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    Battery not charging

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by coldmantis, Nov 4, 2006.

  1. coldmantis

    coldmantis Newbie

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    I have the m1210 had it for less then a month and was wondering does anyone have this problem, when the battery is 95% or more it won't charge as in if its 95% and I plug it in the light will blink once and it will say 100% and won't charge if I unplug the ac then it will say 95% instead of 100%. But if I let it drain down to under 93% or so then it will charge slowly as it should.
     
  2. Andrew Baxter

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    The battery may need recalibrating. Try draining it all the way down and then charging it up again. It's better for the battery not to get charged to 100% every time though so I wouldn't worry about this too much.
     
  3. coldmantis

    coldmantis Newbie

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    did that when I first got the laptop nhc showed it was 0% wear b4 I did a calibration after nhc showed 2% then I did it again and it went to 3%, so calibration isn't the problem. The way I did the calibrations is let it charge until its full then restart the computer and enter the bios and unplug let it drain all the way then let it charge all the way without turning it on.