptop hard drive or a thumb drive before traveling. Optical drives consume large amounts of power to spin up CDs and DVDs. Try to avoid applications that keep your hard drive or optical drive spinning. Need to play music? Try to use your handheld MP3 player, rather than playing songs on your computer. Playing songs on your computer will keep the hard drive working which uses energy. Turn off the auto save feature on MS Word or Excel. Constant saving will keep your hard drive turning and using energy.(If you are the type that forgets to save do not do this) Eject external devices such as pen drives, DVDs, hard disks, etc. , if not in use. Section 8: Cleaning your Battery Clean the battery contacts. Clean the battery's metal contacts with rubbing alcohol on a damp cloth. Clean contacts increase the energy efficiency. Note: Be careful when cleaning the contacts. Always clean them when the battery is fully drained, and use a very slightly damp cloth, so as to avoid electric shock and short-circuits. Extra tips · If you use your computer for too long, it could overheat and slowly damage components, shortening their lifespan. · Be careful when charging your battery. Never hook it up to charge it when you're not around. · Clean your desk. It sounds strange, but if you have a dusty, dirty desk, that dust will get into the vents and clog the cooling fan. Once the dust is inside your laptop, it is much harder to remove. · Take a break if your battery is running low. · Don't run games if the computer's already hot. Source: www.favrsy.tk #FSSResearch |
Re: How To Extend Your Battery Life by jimjin123: 8:19am On Jul 16, 2016 |
Thanks for these tips. Here are some more The greatest foe for your Laptop battery is warmth so attempt to maintain a strategic distance from warmth and make less probability utilization of battery. On the other hand, on the off chance that you have the choice to expel the battery, then evacuate it and utilize laptop through your electrical plug. read more - http://www.24techsupport.in/blog/5-smart-laptop-caring-tips/ |
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