On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 05:51:59PM +0000, john gennard wrote: > I've just recharged the battery which took just > over 23 minutes to reach 'fully charged'. Then switching > to it, in one minute I got 'Running off battery 11 mins > left' quickly followed by 'running out 0 mins left'. > > Can anyone offer any suggestions (solice is perhaps > too much to hope for). I've never had anything to do with > Laptops before, so I'm in the dark. When my R40's battery life slowly dropped from 4-5 hours to 1 hour, I decided to recalibrate it by running it down completely, so it could have a better idea how long it really could run. Once the battery meter warned me that I had 0 minutes left, I rebooted it to the LILO prompt, stopped it there and let it drain the battery until it just died and couldn't be turned back on. I think it ran for nearly another hour after initially reporting empty, so obviously it was a bit out of calibration. After a recharge, the battery meter more accurately reported that I had 2 hours left. It was still degraded from original performance, but I at least regained a little extra use before having to replace this aging battery. -- John M Flinchbaugh john@hjsoft.com
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