In addition to the use of battery properly,
you can increase the time of using for the laptop battery by turning off
unnecessary connections or clean it regularly.
Here are some tips to extend the laptop
battery life.
Unplug external devices
External devices such as USB, card reader,
modem, CD/DVD and Blu-ray are one of the causes of battery power consumption.
Therefore, you should enable these devices to stop working if unnecessary.
External
devices such as USB, card reader, modem, CD/DVD and Blu-ray are one of the
causes of battery power consumption.
Avoid excessive use of software at the same time
The use of from 10 to 15 applications at
the same time or more will cause the laptop battery to be "consumed"
considerably. So, you should turn off the unnecessary applications and
specially limit the use of heavy programs like Pes2013, 3dmax....
Clean the laptop
You should clean your laptop regularly,
about every 3 to 6 months. This will help your laptop to run smoothly and
consume less power.
Defragment hard drive
If you use a laptop with the hard drive
speed from 5,400 to 7,200 revolutions per minute, the hardware also consumes a
lot of energy for the rotation of the magnetic disk. Besides, running the disk
defragmentation software Disk Defragmenter available on Windows weekly will
also help the hard drive operate faster. Thereby, the energy is saved.
Turn off Bluetooth and Wi-Fi when unused
To disable the Bluetooth connection, do the
following:
In the search box, type: Network
connection. Select the "View network connections".
Type:
Network connection. Select the "View network connections"
Right-click "Bluetooth Network
Connection". Select "Disable".
Right-click
"Bluetooth Network Connection"; Select "Disable"
To turn off Wi-Fi, you can press Fn + the
Wi-Fi icon on the keyboard.
Use the feature Hirbernate rather than Sleep
When you close the laptop lid cover with
the Sleep mode in it, the RAM and the motherboard still have to work to keep
the current sessions in memory system operating quickly again.
In the Hibernate mode (hibernation), your
laptop will save all current activities on disk and completely power off the
disk instead of just in the Sleep mode. When the computer in Hibernate mode is
similar to power off, but when awakened, the applications are restored normal
operation.
Increase RAM for your laptop
You can add RAM from 2 to 4GB or 4 to 8GB.
At this time, your laptop uses less virtual and physical memories. This means
having less access to hard drive, and also consuming less energy.
Remove unnecessary software
You need to thoroughly remove the useless
software or the software rarely used because they are wasting more system
resources.
Go to "Control Panel> Programs and
Features".
Go
to "Control Panel> Programs and Features"
Select the software to uninstall, and click
"Uninstall/Change".
Select
the software to uninstall, and click "Uninstall/Change"
Use battery properly
The laptop battery has limited the number
of activities (the number of charging and discharging). To get the best charge
and discharge limits, you should pay attention to some of the following ways of
using:
For the first charge: usually, the laptop
battery is a type of Li-ion battery, so for the first time of charge, you
should not charge more than 10 hours. Since by only 3 to 4 hours the battery is
full, if you continue charging, the battery will heat up and reduce its life.
However, the manufacturers have integrated the automatically disconnecting
function into their products when the battery is fully charged, so this is not
much of interest.
If the laptop has not been used for a long
time, its battery should be below 50%. This will help reduce the attrition of
battery power (according to the using manual of the laptop manufacturers).
Limit the exhaustedly use of the laptop
battery because Li-ion battery for laptop does not have the memory effect,
causing the ineffective state of battery. The manufacturers have restricted
this by just operating the laptop when the battery is from 5 to 10%, if below
that, the machine will automatically turn off.
If your laptop does not have the battery
management software, to avoid discharging the chargeable battery (use up and
then fully charge) unworthy multiple times, plug the charger constantly. It
will not cause harm because when the battery is full, the circuitry of the
battery will automatically disconnect, not charging anymore.
When using the battery, use it until it is
10 to 20%, recharge it, because if with only a few percent, it has immediately
been charged many times, the number of battery cells which have not been used
will not take effect themselves.
If the charger is plugged regularly, try to
recharge and discharge periodically from one to two weeks.
Clean the contact of the battery circuit;
avoid the poor contact causing the damage to the battery.
