Good day house. I bought fairly used mini laptop in March, and bought a brand new battery with it. Till last week, the Acer mini laptop battery used to last at least 2hours on heavy use, and about 4 hours on light use. But since Sunday, the battery only last 15 mins. What could have happened all of a sudden? Was it something I did? I just want to know so I don't repeat same thing in the future.

Following......for future reference

U need to look in d mirror for ur answer. YOU killed d battery by abusing d battery.
How?
When u get another battery, remove the charger immediately its fully charged. Stop leaving the charger connected to power overnight or when u r going out. Over-charging a full battery reduces d lifespan of batteries of appliances not just ur laptop., even ur blackberries & Fones

Troubleshooter just shot your trouble for you......Save energy save your appliances, Unplug/ switch off when not in use or battery fully charged.





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troubleshooter:
U need to look in d mirror for ur answer. YOU killed d battery by abusing d battery.
How?
When u get another battery, remove the charger immediately its fully charged. Stop leaving the charger connected to power overnight or when u r going out. Over-charging a full battery reduces d lifespan of batteries of appliances not just ur laptop., even ur blackberries & Fones

Okay. Thanks. I think that should be where the problem came from...I do that a lot. I even thought maybe cos I do dry charging of my phone with the laptop.

troubleshooter:
U need to look in d mirror for ur answer. YOU killed d battery by abusing d battery.
How?
When u get another battery, remove the charger immediately its fully charged. Stop leaving the charger connected to power overnight or when u r going out. Over-charging a full battery reduces d lifespan of batteries of appliances not just ur laptop., even ur blackberries & Fones

precisely...a laptop battery loses 1/300th of it life everytime it is charged,you shortened the lifespan drumatically by charging it continous,anyway how much is the battery sef that you cant use it as you like really?

GuiltySpark343:


precisely...a laptop battery loses 1/300th of it life everytime it is charged,you shortened the lifespan drumatically by charging it continous,anyway how much is the battery sef that you cant use it as you like really?

Ok. Thanks for this info. I think the battery is N5,000...not sure tho.

kay29000:


Ok. Thanks for this info. I think the battery is N5,000...not sure tho.

reward be by click the like button,also getting a battery with higher number of cell than that which the laptop came with can help

GuiltySpark343:


reward be by click the like button,also getting a battery with higher number of cell than that which the laptop came with can help

Okay. Thanks.

troubleshooter:
U need to look in d mirror for ur answer. YOU killed d battery by abusing d battery.
How?
When u get another battery, remove the charger immediately its fully charged. Stop leaving the charger connected to power overnight or when u r going out. Over-charging a full battery reduces d lifespan of batteries of appliances not just ur laptop., even ur blackberries & Fones

I disagree with this most batteries this days are lithium ion which once fully charged it can never store power or current any more

bosco9:

I disagree with this most batteries this days are lithium ion which once fully charged it can never store power or current any more

Agreed. Once my laptop is fully charged, it cuts out. However battery management is key, best to let your battery run down to 0% and recharge to 100%, @least once a week.
No point constantly topping up from about 50% all the time, that kills the polarity of the redundant 50% viz a viz!!!!

troubleshooter:
U need to look in d mirror for ur answer. YOU killed d battery by abusing d battery.
How?
When u get another battery, remove the charger immediately its fully charged. Stop leaving the charger connected to power overnight or when u r going out. Over-charging a full battery reduces d lifespan of batteries of appliances not just ur laptop., even ur blackberries & Fones

there is no longer something like overcharging in modern day technology unless you are still using achaic devices. Both laptops and phones are built these days in such a manner that when they are fully charged they stop charging and automatically switch from charging to the use of direct current if still plugged. So take note of that and don't blame overcharging to that

Here are good tips on how to maintain and sustain laptops battery life
http://highteknology..com/2013/11/how-to-use-your-laptop-battery-to.html