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    Massive battery wear

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by aznboi855, Aug 15, 2010.

  1. aznboi855

    aznboi855 Notebook Consultant

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    I've been using the M11X R2 for almost a month now, just a few days ago, my battery wear according to HWmonitor is 4%. Now it's showing 53% :eek: .

    Even battery bar is showing a massive decline, it's battery wear thing went from 63,410 to 43,600.

    Should I call dell about this?
     
    aznboi855, Aug 15, 2010
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  2. Ghosthavok

    Ghosthavok Notebook Enthusiast

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    I got 53% wear last week and now its back to 2%. I say it's normal.

    edit: this happened twice so far. I'm not too concerned about it.
     
    Ghosthavok, Aug 15, 2010
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  3. DankDarko

    DankDarko Notebook Enthusiast

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    What does BatteryBar specifically say. Is the 63.4K and 43.6K your capacity of wear or the amount of wear its already reporting? There should be a percentage of wear that BatteryBar would be reporting if you have had the bar since you first recieved your laptop. When was your last full discharge/recharge cycle? have you previously let the battery fully discharge?
     
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  4. LockOn

    LockOn Notebook Consultant

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    i would not worry about it
    mine did the same thing in Battery bar and it went back it normal
     
    LockOn, Aug 15, 2010
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  5. aznboi855

    aznboi855 Notebook Consultant

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    The capacity according to BB when I first got it was around 69k, now it's reporting 67k. The battery wear is 0.0% still but it got reduced from around 64k to its current state of 43.6k. Not to mention my Full lifetime estimate from BB went from 5hrs+ to 4:26 hrs.

    I discharged it to around 6% a few days ago, never got it to hit 0%.
     
    aznboi855, Aug 15, 2010
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  6. LockOn

    LockOn Notebook Consultant

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    dont worry about BB it makes mistakes i had same problem with BB but it fixed itself in a day
     
    LockOn, Aug 15, 2010
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