Is it possible for a battery's life to improve?
I inherited this laptop from work, and when I did so, the battery has always been at 95% of its capacity/condition. Nothing wrong with that, 95% is great.
A lot of the time I keep this laptop on suspend but I also give it 'time out' by turning it off. I regularly check Code:
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I wonder what the margin of error is like
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" Can the battery life actually improve?" In reality the answer is no. A battery starts to go bad the second it gets built. Time and use both play a part in it's destruction.
What you may mean to ask is, "Can the way it is reporting vary?" That answer would be yes. |
I had s cell phone that after bounced lightning strike hit the outside of our mobile home I would have to charge it everday to keep from going dead. I thought for sure I was going to have to replace the battery, but about a year later the phone went back to going four or five days before needing a charge. In my opinion it can happen, but it is rare. But then again it could of something in the phone shorting out that may have burnt open that didn't affect the operation if the phone
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It's more likely that reporting changed. Or usage changed with improvements in software. If you turned OFF the laptop for a while and let it change over a duration, it might have gotten more charge. Since the laptop draws from the battery, even when off (RTC clock and whatnot). Or the power connector improved as solder points can degrade when the plug gets pulled and yanked and dropped and whatnot. Like a bad headphone jack, push and pull it a certain way and it's great, but unattended it's anybodies guess.
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It used to be so that chargeable batteries' capacities could be improved through a dedicated discharging/recharging process, specialised chargers used to exist.
I'm not sure if this still applies to newer technologies like in laptops. In any case, There's a lot of software involved; not only on your OS but also insiode the battery itself - I suspect that (most of) the change originates there. |
Jefro's on the ball here. There's actually a spec quoted in electric cars about how efficient a battery will be at x,000 km. The one figure I hears was 66%, which they thought was good.
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lysander@lysultra-vi:~$ inxi -B I found this comment interesting from a Mac forum: Quote:
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54.8wh/55.0Wh seems to be the same as 7215 mAh = 99%. Or perhaps the previous method you used just isn't the same as this one. In any case, I feel I can rely on the acpi data. |
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actually measuring the quality of the battery is not really possible. So all the used methods are just guessing something based on something else, which can be measured, but unfortunately not really/directly connected to capacity/condition.
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Battery life and capacity are 2 different things.
Think of it like a 1 quart pitcher of water. It can be 100% full - holding exactly 1 quart. A 1 pint pitcher of water can also be 100% full - holding exactly 1 pint. But if you pour both of them out at the same rate, the quart pitcher will last longer. As batteries age their capacity gets lower and lower. But even an old battery with a half a pint of capacity left can be charged to 100%. OF course all of this is academic since the battery specs in a modern laptop battery are supplied by a smart battery chip inside the battery itself which can be programmed to say whatever the heck the battery assembler wants it to say. You can buy a cheap battery from China that has marginal cells in it but the smart chip will happily report lots more capacity than is actually there to make you feel like you "got a deal" |
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