Is there a way i can recondition my laptop battery?

Question

it doesnt' last a long as it used to: 3hrs->15mins =(. thelast 30% drains unbelivably quickly. all settings are set to low and no unneccesary programs are running.

the battery is Li-Ion(lithium-ion)
the laptop is dell inspirion 8500

Answer 1

Hi there...

Professional battery equipment is needed to recondition any battery, and the LITHIUM ION are the most deadly ....
In battery shops accross the country, the service technicians will generally not TOUCH a lithium Ion.
Where I am located, there is a shop, and they tell me that they would have to install a fire-brick fume-hood, with explosion proof shielding, and other specialized bomb disposal stuff, before they could work on the Lithium ion batteries.
As one other answer stated, the batteries, despite being " no memory " unlike Nickle Cadmium batteries, which "remember" being both not fully charged, and not being fully drained, the Li Ion batteries just plain die. Another answer gives you a link to NI-Cads, which is useless. The charging and cycling of Li-Ion and Ni-Cad are completely different. With old Ni-cads, you can use an ordinary capacitor to zap the batteries back to life, once. The professionals use very sophisticated machinery to revitalize older Ni-Cads. Nickle Metal Hydride are in the middle of the pack, with a different set of characteristics.
YOUR batteries are the worst.

If over heated, they will bloat, crack, and gas will escape in a foot long flame that will cut through solid bone.. ie ... it can ampute an arm or leg if you happen to get in the way. There are reports around the world of people being " burned" and in the hospital, from Cell phone Li-Ion batteries. Cell phone Li-Ion batteries that are bloated are capable of cutting through the side of an airplane, including the hydraulics, frames, and wiring....

Unfortuneately, in your case, you are forced to just replace the battery pack... do not play with it!

In the future, you might want to charge the battery as often as you can - the battery WILL remember slowly dying by lack of use. If it is always kept charged, it will last longer. People are lazy and don't bother to charge batteries until they " have to ", and this will shorten the life of any battery.

Good luck

Answer 2

Recondition Laptop Battery

Answer 3

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Answer 4

New Battery Reconditioning Course!

Answer 5

Batteries have a limited lifetime. Some die soon, some die later, but they all die.

Li-ion batteries have no memory effect so there is no use to try to drain them completely and reload them to full capacity, what's gone is gone.

Your best bet is to replace the battery with a new one (check if yours didn't get recalled recently, that would mean the swap is free).

Things that cut into the lifetime of a li-ion battery:
- getting too cold (e.g. when it freezes for the first time in a year quite a few laptops are brought in in the same week in computer shops due to dead batteries and nearly all of them have been left overnight in a car.
- being drained completely (your laptop should not do this to the battery, it'll stop before it gets to this point), but don't mess with the contacts yourself.

Answer 6

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RE:
Is there a way i can recondition my laptop battery?
it doesnt' last a long as it used to: 3hrs->15mins =(. thelast 30% drains unbelivably quickly. all settings are set to low and no unneccesary programs are running.

Answer 7

IF THE BATTERY IS A SONY THEY ARE BEING RECALLED BY THE 100000`S. WHEN YOU GET A NEW TOY WITH A BATTERY YOU HAVE TO CHARGE IT UP FULLY AND THEN DISCHARGE IT COMPLETELY, UNTIL IT SHUTS OFF THAT PROCEDURE TELLS THE BATTERY WHAT IS A FULL CHARGE AND WHAT IS AN EMPTY CHARGE

Answer 8

here's some useful info
http://www.chronomix.com/morbatt.htm

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Answer 9

I got one and I spend alot. So its like spending for a car. Just spend spen spen and pamper it. :)