Category: Faqs about laptop batteries
Teach you laptop battery repair method

Experts teach you laptop battery repair method
First, why should fix laptop battery?

When the laptop battery without being used for a long time, or just maintenance, it need to have self-reply process, also known as calibration or self-learning process.

Because of his way of charging and discharging of the way or a curve, there will be a certain amount of cheap,therefore, the need for a truly finished a few full discharge cycle of steps to correct the situation or club the way the repair of charging and discharging of the square

Type of course, here, want to clarify is that your laptop battery is not an aging, if the laptop battery aging, and Oh, that would basically only be a change in the.
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Concrete repair steps:

1. Setting
If the laptop battery should repair to the best state (no aging batteries), this is the most important place. Therefore, we should pay attention to.
(1) Open My Computer, Control Panel, Power Options Power use of the program, the use of batteries that
Full-time parameters entry named “never”.

(2) to alert that the project hook removed,
This is done to the battery when the laptop down to how many per cent when the program will not be executed.Laptop battery power to run a true After completion,there is no remaining power interference.

Charge-discharge description of specific steps:

In doing the above settings, On the full release in accordance with the principle of end to the battery charge and discharge, and laptop battery recall that bought back the activation steps,and my last time writing notebook battery is fully charge and discharge Gonglue do?
In accordance with that principle to the battery charge and discharge back and forth three times.

Be able to offset the curve of the battery to correct the fix coming.

To prevent static electricity from Notebook in winter

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Static electricity generation and trigger is a natural phenomenon, we can not be completely eliminated, but as long as usually more careful, it can be avoided. To deal with static electricity, we can take the “anti” and “release” hands. “Defense”, we should try to use cotton clothing and home accessories products, as the fabric, try to avoid the use of chemical fiber carpets and a plastic as the surface material of the furniture, in order to prevent friction electrification. “Release” is to increase the humidity, so that localized electrostatic easy to release. When you use a computer before, you should immediately wash their hands face, on the one hand to maintain a healthy, while also allows the electrostatic charge on the surface of the skin to release the water out. In the winter, we should try to use a high moisturizing cosmetics. Common humidifier. Some people like the indoor rearing ornamental fish and daffodils are also regulating indoor humidity a good way. The daily use of desktop computers and laptops, there are a few tips to note:

A notebook to make use of an external power supply

We know that the laptop will have in the course of currents, these currents can not be released if there is no conductor contact, if the encounter with the static electricity produced by the body, it will generate electrostatic discharge, resulting in blue screen, crashes. In view of this situation, it is recommended to use an external power supply, laptop power adapter three phase plug at the same time maintain a good grounding. Not only can effectively prevent the leakage, but also can prevent the accumulation of static electricity.

2, access to computers before discharge

Due to environmental dry friction, the body has accumulated a large number of charge, often in contact with notebook notebook damage caused instantaneous discharge occurred. Therefore uncertain whether the electrostatic accumulation of the body, first after the release of the body static electricity using a laptop. With the books before, it is best to wash your hands, water well to eliminate static electricity, especially in motion a long time (sports events to make clothes and friction, resulting in a large number of static electricity), after; if too lazy to wash your hands, then take a look around there is no ground metal objects can also have contact with both hands effectively eliminate static electricity. Also to be noted that as far as possible not to touch the books by hand directly connected with the internal circuit elements, particularly the interface, in the next, when particular attention to USB.

3, on a regular basis to the computer clean, efficient addition to static electricity

On a regular basis to the computer to do thorough cleaning, you can effectively reduce the accumulation of dust, while you can use anti-static cleaning materials for cleaning, to help reduce the accumulation of static electricity. Baxter clean your computer cleaning of the three detergents, all contain anti-static formula, can effectively play a protective effect, reducing static electricity, to protect the computer role.

How to deal with static electricity after a fault occurs

Notebook for everyday use, the most common are contact discharge, leading to a normal laptop can not boot. If this situation occurs, you can remove the battery after the elimination of its own static, unplug laptop power adapter, notebook and put it aside for half an hour’s time. Again after a separate access to the power adapter, generally can be a normal boot. If you still can not boot, or the repeated occurrence of the phenomenon of static electricity caused not boot and should be sent to notebook manufacturers to conduct a comprehensive inspection office, if necessary, some parts may need to be replaced.

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Learn more about notebook power management mode

1, Concept of ACPI

ACPI: Advanced Configuration and Power Interface

There are several modes of ACPI:

S0 to normal.
S1 CPU to stop working.
S2 CPU shut down.
In addition to memory outside the S3 components are to stop working.
S4 memory write information to disk, all the parts stop working.
S5 closed.

ACPI power management mode to use hardware and software requirements can be fully supports the ACPI function.

If you encounter problems in use, you can try to upgrade the latest Acpi.sys file.

In addition, the hardware of the ACPI support is essential. Chassis power supply 5 volts to the motherboard at the same time, we must make current stabilized at more than 720 milliamperes to be able to make a computer in a short time from the “sleep” state wakes up.

The program can be achieved by selecting the power supply power management, power management program is the computer power on the use of a group of settings. Windows2000 provides the following three kinds of preset power management program (always open, portable / laptop, home / office desktop), the user can also set up their own computer into standby mode or turn off the hard drive and monitor the waiting time required.

2, ACPI and APM Comparison

APM 1.0 & 1.1: the implementation by the BIOS Power Management;

APM 1.2: operating system, the definition of power management time from the BIOS is responsible for implementation;

ACPI: BIOS collection of hardware information, define power management solutions; by the operating system responsible for the implementation.

APM is a software solution, therefore, with the operating system-related, but ACPI is an industry standard, including software and hardware specifications.

1) How to determine the system is in S1 or S3 mode?

A: The S1 sleep mode, ACPI, only the CPU to stop working, other equipment are still in power-up state. The S3 in the ACPI mode (BIOS-> Power Management -> Suspend to RAM set to Enable, among other equipment are situated outside the memory power-down state. Therefore, to determine the system is in S1 or S3 mode mode The easiest way is to carefully observation system situation: In the S3 state, all the equipment to stop working, even if the pop-up button on the drive can not open the drive door. In the S1 state, optical drive door is open. In addition, S3 mode, the system is completely quiet , all the fans are stopped. At this point system can not wake up from the keyboard. manual method can only be awakened by the power button on the front panel.

2) To achieve STR, so why not cut off the power after shutdown?

Answer: STR function is turned off, it will be the operation of the system information stored in memory, the next boot directly read the memory information, and return to pre-shutdown state. Its advantage is to start very fast, and can keep working condition. The disadvantage is that, even after shutdown, we can not disconnect the computer power supply. Because the data in memory will be lost once the power cut off.

3) In the closing Win2000, display “now safe to shut down” instead of automatically close ATX power supply, how should I do?

Answer: can try the following approach: choose “Settings / Control Panel / Power Options / Advanced Power Management”, if the machine supports advanced power management, then select the “Enable Advanced Power Management Support” and then in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsNTCurrentVersionWinlogon Mid PowerdownAfterShutdown for 1; if the machine does not support advanced power management, then, unfortunately, only in the closed system, the display “now safe to shut down?” had to manually cut off power supply.

4) does not care to “Close Windows” dialog box “Let the computer to sleep” to the lost, and ask how to restore?

A: Generally speaking, such problems as long as the reinstall motherboard drivers, restart the future should be able to solve the problem, you can also “Control Panel / System / Device Manager” in the “Advanced Power Management support” deleted, and then Reboot the machine, according to Windows2000 system can also be prompted to re-install solve the problem.

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Notice the shopping trap:the virtual standard capacity of laptop battery

Test results show that the majority of  laptop batteries sold on some online shop mark virtual standard capacity,  it’s not a actual capacity. Some businesses sells such batteries at low prices on the website or ebay , and mark  a high capacity to attract customers.

As you know the most important factor to measure the performance of  laptop battery, the first is if the new battery is full charge, and the second is whether the discharge remained stable. The survey found that the actual charge capacity of  the many batteries is deficient, is very easy to leakage, and contamination laptop battery pack.

Many business pretend that their batteries are high capacity and sell with low price to lure consumers to purchase from their shop, but in facet the quality and safety of these products there is no way to guarantee.

Hunt360 remind all the clients that the CE, UL, and ISO9001/9002 certifications are  needed to check on their website, or you can require the business to offer these certifications with the battery shipped together. Hunt360 guarantee that all the products sold on hunt360.net and hunt360.co.uk have passed strict quality assurance procedures such as CE, UL, and ISO9001/9002 certifications. Please check this by this link: http://www.hunt360.net/aboutus.htm

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10 cases of typical faults of notebook computers

Fault Case 1:

COMPAQ 1800 can not enter the OS when it’s start up, just alarms and it sounds like “Didi”.  In this case, open the memory slot, replacing memory, troubleshooting.

Fault Case 2:

SONY GR250 boot in DOS mode, there are blue color cross-stripes.  After entering Windows2000 System failure remains the same, external CRT and LCD monitors display the same phenomenon.  And often crash.  At this case, unplug the graphics board and re-inserted (this model graphics board and the board is separate from the slot through the cellular connection), forced the board pressed uniform, troubleshooting.  This phenomenon is caused by poor contact Huaping cards, laptops for this phenomenon is usually needed to do the display chip BGA soldering.

Fault Case 3:

When the COMPAQ N800V is running for some time, the system automatically re-starting again, touch the bottom of the laptop, it’s hot.  Open the machine inside and power-examination, CPU fan is turning, but it’s slower than usual, it’s high temperature if you touch the U radiator when your laptop enter the Operation System, and the fan is still very slow.  Slow fan speed can not be promptly put the heat emitted, leading to CPU temperature is too high and repeated re-starting.  Replace the CPU fan troubleshooting.

Failure Case 4:

Press the SONY GRX700 power switch but nothing happens, insert the power adapter, the battery charge indicator light do not response.  Disassemble and measuring DC-DC voltage and they are normal, the boot voltage is 3V, To-ground voltage is 0V.  This case can be judged as BIOS protection fault, it need to unplug the BIOS backup battery, shorted connect the two pins for 1 ~ 3 seconds.  And then install the backup battery, start testing, troubleshooting.

Failure Case 5:

SONY GR100 boot normally, the screen backlight is flashing after a period of time running. It may be caused by  LCD screen backlight high-pressure plate performance instability. Just to replace a backlight Inverter, troubleshooting.

Failure Case 6:

Lenovo E200C boot, and then crash after the icon appears.  Disassemble and replace the BIOS chip, or to re-brush and write the new procedures.  Such failures are mostly caused by damage of BIOS, the host can not be completed self-test.

Failure Case 7:

COMPAQ X1000 can not enter the system, re-formatted the hard disk to install the new system but still can not enter the system.  With the FORMAT command to format the hard disk that there was no bad sectors.  After replacing a hard disk installation system and troubleshooting.

Failure Case 8:

SONY 505LS boot and found half the liquid crystal display can show, the next half is black.  Like this is very clear that after the replacement of liquid crystal displays troubleshooting.  Such failure of LCD is quite difficult to repair them, needs some professional equipment can.

Failure Case 9:

IBM A21 can not charge the battery, single-plug power adapter can not boot.  With the battery can be a normal boot.  Disassemble components detected in the power adapter into mouth Sealing-off, repair welding after troubleshooting.

Failure Case 10:

IBM R32 no boot after the LCD display, but the power and hard disk light is working correctly.  External display shows normal.  Suspected of LCD data lines damaged, replace the LCD data lines remain after the failure.  Replacement of LCD monitors, troubleshooting.  Such failures are mostly LCD damage.  If you are unsure, you can replace the LCD monitor to detect liquid crystal display good or bad.

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Approach of New battery before using
I. Purpose:
1) Ensure that the new laptop batteries can automatically learn and update the battery full charge capacity (FCC),  to make the  actual  working capacity close to design capacity;
2) To ensure that a new battery remaining capacity and the actual capacity synchronous;
 
Now we illustrate the process by Toshiba PS630U-AAAA7 :
1) If the computer is using plug-in power management devices, please turn off the plug-in power management procedures;
2) returns to desktop, right click mouse, select “Properties” button;
Battery using tips pic one




 3) Select “Properties” button, the computer will pop up the “Display Properties” window;
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4) Click the “Screen Saver”, set the “screen saver option” as None, press the “Apply” button to enable this option;
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5) Click “Power Options” button, open the Power Options Properties window,  set “ power off monitor”, “Turn off hard disks” and “system standby” as “never”, and save as “active cell”, click “Apply” button to enable the battery to use programs;
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6) Click on the switch to “alert” option, choose low-battery alarm “When the power to lower the following level, the issue of low-battery alert,” click “Apply” button to enable this option; Select a serious shortage of the battery alarm “When the power down to lower level to the following issue a severe shortage of the battery alarm.”
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7) Click on the low-battery “alarm operation” button, and remove the low-battery warning operation of all options, click “OK” button.
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 Click on the serious shortage of power”alarm operation” button, and remove theserious shortage of power warning operation of all options, click “OK” button.
 
8) Click the “sleep” option, choose not to enable hibernation, click the “Apply” button to enable this option;
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9) Click “OK” button to exit “Power Options” Properties window and the “display” Properties window;
10) connected to the power and start the computer, plug the battery into the laptop to charge the battery until the battery capacity becomes 100% or charge indicator light directed to stop charging the state to verify that the computer has stopped charging.
11) Remove the external power supply, put it aside or normal use, until the computer automatically shut down, data backup must be taken to prevent the computer suddenly shut down led to data loss.
12)Restore the Properties option. Your battery will be able to properly use and to maximize its usefulness.
 
 Attention:
1) If the computer has to use plug-in power management device, please re-enable the plug-in power management procedures;
2) If the new battery full charge capacity (FCC) failed to meet the nominal capacity of more than 90%, according to the method above to re-do it again.
3) If the new battery by the above method to re-do it again, the full charge capacity (FCC) is still unable to reach a nominal capacity of more than 90%, then determine the battery performance may be poor, or the battery quality problems.
 
 
Nokia will recall 14 million chargers in the global

According to foreign media reports, Nokia announced to global recall 14 million defective chargers produced by the sub-contractors at Monday.

(James Etheridge), Nokia spokesman James Etheridge, said the recall involves the global charger is about 14 million, the company will replacement these battery chargers that could cause electric shock for free.  Nokia said that at present no related accidents and injuries caused by these chargers are received. Ethridge said the recall does not involve China, the United Kingdom, Brazil, Argentina and other parts of the country.

 Ethridge pointed out that the defective charger models are AC-3E, and AC-3U which produced during June 15 and August 9, as well as AC-4U produced during April 13 and October 25. AC-3E AC-3E charger is mainly devoted to the European market, the other two chargers are mainly exported to North America and Latin America. 。 Three chargers are produced by the sub-contractors BYD.

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Some frequently asked questions of DC lithium batteries

1.Does a new Lithium battery need to be charged more times?
Answer: no

2.Does Lithium batteries need to be discharged?

Answer: no

3.How to calculate the cycle life of lithium batteries?

Answer: One cycle as you charge one time, even though you charge it for one moment.

4. How to test a lithium battery?

Answer: You can know the performance of the lithium battery at the actual using.  specially in a cold environment, it’s easy to test the quality of a lithium battery.  Battery power will be used up very fast if it’s a bad lithium battery.

 

5. How to maintain a lithium battery?

Answer: Often use it. This is the best maintenance way.

6. Are there any notices about Li-ion battery chargers?

Answer: the protection circuit is inside the battery. In general, it’s nothing difference between chargers.

7. What cause lithium batteries explode?

Answer: The main reason is the protection circuit design or material problems. Most of the big manufacturers will not have problems.

8. What is the decisive factor of the quality of a lithium battery?

Answer: The security performance depends on the protection circuit board, capacity and life-span depend on battery cells.

9. Is it possible that a replacement lithium-ion battery better than an original one?

Answer: It is absolutely possible that a replacement one better than an original one as long as the battery cells of the replacement battery are better than which of the original.

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A Multimedia Laptop Dell studio 15

Dell is going big on personalisation with the 15.4″ screen multimedia laptop Studio 15, with five colours and 11 artistic designs available to choose from. The Studio 15 can be equipped with an Intel Core 2 Duo and dedicated ATI graphics. It comes with a slot-loading DVD drive, backlit keyboard, sleek drop-hinge design, widescreen glossy display and touch sensitive buttons. Software wise the Dell Studio 15 includes a unique Apple Mac OS X launch dock.

Parsing the intended markets for Dell’s ever-shifting in-house brand names requires a bit of tea-leaf reading, although it’s been easier of late, with the company stripping down its consumer brands to just the Inspiron and XPS lines. Now the company is adding a new line between the budget Inspiron and the high-end XPS. The new Studio line, as personified by the $1,250 15-inch Studio 15, has the same tapered shape, slot-loading optical drive, and rounded hinge as the Dell XPS M1530, but a similarly configured Studio system costs roughly $300 less than a similarly outfitted XPS.

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The trade-off is mostly in size and finish. Even though it has a similar look, the Studio laptop is about 25 percent thicker and slightly heavier than its more upscale XPS cousin, with plastic accents instead of metal. We’d be tempted to toss in the extra $300 for the brushed-metal wrist rest and slimmer design of the XPS, but the Studio line does offer personalization options (lots of colors and graphic imprints) beyond what’s available for Dell’s other laptops, along with a slot-loading optical drive and credit-card-style media remote for about $200 more than a similarly configured Inspiron 1525 (not including discrete graphics, which are not available on the 1525).

Price as reviewed / Starting price $1,189 / $799
Processor 2.1GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T8100
Memory 2GB, 667MHz DDR2
Hard drive 250GB 5,400rpm
Chipset Intel GM965
Graphics ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3400
Operating System Windows Vista Premium
Dimensions (WDH) 14 x 10.16 x 1.25 inches
Screen size (diagonal) 15.4 inches
System weight / Weight with AC adapter 6.0 / 7.2 pounds
Category Mainstream

 

While clearly inspired by the popular XPS M1530, the Studio 15 has a more angular look, with its large side hinges curving the screen down at a sharp angle; the XPS presents a more rounded look. At 6 pounds, it’s a bit heavy to tote around every day, but still at the lower end of the 15-inch scale, around 6 pounds. Our early review unit had a matte midnight blue lid, but there are a variety of color options. We’ve also seen some leaked shots online of several artistic designs motifs that should be available in the future, which we’ve previously covered on Crave.

On the whole, the Studio 15 has a good array of connectivity options. Down the left hand edge you’ll find both HDMI and VGA output, Gigabit Ethernet, USB, a combo USB/eSATA port, 4-pin Firewire, microphone and two headphone sockets. Flip over to the other side and you’ll see a power connector, an additional USB port, memory card reader (SD, MMC, Memory Stick), ExpressCard 34 and a slot for the internal DVD writer. If you’re hunting for the power switch, you’ll find that nestling in the middle of the screen hinge on the right hand side.

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Laptop Repair Help:What to do with the battery charging problem?

Symptoms of laptop:

It’s a Toshiba Satellite A105-S2712 for repair with the battery charging problem. Many laptop-users do not have a lot of experience with these laptops because it is a new model. The customer complained that the laptop will not charge the battery when it is plugged into the AC outlet.

The laptop didn’t turn on when we tried to start it from the battery. The battery charge LED didn’t light up when the laptop was turned off and plugged into the AC outlet. It means that the battery is not charged while the LED didn’t light up when the laptop was plugged into the AC outlet. The laptop starts fine when it is plugged. When you  move the mouse over the Toshiba Power Icon in the lower right corner, the balloon will pop up and there is a line in there: Battery Remaining: N/A.

Problem repair procedure:

By updating the BIOS we can easily fix the problem. It says that the BIOS version should be at least v1.30. So, Download the right version at Toshiba website. Select your laptop model and find any downloads for the BIOS. In the BIOS change history you will see the description of changes.

After updated the BIOS, the battery charging problem disappeared.

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