How to Calibrate a Laptop Battery

Are you worried why your laptop displays Invalid battery or per-adventure your own laptop crosses the battery when Adapter is plugged in?

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If your Answer is yes to these two question, i will like to tell you the good times are here again, after following a few steps you will know IF your battery is still doing fine or decide IF you will need another battery.

How to Calibrate a laptop battery is just a common sense thing but most people don’t know, maybe because you are not a computer guru as you say it, or you are not technically freaked to some things, but do you know that knowing the right things to do at the right time can save you from spending a lot of cash unnecessary?  yES it will…… just lets go on

This tutorial is done with an HP Laptop which has been crossing the battery for over two  months the owner said, the battery sudden backups only for 15 -20mins when disconnected off from the mains, surprisingly the root cause of this matter was not known, but after going through a few steps the  laptop battery starts backing up for about 30 – 45 mins depending on the ventilation available in the area of use.
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Now Before we begin, It’s best and safe if you first learn the Do’s and Dont’s for keeping a laptop battery performing at its best line of action no matter how long the use or the age of the laptop.

Do”s

  • Always Plug-in your adapter when you plan to use your laptop for longer period where there is a source of electricity
  • Always Use when Plugged
  • Use your laptop in a well ventilated environment.

Don’t

  • Do Not by any reason plug-in your laptop when you are about to go to bed
  • Do Not Plug-in the adapter to the laptop before you plug it to the main source
  • Always Disassemble the laptop battery from the laptop if you are not going to use it for a long period of day’s or month’s

First, To start with, you will need a battery checking / calibrating software downloaded, for HP you get that on their website, for others i think its best you google it.

Secondly, After you have successfully installed this Software Application on your system, Run the Application on your system for the very first time and allow it to start the test.

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After allowing it to Run a self Test

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you will get the status of your Laptop battery coupled with a Message to Calibrate or Replace your battery depending on the severity of the damage on the battery.

If need be or If you advise to Calibrate your battery, here is the trick, Never panic just follow these Simple Step by Step Instructions strictly and you will get the right results for your process

 

 

 

Step #.1

Plug in you laptop Adapter, allowing it to charge fully {100% charged}

Step #.2

Remove the Laptop Adapter

Step #.3

Re-boot the Laptop, and when coming up go to bios set-up page, on every laptop there is a dedicated key for that, on your’s it might be F2 or F10 or even ESC key just use the appropriate key

Step #.4

Run the full self test found there-in, allowing the laptop battery to completely drain-out.

Step #.5

Plug-in the Adapter for five minutes then power-on your laptop and allow it to charge up to 50%

Step #.6

Lastly, Run Battery Calibrating software again to see what you get either still Good or Need for Replacement.

 

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Article by Samson Oluwafemi

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