Laptop Battery Maintenance

@mlhervas (482)
Philippines
August 12, 2010 12:20am CST
If I could remember it was one of my techie friend who told me how to make the life of my laptop battery live longer. I followed his advise and my laptop battery's life is still good up to now. It still last up to 1 to 2 hours before it drains. What I do is to regularly drain the battery until it completely turns of by itself every month then charge it to full again. I don't know if anyone is doing this with their laptop. Any thoughts though?
4 responses
m1st1c
@m1st1c (37)
• United States
12 Aug 10
You might as well just purchase a new battery for it. Eventually, it will not last more than 10-20 minutes unplugged. So just to save time and frustration just buy another battery.
mlhervas
@mlhervas (482)
• Philippines
12 Aug 10
Why would I buy one when I got no problem with my laptop's battery? It work fines and I think it has to do with my monthly maintenance.
snowy
@snowy22315 (180703)
• United States
16 Aug 10
My battery seems to be working fine right now, so I dont think I will need to do that, but sometime in the future I might look to do something like that. It is a good thing to have a battery that you can depend on.
lovedude
@lovedude (4447)
• India
12 Aug 10
yeah.. I also do the same thing but not every month.. I do it every quarter. it's same apply for the digi cam or mobile battery too..
yunzhbh
@yunzhbh (147)
• China
16 Aug 10
My laptop battery last more longer,but every month I do the same thing like you,most of the time I didn't use the battery ,someone told me to take the battery off when I needn't it,but others say it's OK,I don't know who is right.Most of the time I didn't take it away.