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    How do you control your battery?

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by icecream12345, Jul 11, 2012.

  1. icecream12345

    icecream12345 Notebook Guru

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    Is there a way to use the Thinkpad's power manager to only let the laptop charge from 35 to 95? (which I was recommended)

    Or do I have to use another application for that? If so, could someone recommend me one?

    Thank you!
     
    icecream12345, Jul 11, 2012
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    Thinkpad Power Manager --> use the Advanced menu (as opposed to Basic) --> Battery tab --> Battery Maintenance --> adjust your battery settings as desired.
     
    Jarhead, Jul 11, 2012
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    icecream12345 Notebook Guru

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    there is no battery maintenance for me idk. i cant find it anywhere
     
    icecream12345, Jul 15, 2012
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    Kaso Notebook Virtuoso

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    Did you do a clean Windows install? If you did, you might have missed this.
     
    Kaso, Jul 15, 2012
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    hotsauce Notebook Evangelist

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    Is this the best threshold for charging? It would appear that if the battery is at, say, 93%, it will continue to drain down to 35% before charging. Wouldn't this run up the charge cycles prematurely?

    I'm plugged in 90% of the time...

    [​IMG]
     
    hotsauce, Jul 15, 2012
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    I have mine set at the default values (7% to 100%, iirc). Doesn't seem to affect battery performance much.
     
    Jarhead, Jul 16, 2012
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    No, because the battery won't be charged until it gets down to 35%: one cycle is using and then charging up the battery. I use the same setting on my T500 to reduce the cycle count.
     
    MidnightSun, Jul 16, 2012
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    Oh. I had it backwards. Thanks. I'll go with this.

    Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 2
     
    hotsauce, Jul 16, 2012
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