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battery charges 47% ????

post #1 of 16
4/16/06 at 11:26pm
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it's a Pavilion N5000.

I Bought a high-capacity battery about a year ago- it was working fine, until a few months ago- the charge will only fill up to 47%. !

Windows recognizes the power cord when plugged in.

It feels like the drain from 47% to dead feels accurate.

Any techniques or fixes for this odd problem?

any help would be great..

thx
bk
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post #2 of 16
4/17/06 at 11:26am
there is a recall on some hp battery packs, i would see if yours is one of them
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post #3 of 16
4/17/06 at 11:33am
It does seem a little early for the battery to go bad. That’s what it sounds like, though.

You could try and fully charge the battery and drain it completely a few times. Also, make sure all your contacts are clean.
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post #4 of 16
4/18/06 at 1:23pm
What is the mWh rating you get when it is fully charged? There have been a lot of discussion on that indicating a faulty setting on the full capacity. The battery is fine though. If your is a 6-cell and get 44K to 51K. It is fine. For a 12-cell, it should be 88K to 91K.
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post #5 of 16
4/20/06 at 7:35pm
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[quote=billcsho]What is the mWh rating you get when it is fully charged? There have been a lot of discussion on that indicating a faulty setting on the full capacity. The battery is fine though. If your is a 6-cell and get 44K to 51K. It is fine. For a 12-cell, it should be 88K to 91K.[/quote]

how do I find this information? Specifically the mwh rating...


THX
bk
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post #6 of 16
4/21/06 at 12:15am
There are many freeware can do that. I am using Notebook Hardware Control.
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post #7 of 16
4/21/06 at 1:48am
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Originally Posted by Flow
It does seem a little early for the battery to go bad. That’s what it sounds like, though.

You could try and fully charge the battery and drain it completely a few times. Also, make sure all your contacts are clean.
depends on how the machine is used and how the battery is treated (exercised) if the machine spends most of its life on A/C power and only drained half way when used, its going to trash the battery big time. When you buy a new battery it comes with "instructions" read those, they'll tell you how to care for your battery to make sure it performs as it is intended for you.
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post #8 of 16
4/21/06 at 1:58am
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Originally Posted by JasonsLan
depends on how the machine is used and how the battery is treated (exercised) if the machine spends most of its life on A/C power and only drained half way when used, its going to trash the battery big time. When you buy a new battery it comes with "instructions" read those, they'll tell you how to care for your battery to make sure it performs as it is intended for you.
Haha, true. The funny thing is I'm hard on my batteries, but they tend to last me a long time. I have a 4 year old Compaq that is using the original battery. I do believe in fully cycling your battery from time to time, though
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post #9 of 16
4/30/06 at 12:35am
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Originally Posted by billcsho
There are many freeware can do that. I am using Notebook Hardware Control.

it appears that 'Notebook Hardware Control' is for Intel processers. What if my machine has AMD Athlon?


AMD Athlon 4 to be precise...
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post #10 of 16
5/3/06 at 11:17am
The nhc should still show the battery status even you have AMD processor in your notebook. However, BatteryEater is a simpler one that would test and show battery info as well.
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post #11 of 16
5/4/06 at 8:22pm
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Originally Posted by bkirchner81
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it's a Pavilion N5000.

I Bought a high-capacity battery about a year ago- it was working fine, until a few months ago- the charge will only fill up to 47%. !

Windows recognizes the power cord when plugged in.

It feels like the drain from 47% to dead feels accurate.

Any techniques or fixes for this odd problem?

any help would be great..

thx
bk
I think HP has some kind of on-line battery tester.... Don't know the details since I hate apps that force you to be online to run them.
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post #12 of 16
5/5/06 at 11:59am
fyi: the instructions say not to deep cycle the battery.
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post #13 of 16
5/5/06 at 4:34pm
Not regularly but once every 1-2 months to recalibrate the battery.
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post #14 of 16
5/5/06 at 4:38pm
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Originally Posted by WeAreNotAlone
I think HP has some kind of on-line battery tester.... Don't know the details since I hate apps that force you to be online to run them.
The HP's online battery tester provides very limited information.
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post #15 of 16
5/6/06 at 4:39am
Is the notebook under warranty? If it is, might as well send it in and let the techs decide.
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post #16 of 16
5/7/06 at 2:12pm
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Originally Posted by billcsho
The HP's online battery tester provides very limited information.
Are you sure it's just not a case that you (the customer) just don't "see" the detailed info the program generates? That the program is transmitting data in the background or via code?


If the program isn't doing a detailed test, what's the point? What's the reason for the on-line connection?

Like I said I don't use "on-line" type programs, because I'm not real crazy about a program "probing" my computer...

Ever since Windows 95 in which MS used the OS registration wizard (rewiz.exe) to cull data off people's hd's on "competing" products they had installed on their machines and then "targeted" those people I don't trust any type of program that forces you to stay connected when it's running. No telling what kind of data it may be transmitting.


Heads up to anyone that may not know, the firewall in XP allows apps to "dial-out" to parts unkown at will. If you get a trojan, keystroke logger, or some type of program that culls your hard drive for data, these programs can dial out and you've never know it. The only product I found that blocked these dial-outs, was Sygate Personal Firewall Pro... alas it has been bought out by Symatec. :-(

Good firewall- If you google it you can find copies of it on the net still. They had a free, and a "pro" version, you can find both on the net if you look.


Getting back to MS...

MicroSoft got a free database and then used that data to target owners of programs of competing products.


Imagine if YOU spent years building up a customer base....Years of eatting peanut butter and jelly... breakfast, lunch and dinner... Living in the back of your car, handing out free copies of your program to get it "out-there".... Program finally takes off, you start making money... Get to eat real food, etc... Things looking pretty good... Have an installed base of customers using your product...

Then MS gets a list of your customers and targets them... Pretty low if you ask me...
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