You should set your charging thresholds in Lenovo Vantage currently!
If you cannot find it, you can download it from the Windows Store. In Windows 10 you use the Lenovo Vantage app to change charging threshold. You should find Lenovo Vantage in your Start Menu. But below that I want it fully charged again, so I am ready to be away from the power adapter. And it allows for a short meeting without the notebook charging back up again. The reason for choosing these settings is that 80% is still acceptable should I choose to use my notebook away from power. Fully charge the notebook (stop at 100%).Start charging when the charge goes below 80%.To quickly check the wear level of the battery you can now also use a small battery utility I created. These symptoms include a quickly raising wear level of the battery.
#LENOVO VANTAGE BATTERY GUAGE FULL#
So it does not really stress the battery but causes symptoms that then need curing, should you wish to use the notebook to it’s full potential. By using the charging thresholds, I wanted to prevent the battery from being constantly charged.Ĭharging all the time – in my experience – ruins the internal meter of the battery quickly, requiring battery gauge resets. These interruptions are often short meetings that only drain the battery a little bit, but enough to trigger a charging should I plug it in again (10-20%). I unplug my ThinkPad from AC power for short periods, and then use it again by plugging it in. I use charging thresholds to lower the percentage when the notebook starts charging, usually to about 60%-80%.
#LENOVO VANTAGE BATTERY GUAGE UPDATE#
Update : I added a link to my battery utility Why I use them?
Update : I reorganized this article so Windows 10 information comes first, and added information about Lenovo Vantage Update : Added information about custom threshold in Windows 10 available again Update : Added link to battery information tool article. Update : This article is very popular, so I added some more information, mostly to Windows 10. Update : I updated the information regarding Windows 10. 🙂 Instead I try to tell how and why I use them, and then proceed to show how they can be changed in different versions of Windows, should you still want to change these thresholds. In this article I will try not to settle that argument. Some theories say thresholds are needed to keep the battery healthy, some think they are useless and the battery will work the same just as it is. There are a lot of theories and information about ThinkPad charging thresholds.
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