For those who know me and my rants… recently my extended Lenovo battery died after just 3 months of service.
3 months ! Yes you hear me right…
Basically, it jumped from 100% charged to 0% and caused my operating system to panic and crash. After which it refused to startup without a external power adaptor. Orange light keeps blinking.
Then when I popped in a new battery and take a look at the Power Manager. Below is what is said:
“Enabling Long Battery Health mode allows your computer to automatically set the optimal battery charge start and stop levels based on battery usage. Doing this will increase the overall lifespan of your battery but may also result in shorter battery life”
Can Lenovo make up their mind ?!?!?
Is that utility used inadvertently suppose to make batteries die faster so that Lenovo can sell more batteries ?
I wasn’t the only one… some lucky folks’ luck ran out in 15 months. Some like me, not so lucky (part number 93P5032)…
So much for a greener Earth…
March 30, 2009 at 8:35 am |
With my T500 with Vista, enabling the long life battery health mode did not work too. It looks just keeping to recharge once the level became less than 100%. I am not sure but it suggests me the option may have incorrect threshold such as 100%/100% (nor blank/blank) instead of 80%/75% (say start recharging at 75%, stop at 80%). If so, enabling the option may kill the battery life shorter than expected. Anyway, I’ve disabled the option and set the recharge timing at 80%/75% manually though not smart but it did as ThinkBandaid.