A major concern of the laptop users is to extend the life of their laptop battery. There are small tricks with which you can save power. You can make the fullest use of a laptop battery with a number of good suggestions to ensure that you can extend the maximum battery life and thus improve work efficiency, enjoy the mobile office and entertainment with fewer limits.
Tips to extend laptop battery life
- Reduce the screen brightness.
- When not using the wireless receiver device, turn it off. (There is often a hardware switch - just be sure to remember later when you need to turn it on again. Or you can turn it off via your network manager.)
- Avoid use at high or low temperature. For example, when at the beach parked in the sun, do not leave your laptop in the car.
- In your power manager, set a sleep time for the display and hard disk, and set a system standby time.
- Use built-in power management on your portable device.
- Turn off LCD or other unnecessary accessories when not in use.
- Set screen saver as blank, turning on after 1 to 2 minutes.
- Close unused programs.
- Remove unused PC Cards or USB devices.
- Don't short-circuit battery pack terminals or store your battery pack with metal parts.
- Don't drop or mutilate the battery pack.
- It is normal to get warm when charging or normal use. If it is getting too hot, you may be running too many programs, or there may be a problem with the device and qualified personnel should check it.
Relative laptop batteries: It is always advisable to discharge the Dell laptop battery to 3% only and then fully charge it up to 12 hrs.[verification needed]