How to get years of service from your rechargeable batteries

    How to get years of service from your rechargeable batteries

    How to get years of service from your rechargeable batteries


    Posted: 05 Apr 2016

    Whether it's a rechargeable battery inside a smartphone, tablet, or laptop, here are a set of tips to help you get the most from it.

    Introduction

    There's a lot of voodoo written about how to take care of the rechargeable batteries inside smartphones, tablets or notebooks. While a bit of care can make all the difference, you don't need to treat the battery like a sick pet. It's been designed and built to do a job, so most of the time you can just let it get on with that job.

    But with a little bit of care, a rechargeable battery can last years. How much of a difference can taking care of the battery actually make? In my experience, the answer is "a lot." I have both a second-generation iPod nano that I bought around December 2006, and a first-generation iPod touch I picked up in 2008 that still have the original battery installed, and they both work. Eventually, the batteries will wear out, but I won't be complaining that I didn't get my money's worth out of the battery!

    So, how do you get the most out of Li-Ion rechargeable batteries?...


    Read more: How to get years of service from your rechargeable batteries | ZDNet
    Brink's Avatar Posted By: Brink
    05 Apr 2016


  1. Posts : 135
    Windows 10 Enterprise (64-bit)
       #1

    My Experience with a variety of major brand laptops is no more then one year, at the max

    This applies only to laptops " I cant comment on tablets or smartphones " I will be lying to you all.


    Hope I helped with my comment
      My Computer


  2. Posts : 30,524
    Windows 10 (Pro and Insider Pro)
       #2

    AcuraTML said:
    My Experience with a variety of major brand laptops is no more then one year, at the max

    This applies only to laptops " I cant comment on tablets or smartphones " I will be lying to you all.


    Hope I helped with my comment
    I have very different experience. Last HP laptop served me very well. It is now around 10 years old and I gave it into further use :). Battery died few years ago (it holds five minutes). After 6 years battery still had almost an hour of life. Have to admit, it was on the road just for a moth per year.
    My music player, Philips Gogear Vibe still plays around 15 hours of music at medium volume. I have it as long as I can remember (OK, 7 to 8 years)
    My phone after 3 years still hold for 3 to 4 days, and it is not a flagship phone.

    Just don't use them fully up, and don't charge them to often.
      My Computers


  3. Posts : 1,983
    Windows 10 x86 14383 Insider Pro and Core 10240
       #3

    I cannot follow the article using the on page "next" keys in Edge, IE, FF, and Chrome do not progress beyond page 1 of 8, unless I append 2/, 3/, 4/ etc., to the article's first page web address.

    Beyond that, laptop batteries are reasonably easy to find good replacements for:

    HP Compaq Presario CQ57 Purchased August 2012, used daily as main PC, battery finally succumbed to HP "replace battery" nag in November 2015. That's 3 years, only charged with OEM mains adapter. Replaced with reasonable quality non-OEM "Lavolta" battery, now with about 12% reduction in expected battery duration after 5 months use.

    Mobile phones on the other hand - Samsung - for instance are hard to find genuine or "good" replacements, there are so many counterfeit sources repackaging inferior no-name units in poorly printed labels.

    I received one of these from an Amazon Marketplace reseller, which was clearly fake, and had poorer capacity than the battery I wished to replace, and I informed Amazon of my suspicions and following Amazon's communication to the seller, was sent first one replacement battery, identical even to the same serial number on the battery label, and a returns prepaid envelope.

    When I replied via Amazon's feedback to seller that I did not intend to return either counterfeit battery (which they no-doubt would try to sell on), I received yet another identical battery with another returns envelope.

    I had already received a full refund, and now 3 fake batteries and 2 prepaid padded envelopes to different addresses, by the way.

    I was not going to risk these batteries exploding in my phone during a recharge, and they sat on a shelf for a few weeks, then I discovered a cheap battery charger on Amazon for this battery format, so for a £5, I had a means to recharge these crap batteries in relative safety, and therefore a stock of 3 charged batteries to carry round if one or more of them ran out of juice.
      My Computers


  4. Posts : 18
    w10 home
       #4

    I guess i am lucky with batteries
    iphone 4s 4 years and still ok
    vaio z11 from 2008 1+ hour on battery
      My Computer


 

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