Path: ...!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Frank Slootweg Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: "Downloading en-US" Date: 7 Dec 2024 18:52:57 GMT Organization: NOYB Lines: 47 Message-ID: References: X-Trace: individual.net rbyKBZSUi2C/bqqK2CQS8AOVXKHyqcftymLi4p2PakHFM7ZyVa X-Orig-Path: not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:wOtwXKROICcJEXwtpwIichnksFQ= sha256:ECY9xIXfo/O1dXI7ZA7m+0qvN3gLOHuJ7ZFn4eHIN6M= User-Agent: tin/1.6.2-20030910 ("Pabbay") (UNIX) (CYGWIN_NT-10.0-WOW/2.8.0(0.309/5/3) (i686)) Hamster/2.0.2.2 Bytes: 3050 micky wrote: [...] > No battery stories with phones but with a laptop, every time I'd run the > battery to near zero** (because the charger came unplugged and I didn't > notice it, after re-charging, going by Nirsoft's free BatteryInfoView, > I'd have lost 10% from Battery Health. Other than those times, it > didn't go down, but 3 or 4 times down to near zero and the battery > wouldn't take a charge, wouldn't start the laptop. Coudn't find for > sale a battery as big as the original, maybe only 80%, but it's now at > 100% battery health of that 80%. Note that, as I've mentioned before, general purpose utilities like BatteryInfoView don't tell the truth (read: cannot tell the truth). So always try to also use a utility from the manufacturer of the laptop. For example, for my laptop, BatteryInfoView says: "Full Charged Capacity 38,397 mWh Designed Capacity 38,397 mWh Battery Health 100.0%" So I might think "Great, still 100% of designed capacity!", but that can't be, because the laptop is 2 years and 3 months old. And indeed, it can't be correct, because the official specs say "41 Wh", so it's 93.7% of designed capacity, not 100%. Not bad, but not 100%. Now if I run the "HP Battery Check" utility, i.e. the utility which came with the laptop and is designed for the laptop, it says: "Design Capacity: 41 WHr Full Charge Capacity: 38 WHr (93%)" So it gives the same Full Charge Capacity as BatteryInfoView (rounded down to the nearest integer), but gives the *real* Design Capacity of 41 WHr, instead of the fake/wrong one which BatteryInfoView gave and the correct battery health of 93%. Moral: I use both BatteryInfoView *and* the HP Battery Check utility. BatteryInfoView gives me more information - for example the Battery Log over time -, but the limited information which the HP Battery Check utility gives, is more_reliable/correct. > **Hmmm. Oops, I guess this is the opposite issue of only charging to > 80%.