Laptop batteries are something that we take less care of, particularly when it comes to their performance. The major difference between a laptop and a desktop is its mobility, although most people will eventually end up connecting power cables directly into it immobile. Since this is a component that can generate heat, the battery can undoubtedly affect the performance of your laptop. Li-ion batteries are the most popular in modern laptops since they are smaller, safer, and more effective to deploy in mobile devices.
There really is a difference between enhancing its performance and extending its life. Most people are mainly concerned with extending the life of batteries, but what ultimately matters are enhancing their performance so that it stays longer. Understanding how a battery works is one of the most important things you can do to improve its performance.
Improve Battery Life
1) Temperature
As mentioned earlier, lithium-ion batteries are featured in almost all laptops. However, we sometimes overlook the fact that the rate at which batteries drain over time is affected by temperature. The discharge rate is faster at higher temperatures. The basic general rule is to keep them cold and use them at room temperature.
2) Laptop Usage
The laptop’s design and battery location are crucial when it comes to battery life, although they cannot be strictly observed because it is something that the manufacturers must decide, but we can develop the habit of using laptops on flat surfaces because it helps to improve thermal dissipation and reduces the chance of faster discharge.
3) Charging Patterns
Lithium-ion batteries charge faster, last longer, and offer a better power density. Fast charging is being used by lithium-ion batteries to quickly achieve 80% of their capacity before changing to slower trickle charging. The time it takes to achieve that initial 80% may vary based on your settings and the device you’re charging. When the recommended battery temperatures are exceeded, software may prevent charging over 80%. When your device is fully charged, it is an advisable to unplug it.
Most laptops, especially Windows laptops, lack an OEM battery management system, making it difficult to determine when our laptop is fully charged. Leaving the laptop plugged in after battery has been fully charged, has a significant negative impact on its health.
Luckily, there is a way that you will get notified you using a simple and light VBscript, which we will be explaining in this post.
- To obtain the FullBattery.vbs file, download the FullBattery.zip file and extract it.
- You could make the script run in the background by simply double-clicking it, but we recommend a method to run it automatically right from the start-up to make your experience easy.
- To make the script run on every start-up, first create a shortcut of the extracted file (BatteryNotifier.vbs) using the right-click option.
- Now, using the run command, go to the startup folder by typing shell:startup and clicking OK.
- Now after transferring the shortcut of the extracted file into this folder, restart the system
If everything is working properly, the script should be up and running, notifying you when your battery is completely charged.
Extending the battery’s life can have a considerable influence on the performance. As a result, we’ll provide a few ideas that will help you in enhancing the overall.
Checking the battery health app regularly
Information regarding the app usage always help to keep track of our need, It also helps to create a efficient workflow to keep our efficiency high
Information about app usage found in the battery app is always important for keeping track of our demands. It also assists in the establishment of an effective workflow to maintain our productivity and performance of the machine high
Workflow optimization
Being energy efficient is necessary while working on mobile devices, especially when you have a powerful CPU and a small battery capacity.
This can be accomplished by closing down unnecessary programs and stopping unwanted operations. Steps such as lowering screen brightness and turning off screens on times will definitely contribute to lengthen the battery’s life.
Well switching on flight mode while you are not using any WiFi and Bluetooth affects your battery drastically
Tweaking your graphics settings
Changing your graphics settings, especially if you have an external graphics card, may have a massive impact
The options and settings will be different depending on the manufacturer of your graphics card, but they can be adjusting to achieve optimized and extend battery life.
Calibration of batteries
Most modern batteries now have special hardware that would affect your device based on the usage pattern of your battery. You should allow your laptop battery to discharge to at least 20-30 % before plugging it back in and charging it. Also, you shouldn’t let your laptop’s battery drain entirely or even become critically low every time you use it. If your laptop unexpectedly shuts down, the battery might have been damaged.. However, you can verify that by calibrating its battery.
Try this only if your PC turns of unexpectedly
Allow to drain the battery of your PC from 100% and then charge it till 100%. The battery’s power meter will automatically determine how long the it could last and provide a far more accurate estimate of how much capacity the battery have available.
Replacing your Battery
The procedure of replacing a laptop battery is quite easy. Simply remove the batteries from your laptop, check the serial number, and buy or order from an online or local retailer. The method of unmounting and remounting the battery is extremely similar.
