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    Dell Extended Battery Life

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by Kallzeh, Aug 29, 2011.

  1. Kallzeh

    Kallzeh Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi,

    I've been experimenting with the battery life on my L502x, and I came across the 'Enable Dell Extended Battery Life' option- now, I think this is really good, but I was wondering if there was a way of only having it enabled when using the windows 7 power scheme 'Power Saver'. This way I am able to use the computer at full power(performance wise) when I unplug it.

    Thanks, hope I made sense.
     
    Kallzeh, Aug 29, 2011
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    Kallzeh Notebook Enthusiast

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    Bump

    Why is there a 10 char limit?
     
    Kallzeh, Aug 31, 2011
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    The extended battery life just turns off charging when the battery is at 100% if I'm not mistaken. So it won't apply when only on battery. Or maybe I'm wrong...don't have the system in front of me at the moment to check.
     
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    Kallzeh Notebook Enthusiast

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    Sorry, the extended battery life controls clock speeds and disables things such as CD drive, etc. It always stops charging when it hits 100%, by default.
     
    Kallzeh, Aug 31, 2011
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    Well there is an "advanced settings" type of area for each power option where you can likely control half of that stuff on a power setting by power setting basis. When you hit the button to edit a plan, hit the link near the bottom for "change advanced power settings". You have a bunch of stuff you can change for that power setting only in there. One is controlling the CPU power state.

    Hope that helps.
     
    madmattd, Aug 31, 2011
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    pusta, Sep 1, 2011
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