Battery Wearing for a year

[amer]

My SP3's battery is still excellent after 94 charges and a year and 1/2 of use:

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How the Hell you Have 94 cycles in 1 and Half year?!!
mine on 40 for only 2mounths Lol

 

[CompUser]

I have 42 cycles after a year, and my capacity wavers up and down, but is presently at about 97% of original capacity.

 

[SilverSurfaceSurfer]

42 cycles after a year how is this possible?

 

[CompUser]

42 cycles after a year how is this possible?

I keep it in the dock or on AC power most of the time. I have been using it on battery more recently.

 

[mrphysics]

I had a similar issue with battery wear. Just started dropping after about 14 months. Lots of chatting with MS support. They remote accessed my machine to try a few things. No luck.

Fortunately I had extended care and was able to get a new machine (brand new). However, it was a Windows 10 machine so I lost my Windows Media Center capabilities (no more DVR) and of course the new OneDrive doesn't have shadow copies like the one on Win 8.1 so I'm not overly happy about those two items. But, support was very good about shipping a replacement, so no complaints there.

 

[leeshor]

I had a similar issue with battery wear. Just started dropping after about 14 months. Lots of chatting with MS support. They remote accessed my machine to try a few things. No luck.

Fortunately I had extended care and was able to get a new machine (brand new). However, it was a Windows 10 machine so I lost my Windows Media Center capabilities (no more DVR) and of course the new OneDrive doesn't have shadow copies like the one on Win 8.1 so I'm not overly happy about those two items. But, support was very good about shipping a replacement, so no complaints there.

This may hep your OneDrive issue How to Substitute OneDrive Smart Files in Windows 10
VLC player should play your DVR files but they may need to be converted first. You may also want to check out MEDIAPORTAL - a HTPC Media Center for free! - MEDIAPORTAL

 

[yonghong]

I have no problems. After almost 2 years
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Lg batteries are pretty good , I exchanged one after one year used, the new Sp3's simply( forgot ) battery is pretty bad, almost one year it's 88%, just one week ago it was 98% , should I trust batteryreport?

 

[littlefto]

I am having same issue too. Battery is Simplo, and started depleting in mid-April according to battery report.

 

[lacimarkus]

Just finished MS Singapore support. They say ~SGD 850 (USD 625) will be the battery replacement. Mine deteriorated just outside warranty within 2 months. (Could not apply for extended warranty because I am not a SG citizen or perm. resident) My reply was: hahhhhahahahahahaha - that is ridiculous. I will talk every living being out of buying MS products in the future. Will never be a a free beta tester/troubleshooter for anyone's unfinished/unoptimized product. This is totally unacceptable from a company that has just paid USD 26 yard for LinkedIn - hope they will not make another Skype success story out of it...

Reddit links violate the forum guidelines and was removed.

 

[Johnny365]

How do I check what battery you have (brand) and how many cycles?

I've had mine since May 2015 (and by then it was already 9 months old (1 year warranty expired September 2015)

I use battery bar for % reporting, and it shows 5.4% wear, though I usually always keep it plugged in and sometimes the % fluctuates down to 0% wear.

 

[greatg]

I ran a battery report today and I'm not sure what's going on but I'm lucky to get 30 mins on battery? My Full Charge capacity is almost nothing?

Installed batteries
Information about each currently installed battery

BATTERY
NAME X883815
MANUFACTURER LGC-LGC
SERIAL NUMBER 1148262404
CHEMISTRY LION
DESIGN CAPACITY 42,157 mWh

FULL CHARGE CAPACITY 10,815 mWh
CYCLE COUNT 193

 

[Johnny365]

Installed batteries
Information about each currently installed battery
BATTERY 1
NAME X883815
MANUFACTURER LGC-LGC
SERIAL NUMBER 1156716804
CHEMISTRY LION
DESIGN CAPACITY 42,157 mWh
FULL CHARGE CAPACITY 39,877 mWh
CYCLE COUNT 204

How to Generate a Battery Health Report on Windows 8 or Windows 10