Re: Li-ion battery doesn't charge

[Paulo Lopes <pmml@netvita.pt>]

Mark Janssen wrote:

> On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 13:01, Paulo Lopes wrote:
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> > Hi,
> >
> > I've a Li-ion battery on my laptop that says that it's capacity is of 
> > 3600mAH, but i've compiled my kernel with acpi and i've been reading the 
> > proc fs under /proc/acpi/battery/0/info and it says that my battery last 
> > charge was only of 596mAH. This is bad since i can only use my laptop 
> > during 30 minutes...
> >    
>
> If it's an older laptop it's probably just that the battery is dead. The
> maximum charge on batteries becomes less with use. My own laptop only
> lasted about 30 minutes in the end. After a battery swap (I had a spare)
> i'm back to more then 2 hours.
The laptop is a clevo 2700c with ~2 years

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>
> > Does anyone know how to charge the battery to the maximum? thanks.
> >    
>
> If it's not an older battery/laptop... try discharging it fully and then
> do a full charge with the laptop turned off.
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