Every one of us knows that each and every battery starts losing its original power as time passes. It also starts losing its efficiency. This case remains true for all the laptop batteries that are subjected to heavy electric supply and varied voltages.
The battery recondition method varies from battery to battery. When we say varies, we literally mean it. Every laptop battery has passed through a number of recharge/discharge cycles. Depending on these cycles and the present condition of the battery, the recondition method can be decided.
Sometimes, a laptop battery takes one recharge cycle to regain back its normal form. At times, it might ask you to invest money in its replacement of the internal cells that went non-working. So the reconditioning method also includes the replacement of existing non-working laptop battery cells.
We hope that you can recondition your laptop battery without any replacement of the cells that are died as it involves cost. Let us understand the step by step guidance of how we can recondition the laptop battery to create a better and long-lasting battery for your laptop.
The steps we have mentioned below require no expertise, no technical knowledge, and specifically, no special tools are involved in this recondition method.
Step by step guidance of how we can recondition the existing laptop battery
- Update the laptop power settings
First of all, you need to turn off all the power saving options available to save battery on your laptop. To do so, go to the control panel → System & Security → Power options. Make sure that all the drop downs in the power option are inactive.
Go to advanced power options. Update the option of critical battery level to 1% instead of keeping it to 0%. Action to be taken when the battery reaches 1% should be to ‘Hibernate’. This will keep your laptop on hibernate mode before the battery dies totally.
- Full charge your battery
While the laptop is turned off, please fully charge the battery to 100%. Once it is charged fully, open your laptop, and it should read the battery meter to 100%. And power consumption is in the optimal position the same as the one in the first step.
- Unplug the power cable and drain the battery
Once you are with 100% battery, it’s time for you to unplug your power cable. Let the battery drain back to 1%. Put the laptop aside to understand the time it takes to drain the battery i.e. discharge cycle of the laptop battery.
Now again recharge the battery to 100%. You might feel funny with this charging/discharging cycles, but understand, it will bring back the actual power of your laptop battery.
Keep your laptop plugged with the charger to read the new battery meter as 100%. After the battery is charged fully, revert back to the original power settings that we changed in step 1. You might come across a small improvement in the laptop’s battery life cycle.
In these 3 easy and simple steps, you can save your laptop battery. Also, we would like to give you some suggestive tricks that you may find helpful in order to increase the lifespan of your laptop battery. Let us check the list given below.
- Follow this recharge/discharge lifecycle every 3 months specifically with Lithium-Ion batteries.
- Purchase laptop coolers especially with fans.
- Don’t run down to 0% battery.
These 3 additional methods will keep your battery safe and secure from any kind of damages occurring during its lifespan.
Thus summing up, we would say that following the above steps will regain your battery’s life. This recondition method can recalibrate the battery as well as can solve any memory problems that may arise because of any problems in the battery cells.
You might see the battery controllers losing their power to track the capacity of the batteries. This might lead to performance issues. You might utilize the same steps in order to see some improvement in the working of the battery controllers.
If in any case, you didn’t see any improvements in the working of your laptop battery, it’s time for you to purchase a new battery for your laptop or replace the affected cells with the new ones. Thus, it becomes a creative and effective way of reconditioning your battery, to regain the original power as the one in the brand new battery.
