Over time, a laptop’s battery life decreases. Its lifespan is influenced by how frequently we charge it and how long we let it charge. As a result, we might see that our laptop’s battery life is decreasing. We’ll demonstrate how to manually charge a laptop battery to increase its lifespan.
How to manually increase battery life
The window with advanced settings from Windows power options must first be opened. In order to change advanced power settings, open Control Panel and go to Hardware and Sound > Power Options > Change settings for the selected plan.
By doing this, a new window will open, displaying the choices and settings available under the power plan that we have chosen on the computer. To make the following adjustments, we must locate the Battery option and the Display option there.
We’ll set the critical battery level to 5% or even less and signal that the computer will go into hibernation in the critical battery level action. When the adjustments are made, we plug in the laptop for the following two hours while charging the battery till it reaches 100%.
Although we are free to use the equipment while it is loading, it is advisable that we avoid doing so whenever possible.
Now that the charger has been turned off, we will leave the device on until it automatically goes into hibernation, which will occur when the battery level hits 5% or according to the prior configuration. It is crucial to set the laptop’s sleep, screen, and hibernation settings to Never if we intend to use it during this period.
When the laptop’s battery is entirely useless, we allow it to shut off automatically. Then, we put the laptop back into the mains so that the battery may fully recharge. To bring everything back to normal and ready to use once the laptop battery has been fully charged, we make sure to reset the power settings to default as well as the power and sleep configurations.
This procedure calibrates the laptop’s battery without the help of third-party apps, and it is one that we may execute on a regular basis, say roughly every two months, in an effort to increase the battery life of our device.
How to check laptop battery life in Windows OS
The battery in laptops breaks down over time, just like that in mobile phones. No matter how much we manually calibrate the battery, after a year we will undoubtedly discover that it lasts considerably less than it did when we first purchased the laptop.
Although Windows doesn’t specifically state how much the laptop battery has decreased, HWinfo32, an easy free utility, makes it simple to find out.
When we run this tool, we will see a section on the left labeled “Smart Battery” among all the other technical details of our laptop. We can see all the data relevant to our laptop battery in this part.
One of the aspects that we are interested in learning more about is the “Wear Level,” which will show the battery’s percentage of weakening. Additionally, the “Designed capacity” and “Full Charged Capacity” sections let us know the battery’s overall capacity when it was brand-new and fully charged, respectively. No matter how much we calibrate, we won’t be able to do much if the laptop battery has a lot of degradation. The only options left to us are to purchase a new battery or try to execute a warranty.
The battery itself can be one of the most crucial components when working with a laptop, as I’m sure many of you already know. We must properly care for it because it is the one that gives us the autonomy that this particular type of equipment requires.
We have many applications at our hands for all of this that will be quite useful for this kind of operation. At the same time, it might be informative to know that Windows itself offers a built-in feature that will enable us to compile an extensive report on how the laptop’s battery is being used. This one is slightly hidden, but we can see it with our own eyes.
So, the first step is to launch a command prompt window if we want to check that report to verify if we are using it properly. We are able to do this thanks to the CMD command. As a result, once we are in a window of this kind, we need type: powercfg/batteryreport
As a result, we will learn detailed and really helpful information about the laptop battery as well as its usage.